... ANTI-depressant. Its primary use is to treat depression. It is also used at lower doses to treat chronic pain. Depression is NOT a side effect of amitriptyline. Julie, please do not make recommendations about medications.

... did help did help; 300mg no difference. As for sleep,well that can be a tough nut to crack. My wife and me fight that battle every night. For me amitriptyline works well in very low dosage (10mg) for sleep for many people and can help with nerve pain (it helped my back pain considerably). I take ...

... with that. Maybe so, I have never seen anything about that type of issue and I have taken it on and off for years (again, very low dosage). Amitriptyline is labeled and originally sold as an antidepressant. It fell out of favor (for depression) with the introduction of newer antidepressants. ...

... did help did help; 300mg no difference. As for sleep,well that can be a tough nut to crack. My wife and me fight that battle every night. For me amitriptyline works well in very low dosage (10mg) for sleep for many people and can help with nerve pain (it helped my back pain considerably). I take ...

... medications like clonazepam & another one which I can't remember at the moment for my nerve conditions & that, muscle relaxers, low level amitriptyline to try to help me fall asleep, I even tried melatonin. I tried lyrica but it made me rage. I think the ropinrole was the one that gave ...

I used Amitriptyline several years ago and it worked great.....My PCP gave it to me with a warning that it can have undesirable effects on the elderly. Even my Medicare Complete plan refused to cover it because it was not recommended ...

Amitriptyline in low doses has been shown to help with pain control which of course helps with sleep. I took it myself for years for this reason but even the lowest dose and only at bedtime made me feel like crap during the ...

The first thing I can see is that it is expensive, may go back to amitriptyline for sleep. I used amitriptyline for sleep before but since it was used for depression that is how it came to be in my medical record and it took some doing to get it removed. ...

... base to it, so maybe these jerks are new because of it and maybe they were there before i don't know. Medication i tried: I tried: Klonopin, amitriptyline, Magnesium glycinate, ALA, Ambien, CBD oil, electrolyte, Melatonin. Nothing did stop the jerks. Amitriptyline kept me sedated to sleep ...

I finally had to give in and start a low does of amitriptyline (25 mg). I was not sleeping and I was miserable. That was after being on the auto CPAP since the middle of June. I have zero problems with my mask now after trying 7. I have been on the ...

... a lot of CBT therapy all my life, I was able to make great progress with it fast. My therapist, a Psychiatrist, had kept me on a very low dose of Amitriptyline and Ambien (about 12mg and 1mg respectively) at first. I started this last February, in 2017. I won't go into the details of the therapy, ...

... a lot of CBT therapy all my life, I was able to make great progress with it fast. My therapist, a Psychiatrist, had kept me on a very low dose of Amitriptyline and Ambien (about 12mg and 1mg respectively) at first. I started this last February, in 2017. I won't go into the details of the therapy, ...

I was recently prescribed low dose amitriptyline for chronic pain and when I take a tablet at night (10mg dose) my centrals go quite high, as many as 4 per hour. I've taken about 15 tablets over about 2 months and noticed this on each of the ...

... freally feel like im going mad. My dr keeps perscribing more and more pills to help me sleep. I am currently taking Prozac Tizanidine Tramadol and amitriptyline trazodone and xanax everynight and i still cant sleep. Even fell asleep behind the wheel. Driving the other day. I'm beginning to think ...

... something I want to take regularly because I do not want to build up a tolerance. I've tried many things for sleep: melatonin, ambien, trazodone, amitriptyline, gabapentin, seroquel, mirtazapine, lunesta, and I'm sure a few more that I'm forgetting. [*]Gabapentin did nothing, and made my nightmares ...