Hi Finz,

Thanks so much for your reply. I am very sensitive to medications. They tend to either make me nauseated or foggy/confused. The nortriptyline also seems to be causing me to have memory problems. I'm not sure why I'm so sensitive.

The pain doc prescribed the nortriptyline to help with pain but mainly to help me sleep. I am trying to figure out the best time to take it so that I don't feel so spaced out and groggy at work. The doc said to take it at least 12 hours before 'wake up time' but that hasn't been quite enough. I'm currently experimenting with taking it around 5pm and that seems to be working (I usually leave the house for work around 8:30ish - flexi-time is a beautiful thing.) I think taking it earlier is helping.

Since I'm not depressed, I was hoping it would make me super happy but that hasn't happened yet.

Although, it is helping me sleep and I'm pretty happy about that.

Kim