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Join Date: May 2013
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Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 135
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Amitriptyline CAN be taken every day for extended lengths of time. It is an older tricyclic antidepressant that also works for nerve pain. I've been on 50 mg. at night for almost 5 yrs. I have had good results helping me fall asleep, and it helps my headaches and facial numbness feeling. That dopey daytime feeling went away with time.
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Idiopathic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy
Atypical Migraine
Chiari 1 malformation 7 mm
PLIF L5-S1 Sept. 2013
Lumbar MRI March 2013: degenerative changes from L3 to S1. L3 and L4 have tiny annular tears with disc bulge. L5-S1 bilateral pars defects anterolisthesis (spondylosis/spondylithesis?) I have an annular tear here too, along with a conjoined left L5-S1 nerve root. Mild effacement of the thecal sac at the origins of the bilateral S1 nerve roots, left greater than right. Mild bilateral Neural foraminal stenosis.
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