I will ask my Doc about amitriptyline. I sorta have the same opinion your doc has, Wide-O, from reading comments about all these drugs. (lyrica,etc). Their effectiveness sure seems spotty , at best. A couple of them apparently cause a lot of weight gain, the last thing I need. I took amitriptyline (brand name Elavil) for depression many years staring in the late '70s. It worked well for that, but I replaced it with prozac when it came out. (Incidentally, I wouldn't be the first person to tell ya that prozac seems to increase alcohol consumption. No one ever forced booze down my throat, but beer + SSRI's in some folks = Party!) I have been skeptical of amitriptyline for PN but you are right, it is dirt cheap and , at least in my case, very well tolerated. It made me a biz drowsy so I just took it at night.