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Originally Posted by Patrick Winter
I brought up amitriptyline to my neuro becuase i said gabapentins side effects are less than desirable. he told me that if side effects are an issue amitriptyline is not the way to go. Said that it has more than gabapentin does. Also said the tough thing with using an anti-depressant of any kind is simply this, if you aren't depressed or dealing with a chemical imbalance it is often counterintuitive. There are many other types of tricycylic anti depressants as well. Pamelor of another that is often prescribed and supposedly is a little better tolerated.
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I am sorry to say, I think your doctor doesn't know about the new research of LOW DOSE tricyclics helping with nerve repair.
The doses used for amitriptyline are
far below those for depression. The depression doses are 150mg to 300mg a day.
These drugs fell into disuse because of the fatality factor in suicide attempts and the elevated QT risks with other drugs. When the SSRIs came out, with much less fatality risk, the tricyclics were dropped and this safety factor was presented to general practitioners. I attended seminars about this back then. Of course with time, the agitation caused by SSRIs and the "prozac" suicides by violent means, and domestic shootings, took over and increased deaths that way.
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