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Originally Posted by dmplaura
Oh boy. You opened a can of worms with this one LOL!
I thought I'd share my list of side effects that I had on this drug (I have since stopped it, buh bye).
My side effects:
Lightheadedness (add low blood pressure as well to this)
Dryness of mouth
Headache
Unpleasant taste
Diarrhea
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Oh boy does that sound familiar. I HATED Elavil. Hated it. It was given to me for nerve pain and the doc said right up front it was an AD. No w/drawal effects, but I had almost all the above side-effects in addition to:
dizziness
loss of balance
And I have low blood pressure too. I'm usually 90/60, so a drop isn't good. Sets me right up to feeling like I'm going to faint, which is also another side effect of the Elavil. I didn't, but boy felt like it a lot!
I had cotton mouth so badly with Elavil it wasn't funny. And I always had mints around because of the weird taste in my mouth. Blech. Drank tons of water but I also gained weight. Ick. Yuck. Grrr. And all those good descriptive type words.
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Originally Posted by Erin524
It just seems like the amitriptyline just up and quit working on me...
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And that's what happened to me. It stopped. I just stopped getting anything beneficial for it. So they put me on Pamelor then, which took the pain away almost instantly after it was in my system. And none of the side effects either.