Oh yeah, just wanted to add...

due to my cyst bandaged on my back, I missed a day washing my hair. So yesterday, equipped with waterproof bandage, I was able to wash my hair.

I have a hair net in my tub to catch the hair (don't want to clog the drain!). After 2 days, previously, I'd lose a LOT of hair while washing.

The amount in the net yesterday was like, half of what came out after a daily washing when I was on Amitriptyline!

So La Evil was making me bald. Cute

When I'm combing my hair, I was getting/still get, a lot of hair on my comb, on the front of my shirt...on the floor...my boyfriend says that he finds my hair in his apartment, and I havent been to his apartment since April. (so apparently I'm shedding all over him)

I decided to quit the amitriptyline cold turkey. I'm not having any apparent problems from that so far. I actually feel better...the nasty taste in my mouth and the dry mouth dont feel so bad today. I'm using the potty somewhat normally, and not quite as often as I was saturday night. (nowhere near as often!)

I'm just annoyed that every medication I've taken recently, except for Tylenol and Ibuprofen, has caused me more than one or two problems.

Now I'm afraid to take my Copaxone tonight, for fear that it's going to make my hair fall out and make me sleep in the bathroom.

I feel like I'm better able to concentrate...I was able to sit and read a book for awhile tonight without getting bored and skipping ahead, or putting it down for a few minutes to do something else, only to pick it up again 5 minutes later and have problems getting more than a couple of pages in.

dangit! I just noticed that it's 10 to 4(am!)

I was going to go to bed earlier than this. This is what I get for playing Webkinz games for two hours (or more, cant remember when I started playing)

I guess it's off to bed to see if I can sleep without chemical assistance.

Don't feel bad Erin. I got sucked into Youtube last night and ended up falling asleep at 3am LOL!

I wanted to get up at noon today, but my mom decided to wake me up by ringing the doorbell REPEATEDLY at 1030am. I went upstairs, found out that she was just playing with the doorbell (my mom acts like a kid sometimes...I want to smack the drunk driver that hit my mom when she was 17 that caused her head injury)

So I went back downstairs to bed and reset the alarm to wake me at 1pm.

I'm noticing one side effect of the amitriptyline that I am going to miss. The antihistamine properties! I'm sneezing my nose off today. I swear, that was the best antihistamine ever, except for all the nasty side effects.

Sorry about your mom's accident. That's terrible

I didn't know it was an antihistamine or had properties! I've been sneezing non stop since I stopped it. LOL!

I figured it was the Clonazepam, since that can be a side effect of the drug.

Honestly, I think it's the Copaxone ( in my case, at least) that causes hair loss. I haven't been on Elavil, although I had it prescribed, I never took it. I'm pretty sure Copaxone can cause your hormones to go out of whack. I think it's only mentioned to happen in a small amount of patients, but after reading on several other MS boards and sites, I believe it's more likely to happen than Teva is reporting.