Sucking up the side effects and taking the benefit of less pain!!

(we are all different in side effects and how we weigh them against the pain)

Interesting........

Me too! Sucking it up with the side effects!!!

Im just very happy to know its there and that it works. Great piece of mind for down the road. If my pain ever gets to a 6 Im back on it for sure. There defiantly comes a time where there is a trade off.

Interesting, there is a guy on that link I provided that say he takes 300mg
he also states that its not a typo

300 mg is the depression dose for amitriptyline. It used to be more common in the old days before SSRIs. It carries along with it at that dose QT depressing potential however.

So we don't see those high doses for it anymore.

In the old days, before the link to chronic pain, we rarely dispensed the 10 or 25mg! Now it is the reverse!

Ive been on amitriptyline now for 3 weeks (started at 10mg now at 20mg) I havent had any side effect, it doesnt even make me sleepy. It helps me a lot with pain and calms my anxiety and emotional spikes a lot even at this low dose. I'm surprised, even though its not an SSRI but still an antidepressant, in the past any SSRI id taken really didnt go over well.

25 mg. No i dont take any other meds for PN. I do take vitamins however.

Good Morning,
Using the drug interaction checker at Drugs.com it showed 227 major drug interactions for amitriptyline. If your using drug cocktails you might want to use this tool, it includes OTC, foods and diseases.

TCA's prolong QT. So it would be listed as interacting with all drugs in the various lists that do that too.

Here is more on QT prolongation:
http://www.azcert.org/
This has evolved into a very nice website complete with
revolving graphic illustrating what the QT interval is.

In the small doses like 10-25mg a day, this is much less an issue than past 50mg or so. 50mg is borderline.

TCAs like Elavil were often a method of suicide in depressed patients, and often was successful. (poor useful interventions for it).

With the advent of SSRIs ...which do not have this deadly potential for overdose...doctors rapidly switched to them, and left TCAs in the dust for high dose use.

Curcumin and Resveratrol plus Vitamin D beats the tar out of Elavil. I started using this combo not too long ago and Elavil can't hold a candle to this. Not to mention the bonus antioxidant, anti-aging, neuropathy, and chronic fatigue fighting effects.

Curcumin - keto, enol, or both?

Resveratrol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol