Dr. Smith, thank you for information on those meds. I did not realize, I thought they were just different trade names. Now, that you told me that, I will be asking the doctor to change to Nortriptyline. ( is it generic yes?-- I hope) With less side effects, that would be worth a try.

And I apologize for not having this right in my previous post.

Yes, nortriptyline is available generically.

No biggie—everyone makes mistakes. That's why they put Backspace and Delete keys on keyboards, and EDIT buttons on postings, right?

Tip: The convention (and again it's no biggie) is that trade names are capitalized and generic names are not (unless beginning a sentence), e.g. Neurontin/gabapentin, Lyrica/pregabalin, Elavil/amitriptyline, Aventyl/nortriptyline.

Doc

This is the very thing I discovered when I was looking around for an answer to my atypical trigeminal neuralgia pain.

However, my stomach is a war zone since I have GERD and went on many meds after developing this very horrible pain after some dental work (didn't have any pain going in).

I DID notice those that were getting improvement were taking some sort of combo of a tricyclic and Gabapentin.

Well...guess what? I take Desipramine (tablet) and a compounded cream and in that cream is Gabapentin.

I also keep my B12 and D levels optimized.

Improvement!