Amitriptyline 10mg for headaches and anxiety please share

Hey Jackie2016.

I took trips for about 18 months and was on 200 mg a night for insomnia, ptsd & anxiety. It's an older medicine that's safe. Your dosage is very low. I would have a drinky poo on it. I had a drink on my dosage and slept AMAZINGLY, lol. Probably not doctor recommended but I didn't wake up dead, so that's a good thing! I no longer take it as it gave me issues with dry mouth. I have sjogren's and a vocal cord dysfunction so the trips were exacerbating those issues. Now I take zaleplon, which I think is too much and want to get off. I've been meditating and using Ashley Black's fascia blaster and those 2 things have helped tremendously. Many blessings! !

Helllo AMITRPTALINE is a very strong & powerful drug & is also very addictive.

It is a brilliant drug if you wish to stay on it  for years , if not until you are quite old like me.

I am 70yrs next month & I have been on AMITRPTALINE FOR 38YRS+-.

It did assist me with CHRONIC ANXIETY & POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME however the side effects were terrible, Weight increase, dry mouth, & eventually FLUID RETENTION which damaged my Kidneys through long time use. Plus aching joints & muscles, bruising. plus many more.

AMITRYPTALINE is a good drug if you need it & cannot cope, but, the side effects on them are horrific & coming off them is also horrific as well.

I am about 14 weeks off them now as my GP informed me they are not good at all for older people.

I only found this out when I asked if I could come off them with MAJOR ASSISTANCE.

My GP has helped me to come off them by replacing the pills with FLUOREXITINE 20mg twice a day which are much safer.

Jackie

Please take care with this Drug, they are quite nasty, also why dont you contact an ANXIETY CLINIC it helped me so much & it was self referal.

Hey Jackie

Read your question and just wondering how you're doing with the amiltriptyline?

Are you still on it and how's it's effects?

Hi I'm new to this as well and just started taking amitriptyline due to headaches still taking regular pain killers at present as well as 10mg hefore bed how long should Ami last will there come a time when i don't need to take pain killers as well to get rid of headache doctors says i can take up to 30mg if i need to but only been taking it since 22nd so want to see if 10mg works first

I like a couple of beers after work and also have heart conditions.

Hi jackie, I advise you please do not drink on amitriptyline. I have suffered with depression personality disorder all my adult life. I was on amitriptyline 2010 when I first started I was on a low dose 30mg at the time my son was ten and within a month I was on 200mg I couldn't function I would sleep at night and day and when I was awake I wasn't able to cook because I would leave the cooker on. I also gained weight I was on other medications. I do recommend you never go up to a high doses it's very addictive and I became really close to suicide. Because I was unaware of my surroundings a psychiatrist had to come to the house and she made a decision to take me off it. I do recommend it in small doses without taking alcohol. I hope I was able to help. I do need to say everyone is different but I strongly recommend you keep to a low dose as you have said you have a family to take care of, it will help with sleep and might help with nerve cells .

I was pascribed amitrip for rls but I read the leaflet and realised I can't take them u shouldnt take them if u have depression or anxiety they course them both and highly addictive u should never take ami my cusion says and she's a qualified nurse.

This drug is primarily for Depression and to get to sleep, Depression is caused by boredom, mild boredom, everyday boredom and severe boredom but let's not go into that shall we. Lack of sleep is simply lack of oxygen in your bloodstream (it's a warning signal that you're leading a sedentary lifestyle and need walkies) (a greyhound trainer would say you need your lungs exercising for 500 yards each day but what would he know)

Amitryptiline are excellent tablets in small doses, but even a low dosage tablet of 25 mg will cause you to be drowsy all day, they have a 36 - hour use, including a half-life of 12 hours, which means they will be in your system for 36 hours. I cut a 25mg tablet into 4 pieces using toe pliers  (kitchen knives don't work so I use toe-pliers instead) and they are great if you split the tablets into 4 pieces and much better. Do stick to the overall dosage prescribed, if you miss a day commence again when you remember but take no extra tablets. I know this seems a bit fussy to do - but do try it.

As Jackie and others reading and responding to her request for advice have seen, there is no 'silver bullet' result from Amitriptyline. Doses vary from 5 mg to many hundreds! How's that for inconsistency. It's claimed to be non-addictive. Lies - it's very addictve - just read others posts on the awful withdrawal effects many have experienced.

Long term there are questions about its effect on the brain possibly leading to dementia and who wants to risk that? It's said to be less effective on the elderly, so, if on it for life - how soon do you become 'elderly? 60, 70? 

Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying don't use it, but I believe other - safer - ways ought to be tried, preferably non-drug.

You might want to research the subject of seratonin, and I refer to this amino acid found in the brain, not in the gut where 95%+ is found in the body.

In the brain it affects mood, sleep, anxiety, depression - and much, much more. It even helps regulate the other 9 brain amino acids that control just about everything the body does.

It is not easily obtained from food although some is but most of this ends up in the gut. To get serotonin into the brain needs taking a supplement of which there are several, often in combinations. One is known as 5-HTP, which I am taking for sleep. Lack of serotonin, especially in the elderly where it becomes reduced due to the ageing process, leads to sleep-loss.

It doesn't work for everybody, some experience nausea (not with me) but that often subsides after a week or so. It is working for me still after 3 months so am hopeful that will continue.

As a bonus it is helping me to taper off a powerful benzodiazepine sleeping drug that, after 50 years has lost its use, but has severe withdrawal symptoms. My tapering is very gradual (will take 9 months) so brain doesn't miss the small amounts reduced each day. I am 30% into this with no withdrawal symptoms.

Conclusions? Avoid drugs if you can - short term yes, OK, but long term NO - avoid!

Hello I am a 48 year old grandmother of 8 young children 3 months to 12 years old.

I starting taking Amitriptyline 25mg a month ago for mainly migraine headaches and sleeping issues. I take my medication once at night before bedtime and it has helped greatly with my headaches and rest but I noticed that I was sleepy during the day so I have been cutting the small pills in half. I just got a new lower dose prescription today July 10 2017 of the Amitriptyline 10mg so I hope this lower dose helps with daytime sleepiness has I really like what the medication has done so far for me. I was told by my doctor to take it only at bedtime and I don't drink or smoke so these are not issues but I read that you should not drink or smoke with this medication if you want to do this you should definately consult with your doctor 1st.  Bottom line Amitriptyline works well for me overall has helped me.

I am on day 4 of 10mg. Amitriptyline for pinched nerve pain in my upper

back due to newly discovered scoliosis. I have not seen much decrease

in the level of pain yet but it does seem that the pain arrives later than

usual. My doctor says give it few weeks and if pain reduction hasn't

happed she will up the dose. I took this med when it was called Elavil

some 40 years ago for panic attacks and anxiety from a abusive marriage

and divorce. I took 100 mg a day for 8 years. When I decided that I did

not want to take this drug any longer, I simply quit with no problems or

withdrawal symptoms at all. I did the same years before that with Valium I had never been told you were supposed to withdraw slowly. I was

thrilled that my doctor put me back on a med I am familiar with and had never had a problem with.