Antidepressants

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Has any one else been prescribed Amitriptyline? Did it work? Was there side effects? The list is horrendous!!

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    Hi  I started on 20mg but they did nothing  Have recently increased to 50mg and get a good nights sleep at least   Not sure it does anything for the pain during the day as I take mine at eight pm but I know that I sleep far better than I used to   Took a few weeks to kick in but apart from the weight gain - which may be due to my inactivity really - they are ok for sleeping   Good luck with yours x
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    I had terrible migraines from it. Everyone is different. I quit as soon as it started and tried other. I am sensitive to many drugs . I found another one helped my serotonin uptake. Really stopped a lot of issues just by removing the depression especially after surgery..

    every drug has a list of side effects, even OTC Drugs.  It's always a gamble trying to find one that woks without serious side effects. Good Luck!

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    I was and still am on them fir pain...they are a mild antidepressant but ut was found how great they were for numbing pain at the nerve end and stopping it from travelling to more nerves throughout your body..so I guess the antidepressant part is a bonus fir many of usFibro sufferers...as heaps if us are on it...I take one a day..at 7.30 pm...sleep like a baby...no pain...but I can handle the next day ok...any stronger dosage then I'm like a zombie all day the next day..once I'm up in the morning I'm fine...but there is that tendency to just stay in bed..so getting myself up and about as soon as I see the day come through my blinds...thats really my alarm clock...be blessed..have a great weekend..nothing worse than trying a new end and not knowing their effects..:-) xx
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    To be truthful from my personal experience.......

    I don't take any meds from GP or over the counter from the pharmacy as they all have some sort of side effects.  I have survived so long without the meds and just having positive and calm personality I try to get by without meds.  I am trying alternative herbal meds but with no effect at the moment.

    Everyone deals with pain in their on way. Please give everything a try and you wills soon find what works best for you or we just give each other support through these forums to get us through our daily day.

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      glad i am not alone thank god 

      my gp makes me feel that theres nothing wrong with me because i wont take a load of meds he makes me feel like a fake 

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      I couldn't keep going with the level of pain, I have been told by several professionals that I have a high pain threshold, I need painkillers to make life bearable. I don't take them every day or as many times as I can but there are days when I need them just to be able to move at all. I seem to be a lot worse the last ten days or so but still haven't taken all the Dyhidrocodeine I could. Sometimes the side effects are a lot more bearable than the pain ie Dyhidrocodeine can cause constipation, eat more roughage, it isn't as bad as the pain. I should say my Dyhidrocodeine aren't for FM pain.
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      dosent  a high pain threshold means you can take a igh leval of pain .

      i get confused by some termaolgy . 

      i fell and smacked my head on the pavement in 2013 broke my nose and gave myself semi concusion and also broke a  bone in my hand 

      i never had so much as a pain killer ,

      they kept asking me in casuality are you sure you dont need a pain killer

      the worst thing for me was the blood running down my throat and clotting and having to cough it up, and the dizziness

      my hand played merrry hell in the nigth so i used polar frost on it but i got no pain across my nose and i really thought it would kick of ,but nope .

      maybe i have so much pain  in my body every day that theres no room for anymore  hehehe, i dont know but it was weird . 

      if i take a antacid it will constipate me so god knows  what dyhidrocodien would do me .hope you stay pain steady .

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      Shelagh, I get the feeling that you feel that you have to justify why you take pain relief....,no no no..please stop...there's nothing wrong with that  at all ....if it works well for you..There is always a side effect to most medications, even supplements and natural ones..and you are aware of what pain relief meds can do... so please don't justify to any of us...we all suffer differently....and we all have had to take pain relief whether regularly or or intermittently...be blessed, have a wonderful weekend..hugs-soft..:-) xxx ..
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      Hi Tis, it does mean I can take a high level of pain, I had three children without pain relief, I didn't say a word the nursing staff kept telling me it was ok to swear. I tore the ligaments in my ankle,,the ambulance staff were worried because I didn't make any noise. I think it's because this pain is both intense and long lasting that is so intolerable, I still don't say anything or complain no matter how bad.
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      I THINK WE BOTH HAVE  a high tolerence torn ligaments are horrendence 

      and i found that concrete and noses dont mix hehehe

      i think its not so much the pain its the ongoing of it that wheres out ,

      and then when you get other symptoms on top .it can feel like your being 

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      i had pain relief with mine and to be honest i think it made matter worse 

      i was advised to because of back problems, i later found out that epiduals can agrevates back problems later on and can cause more problems ,

      but when your being told we wont be responable it be a bit over whelming , i think if i could have had the choices they have today with birthing pools and being able to sit up right or get on your knees i would have coped but back in the 80s ,it was flat on your back which iv always thought a stupid position to give birth in .

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      I had mine in the 80s too but my Aunt was my midwife and very progressive so I could move if I wanted to. Would have loved a birthing pool! My first was 8lbs 9oz second 7lbs 9oz but I heamoraged so can't remember much, third was 7lb, he had his hand on his head so they were going to do a caesarean but some young registrar pushed his hand down, he always used to sleep with his hand on his head! The worst pain I've ever experienced was when I was having my knee replaced, they do it with a spinal and sedation, the spinal wore off before they'd finished, the pain was so bad it woke me from sedation, luckily they knocked me out quickly but I'll never have surgery like that again!
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      god hun that sounds dreadful.waking up like that 

      thats funny thing to my first one was 8lb10 

      then the middle one dropped to 8lb3 3/4

      then 10lb bit of a shock .

      you were lucky to have your aunt

      i had a rigth old dragon with my first one of course she had never had one her self .

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      Karen, my middle baby was very yellow so she was taken straight to scbu, I was out of it for a few days due to blood loss. When they took me to see her the sister on scbu had a go at me for not going sooner, she wouldn't listen just had her say then stormed off. She had another go when I questioned the temperature of the water she gave me for bathing Karen. When the nurses came to take me back to the ward I was in tears, when my Aunt came in I was still in tears. Obviously she wanted to know why I was so upset, she went off to scbu furious, next time I went to see Karen the old witch was really nice, Aunty Elsie never told me what she said but it worked lol

      have a great day, hope the weather's better there than it is here.

      Shelagh

      xxx

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      i am in north yorks so at the moment its grey claggy and cold

      yes sounds pretty much like the one i had old witches some of them frustrated spinsters .

      funny enough my last one was yellow had to go to the special baby unit

      not for long thou..iv got 2 girls and a boy .funny enough 3 yrs apart starting in 84/87/91

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      claggy!! Fantastic!! I haven't heard claggy for years! I'm in Cumbria but from Tynemouth claggy I think is a good old Geordie word! Mine were 80, 83 and 87 two girls then a boy, a bit of a shock hubby had a vasectomy! No longer with him, now married to my toyboy I've been with for 24 years this year!
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      your not going to believe this i had my girls first followed by my son last and his dad had had a vasectomy , he dumped me said it wasnt his really hurt luckly i wasnt married to the git .

      still hopeing to find true love and happiness 

      married now but since becoming ill his been a right pig to me .

      i am glad your happy you dont need unhappiness as well as fibro .

      my gran was newcastle born and bred i think i got the word from her she always felt bad in close weather or as she called it claggy . 

      and i loved her word for the toilet to ,the netty .

      i think accents and local variations on a theme are fantastic i love old or local words and finding out the meaning behind them .

      i used to love watching nearest and dearest when i was a kid loved all hildas sayings .

      and more recently iv been watching crocodile shoes and audwiedsane pet again becasue i just love the accents and the no nonsense and fun loving attidude them Geordies have. treat them with respect there be your best friend for life get arsey with them you made an enmey for life

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      My husband is fantastic, he does all the cooking, he's a chef, unfortunately he's so good at it I can't lose weight! He is 17 years younger than me but we get on so well, he is my best friend and we like the same things. We've been together 24yrs married seventeen of those and people said it wouldn't last. He brought up my three, they think of him as their dad and to him they are his kids. It is funny sometimes when he says he has a 34 yr old daughter we can see people's brains doing the maths lol. Only downside, he's not a Geordie he's a Yorkshireman but I don't hold that against him!
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      right on as long as your good together why not its certainly worked for you 

      you lucky lady i love someone to cook for me i hate cooking . 

      have you ever seen the lenny henry comedy called chef its histerical not manic like his stand ups . its out on dvd . i am glad your happy hun wish i could find a guy like yours .that would be half as good would bre just fine .

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      Wow! Shelagh,  I was married before once too. I had 2 daughters...only lasted 3 years...I've been re-married now for 39 years this year..he brought my girls up like his own too..the only dad they know...it's easy to be a father but it's another thing to be a dad for sure. and he's been such a caring loving one too, we have a daughter too she's 36 now..cooking is the only thing I do..I love it...love experimenting..not quite like Heston Bloominthal though - he's awesome...my husband does everything single thing else, even ironing..he is wonderful...he's 3 months younger than me..but because it's on a different year..he says I'm a year older..lol..if he ever cooked it would always be just egg and chips or steak egg and chips, bacon egg and chios..etc...not a cook at all...he's a Londoner..I'm from Yorkshire originally...glad you don't hold his Yorshire-ness against him..lol,  have a great day...it's 9.40am here..your probably in bed still...this is the favourite day of the week for as we look after our 2 & half year old grandson...be blessed Shelagh..:-) xx

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      Morning Chris, will catch you later, going to sleep as been up since 2ish, didn't want you to think I was ignoring you! x

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