Suddenly always need to pee! Please help

You need to be very careful about Amitryptiline. I will narrate my own experience to you and you can decide what to. Around eleven years ago, I was given increasing doses of Amitryptiline over a space of one month or so ranging from 10 mg to 75 mg because 10 mg-20 mg did not work and in spite of the fact that I was complaining all along about the side-effects. When I reached 75 mg, my urination and defecation stopped. My bladder was full one day but I could not urinate; it felt like my muscles were paralyzed. In fact, it was so bad on one day that I felt that the depression was better than the drug. I called the doctor immediately and he suggested applying a warm bag of water over the lower abdomen to help urinate. He also indicated that cathetarization might be required. I had to take an enema to relieve myself.

I was a twenty seven year old healthy male, and this drug completely messed up my urinary and excretory system for a brief period of time. I believe some damage persists even to this day. I have urinary retention, frequent urination, pain, bloating and cramping in the lower abdomen. There is definitely a connection between the use of anti-depressants and urino-genital issues although, as usual, doctors and pharmacists will vigorously deny it. Amitryptiline is a first generation dirty drug with several terrible side-effects, and there are many milder and more effective substitutes which the doctor should have known about.

Fortunately, I could void my bladder with great difficulty, but I was traumatized so badly that I stopped the drug immediately after that event, and switched to another doctor who prescribed Mirtazapine which fortunately worked better for me. I also changed my life style considerably and recovered by the beginning of 2006 although the recovery had started by July 2005. I have not taken a pill since that time. Good riddance.

If you expect that a pill alone can pull you out of depression and keep you there permanently you may be expecting way too much. If you are really serious about recovering you need to cut out alcohol, smoking, processed foods and other junk food, eat salmon, green vegetables, avocado, some sea weed, asparagus and other healthful foods, try to jog for around half hour everyday, take cod liver oil for the omega-3 fats, and sleep well. For sleep, you could take 1-2 mg of melatonin, or valerian root, or magnesium. Cherries are rich in melatonin, and you will feel sleepy if you ingest five to six cherries. Eat more if you don't; there are no unpleasant side-effects. Close your eyes and lie absolutely still as you go to sleep. Also, don't try to control any thoughts, but don't make a conscious effort to think either. You will find that sleep will overcome you, and even if it does not, lying still and closing your eyes achieves the purpose of sleep. After all, your body just needs rest.

Also, practice mindfulness. Just be aware of what is going on in your mind - witness it without reacting to it. After all, your depression is just a manifestation of the interplay of neurochemicals in your brain- it is not reality. It is just your perception of reality, and if you are intellectually able to realize this difference without actually doing anything about it you will have won half the battle. If you have trouble doing this, it is again your sick mind causing the "trouble" and ad infinitum. Basically, you are not your brain similat to how you are not your stomach or leg, so do not identify yourself with it. If you had abdominal pain but had good mental health you would treat it as ordinary pain. Why should the brain be any different?

This is what I can think of right now. I wish you a speedy recovery.