Endep (amitriptyline) Treatment Report
Generic Name: Amitriptyline
What is Endep?
Endep is an international brand name for amitriptyline. It is a tricyclic antidepressant approved for the treatment of depression. Off label amitripyline is used for certain chronic and neuropathic (nerve) pain and for prevention of migraine headaches.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Other | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Migraine Headaches | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Pain | 1 | 0 | |||||
| saliva control | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Depression | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 33% |
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Side effects too severe
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1 | 33% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 33% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- Assemblage
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: mild
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- Assemblage
- 10 mg daily
- since Dec 05, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Migraine Headaches
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips Seems to work on my stabbing pain in the head. Take it before going to sleep. See full evaluation
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Report created on November 22, 2009.