Amitriptyline Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Elavil, Apo-amitriptyline, Endep
What is Amitriptyline?
Amitriptyline 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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| Insomnia | 63 |
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20 |
| Fibromyalgia | 47 |
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13 |
| Pain | 30 |
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10 | ||
| Other | 18 |
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4 | ||
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 18 |
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4 | |||
| Depression | 13 |
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6 |
See all 221 patients currently taking Amitriptyline
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Amitriptyline. See all 24 dosages ►
| 100 mg all the time (24/7) | 100mg as needed | 10mg/mL as needed | 25 mg as needed | 25mg as needed | daily | 3 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 10 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 24 mg daily | 25 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 50 mcg daily | 50 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 750 mg daily | ||
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1
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1
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2
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3
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1
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1
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1
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39
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1
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10
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1
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47
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5
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5
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1
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61
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14
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25
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4
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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30 | 41% |
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Did not seem to work
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27 | 37% |
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Doctor's advice
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15 | 21% |
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Other
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11 | 15% |
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Personal research
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1 | 1% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 1% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
See more information, including instructions, precautions, side effects, and interactions.
Patient Evaluations
See all 57 patient evaluations
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- minnielee
- Sex: F
- Pain: Little
- Fatigue: None
- Sleep: Little
- Stiffness: Some
- function: All
- external_stress: Most
- Stickman: little
- Description:F37y
- FM:7y Dx
- CFS:?y
- See profile
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- minnielee
- 10 mg daily
- since Jan 01, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips the drug made me crave sugar - however, sugar promotes inflammation which defeats the purpose of taking this drug. eating a lot of sugar/carbs led to weight... See full evaluation
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- ashhenry
- Sex: F
- Pain: All
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: Most
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: Little
- Stickman: all
- Description:F29y
- FM:1y Dx
- See profile
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- ashhenry
- since Sep 19, 2008
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Efficacy
None
for Pain
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Side Effects
Severe
- See full evaluation
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- bjk0478
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: Most
- Stickman: all
- Description:F53y
- FM:15y Dx
- See profile
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- bjk0478
- since Dec 30, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Depression
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips This was definately not the correct medication for me. See full evaluation
See all 57 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.