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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| Treat my mood condition(s) | 15 |
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4 | ||
| Other | 13 |
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| Insomnia | 10 |
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| Depression | 10 |
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8 |
| Headaches | 9 |
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| Pain, chronic | 8 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Amitriptyline. See all 14 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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14 | 47% |
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Doctor's advice
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12 | 40% |
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Did not seem to work
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11 | 37% |
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Course of treatment ended
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4 | 13% |
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Personal research
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2 | 7% |
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Other
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2 | 7% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 3% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- lilybet
- Sex: F
- Depression: 3
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Severe
- 50 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Low
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- lilybet
- 25 mg daily
- since Sep 09, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips If you've got fibromyalgia and your doctor prescribes amitriptyline, take it. It works. See full evaluation
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- Bryan Scott
- Sex: M
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 0
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Moderate
- 48 M
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
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- Bryan Scott
- 50 mg daily
- since May 11, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Insomnia
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- MiaBella
- Sex: F
- Depression: 2
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 40 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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- MiaBella
- since Feb 01, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips I had weird side effects when I when weaned off of this. I became very nervous and very aggitated to where I wanted to punch walls and pull my hair out. My... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 21, 2009.