Amitriptyline Treatment Report
Generic Name: Amitriptyline
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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| Pain | 88 |
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| Other | 51 |
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| Depression | 29 |
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| Insomnia | 13 |
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| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 11 |
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3 | ||
| Anxiety | 10 |
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See all 211 patients currently taking Amitriptyline
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Amitriptyline. See all 23 dosages ►
| 25mg as needed | 50mg as needed | 5 mg as needed | daily | 5 mg daily | 10 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 25 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 35 mg daily | 37.5 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 70 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 80 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 225 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 600 mg daily | ||
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44
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36
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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25 | 35% |
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Side effects too severe
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23 | 32% |
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Other
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17 | 24% |
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Doctor's advice
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9 | 13% |
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Course of treatment ended
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7 | 10% |
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Not indicated
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5 | 7% |
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Personal research
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2 | 3% |
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Expense
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1 | 1% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 45 patient evaluations
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- JesswithMS
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- JesswithMS
- since Aug 18, 2008
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Efficacy
None
for Nerve pain (neuropathic pain)
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips Be cautious in upping your dosage and if you feel it is not really working ask to be switched instead of increasing your dosage. See full evaluation
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- lizupatree
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: none
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: mild
- See profile
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- lizupatree
- 25 mg daily
- since Aug 19, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips When I first took this, it made me so fatigued I couldn't lift my head off the pillow until noon. I wanted to quit, but could not risk the burning pain retu... See full evaluation
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- sgtstardust
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: severe
- See profile
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- sgtstardust
- since Sep 21, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Pain
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips If you really want to sleep through the night in a major way, this is for you. I dropped it a few years back because I felt I was taxing my liver with too ma... See full evaluation
See all 45 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.