Elavil (amitriptyline) Treatment Report
Generic Name: Amitriptyline
What is Elavil?
Elavil, a brand name for 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 | 20 |
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3 | ||
| Other | 18 |
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4 | ||
| Depression | 16 |
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3 | ||
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 13 |
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4 | ||
| Excess saliva | 11 |
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2 | ||||
| Muscle Pain | 10 |
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2 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Elavil. See all 15 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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12 | 40% |
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Side effects too severe
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9 | 30% |
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Other
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7 | 23% |
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Doctor's advice
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6 | 20% |
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Personal research
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2 | 7% |
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Not indicated
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2 | 7% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 3% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- sgtstardust
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: severe
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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
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- Dirty Butter
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: mild
- Chest: none
- Legs: mild
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- Dirty Butter
- 25 mg daily
- since Oct 01, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips I actually take Triavil, which is a combination of 10mg Amitryptiline and 2 mg Perphen, but there's no way to record this combination drug together. I don't ... See full evaluation
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- galderson
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- galderson
- 50 mg daily
- since Oct 27, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Insomnia
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips could not stay awake for about 10 days when I first started med. See full evaluation
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Report created on November 22, 2009.