Norpress Treatment Report

Category: Prescription Drugs

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Generic Name: Nortriptyline

What is Norpress?

An example of Norpress

Norpress is an international brand name for the drug nortriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant used in the treatment of the symptoms of depression.

Reported Purpose & Perceived Effectiveness

Reasons and Perceived effectiveness
Perceived Effectiveness
Purpose # of patients # of patients with evaluations
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
2 1 Efficacy_moderate
1 1 Efficacy_slight
1 0
1 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0
Moderate
1
Mild
1
None
0

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Norpress

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1

Reported Dosages

  20 mg daily 25 mg daily 30 mg daily 50 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Norpress (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 1   Did not seem to work: 100%

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Stopped Taking Norpress

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Norpress

Always
1 50%
Usually
1 50%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Norpress

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
1 50%
A little
1 50%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Norpress

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
1 100%

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2 patient evaluations for Norpress

  • mamabear01
    Sex: F
    Data Quality: 0 stars
    MS: 5 yrs
    Type: Relapsing-Remitting
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: Moderate
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: moderate
    Speech: moderate
    Swallowing: moderate
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: moderate
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Purpose: Unable to sleep for more than 4 hours a night (Started Jan 04, 2009)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Jan 05, 2010 100 mg Daily Led_efficacy_2Led_efficacy_2Led_defaultLed_defaultSlight ModerateModerateModerateModerateModerate AlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlwaysAlways SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
Date
Jan 05, 2010
Advice & Tips
i have severe dry mouth, and for some reason, i now have problems sleeping, i also have noticed i am quite short tempered so not sure irs working for me anymore
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  • Crispo
    Sex: F
    Data Quality: 0 stars
    MS: 5 yrs
    Type: Relapsing-Remitting
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: None
    Cognition: mild
    Vision: none
    Speech: mild
    Swallowing: none
    Upper limb: none
    Walking: mild
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Purpose: Depressed mood (Started Nov 30, 2008)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Jun 24, 2009 25 mg Daily Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_defaultModerate MildMildMildMildMild UsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsually A littleA littleA littleA littleA little
Side effects:
Sweating excessive, Sleepiness
Date
Jun 24, 2009
Advice & Tips
It was worth trying a different medication for depression, what I was on before made me worse not better. This medication was better. I tried stopping taking it as I felt much better, but began to have trouble sleeping again so started on 1 tab a night again for good sleep.
Cost
< $25 monthly
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