• Effectiveness

  Slight (for increased need for sleep)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for major depressive disorder)
• Side effects

  Mild (fluid retention weight gain, weight gain, slurred speech, hangover effect)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 200 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Still have unexpected "depressive episodes" but they are b/c of my Major Depressive Disorder. (chemical imbalance in brain) Sometimes, I have to add an "extra" (100 mg) d/t lack of sleep/quality of sleep. But still think it's one of the best anti-depressants around. The ones that the pharmaceutical companies are cranking out have longer & longer side effects (Any advertised in magazine...takes up 3 pages!) Weight gain is something I have to fight with --along w/ post menopause, hypothyroidism, & clonazepam

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for increased need for sleep)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for major depressive disorder)
• Side effects

  Moderate (fluid retention weight gain, weight gain, slurred speech, hangover effect)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 200 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Feeling hung-over in the morning & sudden impact of sleepiness after taken; take. medication right before you have eaten & are ready for bed. Its still the best anti-depressant I've EVER tried!

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for major depressive disorder)
• Side effects

  Moderate (fluid retention weight gain, weight gain, slurred speech, hangover effect)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 200 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for major depressive disorder)
• Side effects

  Mild (fluid retention weight gain, weight gain, slurred speech, hangover effect)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 200 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for major depressive disorder)
• Side effects

  Mild (fluid retention weight gain, weight gain, slurred speech)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 200 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Elavil is becoming unfamiliar with psychiatrists these days; they seem to feel that the old tricylics don't work as well as all the SSRI's that are out there now. Personally, over the vast amount of years with my psychiatrist, we tried everything from A-Z......always came back to Elavil. The SSRI's had terrible side effects & did not work as well. I think it's been quite effective! The weight gain used to be bad until I was dxed w/ Type 2 Diabetes (not on medication/just diet & exercise & glucose monitoring daily) Now I've been losing weight.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for excess saliva)
• Side effects

  None
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 30 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: It works for me at drying up saliva.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Slight (for excess saliva)
• Side effects

  None
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 30 mg Daily

• Effectiveness

  Major (for excess saliva)
• Side effects

  None
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 30 mg Daily

• Effectiveness

  Slight (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for insomnia)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for pain)
• Side effects

  None
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 30 mg Daily

Cost: < $25 monthly