39 patient evaluations for Nortriptyline

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Sep 8, 2010 (Started Apr 20, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for excess saliva)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (dry mouth at night, drowsiness)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: dry mouth at night, drowsiness
  • 0 helpful marks

Sep 3, 2010 (Started Jan 01, 2005)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for cramps)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Jul 23, 2010 (Started Jun 02, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for sleeplessness)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: This medication did nothing at a lower dose and so the doc told me to take more and suddenly I was wide awake and very hyper for almost two days. It was awful. It also made me feel shaky and gave me dry mouth.
Cost: < $25 monthly

Jul 14, 2010 (Started Jun 02, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for sleeplessness)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Cost: < $25 monthly

Jun 8, 2010 (Started Jun 02, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for sleeplessness)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Usually
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 10 mg Daily
  • 0 helpful marks

Jun 25, 2010 (Started Mar 12, 1990)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for whole body ache)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 25 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: If I don't take it, I really feel the tingling in feet and legs.
Side effects: dry mouth

Jan 12, 2009 (Started Mar 12, 1990)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for whole body ache)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall) (dry mouth)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 25 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Have taken it for years...doesn't take away the tingling, etc., but I am not constantly aware of it, so it doesn't drive me nuts. Like Clonazepam, don't just quit...taper off!
Side effects: dry mouth
  • 0 helpful marks

Dec 29, 2008 (Started Dec 02, 2008)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for fibromyalgia)
  • Effectiveness
    None (for depressed mood)
  • Effectiveness
    None (for anxious mood)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 50 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: I began having convulsions a week after taking. I asked doctors if I should stop taking it they said no. I was in the ER 4 times in 4 months. One night in the Ambulance after a Neuro toxicity reaction to the medication, I almost lost consciousness. I stopped taking it immediately. The symptoms ceased but I am seeing a Neurologist now to treat damage to my brains cognitive functioning.
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Mar 10, 2010 (Started Feb 19, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    None (for Increase effect of another treatment)
  • Effectiveness
    None (for fibromyalgia)
  • Effectiveness
    None (for sleeplessness)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall) (agitation with irritability)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 30 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: This medication made me feel really irritable and angry. Plus when I finally did fall asleep my RLS got intense to the point were my partner could not be in the same bed at me. This medication had no apparent positive effect for me.
Cost: < $25 monthly
Side effects: agitation with irritability
  • 1 helpful mark

Mar 3, 2010 (Started Dec 01, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Major (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 100 mg Daily

Feb 2, 2010 (Started Dec 01, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for nerve pain (neuralgia))
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Dosage: 50 mg Daily
  • 0 helpful marks

Feb 14, 2010 (Started )

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for Diagnostic assessment)
  • Side effects
    None (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Never taken as prescribed
  • Burden
    Not at all hard to take
Advice & Tips: Trying to understand,and get diagnosis for these symtoms. SO far it has been the down fall of my personal, and professional life
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks

Jan 30, 2010 (Started Jan 26, 2010)

  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for depressed mood)
  • Side effects
    Mild (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    A little hard to take
Dosage: 20 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: Energy increase; because of less pain in my leg.
  • 0 helpful marks

Jan 18, 2010 (Started Dec 02, 2009)

  • Effectiveness
    Can't tell (for allergies)
  • Effectiveness
    Slight (for migraine headaches)
  • Effectiveness
    Moderate (for whole body ache)
  • Side effects
    Severe (for Overall)
  • Adherence
    Always
  • Burden
    Very hard to take
Dosage: 25 mg Daily
Advice & Tips: it got me locked up in the mental hospital for 10 days. also kept me very awake for 3 days straight
Cost: < $25 monthly
  • 0 helpful marks
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