amytriptaline

[Twitch]

is anyone else using this, has it worked for you?

[Crowgirl]

amytriptaline

Elavil? Are you using it for sleep/depression? My hubby took it for years as a migraine preventative. Worked pretty well for that. He took it at night because it knocked him out.

[Miss Behaving]

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Hi Twitch,

My Dr prescribed it for me when first I talked to her about giving up alcohol. I had previously been on SSRIs for depression, and she suggested giving it a go ..... from what I remember about what she said, (it was 2 years ago now) as well as being an earlier generation of antidepressant, it had been found to help with sleep (I have sleep problems). Anyway, I took it for 6 weeks/2 months, but I found it made me really groggy in the head, and I hated feeling like that so I gave up on it pretty quickly. I didn't have any other side effects though.

[tiptronic_ct]

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I used it for two months, both for sleep and as an anti-depressant.

Helped very slightly with sleep, but did nothing for depression. Discontinued use...

The big difference between it and SSRIs are that it has a greater dopamine effect as opposed to Serotonin.

Ask your doctor / psychiatrist about an AD called Molipaxin as an alternative. Much stronger dopamine effect, and assists sleep better. Molipaxin is also an older-generation AD with fewer side-effects compared to SSRIs.