To Lady S and all, thanks for the info on the Elavil

[Yoda99]

I've always liked sweets but since I've been on the Elavil, I swear I can't get enough sweets.  I bought two big bars of dark chocolate the other day and I've already eaten both of them.  I don't think I'm gaining weight but I'm making some bad nutritional choices.  I'm eating the sweets and chocolate instead of the healthy food I should be eating.  Well, at least I'm not eating the oxys anymore.
Love,
Yoda

[shelby74]

I had the same experience on Elavil!  Dark chocolate - could not get enough!  Who am I kidding I still cannot get enough - especially at certain times of the month! lol  I tell you one thing though I will take chocolate over opiates anyday.

Love,

Shelby

[Yoda99]

Isn't that weird about the dark chocolate?  But you're right, I'm glad to be off of the drugs.  So if I'm addicted to chocolate, so what.  I think I'll get some more today.  lol
Love,
Yoda

[shelby74]

Could you get me a pound or two while you are out? lol

Shelby

[kimmieb]

I was on Elavil many moons ago (that's amitriptyline, right?)  I remember it doing a similar thing to me.  I was hungry and wanting to eat all the time.  Not necessarily dark chocolate though (still don't like that), but just food in general.  I'm a fairly thin person normally, and I put on the pounds really fast while I was (briefly) on that stuff.  I was on it for migraine prevention at the time.  Now, just a week or so ago, the pain mgmt doc talked about the option of replacing my lorazepam at night (I take it for insomnia) with elavil (although an anti-depressant, it supposedly acts as a sleep aid).  I really don't want to touch that stuff though.  After a hysterectomy and then some elavil?  Oh man.  I can just see the results now.....

Elavil worked wonders for a good friend of mine though.  He's a man though, so different hormones and stuff.  Must be why he never gained weight or craved dark chocolate :-)