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amitriptyline
Jan 02, 2008 10:09PM
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12 month ago, I got an headace, no regular pain releave drug can stop it, I have been taking amitriptyline for about 1 year, 10mg, I only take half of it every day before bed time for my headace. But I really want to stop taking it, however, every time I stopped taking it for 3 days, my headace would come back, and other affects such as fatigue, difficult to sleep, losing appetite, my blood preasure would rise up too.
shoud I stop taking it or keep having this medication forever?
shoud I stop taking it or keep having this medication forever?
I take Amitriptyline 50mg, every night for my chronic headaches and it works to keep the pain at bay. When, in the past, I went off it because I ran out of the pills or because I got fed up with taking it, I got really very unwell - I was basically having withdrawal symptoms. This is what probably happened to you earlier this year. If you want to go off the medication, like with all medication, you have to wean yourself off of it, in say 5mg increments.
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