I must have gotten lucky. I used to drink like a fish when I was taking Pamelor.
Actually I don't think your supposed to drink any alcohol at all with any type of antidepressant.
Even the SSRI's like Zoloft and Celexa say not to drink.
PLEASE....do not drink heavily while on any of theses medications, it is the most dangerous thing you can do. It even states this on your prescritpion bottle! You also should never abruptly stop any of these medications as it can cause serious problems from seizures to death. Your doctor obviously knew that going from the one to the other was okay, I'm sure he had no idea you would just stop the one and do nothing. You won't ever know when you've drank too much on theses meds, you just won't wake up.....ever!
I was on Pamelor for two year before it stopped working. Generic name (Nortriptilyne)
It was a good tri-cyclic antidepressant. It worked pretty good for me, but failed after 2 years even at high dosages.
Mixing alcohol with any of these type of meds is dangerous. But everyone I know has 1 or 2 with no problem.