Amitryptiline as pain relief

Hi Jenny, I had gone to bed by the time you posted last night, but still struggled a wee bit to get up this morning (not as bad as yesterday admittedly); I think I am going to have to experiment when I take them, as I have been taking it about an hour before going to sleep and I think that is too early - I'm going to try taking it pretty much as I am putting the light out and see if that helps.

I did get some pain last night, but not as bad as I can get - somewhat oddly though, I have been noticing pain during the day that I haven't noticed before; its not terribly bad, so I am wondering if it could simply be that I wasn't noticing it before as it was at such a level that I would be considering it 'normal' in comparison to the pain overnight (if that makes sense?)

Early days yet, so I will plod on and see what transpires. I'm on one 25mg a night at the moment, as doctor wanted to make it enough to actually start doing something (apparently they usually start at 10mg a night and work up from there), but not so much that it was going to be too much to cope with or to leave room to adjust as appropriate.

 

Thankfully I am blessed with a cast iron stomach Moyra, but I am trying not to take anything other than the one pill at night at the moment, so I can get a handle on what it is and isn't doing.

 

MY sister is on amitryptilinefor chronic back / neck pain and my mrs is on it for restless leg. Takes a short while to 'build up' in your system but should do the job.
Reading through this lot I'm glad I only get occasional back pain! I thought gardening was good for us!!

 

FC I am sure you will settle into them fine, it will take about 3 weeks but after that you shouldn't have a problem getting up at least.... I also took them in the day too but I found about 20 mins before bed was a good time..

You will probably have some funny little twinges here & there as they work their way into your system but then they should disappear...

 

Bad morning this morning , stunner of a headache until 2pm and 'peely-wally' as a colleague deftly put it (very pale and sickly looking, for our non-Northern readers). I think that this was a legacy of taking the tablet just before flicking the bedside light off - that, and the fact that we were a wee bit later than normal going to bed last night. So, earlier night for me tonight.

Thanks for all the support, it means a lot to me

 

Jenny namaste - I promise I won't be late to bed (unless I am working late or its not a 'school night' of course; in reality, I think its highly unlikely that you will see me posting after nine for the next week or so until these blighters bed in - tonight its tablet at 8.30 and bed at 9.00

 

Thanks Jenny - I was long gone by the time you posted that.

Bit better today - less 'foggy' than I have been all week, so hopefully that is me starting to turn the corner now.

 

Any of you ladies and gents that are/have taken this - did you experience a marked increase in pain before it settled in?

The past two nights have been hell, so much so I have pain lasting into the following day.