WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for August, 2000: Advice on Elavil and effects?

Advice on Elavil and effects?

From: Emme (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:56:28 -0500 (CDT)

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For those doctors who have read my posts, I apologize for their frequency, I'm just trying to get to the bottom of my problems :(-. I went to my primary care doctor on Friday and after examining me and listening to my chronology of UTIs, ill health, fatigue, moodiness and feeling depressed, he concluded that I might be suffering from depression. He prescribed a 10mg dose of amitryptylin (to be more specific, a generic form of Elavil)to take at bedtime. My pharmacist said that a dose that low doesn't really have any effects and is out of your system by morning, but reading the monograph about side effects frightened me and I know your body can get addicted to tricyclic antidepressants. All I wanted to do the three days that I took the amitryptylin was sleep all day. I don't like the idea of body or brain processes being inhibited to solve problems.

I think much of my depression and moodiness is due to the pill, and that once I go off of it things will improve significantly. As mentioned before, the UTI-symptoms seem to come within the first 8 days after I start my pill pack. Also, I really don't want to have to worry about time changes and drug side effects while on vacation. Bedtime here is different from bedtime in Europe. Do you think I can stop the Elavil (I took it Fri, Sat, Sun, but not last night)and then talk to my doctor about actually using such therapy if things don't improve after stopping the pill? I start the placebo part of the pill pack on Sept. 3rd (I will be on vacation from Aug 24- Sep. 6). Your professional advice would be greatly appreciated. I know I should trust my doctor, but sometimes I think homeopathic methods that don't tamper with your body's natural function are the best way to go. The two weeks I had no antibiotics in my system (other than the Pill), I felt better than I had for a while (and one of these was the placebo week!) Thanks!

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