#amitriptyline

[maddisons-headspace]

Okay I’m back from the dead to ask a serious question cause searching it up on safari isn’t giving me real answers.

I’ve recently started taking amitriptyline to help with pain management. It’s a 10mg dosage at the moment just to see how my body will respond. I looked up whether or not you can smoke weed while taking it and what the side effects are and all I’m seeing is an increased heart rate.

Soooo does anyone on here take that medication and smoke weed still?? If so can you share your experience with it? 

 

[satellitecock]

Feds Watching

Folks, I screwed up, big time. Men in black at my domicile.

They said hello and read some old ass bible passage. EVERYONE knows I'm a man of god, this made me suspicious immediately.

Then they started talking about witnesses. This shit had my heart pumping like I was on 150mg of amitriptyline. What kind of fucking witness? An eyewitness?

Needless to say, I wasn't going to take any chances. This Applebee's situation had me fucked up, and I'm not gonna be intimidated by the FBI.

Ran for the kitchen and grabbed a knife. Started running on all fours, through the hallways, into the street, squealing like a pig at Babylon.

I think I scared those government boys good enough.

[trollochtomtar]

Discovered a really nice thing about my medication I take for my chronic headaches/migraines.

I’m supposed to take it in the evening before bed, which makes it really difficult to get up in the morning. Drowsiness and feeling tired are one of the most common side effects after all, which is why you’re supposed to take it in the evening in order to bypass most of it (feeling tired means nothing if you're already sleeping).

But because of the morning drowsiness I will sometimes sleep to noon during my days off, and days when I got school I will sometimes just sleep in and take a later train, making me a bit late to my lessons.

But yesterday I had an amazing though, why not take the medication waaaay before I go to bed? So I took it around half past five. Around NINE I was so tired I just went to bed and fell asleep within minutes. I usually only go to bed that early if I’m ridiculously sick. It’s now my day off and it’s not even 12.00 yet, and I’ve already finished one errand and taken a long walk. This feels like a life hack, but with ehm, prescription drugs.

Pity it does next to nothing with my headaches and my doctor will probably give me another medication when I talk to her in a few days 🙃

[illkeepyourbrittleheartwarm]

Medication is so funny. I feel the urge to do something self destructive or dumb as always, but I'll get quickly distracted by a book or a game or something cute/inexpensive to buy.

Before meds, I'd set my life ablaze just to feel something because I felt unloved/unlovable, and half an hour later I'd be cursing myself for it

[lambcow]

It's always so good to hear success stories like this. Honestly, amitriptyline was the first medication that even TOUCHED my migraines and gave me relief. I went from daily migraines to maybe half the month and similar to this, they became more manageable. If I noticed a migraine coming on, I could take preventative measures and the migraine would ease back to the shadows rather than take over my life like a wildfire as they would pre-amitriptyline.

In the end it wasn't enough relief for my case and there were other side effects that I wasn't pleased with from the medication that weren't worth it to me so I moved on and found a different medication with my doctor that works for me even better that I've been on for almost two years now, buuuuut--

I was on amitriptyline for probably three months and it was the medication that made me believe that there was hope for my chronic pain at all, sooooo, yeah. It works and it seriously does make a difference. I loved it as much as it was the right move for me to try something else because it really did make my life so much more liveable.

Documenting this for my own sake because I can't find my pain journal, but I think the amitriptyline is doing something to target my nerve pain; it maybe just needs more time or a higher dose to fully tackle it.

I was in the kitchen preparing food for the next week--something I've not been well enough to do for a while. And I could feel the pain starting to kick in, stretching over the top of my skull toward my eye with certain movements, which we know is an issue and are targeting in PT.

Now that I'm resting, the pain is receding much faster than it normally would, and the pain itself is less sharp and burny and more just kinda there. Like pressure behind my skull as opposed to something all-consuming that takes me out at the knees.

Interesting. Anyway. See how the rest of the week goes.

[veeremedies]

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[blackmetalsnake]

Me: *Have been stressed for the last few days because of a toothache, visit to the dentist (I have a big phobia of dentists) and a tooth removal*

My brain: Ooh, I feel so bad, do something about it. What do you mean you can't eat sweets now? You won’t even have onigiri or pizza? Too bad. Then jerk off, now you will get aroused from literally everything again. I need relief!

[boycritter]

just remembered something. need 2 rend metal with my bare hands.

[libelula202]

Hey-o I ALSO take amitriptyline!

*same hat wave*

Mine is for chronic pain though, not as a migraine preventative.

It makes my incredibly sleepy, so I suggest taking it at night/sleep time.

I hope it helps you 🤞🏻

Got hit with a migraine around 3am—or rather the peak of the migraine hit around 3am, pulled me from a dead sleep and proceeded to ruin my life for a solid 2 hours. I didn’t throw up blood* this time though. So small mercies. I’m still migraining. My head still hurts but most of the other symptoms have ended.

Holly Mop’s knackered.

This is my current view in bed:

Just her splooted-out butt as she catches up on the sleep she didn’t get because she was too busy cuddling me back to sleep for 2 hours while I cried into her fur.

I’ve got Dr. Brandon at 2pm so I can ask him if he can prescribe me the ER cocktail they hit me with, just so I have something until I see neurology next month. Or like, something. Anything. I’m so tired.

* I wrecked my throat last week after throwing up for six hours in the hospital. That’s when they hit me with the compazine.

[ithinkofnealcassady]

when is ur fave time to write? recently started full time office work and struggling to find time around it :(

hi this is an awesome question and unfortunately i’m going to answer it with

(1) i work fully remotely and have reasonable flexibility with my hours

(2) a screenshot from my own mortifying fanfiction because it’s the best way i’ve ever been able to put into words what writing and making time for it feels like 2 me

it is the only way i process anything and everything that happens to me ends up written about in one way or another.. like my internal monologue is basically written

[cringefailtiger]

valdoxan is an antidepressant bcs it's anti-depression aka if you have depreshun it kills u

[calenhads]

lol i love getting referred to a specialist by my doctor because every medication we’ve tried doesn’t stop me from being depressed as shit and useless and she doesn’t know how to help me anymore

[sycamore-seedling]

so y'know how may is fibromyalgia awareness month?

my body really said…you gonna be aware this month!

or technically two weeks ago, where i ended up in my local ER for a racing heart….and came out with a diagnosis of inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST), a form of dysautonomia/autonomic nervous system dysfunction most likely caused by my fibro (turns out there are more syndromes under that umbrella than just POTS and you don't have to faint like i always see ppl talking about 😅 thankfully a lot of the treatment and management is the same!).

i was also dehydrated bc my parents (mainly my mom) replaced the tea water in our house that i've been drinking everyday with purified water about 6 months ago, which means i wasn't getting enough electrolytes (in my case, potassium and magnesium) which both help your nerves and heart function.

also i was taking a med for my fibro (amitriplyline) which can affect your heart as a (rare! so don't worry too much if you're taking it as well) side effect.

and then i got a bad case of icu delirium/psychosis or sth. i was only in the hospital for 9 days, but my brain is still recovering from it all. esp bc it was my first time ever staying in one and it was…a lot.

im now on a month leave from work, so im taking a hiatus for a while from tumblr blogging also. my brain needs to rest and i need to re-learn my body once again. 🙃

this is getting long so just gonna wrap up now: happy pride if im not back in time for the start of june! hope everyone's doing well and your pain is low and life is treating you okay. take it a day at a time if its not (like i am) and hopefully i can come back before too long🤞🏾

[disabirbity]

Makes us sleepy after about 2h 30m after taking it, but it's hit or miss as to if it actually does--so it's hard to tell if the med is actually causing it. We were told that it'd knock us out but it doesn't really.

Waking up however, is made so much more difficult. We have to wake up in the middle of the night to tend to our cat and we have trouble walking because of how out of it the med makes us.

Hey, when’s is amitriptyline supposed to make me sleepy? because it’s been an hour and I am very much not sleepy.

I am, in fact, fucking wired.

[avocado-writing]

crazie frog

>:3

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[cringefailtiger]

mmmkay. whatever. It wasn't bad. also she didn't have a carpet so I didn't get to soak it in tears