Do you feel that anti-depressants don't quite cut it?

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Have any of you taken amitriptiline? or whatever other name this drug goes under.

At 10mg it acts as a sort of headache reliever for mild migranes.
At 25mg it acts as a relief from depression by numbing everything down.
I was on it a few years back, the doc says to take two at night with some water.
That dosage was 50mg, getting off it was strange. You kind of feel like an electrical wire, with surges rushing up and down the spine.

Would upping it to 50mg without guidance be a good idea?

I was told by someone else to avoid this drug a fews years ago, but everyone is different and react, and all that.

Thanks

Not for me, but I'd echo the person you mentioned who said that everyone is different. I have met and heard of people who have found anti-depressants helpful.

Haven't been on amitriptiline, but good luck if you do end up increasing the dosage.

Ive tried so many that I couldn't list them all and all I get from them is either weird side effects or nothing at all. They never seem to help me in anyway. My doctor seems to hand them out like m and ms to me. The only ones that ever made me feel better were benzodiazepines but I was took off them many years ago when my doctor changed and told I shouldn't be on them even though I seemed to benefit me.

Benzodiazepines are not antidepressants. They are their own class of drug. Nevertheless, I am blessed to have a doctor who thinks they are beneficial.

I don't even know what they're doing for me so I can't even answer the question. I know what they're supposed to be doing for me. I've just been on them almost as far back as I can remember. I can't remember what I was like without them. Do they cut it? I don't know. Am I still having depression or OCD symptoms? I can't even tell for sure if they're OCD symptoms, depression symptoms or just normal things. I don't have my baseline symptoms to make the comparison because I don't remember it well enough.

How am I supposed to know if my medication is cutting it?

Perhaps I shouldn't of used the word cutting it> that could be misinterpreted.

I don't think these tablets end obessive behaviours, but they did, for me anyway, they make the world more 'correct'. Instead of that 'plastic' feeling to the world when someone has huge anxiety, that is the symptons of derealization. Like all meds, a person needs to harbour the 'correct' actions and so on in combo.

Similar to a person who wears glasses for myoptia. THEy go and have laser eye surgery later down the road, but there thinking is the same as wearing glasses, whether unconsciously or not, but in this regard they would probably be overjoyed with their sharp new vision, so much so they would completely come out of previous glass-wearing behaviours.

I have tried so many antidepressants that I have lost count. None of them have ever helped me until now. I am taking Moclobemide and feel it has lifted my mood a fraction. A fraction is better than nothing! I tried Amitriptyline. It didn't seem to help with my mood but it did wonders for my sleep. Unfortunately it also made me dizzy and gave me palpitations and a high heart rate. I have been very disappointed with antidepressants. I know they are not miracle cures but they can help. Though not me, apparently.

I never said they were, I just said they helped me

What do you want them to fix???

They won't fix hopelessness, or worthlessness, or fearful thinking. There is no medication on Earth that will fix that.

If there were, I would take it. Even if the side effects were fatal.

I DON'T recommend ding that without supervision of a qualified health professional. DEFINITELY IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.

If you insist, [for depression] dose can be increased by 25mg every week until reaching 100-200mg. The worst effects you can get are stroke, myocardial infarction, neuroleptic malignant syndrome and suicidal ideation. Do not stop abruptly.