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From: tonyjay@...

To: chronicdailyheadache@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:04 PM

Subject: RE: [chronicdailyheadache] amitriptyline

thanks for responding.
Something will someday work.
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From: "David James" <kjames11@tampabay.rr.com>
> Oh gosh.. I've taken so many things that I can't seem to remember
> everything. So I'm not sure about the amitriptyline. I do remember being
> on nortriptyline. No success there for me.
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> I just finished a week of steroids with hopes that it would settle the
> nerves. But it seems to have failed as well.
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> I'm feeling pretty down again. I had high hopes for the steroid to bring
> relief. I'm still doing the physical therapy. I don't know about that.
> Its not giving me any relief and its actually making things a little worse.
> But I guess that's to be expected. I'll give it more time. But I'm not
> terribly hopeful.
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> Kanina
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> From: chronicdailyheadache@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:chronicdailyheadache@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tonyjay762004
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:40 PM
> To: chronicdailyheadache@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [chronicdailyheadache] amitriptyline
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> I was just wandering if anybody has had success with amitriptyline?
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> I've had CDH for about 3.5 years now and a little less than two years
> ago my doctor put me on 25mg of amitriptyline. It "helped" a little,
> and then he put me on 50mg daily. That was followed by about 9 great
> months where I would go weeks without a headache, or when I did get a
> headache, it didn't last days. I was so happy to say the least. The
> past several months my headaches have been getting progressively worst
> and the past weeks unbearable. A couple weeks ago another doctor put
> me on 25 mg of nortriptyline. That didn't seem to help, so now I am on
> 75 mg of amitriptyline daily and I am told I need to wait several days
> for the effects to be felt, if at all?
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> I just want to if anyone has ever had success with it or was it just a
> coincident.
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> If my headaches don't improve, I may drop out of college. I can't
> imagine being an accountant with a headache all the time. Starting a
> new career seems impossible right now. I really don't know how I
> haven't killed myself my now. I guess just hoping for a few good days
> keeps me going.
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