I took this drug for a while (50mg tid) and I think its the most
useless of the preventative medications. It took my life away, I
couldn't drive my car, or goto work, and basically sat around and
drooled on myself for most of the day. And it did not cure the
headache. I'll never take it again.

Mike

--- In chronicdailyheadache@yahoogroups.com, "tonyjay762004"
<tje_pdx@...> wrote:
>
>
> I was just wandering if anybody has had success with amitriptyline?
>
> 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?
>
> I just want to if anyone has ever had success with it or was it
just a
> coincident.
>
> 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.
>