I think I may have to stop Amitriptline… OR this drug is going to make me DIE!!!
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Hi, Getting lots better as this ami wears out of my system. I am not feeling sucidial or homicidial any longer at all. So that is very good. I agree that my anxeity needs to be treated more agressivly. I did get a appointment with a physitrist for a second opinion, but that is about 7 weeks away. I am doing a lot better. Thanks again for checking on me. Jamie How are you doing today? I don`t think I saw a post from you since this one. I`ve been worried about you. Your rheumy needs to take your anxiety into consideration. It needs to be treated as aggressively as your chronic pain. Anxiety will exacerbate your chronic pain…….and chronic pain will worsen your anxiety. I`m sure you have experienced this. Any chance you could get a second opinion from a different rheumy? Good luck and keep us updated.
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<gently snipped ::I think my rheumy may try like half a mg of atavain to help with my ::sleeping. But I don’t think he understands that .5 of atavain is far far ::less potent than the 2 mg of clonazopam that I had been taking in the past. ::But who know it might work, the clonazopam was making me kind of sedated in ::the morning hours, that is why I stoped taking it…. :: ::Anyway,, Thank you for your support. I am much better now after taking some ::xanax. :: ::Jamie Dear Jamie, How are you doing today? I don`t think I saw a post from you since this one. I`ve been worried about you. Your rheumy needs to take your anxiety into consideration. It needs to be treated as aggressively as your chronic pain. Anxiety will exacerbate your chronic pain…….and chronic pain will worsen your anxiety. I`m sure you have experienced this. Any chance you could get a second opinion from a different rheumy? Good luck and keep us updated. Jackie ~*~When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it~*~ ~~ Bernard Bailey — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
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HI, Unfortunatly, Karen is out in washington DC untill the end of the month on a service project. I did get to talk to gary (gfx) on the phone tonnight for quite a while. I took a mg of xanax and it did help me calm down quite a bit. I am much moire grounded now. I decided that I am going to sleep well tonight,,, So I did not take the amitriptline. I decided that I need to discontinue the amitriptline untill I can talk to the doctor. And I went and found a bottle of clonazopam, I took 3mg. Its gonna take about another hour to kick in, but then I will sleep quite well for the night. I expect I will feel a great deal better by the morning. I will just use enough benzos tonight tommrow and tommrow night, then I will be fine till I can contact the doctor on monday. Unfortunatly, my rheumotoligst seems like he is fairly afraid of benzos. And I don’t have a shrink, so I have to rely on my primary care to take care of eveything, but I am not sure my primary is comfortable with putting me on daily xanax. But atleast I can get (and have) enough xanax and clonazopam to get though this time it take to get this amitriptline out of my system. I think my rheumy may try like half a mg of atavain to help with my sleeping. But I don’t think he understands that .5 of atavain is far far less potent than the 2 mg of clonazopam that I had been taking in the past. But who know it might work, the clonazopam was making me kind of sedated in the morning hours, that is why I stoped taking it…. Anyway,, Thank you for your support. I am much better now after taking some xanax. Jamie
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – <gently snipped ::Will all these feelings of wanting to be dead, and feeling like I didnt ::sleep and the anxieity and anger go away if I stay on this for like another ::week or two? (If I last that long) :: ::Please help, I am so frustrated, and I just dont know what to do. My mind ::is clearly not functioning properly and I need help. My doctor will be in ::on monday, but he is so busy that all i will be able to do is excharge faxes ::with him or a call to his nurse. Dear Jamie, Call your doctor`s service and tell them you have an emergency and need to talk to him ASAP. Wanting to be dead and feeling the way you do is nothing to fool around with. You need help NOW, not on Monday, but now. If your doctor is unwilling to help, go to your local ER. I`m really concerned about you. Show Karen your post and ask her to help you. You need real life support too. (((((Jamie))))) Jackie ~*~Life was so much easier when your clothes didn’t match and boys had cooties~*~ — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
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slightly neurotic, paniced, anxieity ridden overwhelmed, agitated
Talk to you doc, Jamie. Go in there. It’ll be all right. Tell him/her that you’re goin’ nuts, and need a meds change, and don’t mention anything that might get you locked up in a hospital. (Word of advice, that one is.) Don’t fret about how to make it happen. If (s)he is too busy, wait. They’ll have time to see you. Ian — I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just gonna ask where they’re goin’, and hook up with ‘em later. (Mitch Hedberg) http://sundry.ws/ — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
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slightly neurotic, paniced, anxieity ridden overwhelmed, agitated Talk to you doc, Jamie. Go in there. It’ll be all right. Tell him/her that you’re goin’ nuts, and need a meds change, and don’t mention anything that might get you locked up in a hospital. (Word of advice, that one is.) Don’t fret about how to make it happen. If (s)he is too busy, wait. They’ll have time to see you.
Thank you for your support. I will be contacting my doc. I am much more calm now with some xanax…. thanks 
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<gently snipped ::Will all these feelings of wanting to be dead, and feeling like I didnt ::sleep and the anxieity and anger go away if I stay on this for like another ::week or two? (If I last that long) :: ::Please help, I am so frustrated, and I just dont know what to do. My mind ::is clearly not functioning properly and I need help. My doctor will be in ::on monday, but he is so busy that all i will be able to do is excharge faxes ::with him or a call to his nurse. Dear Jamie, Call your doctor`s service and tell them you have an emergency and need to talk to him ASAP. Wanting to be dead and feeling the way you do is nothing to fool around with. You need help NOW, not on Monday, but now. If your doctor is unwilling to help, go to your local ER. I`m really concerned about you. Show Karen your post and ask her to help you. You need real life support too. (((((Jamie))))) Jackie ~*~Life was so much easier when your clothes didn’t match and boys had cooties~*~ — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
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HI, I am about 11 days into taking amitriptline. I increased the dose to 50mg from 25mg, per the doctors orders about 3 days ago. (he actually wanted me to be on 125mg by now) Even at 50mg, I am not really finding it sedating, I usally end up getting to sleep 5 to 6 hours after I take the dose, and I often have to add chlortrimiton and xanax to to mix. Even at 50mg, I still wake up in the night with pain and disconfort. I have also developed this severe diffuse itching, which I am not sure what it is from, possiable the hydrocodone. The problem is I will want to sleep, I wil be tired, and I just find myself so physicall uncomfortable from pain that I can’t get to sleep. In general, I feel like I am not really sleeping at all, even though I am in bed for a total of 8 to 12 hours. (I do have severe PLMD about 274 movements per hour vs a normal of about 10 movements) and I fear the ami might be maiking this worse. I feel like the adderall is the only thing keeping me up at all in the day time. I am falling asleep durring the day even still with the adderall. I am also becoming depressed, extremely agitated, and feeling very very agressive. If I did not have xanax, I dont really want to think about what would be happening. At the rate this is going, with how I feel from this drug, I am going to need a antipschyotic to keep myself calm or lots of xanax. I just cant deal with how horriable I am feeling. This medicine makes me want to DIE. And I have not been depressed at all for many months, fustrated, stressed yes, but Now, This med is making be feel so bad that I just want to be DEAD. Will all these feelings of wanting to be dead, and feeling like I didnt sleep and the anxieity and anger go away if I stay on this for like another week or two? (If I last that long) Please help, I am so frustrated, and I just dont know what to do. My mind is clearly not functioning properly and I need help. My doctor will be in on monday, but he is so busy that all i will be able to do is excharge faxes with him or a call to his nurse. Thank you in advance,, Signed slightly neurotic, paniced, anxieity ridden overwhelmed, agitated, Jamie — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
