Posted by SLS on June 3, 2011, at 4:31:28
In reply to Re: nortriptyline - dumb as a rock!, posted by jono_in_adelaide on June 2, 2011, at 22:15:33
> > The first time I tried nortriptyline, I was totally zonked for two or three days at a dosage of 25 mg. The brain fog lifted completely before two weeks had passed. I now take 150 mg. It is absolutely clean.
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> > If you are sensitive to monoamine reuptake inhibitors, what about giving trimipramine a fair trial?
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> I thought trimipramine was perhaps the most sedating tricyclic (along with doxepin)..... if nortriptyline makes you feel drugged, I'd say that desipramine or bupropion would be better bets? Or am I misreading what you posted?
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> > - Scott
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Hi.Sedation does not equate to "dumbing" cognitive impairments.
Trimipramine did not sedate me at all. I found amitriptyline much more sedating. I guess we have to acknowledge the interindividual variability in our physiologies to account for these differences in reactions to the same drug.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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