Posted by Lou Pilder on November 3, 2014, at 20:02:07
In reply to Amitriptyline + Celexa, posted by pattisun16 on November 3, 2014, at 18:21:10
> I have been on Amitriptyline for about 6 months, starting at 30mg and increasing by 10, got up to 80 mg. I found myself being hostile, like I was in my 20s again with PMS out of control. My poor husband was the receiver of these temper flashes. I decreased the Amitriptyline and the behavior went away. It did help my migraines and my overall pain levels.
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> My dosage of Celexa is 40 mg now, for the past 8 years or so it was 60. I also am on 3 mg of Klonopin for anxiety and movement disorder.
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> This path month I found myself obsessed with feelings of worthlessness and helplessness. I even wrote my oldest son and told him to take out a big life ins policy on me, then I could leave them enough money to care for my husband. WHAT WAS I DOING?? I again decreased the Amitriptyline and my sunny disposition came back!!
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> I hate giving up this drug, it helps my sleep and decreases my headaches.
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> The only other med change besides adding the Amitriptyline was that my neuro double the amount of Klonopin I was taking.
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> Anyone been through thIs???? Thoughts?...
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> I have terrible chronic pain (back, nerve problems-- spinal stenosis, plus osteo arthritis). Arthritis meds are too hard on my tummy :-(. I take Fentanyl patch plus Norco, it works about 2/3 of my pain, except if I am active then it hardly works at all
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> Sent from my iPadpattisun16,
You asked for any thoughts. My thoughts after reading your post is that there could be an adverse event in your life ,soon, that could cause your death. I base this on the combination of drugs that you are taking along with your description of worthlessness and helplessness. Those two could culminate in suicidal thoughts along with that the drugs can cause gross impaired thinking. And along with the helplessness, that is a prescription for death by not knowing what to do in a situation that could be life-threatening.
Then there is an addiction potential in the drugs that you are taking so that if you go into withdrawal, that could induce immediate panic to kill yourself or others.
So should you go on drugging so that being obsessed with worthlessness and helplessness could abound? Well, if you do, the combination of those drugs could induce death by what is known as {serotonin syndrome}.
So what can you do to be saved? Withdrawing from all of those drugs could induce suicidal thinking and be in a horrific state and the pain could be unbearable. And if someone tells you to take this drug here, or that drug there, how could they know that by you following their advise that you could not die from what they advised you to take? Isn't it better to find an expert, first, to treat you? But is there such an expert?
I say to you, one can not live by drugs alone.
Lou
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