Maybe Amitryptiline can relieve my headaches?

mcconville · Newbie Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 15

Hello. Five years ago, I lost my only child in a car accident.
I sent her to the drugstore to buy me a something and she never came back. So, I will never forgive my self because I’m directly responsible to her death. After that incident I felt to serious depression.
I didn’t talk with my husband for months and there so he sent me to some psychiatric clinic.
Doctor told me that my place is not on the clinic but at my home, and of course-with help of my husband and some anti-depressive drugs I will feel much better. So I started to use some tricyclic antidepressant drug and I started to feel good but only thing that bothered me is constant headaches.
A friend of mine told me that there is some new drug called Amitryptiline that causes no headaches at all. Is this true and can I start to take this medication by my self?

tumolo · Newbie Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 21

Hi. I will try to help you by providing you informations you clearly misunderstood.
First of all, the drug you are talking about is called Amitryptiline, with a Y in its name.
Amitryptiline may be used in depressive illness of psychotic or endogenous nature and in selected patients with neurotic depression. Yes, this drug is maybe better than the one you used but
this drug is not indicated in mild depressive states and depressive reactions.
You also need to know that every drug has his side effects. It has no side effect connected with headaches but this drug should be used with caution in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease, such as myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure.
And, one more thing, you should never consider to change your medication without consulting your doctor first.
He will tell what’s best for you and make you a schedule of drug change procedure.

Leo the Lion · Newbie Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

Dear McConville,

I'm very sorry for your loss, but I have to tell you: You need to lose the feeling that "I am the direct cause of her death." NO, you are not! Perhaps the driver was the direct cause, but not you!

Yes, you asked her to go to the store, but what happened next was an accident, beyond any control by you! You did not tell her to take a dangerous route (I assume), or run across a busy street, etc, etc.

Please, do yourself a big favor and get some talk therapy to go along with your medication. If you're already getting this, good. But if you still have a strong feeling of guilt, make sure you talk about this. And if you have been talking about this, but still feel guilty after much work on the issue , it's possible you need a different therapist. Nothing wrong with this!

I've suffered from depression and therapy is SUCH a help (along with meds). There is so much undeserved stigma to seeing a therapist - that's just old thinking, based on other peoples' own insecurities. Don't let it keep you from getting some help - just as you would for anything physical. Because your brain and your emotions all have a physical basis, even if they are less well understood, and less obviously physical.

Keep seeking relief and help!

Whether you feel like it or not, you deserve that. I'm sure that your husband and others around you will benefit from you feeling your best. So if you need to think of it that way, that's fine too.

Good luck to you. Nothing can make a tragedy go away, but you can learn with time to not feel responsible for it! Now go, get on the phone and make some calls to get what you need!

Leo

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