Amitriptyline

[Wendy]

I had been trying to reduce the dose as I'm on 50mg, over the last couple of weeks ive been going down by 10mg, I feel like I've been pulled through a hedge backwards Im feeling so bad, even my eye sockets hurt and in between my fingers grrrrrr so I'm going upwards again, I remember a thread a while ago asking what we couldnt live without now I have an answer my Amitriptyline!!!!!!

[Fibroman]

Hi Wendy

I was on 50mg Amitriptyline when the doctor found out it was affecting my liver so I had to wean myself off them, it was hard but I managed it, I dropped down to 40 mg on one day a week and 50mg the rest of the week, the next week 40mg for two days of the week etc. Until I was taking 40mg every day of the week, then started taking 30mg one day a week, then two days a week etc. until I was taking 30mg all week and so I went on until I wasn't taking any. It took ages but it worked.

No dry mouth, no feeling like hell in the morning and I've even managed to get a better nights sleep without them.

[Wendy]

Thanks Graham, I will give it a go, I have to have my sleep as I'm still working full time, plus this pain is just making everything so hard.

[Fibroman]

Wendy wrote:

Thanks Graham, I will give it a go, I have to have my sleep as I'm still working full time, plus this pain is just making everything so hard.

Luckily for me when I weaned myself off them it coincided with me taking redundancy and starting work with my wife at home as a Childminder, I was working full time and I don't know how I would have coped without the tablets if I had to work full-time. Leaving full-time work was the best decision I have ever made it has helped me so much.

I think anybody who holds down a full time job with fibromyalgia deserves a medal, well done Wendy.

[Buffy Boo]

It's just as well she's a bonny lass cos Wendy needs a big chest to wear all the medals she deserves.
I couldn't do it. I wish I could but I think she's a wonder.
Wendy, you are going through a lot at the moment. Leave your amitripyline until your other meds have settled. Haven't you got holidays next week? Make sure you rest, don't spend the week running around trying to catch up. Get the rest you need and the other stuff will sort itself.
loads of Hugs  

[Joo]

 and I fully back the medal wearing comments about our Wendy, she's one heck of a person !! When I was working I was constantly on drugs of one form or another, I can remember the sachets and water bottles on my workbench next to me. It was really hard to stop working and i still feel guilty sometimes but I had to stop when I literally couldn't get up in the mornings. The money shortage is hard for us at times but thats better than me in the ground I reckon!! You work bloody hard Wendy and you approach everything in life at the same speed - formula 1  !!! Think of yourself and the long term mate, and whatever works for you and your family is the right way to go. If amitryptilne does it for you, then using the right dose means you enjoy your life (and those holidays!!)

Enjoy life Wendy, but I don't need to say that do I?

Joo x

[Wendy]

This is the  reason I keep coming back to this forum, how lucky am I to have such lovely friends, I know you are all right but if it ever got too much i would leave, I sometimes think why the hell am I doing this then I hear of another person who has been in the Hospice and all the pain seems to fade away, I'm on a weeks holiday next week, we haven't got anything planned only a day out in Plymouth as its Steve's Mums birthday on Wednesday and mine a week on Sunday so we are going out to lunch that will be nice, we are also hoping to finish off this back bedroom.Back to the Amitrityline Ive gone back onto 50mg and slept quite well last night, so sod the weight (2lb loss at Slimming world tonight)