Nortriptyline

mellman01

Has anybody taken a prolonged high dose of Nortriptyline and then had a bad reaction to it/them?, I ask as I've had two very unpleasant episodes with it, one was a few years back and I put it down to a pain killer I was on at the time but a few days ago exactly the same happened.
I reduced the dose but again I felt very odd for a fair few hours after taking a second dose the next day, today I've taken 2 but feel alight just now but I'm worried about taking any more if it goes the same way.
I don't want to go through that again in a hurry that's for sure, that said I'm not sure what I can other than reduce the dose, they work well for my neck spondulosis but nothing for my patella OA. Not sure if I should just keep to a lower dose or go back to my GP and try another one of the many tricyclics or not.

valval

go back to gp, just incase you never know. take care that neck needs checking it been bad for long time val

barbara12

Hi Mell
Sorry I wont be much help, thats one drug I havent been on...still working mi way through um, but I think it is similar to gabapentin and I have had a few funny turns on them.
Hope you can get some answers

mellman01

Thanks Val and Barbara, I've tried Gabapentin and Pregabilin and both made me hallucinate badly so I had to stop taking them, and message received and understood Val I'll go and see him this week.