Amitriptyline and increased blood pressure

knuckleduster
knuckleduster Member Posts: 551
edited 16. Oct 2012, 14:46 in Living with Arthritis archive
Posted a few weeks ago my doctor had prescribed 10mg amitripyline but I'm having a problem with it. No complaints about it helping me to have a good nights sleep and when I do I feel super charged with energy and feel I can take on the world and all it's problems. However, I also take 125mg thyroxine and apparently this makes the amitriptyline doubly efficient and after taking it for just two or three nights my blood pressure shoots up and I feel awful. So then I have to stop the amitriptyline, wait for my blood pressure to go down and then I can restart. Am seeing my doctor about this next week but was wondering if any other users have had the same reaction.

Janet xx

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  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Janet
    I am on 25mg amitriptyline, and I cant say its has had any effects on my blood pressure, but with you being on thyroxine I would certainly check with your doctor, and if your blood pressure is going up so much then I would go and see them sooner rather than later.
    Please let us know how you get on x
    Love
    Barbara
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    My BP rose thanks to the humira I take so I am on tablets to help that. One of the troubles we face is that one med can lead to the need for others but I hope this doesn't prove to be the case with you. Take care and let us know what the GP says, yes? DD
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  • knuckleduster
    knuckleduster Member Posts: 551
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hello Barbara and DD

    I've got an appointment with my gp next Monday so I'll let you know how I get on then. Lovely sunny day here today.

    Janet x
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi ND

    I am on 125 mcg thyroxine daily and took 25 mg amitriptyline for one year. The only side effect for me was feeling a little whoosy in the mornings (made no difference what time I took the Ami the night before) on awakening. I already take meds for high BP which I feel may have come on partly due to all the meds I have swallowed over many years. :roll:

    Elna x
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  • frogmella
    frogmella Member Posts: 1,111
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Just a thought, have you sought the advice of a pharmacist? Sometimes it has helped me to turn up with a possible solution when I see the GP. I have a tame pharmacist who I ask before my appointment.
  • knuckleduster
    knuckleduster Member Posts: 551
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Thank you Elna and Frogmella for replying.

    I did speak to the Pharmacy Manager at the Doctors' but she didn't know :roll: .
    I might well try the Pharmacist at the local chemist.

    Janet x

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