Posted by SLS on December 23, 2009, at 5:01:11
In reply to Re: Tried 70mg. EEK » ColoradoSnowflake, posted by mtdewcmu on December 22, 2009, at 21:49:02
> Maybe you should consider dumping the nortriptyline and switching to another drug with similar effects. Nortriptyline will add to your hypotension. There are other norepinephrine agonists like Strattera that have fewer side effects.
It has been my experience that the hypotension that is produced by adding nortriptyline to Parnate dissipates within 3 months.
Strattera put me to sleep and produced fatigue for the entire time I took it. I experienced no improvement in depression with it.
When I first began taking nortiptyline, it made me sleep for two days. Thereafter, it had no subjective effect on sleep and there was no somnolence.
If switching from nortriptyline to Strattera does not produce positive results, and nortriptyline is deemed inappropriate, I would consider trying desipramine, as it is less likely to produce persistent somnolence and sedation.
- Scott
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