Posted by Ginny on March 14, 2000, at 14:43:44
My doctor prescribed amitriptlyne for my headaches and it worked good at the 10 mg a day for a while and made me feel mentally better. Then came time to up the dosage to 20 mg a day. After a few days I noticed I was having heart palpitations every evening for hours on end. Only in the evenings though at first. It took several days to realize it must be the medication. At first I didn't know what was going on. So the Dr. took me off that and put me on Nortriptlyne. That didn't help my migraines and didn't give me the benefit of "perking me up". So, I tried the Amitr. again at 10 mg. again but with verapamil a high blood pressure med. I started having heart palpitations again. I've started taking topomax for the headaches. It's only been about 2 weeks so I can't really say if it's working for me yet or not. But I though that the amitriptlyne worked pretty good for my head and hate that I can't take it any more. And it was dirt cheap too. I MISS IT! Darn it. Has anyone else had this side effect? What did you do?
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