> > [my heart rate] was unstable when I first started Nortriptyline and again after each dose increase. The instability is no longer there, but the tachycardia has remained.
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> Hummm ok... normal I guess... if you feel comfortable with the 95 pulse rate it's good then ;-)
Comfortable would be the wrong word. It is uncomfortable, but I put up with it (and other side effects) because:
(1) my depression is treatment-resistant -- very few anti-depressants have sufficient/any anti-depressant effect for me;
(2) the only other anti-depressant which has helped recently is Remeron, which has side effects that are more unpalatable for me (weight gain, hunger, associated anxiety & risk of ED relapse) and even then it is not as effective as Nortriptyline in some ways;
(3) the alternative -- untreated/undertreated depression of a severity which is life-threatening and involves a total loss of functioning -- is not an option.
If I were to write off every medication that has side effects, well, I'd either be dead or back where I started: so depressed I am unable to walk, talk, eat, drink or think about anything other than jumping in front of freight trains. That is no way to live.
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