Re: Withdrawal from Amitriptyline
Can't help regarding withdrawal, but I can confirm that reducing dosage causes me insomnia, nightmare, over-sensitivity and widely varying emotions (feeling good to feeling tearful over the slightest thing).
My GP gave me the go-ahead to experiment within the 10-100mg dosage range - I went up to 100mg, then quite quickly to 20. Felt OK for a week, then the withdrawal effects hit. I'm happy to stay on it and will be going up to 20mg twice daily from tomorrow.
Maybe I've been fortunate with the side effects, just very dry mouth and sexual side effects (increases with dosage).
You seem to have gone trough the recommended cessation routine of cutting down slowly. Are you sure it's the withdrawal. Could it be the anxiety / depression (that you presumably took it for) making a reappearance?
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Daily Medication for GAD: Mirtazapine 15mg