Anyone been prescribed Amitryptyline for PND??

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Have PND 2nd time around. Don't feel quite as awful - yet - as i did with DD. Think we caught it early, but told doc didn't want to become as bad as last time, so she gave me tabs straight away. Was on Seroxat last time which helped 100%, but am breastfeeding this time, couldn't have them. So she gave me Amitryptyline 75mg once daily to take at night. Took them Fri night - was up twice to feed DS, but can't remember that AT ALL. Then Sat morning, well it was hideous. I wanted to curl up in a ball, cry & die. I almost felt suicidal. NEVER felt that bad before even in my darkest days. Luckily my mum was here to look after me & i felt better by the eve. But i didn't take them last night, too scared of how i felt. Will go back to dr tomorrow, but just wanted to know if anyone has had these, if they then felt like i did, & did they perservere & it improved, or gave up like me??
Lots of questions i know, just wondering now if i did the right thing??
Thanks all xxx

I don't know if this will be of any help to you as I was prescribed them at a very low (10 mg if I remember rightly) dose to treat migraines for 4 months so very different reasons.

But, the reason I have replied is that they made me feel dreadful. I have never felt so exhausted and for want of a better word 'numb' in all my life. I felt tired and very down.

I took them for 4 months and felt so different when I stopped. They didn't help my headaches anyway but wild horses wouldn't get me to take these again. I felt like I was living my life in slow motion, daily things were hard work. I do remember discussing with dh that I couldn't believe this was a drug used for depression as I went from being fine to depressed on it. I have since spoken to others who know people who have had similar experiences.

I don't know if this is any help to you but I hope you get things sorted soon.

Thank you so much for that. They seem to be particularly evil to me...

I was prescribed these when I had PND first time - I have never felt so crap in all my life.
In hindsight, I personally believe they were prescribed because they are so cheap for teh NHS(cynical old bint me) and when I took an OD of the things, I was put onto fluoxetine instead and recovered quickly.

the way they made me feel was groggy, unable to care for newborn and toddler, dry mouth, nightmares due to very 'technicolour sleep' and generally I was a zombie.

I'd ask for a second opinion meds wise - I breastfed on sertraline and bab's was fine, I recovered very quickly and pnd is now a dim and distant memory.

Have just been back to docs and been put on Seroxat as not bf any more. Will see how we go. I can't remember the side effects of these being so bad, but DH was with me the 1st 2 wks i took them so had some support. I took them in the morning then & remember having to go back to bed for an hour. Will try taking them at night this time. Anyone have any experience of these, and if you were able to function while on them at the beginning??

My best friend was also perscribed a low dose of these for migraines and stopped because they made her feel terrible.

Sorry that was about the drug in the op not the seroxat.

Not for PND, but I take it for anxiety, along with Ramipril for hypertension and citalopram for depression [non-viable organism emoticon ]

I haven't had a bad time with them - they control the anxiety attacks so I'm happy to put up the with the mild side-effects I get. But I have known other people who have had a terrible reaction to it. My GP did warm me this might happen too - it doesn't suit everyone.