Nortriptyline Anxiety And Panic

I've tried almost all of the Zolofts, Paxils, Prozacs and I can not tolerate the serotonin. Now I'm trying Nortriptyline and I'm wondering if anyone has had a good result without suffering side effects that make you so sick you cant take it?

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Hello Vicki! How are you? Have you started taking it, yet?

Nortriptyline is a tricyclic antidepressant, so it works differently than the others.

The FDA lists the typical side effects of Nortriptyline as possibly including nausea, dizziness, headache, dry mouth, and mood changes.

Ref: Nortriptyline Information

What types of issues did you experience while taking the others?

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I also cannot tolerate any kind of SSRI, or SNRI, but I remember taking nortriptyline years ago for migraines I think and I don’t remember having any kind of issues with it, I don’t think I hated it. I think I stopped taking it because it didn’t really help with the headaches, but I don’t remember having any adverse reaction to it like I do with the other meds

Have you ever been checked out for ADHD though? I only ask because I had terrible anxiety issues and I tried every SSRI there was because that’s what they wanted to give me for it I guess & they were all awful (Buspar wasn’t awful but it didn’t do anything) but once I got medicated for ADHD, my anxiety almost completely went away. And if I was depressed at all Adderall certainly fixed that. But I think it was more that treating my ADHD allowed me to just calm down because I didn’t have to remember everything all the time and I wasn’t chronically overwhelmed.

It’s just a thought because you’re having trouble with serotonin medications, sometimes it’s the dopamine that we are lacking, not serotonin

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Nortriptyline made a physical and mental wreck out of me, of course my age wouldn’t help, the Private Hospital and the Psychiatrist took no notice when I felt loosing balance, walking became difficult within a 4to 6 weeks. I received an email can’t do anything about, I could walk 2km no trouble, it was a medication change from Xanax been using it for years. Never any trouble working on building sites, two stories high, but Xanax bad reputation and restrictions I decided to change, piece of cake the change turned to hell after Nortripteline.

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Thank you for your reply. After this disaster what med do you think youll be able to manage? Im sorry this is going on.

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