The actual antidepressant I'm on is Imipramine. I did, they gave me amitriptyline initially and that was awful. I only took a very short term, I was due to take it for quite a while and then I was only on, I think it was on 25 or 30mg a day, I can't remember exactly.
I took the first dosage and the next morning I felt like I was drunk. It was the most horrendous feeling. I drove to work, but I really shouldn't have done because I really did fell very peculiar. I didn't feel I was, it was almost like having an out of body experience. That's the only way I can describe it, it was a horrible feeling.
And at work, all morning I was really struggling just to work and it wasn't till about half past eleven, twelve o'clock I was actually able to be awake. And I thought, “Well I can't do that, obviously”. So I spoke to a friend of mine whose daughter's on it, unfortunately her daughter's got ME, and they're giving it her because she has a lot of joint pain and they've given it her for that, although they've since changed her medication.
So she said to me “Don't take it just before you go to bed, take it about eight o'clock and the effects should have wore off by the time you go to work” and it did work, but I still didn't feel very well at all. I really... the doctor at the hospital did say that there are alternative drugs they can give, so I did actually stop it straight away because I just felt, and I was fine then, I had no problems.
So, when I went to the hospital for the injections into my facet joints, I explained what had happened, and she says “fine, we can give you another one, that's not a problem” and that's when she prescribed imipramine, which I don't have any side effects, apart from the constipation. |
