Pamelor side effects?

2 Feb 2011

I have the same thing. My neurologist calls them migraine because they occur every day. She put me on Elavil (similar to pamelor). It did not work for me, only made me so sleepy I actually crashed my car so I stopped taking it. Just want to tell you there are more modern preventatives out there. I take Vivactil and works great no side effects. Hope this helps.

2 Feb 2011

I feel for you because I also suffer from Migraines and have been since 10 days before Christmas. Mazalt works for the Migraine, it just doesn't stay away. The throbbing I just want to get a break from, I see a headache specialist in a few weeks time to see if he can reverse the cycle of the Migraine. Have you tried seeing a headache specialst for your Migraine .

2 Feb 2011

One side effect of many antidepressants including Pamelor is headache. It usually lessens the longer you are on the medicine but in your case I would encourage you to talk to your doctor. No point in suffering and not getting good sleep. You can plug Pamelor into the search on this site if you want to read about it.

Hope you get relief soon,

Laurie

2 Feb 2011

Hi paige, My daughter suffers from debilitating migraines. The only thing that's worked for her was Imitrex. She would get violently ill, draw all the blinds, and pack her head with ice. The imitrex works on the blood vessels and takes about 15 mins to work. She used to get the take home injections but they stopped prescribing those. Sometimes with tension headaches, a mild BDP like xanax may be helpful. Don't give up looking for something that works for you. There's so many meds these days you could try. I know how much you suffer from these. I will keep you in my prayers.

best wishes,
chris

2 Feb 2011

I think you should make the prescribing doctor aware of this and tell him just as you have told me and see what his thoughts are concerning changine or adjusting this medicine let us know how you do with the doctor, I wish you only the very best