The drug "Amitriptyline" (Nycomed) is considered the simplest and most affordable antidepressant. The medicine is available in the form of capsules, dragees, tablets, injection solution (intramuscular).
The medication belongs to the group of tricyclic antidepressants. The medicine "Amitriptyline" (instructions, reviews of doctors confirm this) has some analgesic, antiserotonin, H2-histamine blocking effect. The drug helps to eliminate urinary incontinence at night and reduce appetite.
The medication "Amitriptyline" has a pronounced central and peripheral anticholinergic effect, has a strong sedative effect and an alpha-blocking effect.
The antidepressant effect begins to develop within two to three weeks from the start of administration.
The drug "Amitriptyline" (instructions, reviews of specialists indicate this) is prescribed for depression, complicated by sleep disorders (including childhood), agitation, anxiety associated with organic lesions in the brain, alcohol withdrawal. The medication is prescribed for conditions of a reactive, neurotic, involutional, endogenous, medicinal nature.
The medicine "Amitriptyline" (instructions, reviews of doctors confirm this) is effective for schizophrenic psychoses, emotional disorders of a mixed nature, disturbances in behavior (attention and activity).
The drug is indicated for nocturnal enuresis (excluding hypotension in the bladder), chronic pain syndrome (for migraines, chronic pain in cancer patients, for postherpetic neuralgia, rheumatic pathologies, atypical pains in the face area, for post-traumatic, diabetic and other peripheral neuropathy).
The medicine is also prescribed for bulimia nervosa.
The drug is contraindicated in myocardial infarction, hypersensitivity, simultaneously with MAO inhibitors and 14 days before the start of their use. The drug "Amitriptyline" is not prescribed (instructions, reviews of experts confirm this) in case of acute alcohol intoxication, poisoning with sleeping pills, psychoactive, analgesic medicines. Contraindications include angle-closure glaucoma, severe disorders of intraventricular and atrioventricular conduction. The medication "Amitriptyline Nycomed" instruction for use does not allow for the appointment of nursing women, patients up to six years (for oral forms) and up to twelve years (for solution for injection).
With caution, the drug is taken for bronchial asthma, chronic alcoholism, pathologies in the cardiovascular system (arterial hypertension, arrhythmias, angina pectoris, heart failure), with decreased motor function of the gastrointestinal tract (due to the likelihood of developing intestinal obstruction of a paralytic nature), intraocular hypertension, hyperplasia prostate, liver or kidney failure, thyrotoxicosis, urinary retention, hypotension in the bladder, as well as with schizophrenia epilepsy.
The appropriateness of using the medicine during the gestation period is determined by the attending physician.
When prescribing the drug "Amitriptyline" to patients in old age, a dosage adjustment may be required.
Oral forms of the drug are taken whole without crushing. Recommended intake immediately after a meal.
The initial dosage for adults is 25-50 mg at night. Subsequently, the dose is gradually increased (over five or six days).
The duration of use is determined only by the doctor.
Dosages for children are determined by the doctor.
Before using the medicine, you should carefully study the annotation and consult a specialist.