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Reviewer: dirtracen99@msn.com, 45-54 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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This drug caused me to have difficulity urinating due to it causing my prostate to enlarge.
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Reviewer: lady, 75 or over Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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It worked at first taking 3 a day. I am now on 6 a day combined with gabapentin 3 a day. I am waking up in the night and can't get back to sleep. Throat is very dry and hard to swallow at times. Weight gain too.
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Reviewer: Solice, Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Patient)
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I had severe headaches that would last 24/7 for weeks at a time. I was at the end of my rope. The only way I could stop the pain was to go to the hosiptal and get a Compazine i.v. I'd go home and sleep it off and a day later the headache would come back. If I weren't a mother I would have considered ending it. Absolutely nothing else worked. When I started taking this drug I had very s
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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I took this for two days (migraine preventative), and in those two days I slept 22 hours, and three people at work told me I looked like I was about to die. I'm a teacher and I can't function that way. I stopped right away.
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Reviewer: HI123, 19-24 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I was RX'd nortriptyline for pain/tingling in my feet that I dealt with 2 years prior. I've been taking it for 4 months now and in lights of my tingling/pain, it is somewhat better. Although the side affects are a pain (mood swings, especiallly irritability) increased arousal, increased sweating and descrease appetite.
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