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Suggest Ways To Deal With Nortriptyline Withdrawal

Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016

Question: I'm detoxing off nortriptyline and feel bad. help

I need a nonaddictive sleep aid. melatonin made me vomit in my sleep

Answered by Dr. Chintan Solanki (36 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Please clarify dose of nortryptilne

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Thanks for writing to us. I can understand your concern.

To help you out of nortryptilne withdrawal I need more information.

Let me know dose of nortryptilne with duration you are taking

Also tell dose and duration of other drugs you are taking.

I recommend following sleep hygiene for a while for sleep disturbance.
You can find the same in following link

https://sleepfoundation.org/ask-the-expert/sleep-hygiene

I will be happy to help further after your response.

Regards,
Dr Chintan Solanki

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Nagamani Ng

Follow up: Dr. Chintan Solanki (28 minutes later)

I took 150 mg nortriptyline nightly for 1 year. 250 mg amitriptyline 2 years prior. I take benztropine .5 twice a day. 175 lamictal twice a day. I take 6 mg invega in the morning. ive tapered down to 25mg nortriptyline after 3 weeks.

Answered by Dr. Chintan Solanki (11 hours later)

Brief Answer:
seroquel may help

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

Thanks for information and sorry for delayed response.

Nortryptiline from 150 mg to 25 mg of course leads to some kind of sleep disturbance. Apart from melatonin as such there is no specific supplement for sleep. If you want to avoid benzodiazepine (which we can say some addictive) you can try seroquel. However I recommend adding benzodiazepine like lorazepam or clonazepam in low dose and later on taper and stop.

Take care.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar