MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'amitriptyline'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2129415&cid=t_122387_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Ffibromyalgia-treatment-update-savella-milnacipran-approved-tricyclic-antidepressants-validated%2F Two major pieces of news for people afflicted by fibromyalgia have appeared in the past few weeks; namely, the FDA approval of Savella (milnacipran), the third drug to receive federal backing for fibromyalgia, and the publication of a major meta-analysis in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which confirmed that antidepressant medications (including Savella) can improve pain, depression, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and quality of life. Of note, however, is that the JAMA report also concluded that older medications, called tricyclic antidepressants, are most effective for treating fibromyalgia, even though they are not FDA approved for such use. It is often the case that older and now generic medications, such as the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline, ... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2129415 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:37:14 +0100 2129415 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=856806&cid=t_122387_122_f&fid=35055&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsarasotaneurology.com%2F2007%2F09%2F10%2Ffibromyalgia-new-therapy-offers-hope%2F Fibromyalgia is a chronic muscle pain disorder that has no underlying identifiable cause. Sufferers have muscle pain, multiple areas of tenderness and fatigue. It is a poorly understood disorder, with many physicians not even acknowledging that it is a real illness. There is , however ample evidence that fibromyalgia is a real condition as it has been estimated that as many as 6 million Americans suffer from this affliction annually. Patients typically see several physicians and become frustrated when all their testing comes back normal. Other accompanying symptoms may include poor sleep hygiene, headache, mental clouding (fibromyalgia fog) and depression. Although this conditions rarely clears, suffers can be treated successfully with a combination of medications and regular exercise. The... Sarasota Neurology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=856806 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:06:26 +0100 856806 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=830972&cid=t_122387_122_f&fid=35055&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsarasotaneurology.com%2F2007%2F08%2F30%2Fshingles-vaccine-postherpetic-neuralgia%2F Shingles is a condition characterized by a painful, blistering skin rash. This rash can affect any part of the body. The medical name for shingles is Herpes Zoster. It is the caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. People who have had chicken pox are potentially at risk for developing shingles later in their life. Patients who have never had chicken pox can get this from individuals who have an active attack of shingles, as the rash is contagious. Shingles can appear anywhere on the body but tend to follow the distribution of the nerves, as this is where the virus lives. Although severe in any part of the body, facial involvement around the eye presents an even greater problem. If shingles involves the upper face, the eye can be affected, potentially leading to eye complications ... Sarasota Neurology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=830972 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:06:48 +0100 830972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=650750&cid=t_122387_109_f&fid=34699&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscienceblogs.com%2Fcorpuscallosum%2Fimages%2F200px-Amitriptyline-2D-skeletal.png This post is about amitriptyline, one of the oldest antidepressants on the market in the USA.  It also used to be the most widely-prescribed antidepressant. I've decided to not attempt an encyclopedic style of description of the pharmacological action of the individual antidepressants.  That is readily available already at Wikipedia, among others.  But in order to fully understand the topic, those who are not familiar with the pharmacology should probably go to the general statement about tricyclic antidepressants in Wikipedia and read that for background, then the specific article about amitriptyline.  (Amitriptyline is a member of the family of antidepressants known as tricyclics.)   Also, you might want to read the more abstract posts I wrote on the topic... The Corpus Callosum blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=650750 Thu, 31 May 2007 02:17:26 +0100 650750