Elavil


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Synonyms for Elavil

a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects

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Authorities found out that bus conductor of Elavil was selling tickets for Catarman, Northern Samar, even though its route is only up to Matnog in Sorsogon.
Drugs in this category include amitriptyline (Elavil Rx) and other tricyclic antidepressants such as clomipramine (Clomicalm).
Antidepressant drugs (Fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), amitriptyline (Elavil), clomipramine (Anafranil), imipramine (Tofranil), and others) interact with SAM-e.
1) Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs): These were among the first medications used to treat depression and include Amitryptilline (Elavil), Imipramine (Tofranil), Nortryptilline (Aventyl, Pamelor), Protryptilline (Vivactil) and Doxepin (Sinequan).
Sad to the point of inertia, he "spent days in front of the television weeping," and eventually sought psychiatric help from a Cincinnati clinician, who solicitously put him on Elavil, an antidepressant for which he repeatedly renewed the prescription by phone.
The four most commonly inappropriately prescribed medications were, the pain-reliever propoxyphene (Darvon); the beta-blocker doxazosin (Cardura); the antihistamine Diphenhydramine (Benadryl); and the anti-depressant amitriptiline (Elavil, Endep, Vanatrip).
* Antidepressants and SSRIs (Elavil, Prozac, Zoloft, Cymbalta), sometimes prescribed at a lower dose than used in the treatment of depression.
Elavil is the best choice, with the generic name amitriptyline.
The pain had spread to his neck and arms, and OxyContin, hydrocodone and Elavil weren't helping much,.
Amitriptyline (Elavil) can be useful, as is pregabalin, if burning pain is present.
These medications include Neurontin (100 hs to over 3600 mg daily), Lyrica (150-300 mg b.i.d.), Cymbalta (20-60 mg a day), Elavil (10-25 mg HS), and Effexor.
Pharmaceuticals like Oxycon-tin, Xanax, Elavil, Percocet, Dilaudid, Klonopin and Catapres are for sale on the streets.
The NICE guidelines suggested using medication only in patients who are unwilling or unable to receive psychotherapy (which had better evidence for efficacy than drug therapy), adding that there is some evidence from nonrandomized trials of benefits from paroxetine, the noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant mirtazapine (Remeron), the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline (Elavil), and the MAO inhibitor phenelzine (Nardil).