Amitriptilyne failures?

[Anthagonos]

Hi, anyone has tried to ctb with amitriptilyne but failed?

 

[stupid little girl]

No I haven't sorry.

 

[sadbadpsychogirl]

yeah when i was 17 i took a bottle of about 30 pills (not sure what mg) but my mom caught me and called the ambulance, had to drink activated charcoal and was kept in the hospital for observation. looking back i don't think it was even enough to kill me.

 

[PArazi]

yeah when i was 17 i took a bottle of about 30 pills (not sure what mg) but my mom caught me and called the ambulance, had to drink activated charcoal and was kept in the hospital for observation. looking back i don't think it was even enough to kill me.

So you don't even failed. Even assuming you took 3g, looks like you have taken to the hospital quickly. It's seems you didn't even drink the alcohol

 

[wljourney]

There are a fairly large number of older cases, yes. Probably not many here on SaSu, but generally - even with tricyclic AD's - self poisonings are rarely successful, but can have nasty complications.

Because of these complications (and probably because enough patients died), amitriptyline isn't prescribed as first line AD anymore and usually isn't prescribed to patients who have tried to CBT in the past.

You can find studies that list either a small number of patients who tried to self-poison with amitriptyline and their individual outcomes. Or you look for studies that list the percentage of successful/failed poisonings.

Try the BMJ for example. Or Journal of Emergency Medicine and a few key words.

Like the one below - A study of 250 patients.
I assume that this includes many unplanned, accidental poisonings though (especially those in children).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0960327113520019