I have been on amitriptyline for five years and the thing nobody warned me about is the dry mouth.
There is a point in the afternoon where the effect is gone and the restlessness starts, and that point has moved earlier over five years.
My skin, my sleep and my mood all respond to this, and my appointments only ever ask about the third.
Would rather hear from people who have lived it than from the leaflet.
Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time.
Careful with attribution. You changed the timing, the dose and the season. That is three variables.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Print the page. Currently on amitriptyline myself.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.
Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule.
I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do.