How to find out muscle pain is due to anxiety or due to antidepressants medicines like amitriptyline?
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Start physical exercise daily and eat healthy for strong muscles. Drink 3 liter of water daily and take good amount of fruits intake. It will combat the side effects of medication. If still pain pertaining then meet a good orthopedic physician.
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Muscle pain can be a result of many causes. Anxiety can cause body aches and pains in the form of somatic symptoms. But muscle pain due to amitriptyline is less likely. You have to go back and check if the muscle pain started after you started taking amitriptyline. If not, the reason is not the medicine but some other cause, like anxiety, or strain or posture.
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Good morning! usually muscle pain is due to anxiety or muscle spasm of the muscles in the neck or any area where you are having symptoms of pain. Amitriptyline does not have pain as a side effect. In fact it is a medicine that is used for pain due to migraine headache or somatoform pain or hypochondriacal pain issues. We hope you feel better and make and appointment with us to thoroughly go through your symptoms and come to conclusions and give you the right treatment. Take care and have a lovely day!
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