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[wolfspirit]

Good luck with new drug, and yes it's crazy to have a rash side effect.....how would we know the difference ? 

[Gobe]

Yes, good luck with the doxepin and let us know how you are getting on with it.  Fingers crossed that it doesn't give you a rash.

 

Mind you, how daft is it to prescribe someone, with E, a drug with a rash as a possible side effect?

[Lun]

Hello
I have doxepin now. It does take the itch away.....sometimes! Apparently if you use too much you will get a rash. Still I will keep trying it and see what happens

[Gobe]

I was actually allergic to Atarax and had to be readmitted to the skin ward after I broke out in red bumps all over my body.  I also felt really out of it and could barely function or think.  Nasty it was.

[Troll Boy]

No Ive never heard of Doxepin, but I have used Atarax when my skin was bad and again it helped with sleeping, but its the drowsiness the next day that put me off it.  I'm bloody dozy enough without the need for a tablet to increase it!

Hope you find something to relive the itch soon.

[Peterb]

http://www.mentalhealth.com/drug/p30-s03.html

Doxepin is a psychotropic agent with antidepressant and anxiolytic properties. It also has sedative and anticholinergic effects, and, in the higher dosage range, it produces peripheral adrenergic blocking effects

[itchychick]

I think I've tried it... if I'm remembering correctly, it is an antihistamine.  It stopped the night time itching for me, but that is because it knocked me out completely! I would also be a zombie in the morning.  Apparently, you get used to it, and the sedative effects eventually lessen, but I didn't like the incredibly drowsy feeling that lingered in me...

Still, it might be worth investigating, especially if the itch is keeping you awake at night.

[Lun]

I did a search in Google for Pathophysiology of Itching and a paper came up from Sept 2007 in Annals Academy of Medicine called Recent Advances in Management of Itch—Malcolm W Greaves. It mentions doxepin in this paper and as I itch like mad most of the time, I was wondering if it was a drug anyone else had used (sorry if it appears elsewhere in the forum)....
Thanks
Lun