I'm so sorry you are having so much trouble and hopefully the CT with contrast will prove beneficial. I just wanted to ask how much of a dose was the amitriptyline that they wanted to put you on. I know that a smaller dose does not treat depression, so the only thing it would do would be to relax nerves. My rheumatologist started me on the lowest dose of 5mg, and stressed that it was not being prescribed to me for depression bc he knew that was not his diagnosis, and he said even if it was, that minimum of a dosage would not do anything for depression. Despite all of that, though, I was on it for about 4-6 wks for my body to adjust to the side effects (mainly grogginess), but then he decided to take me off of it bc it wasn't helping that much with pain, and my body wasn't adjusting to the grogginess. He wind up putting me on Gabapentin which was back in November, and it has helped quite a bit (along with diet changes and physical therapy). The gabapentin only took me about 2-3 days to adjust to sleepiness and ever since, I have been fine.