"for several years i have lived with spine and disc-damage. i have been on a controlled narcotics program for quite a while. it saved my life. chronic pain scrambles the brain. i was already on fluoxetine, but felt i was losing ground. then my docor put me on nortriptyline. great results. i feel better mentally, and the medicine somehow &quot;soothes&quot; inflamed spinal-cord areas. not my imagination-over the years, doctors tried several medicines for this, none worked. this one helped both the depression and nerve-impulses at the discs/spinal-cord."