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The elavil is prescribed to help me sleep at night and also is the most prescribed anti-depressant for chronic pain management. From what I've read about it and have been told, elavil has some pain alleviating characteristics also. Most doctor's who deal exclusively in pain management will put their chronic pain patients on an anti-depressant because by it's very nature, chronic pain leads to depression.

At differing times they've also had me on serzone, deseril (sp?) and a couple of other anti-depressants as well as the elavil.

Soma's great for me since so many of the muscle relaxers out there tend to leave me with a druggy hangover the next morning. So far, I haven't had any problem with the doctors prescribing soma. (I recently moved so had to change doctors)

They also will prescribe neurontin for chronic pain and it's normally prescribed for epilepsy but has been found to have some benefit for those in chronic pain.

Oops, I just realized I was writing a book. Sorry bout that!