Tricylic antidepressants, traditional anticonvulsants and opioids were found to be better for short-term pain relief than were newer generation anticonvulsants, a selective serotonin reuptake ...

Among the drugs studied - which included Prozac and a cheap antidepressant called amitriptyline - only one, called duloxetine, showed any evidence for pain relief. None of the trials gathered long ...

Its draft guidance recommends antidepressants ... pain do not want to take medication long-term, and GPs do not want this either, but sometimes medication has been the only thing that brings relief.