So sorry you're having so many difficulties.
And, what I'm going to add isn't going to make you happier, I'm afraid.
There are no drugs that always work or always don't work. A study a few years ago found that all anti-depressants COULD worsen RLS/WED, but that usually, only 5 to 20% of people were bothered. The problem? You have no way of knowing if you'll be in that group or not. Trial and error? It's the only way.
Even those few drugs that aren't supposed to bother people, like Wellbutrin? Sometimes they do! It's infrequent, but possible.
The chemistry in our brains is so darn complicated.
For what it's worth, many people are bothered by Amitriptyline, so you weren't alone
. Bus Trazedone is on the list of ones that seems to bother few people. Go figure.
Besides Trazedone and Bupronion, the ones on the "work for many people list" include: Desipramine and other TCAs, Reboxetine, and Nefazodone.
I'll through out one thing that helped me. Unlikely that it would work for you, but who knows? I got to the point about 16 months ago that if there was a cliff, I'd have jumped. I didn't have enough energy to find a cliff, fortunately. Just didn't want to be here. I finally forced myself to the gynecologist for an overdue (by two years) annual exam and she tested my vitamin D. I'd been complaining that it hurt to sleep- that my bones hurt. It turned out that the D was something like 8 or 5 - can't remember exactly, but anything anything below 20 is considered low and many people say it should be at least 30, if not 50.
I look OTC supplements - 10,000 IUs a day - and within a month I wasn't quite so desperate. it took a solid year before I was pretty normal again, but I really was better very quickly. Light therapy didn't help me, either.
Who knows? Long shot but might be worth being tested.
