MCQ 1 (Medicine)

1) Which of the following conditions respond to Tricyclic Antidepressants when used as an analgesic?
a)Diabetic neuropathy
b)Post herpetic neuralgia
c) Migraine headache
d) All of the above
Ans: d) (Harrison’s 16th Ed., 76)

Ans:
Painful conditions that responds to Tricyclic antidepressants are:
· Post herpetic neuralgia
· Diabetic neuropathy
· Tension headache
· Migraine headache
· Rheumatoid arthritis
· Chronic low back ache
· Cancer
· Central post-stroke pain