Trazadone?

[Deleted member 12723]

50 milligrams. I am glad you made a call, it is a hassle getting med doses on track, but do it we must. Good luck.

 

[BloomInWinter]

I had a lot of side effects at first, but waited them out and now feel the best I have in decades. A wellbutrin/trazadine mix seems to be working.

 

[Flamengo]

On the tradozone, did it take a few days for the sleep to come? Did you have to deal with side effects and then the sleep slowly started to come? I was so hoping for an awesome night of sleep, but it was the opposite. Thanks for responding!

 

[kers]

My psychiatrist also had me start at 50--then 100, 150, and finally 300 was the magic dose that put me to sleep in about 30 minutes. The dosage is different for everyone and the standard is to start low and titrate up. Keep in touch with your doc to work out what might work.

 

[mamachick]

Sounds like a wonderful medication but have never tried. I am going to ask my doctor about it.
I was depressed on Celexa, so I was changed to Lexapro that is suppose to be similiar but stronger, and was suicidal. Now stable on Pristiq but need help with sleep. Have been on Ambien, benadryl, and now xanax.
They all leave hangover feeling, but at least I know what Im doing with xanax. I dont remember on Ambien so wont take anymore.

I dont like xanax but love my sleep. I can understand Michael Jacksons delimma. I need some good sleep and not even getting it on xanax. Tolerance has increased.

 

[kimba]

I had never had more than three hours of sleep at one time until I started taking trazodone. It is my life saver! I also am on celexa which I would like to get off of. I have been on both for a year now, & my GP told me I can start to ween myself off of the celexa. Just wondering if anyone else has tried to stop celexa & how it worked for them. Thanks!

Hi Amy3073-
I went through a day program for women with trauma issues and they had changed my meds to Trazedone 100 mgs for sleep, Citalopram 40 mgs. as antideprss, minipress 2mg for nightmares. The Trazedone had stopped working after being on it over a year at 50 mgs. and they had doubled it to see if it would help. It didn't so they switched it out for Seraquel. This was only a month or so ago so I thought it would stay the same when I went to see the new psychiatrist who would be handling my meds. The dosages are small, but I react strongly to even small doses.

After asking me questions and having me fill out eight billion questionnaires, surveys etc. she decides I am depressed and the Celexa must not be working after a year plus of being on it. She starts weaning me off the Celexa and introducing Cymbalta. After the third night, i ran into a problem. Not only was I not sleeping and tossing and turning for most of the night, but I woke up three times with a heart beat so fast i could barely count it. I stopped taking it, kept everything else the same and slept the next night with no fast heartbeat. I called the office and let them know, they had to foreward the info to the doc via email as she doesn't work in the office M,W,orF.

I am putting my name on the waitlist for a psychiatrist at the hospital where I went for the program (even though it is an hour and a half from home) because I feel like at least there everyone is on the same page and they know me. This woman isn't and after having me fill two expensive prescriptions for the first half-dose month and the next full dose month, I am not very happy at the waste of both money and medication. i should have held off on having her write the second prescription until I knew it would work, but I acted on faith and every body is different.

 

[BaRtMaN]

I used to take 400mg of Seriquel for sleep and help with nightmares and staying to sleep along with 50mg of Trazadone. I wrote in another post about me having problems with Seriquel, so I had to titrate off and max dosage for the Trazadone is 600mg.

I have a script that gives me enough to take 600mg, but my P said to only take enough that makes me sleep 6 hours without waking. I don't really like it and am going to ask my P what else she has that I can try, as the Trazadone just doesn't make me feel well.

 

[kers]

I had my pdoc cut my Trazodone dosage lower because I was afraid the dosage was keeping me from hearing and responding to threats at night (hello, PTSD thinking!). Now as long as I am willing to take it (ie not too scared to sleep) it works just as well as the higher dosage, but it took a few weeks to adjust.

I skipped it last night and now I am paying for it.

 

[BaRtMaN]

I know that one all to well. When I had to titrate off the Seriquel I had plenty of sleepless nights and had to use Clonazopam to help to get some sleep during that period.

 

[Spiderallis]

I like trazedone, being able to sleep more than 2 hours at a time is awesome. It gives me wicked headaches as a side effect though, so bad that I had to take the weekend off until I can refill the migraine meds. The MD thought it was odd that I wanted to stay on something that gave me such bad headaches, but it's the first time I've gotten a good night's sleep in a few years.

Doesn't have the antidepressant effect on me, but not much does. Reading up on it before I started the vivid dreams thing made me nervous, but it seems like I get fewer really bad nightmares with it. I slept for 14 hours after the first few doses, but now that I'm not exhausted I get in a good 8 to 9 hours a night.

 

[Nadege]

I was switched from Ambien CR to Trazodone 50mg, and I'm happy. It works great, I wake up feeling good. I'm simultaneously reducing my Paxil dose (taking 5mg instead of 10mg daily). Hopefully, I'll be med-free soon.

 

[mamachick]

kers-I think that my lack of ability to sleep is due to fear of not hearing and being able to respond if I allow myself to relax. If I could, I would not need any meds, and even with them, its as though I fight sleep (in my head) as I did when I was a little child and wanted to stay awake with older kids.

I can think of at least 5 things, non meds to help with sleep, (bath, quiet, relaxation etc) but cant seem to practice any. I think it all stems from that fear instilled in the middle of the night.