Trazadone increase no change...advice
Hi guys and girls
I have increased my meds from 50mg to 100mg and have found im waking even more in the night,,,Is this normal...Also I just have this dull feeling all the time like no emotions at all...My increase has been for 3 days so far...Can you take these meds in the day..
Any advice would be great to receive Please
Re: Trazadone increase no change...advice
Hi sorry you have had three posts and no replies.
I will do my best i have not been on this drug but i would say it operates much like the others you have to give your body time to get used to the increase i have to when my Citalopram is upped.
I would give it another couple of weeks and then go back to your GP and ask about taking at a different time of day,or phone the surgery up and i am sure somebody will get back and let you know.
All the best.
Richard.
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thanks Richard ...for your reply..
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Hi Greg,
As you know I'm on Trazodone. I've been on 100mg for 2weeks now. I'm tired all the time. I wake up so groggy and sit like a zombie for ages with no motivation in me to do anything, I'm hoping this will pass as I don't see what other medication options I have as SSRI's/SNRI's don't agree with me at all.
Now you said you keep waking up that is strange as I'm out like a light. I would say to take your medication when you are actually in bed and read for 10/15 minutes then settle down to sleep as if you don't rest after taking the meds your body may fight off the sedative effect.
My Doctor wants me up to 150 mg has your Doctor set a dosage for you?
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Hi Bernie..Not sure why I wake after 100mg at night...I fall to sleep no prob , But just wake at silly times..Anyway my Doc told me to try having 50mg at bed time and 50mg in the morning..I have done this for 2 days now ,,,! and slept till 6am just like I used to..So I take the other 50mg at 8am and do feel tired about 9am for about 1hr then it passes abd I feel fine..I think the slight sedetive effect keeps me relaxed more in the day...So far so good...I will soon take 50mg bed time 59mg around 12pm then again 50mg bedtime. so that will be a even flow of 150mg in a day....see how that goes...I felt bad the next day after a 100mg for days ,groggy zombie very heavy all day..As soon as i switched to 50mg at night and 50 in the day...I feel a lot lighter and relaxed..
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Really glad you are feeling much better by dividing your dose Greg. I actually came off Trazodone 3 weeks ago when I MOVED house and swapped doctors, who asked me how I felt the TRAZ was helping, I didn't feel it was at all and was no longer sleeping at all so switched yet again to Escitalopram which I was terrfied about with it being an SSRI and related to citalopram which I was on 3 times previously but suffered terrible side effects before getting well on it but it's been 7 months and I needed to get better so decided to take the Escitalopram and it's been fine. It hardly has any side effects and I am alot calmer after only 3 weeks though still suffering with bad insomnia but at least feel likethis medication is finally doing something to help me finally get well again (:
I really hope Trazodone works for you. xxxx
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i been to pick up these meds today.... they started me on 100mg!
aint started taking them yet.... too anxious about it....
Re: Trazadone increase no change...advice
Bernie sorry to hear you are feeling so groggy on your new dose of traz, hopefully this should pass for you. I was only ever on 100mg's and it never helped my anxiety but believe150mg's is the theraputic dose xxx
If you do have to change meds, escitalopram has so few side effects, I had bad heads for a few days, they are getting much better now, some hot flushing but no hieghtened anxiety but you do feel petty tired alot and for me insomnia is stilla problem but my doctor says this will improve very soon and is prescribing me with either Zopiclone or Lorazepam at the mo but I have felt so so much better day times and been out lots and lots of times which I was afraid to do 3 weeks ago (:
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Bernie that sounds great...Really glad you seem happy...Just be very careful with Zopiclone...Not a good tablet...O had them for 3 weeks and I slept like a baby for the first week, then i had to increase to get the same effect in week two...They make you feel very uplifted in the day and so become very addictive...At week three I was waking around 2-3 am every day and so had to increase more...Then I started to get a kind of head buz at night as i was dropping off,like a electric pulse in my head...Really horid ...I was just eaking all night and couldnot get back to sleep...I started to come off them and had rebound insomnia ,,Worse than ever,O couldnt sleep for 2 months !!!! I felt very anxious at this point ....I since found out that Zopiclone are the Worse Sleeping tablets you can have....Read up on them on google and you will see....I am now a few months after them STILL trying to sleep....they made it much worse and I wish I never got onto them..They are fine If you JUST have 1!!!!!! maybe once a week to get relief from insomnia...Just once. If you start getting dependant on them you will wish you never did....Research and google the facts.. .
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Hi Greg, Bernie, I was just wondering how you are both doing? I've been on Cipralex 30 days now at the lowest dose and need to increase now, had a few side effects but nothing like you normally get on ssri's. My anxiety is still there but has clamed down loads too now already, I am taking 2 Lorazepam pills a night though or the Zopiclone alternative weeks now which works better as you don't end up building a tolerance to it. Just want off sedatives now though and for this new ad to kick in properly. I really hope Trazodone is starting to help you both now you are on the higher doses, when I took 100mg's it didn't really help me at all sadly and my new doctor wanted me straight off it and onto an ssri, telling me because I am so sensitive to side effects tat Cipralex is the best one out there for tolerability. Thinking of you both xxx