Posted by yxibow on March 13, 2007, at 12:59:29
In reply to Re: imsomnia-so bad what helps? » yxibow, posted by madeline on March 13, 2007, at 6:11:19
> I've never had much trouble with trazodone as a sleep aid and I've been on it for 6+ years. No psychosis. But, I am female. I keep forgetting the side effects for males. Sorry.
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> The only thing I have noticed is that the amount of trazodone required for me to sleep varies and seems to come in cycles. Sometimes for months I only need 50 mg, then, apparently for no reason, I have to jump up to 100 mg for several months, then I can come back down to 50.
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> I have to do that with Prozac as well, right now I'm on 20 mgs every other day, but I've been up to 40 mgs a day.
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> Serotonin is just strange I guess.
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> However, according to my psychiatrist, people used to take 300-400 mg of it as an anti-depressant which just astounds me. I would be just be asleep.
Trazodone.. oh.. yeah.. it dates from the early 70s, I think if anything the antidepressant effect came from the fact that the average adult dose would put one to sleep daily.
But I did once have an idiosyncratic reaction to Trazodone as well, perhaps a mixture of medications, but my pulse shot up beyond 150 I think and I called 911; fortunately it subsided and nothing was needed. Having propranolol would have helped.
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