Posted by Cseagraves on January 11, 2009, at 22:48:06
In reply to Re: trazodone - don't like this stuff, posted by bleauberry on January 11, 2009, at 19:01:32
You guys are sooooo sweet!
Thanks for all of the info.. I'm sitting here looking at this pill and don't even want to put it in my mouth. My hubby is worried because I have been crying at the least little thing. And then I totally blew up at my 12 year old last night over nothing. I felt so awful. I apologized to him, but I felt so guilty because he is such a sweet kid. (I can't get the look of horror on his face out of my head)
You are correct as I am very sensitive to meds. I don't build up a resistance to meds. I have taken the same amount of zanax for 6 year and have never had to up the dose.(I wasn't combining the trazodone with anything else). I can tell pretty quickly if I'm going to have a positive or negative reaction. I keep zanax around for back-ups. Someone mentioned seroquel and I couldn't even take 25mgs without issues although the I tried to keep taking it for a couple of months.
Butttt.... I think I've come up with a better plan. I found a bottle of remeron that I used to take for sleep some time ago. It's a 100mg pill and I could split it into 4 pieces, and one piece along with 1 zanax would alway send me into a nice sleep. I started reading up on remeron more and I think I will try taking a small dose of it tomorrow to see how it manages the anxiety.
I'm not trying to whimp out on the trazadone, but I have to be able to funtion tomorrow, thats why I waited until this weekend to see how the trazodone was going to react to my body. Even if it did eventually help with the anxiety, I wouldn't be able to deal with the sluggishness or nausea everyday.
So I'm thinking, I don't go back to pdoc until around the first 5th of February. That would give me time to ween off of everything else and just be taking the remeron with zanax as back-up. I will also do a complete body detox for the next couple of weeks before I see him and see how I am feeling.
If everything seems better, then I might ask him to tack on some wellbutrin. I've read that it gives you alot of energy,(taking the remeron should keep me from possibility of manic or feeling edgy, which I've never been), and would help me to quit smoking and you lose weight while on this. (Big plus).
My biggest goal is to get back to being as active as I was before. I was reading on another site that you need to take something that targets the dopamine and serotin, with something that targets the epinephrine. This doc said that if you only take a ssri alone, then it will either not work very well with all the symptoms(might help anxiety and depression, but can make you feel tired and unmotivated) or it will poop out after a while. But when you take an ssri with something like wellbutrin sr,(doesn't work so well with the extended version) then they work together well.I've never asked my pdoc about wellbutrin sr (and on this particular drug, never take the generic). But, if I feel like the anxiety is under control with the remeron, then the added benefits of the wellbutrin would hopefully be a plus.
My husband had built us a whole gym in our basement and I used to work out religously. Haven't touched it in 6 months. Ridiculous!
It's kind of funny. My pdoc knows that I was in nursing school and that I research everything to the hilt, so he's pretty much gotten to the point where he will pretty much just go with whatever I say. LOL!!! He thinks its hilarious (in a good way) because I always come into him with tons of questions and lots of research as to whatever I think my course of action should be. I promise you if he ever thought one of my decisions was to extreme, he would let me know.
I'm still looking at this pill and I think I will opt for the remeron and zanax tonight instead. I NEED SOME FREAKIN rest.
Will see how this goes over the next couple of weeks and keep posted.
Namaste' to you all.
Courtney
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