Posted by bleauberry on December 8, 2009, at 17:12:21
In reply to Parnate is working and trazodone for sleep?, posted by Monica L on December 7, 2009, at 15:44:07
Trazodone is hard to predict.
Most people will indeed sleep real well on it.
Some won't. I had disturbed sleep on it.
Some people feel lousy the next day. Some don't feel any after effects the next day.
I felt like absolute crap the next day, much more depressed.
A friend of mine was depressed for months. He was also taking traz for insomnia. Surprise, when his doctor moved and his traz ran out, his depression disappeared too.
For some people Traz is a wonderful sleep med. For others not. As with everything, mileage varies. It wouldn't be in wide use, as it is, as a sleep prescription if it wasn;t performing fairly well overall.
I personally favor other sleep meds. Lunesta for example. Or ultra low dose Remeron (1mg to 7.5mg) which feels much more potent for sleep than the higher normal doses. I despise when doctors prescribe antipsychotics to nonschizophrenic patients for purposes of sleep, but they do it like it was candy.
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