Hi,
Just took my first dose of trazodone for trouble sleeping. I also recently started lexapro for anxiety/depression. I don’t love the idea of being on trazodone and becoming dependent. Is this something that anyone uses once in a while or will I have to be on for a while and then taper off? Looking into other modalities to help me sleep but really can’t function with no sleep.
I’ve been taking trazodone for sleep for years. I don’t think you can become dependent on it. I use it every night but that’s just me.
I took trazodone every night for roughly 18 years with no problem. It definitely helped put me to sleep. Just this year it "turned" on me, meaning my high dosage gave me many serious side effects that I'd never experienced before. It confused and fogged my thinking, disrupted my sleep, made me breathless after walking 15 feet, upset my GI tract, made me dizzy, sometimes nauseous, changed my personality, and many more symptoms.
I didn't notice the mental slowdown and subsequent personality change myself. Others around me had to tell me when they were sure of the change. I tapered down on my dose and was off all trazodone in about 2 weeks. It could have gone faster but I waited for my doctor app't. to get the ok to drop to zero trazodone. Which she did okay. No serious side effects from tapering down so fast. No side effects at all except soon I started to perk up and begin thinking a little more clearly as time went on. After about 6 weeks I seemed mostly, if not all, recovered.
I will never forget that a drug, like a snake, can change direction and change how it affects me anytime. I have to be vigilant. I need those closest to me, including my counselor, to notice any negative changes so I can figure out what's causing the problem. I've lost confidence in drugs in general. Personality change? You betcha!!! Not to the good, either.
Other people have had a hard time tapering off trazodone, or so their stories go. Idk for sure. I wish you good health and happiness!!
Hugs, Love, and Blessings...
Be very careful mixing trazodone and lexapro. I was on both and had very bad side effects simliar to serotonin syndrome. This is my experience, but i dont reccomend taking these two at the same time.
Lexapro didn't work for me. No antidepressant does. Trazadone works reverse. Clonazapam gives me 4-5 hours sleep. I did tms treatments, but had only a partial response. I see my psychiatrist next week for his recommendation. I'm getting very discouraged. Has anyone else had experience with tms?
Dr put me on lexapro and trazodone...
What is your experience with Trazodone?
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