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Sleep without trazadone
I’ve been taking trazadone for 15 years for sleep at 50 mg. I have been following a diet of no sugar, gluten or diary to come off all medicine. Also run 3 miles a day. I have successfully come off lexapro 10 mg after a long taper and feel better than when I was on meds. My problem now is tapering the trazadone. I have been able to decrease to 25 mg but when I go lower, I can’t sleep. I’ve been taking CBD oil, 5htp, and another natural pill with melatonin called best rest (I think). Have any of you gone through a similar situation or successfully come off trazadone? I think it’s affecting my memory. Any tips would be great.
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I've been queuing up my medical issues and drugs to revisit with my primary care physician (trying to find better solutions while reducing polypharmacy), and took the opportunity last week to run the list of options I was considering by my migraine neurologist -- wanted to make sure that none of them would make the migraines worse. She instantly flagged the trazodone, saying that it can do double duty for both insomnia and migraine prevention and encouraging me to give it a try. Apparently it is being prescribed a lot more often these days for off-label uses than it is for depression, which is the application it is approved for by the FDA.
My psychiatrist recommends melatonin which is something you just buy over the counter
. Some people's bodies make more melatonin than others. I was in the hospital a few years back for several nights and I couldn't sleep there they would not give me Xanax which I would take occasionally if I had trouble sleeping I wouldn't give it to me in the hospital cuz it wasn't on my regular regimen of medications but the doctor did give me trazodone in the hospital and that worked but they didn't let's go in the hospital you can't sleep it's so noisy.. I know many people who take trazodone for arthritis it seems to help people.
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Yup, impossible to sleep well in a hospital. And if it's not on your med list, it isn't happening.
Right at the moment, I'm on melatonin daily, very low dose doxepin daily, and zolpidem as needed, which is usually 2-3 times a week. All of that kind of works, but not well. And irregular sleep is a migraine trigger for me.
I was on the fence between Ramelteon and Trazodone to try next, but the neurologist tipped the scales. If my primary care doctor disagrees, though, I'll go the Ramelteon route first. I'm not expecting a miracle, so I'm sure that I'll get a chance to try both eventually.