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Wondering if anyone has tried trazadone for their fibromyalgia . It helps sleep, depression and anxiety. I have started with 25mg. It actually has helped my tinnitus.
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Start off low and increase with your doctors permission. I took 25 now I take 50 anything more than that I can't wake up in the morning. But it definitely put me to sleep. Otherwise I'm up all night. Good luck.
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5 Reactions@sweetlyfree @jamesduke209
My experience with this and my wife's trazadone worked.
Ambien which was originally prescribed for me did not work at all. My mind was still racing and no sleep. Then I was given prescription for trazadone with option of taking the low dose (25) or higher (50) on how well it worked with each level of dose.
The side affects I got were very vivid dreams and groggynies in mornings. I talked to my psychiatric medication specialist and she mentioned drug increases in serotonin and will affect by having very vivid dreams. She also says the groggnies is a common side affect. I was able to drop down to the lower does and eventually a year ago went to as needed only.
My wife takes in for anxiety/panic disorder and has worked her dosage down to half of 25 (working with her doctors) and working to go to as needed basis also. She also talks about vivid dreams and the groggynies in the mornings.
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4 ReactionsTrazadone. Check out side effects. Mayo Clinic
Does it work?
Everyone reacts differently to medications. WE on MCC can provide our personal experiences.
Ambien did not work for while it works for many others. Trazadone did work for me. It stopped my mind from racing and I got a good nights sleep.
My wife has anxiety/panic disorder too and takes Trazadone. It works for her.
The only side affect both of us have had is grogginess in mornings.
I go to a physciatric medication specialist at Mayo. When the ambien did not work was put on trazadone. It worked. In every physical and mental health condition the ability to get a good nights sleep is important.
I don't think any of us on MCC should tell another something will work or not work. Work with your medical providers and find something that works for you. An article is not you. You are you. And what you find that works for you is all that is important.
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5 ReactionsI take 300 mg. of Trazodone nightly, along with 2 mg. of Ativan. I've been on this regimen for 16 years and I still have severe insomnia. It would surely be worse without the Trazodone - so I am grateful for this medication.
My psychiatrist is unsympathetic. I am so miserable from not sleeping enough or having my sleep disturbed (I wake for one hour and sleep for one hour, etc. for a total of 5 to 5.5 hours per night). I recently had an appointment with my psychiatrist and his advice was to do meditation and box breathing when I wake up. I wish I could take a sleeping medication just once/week.
My point is that Trazodone works well for some people. At this moment in my life, after 16 years of severe insomnia (while taking the Trazodone), I think I need another type of medication. Does anybody have sleep meds/ antidepressants to try / suggest? (I realize the difficulty of withdrawing from Trazodone.)
Thanks for reading.
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1 ReactionI don't understand the "as needed" part, as I don't know
if I need a pill until I can't fall asleep for over an hour....
& then sometimes a pill works but again it takes awhile.
Although when traveling, I know I won't sleep in a
strange place so just take 2 Tylenol PM or some other
type of sleep aid.
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I wish I had experience with another medication I could suggest you bring up to your doctors but I don't. I and my wife take trazodone on as needed basis and it works very well for us.
Have you talked to your doctors about taking melotonin? It is a OTC medication that works for many.
My Mayo doctors tell me over time your body gets accustom to medcations and that can affect its potency on the reason was prescribed.
A psychiartist that is unsmpathetic does not sound right. If me would find another.
@kayraymat
Many medciations are on a as needed basis. I also have XANAC on as needed basis. Over time an ongoing taking of medication is going to lower it's affect on you. when taking it every day/ night year after year.
If you are traveling and know you will need help to sleep that is an example of a "as needed basis."
Trazadone is very quick acting and can be taken and quick action. For me and my wife we both know if we are under stress, anxiety, or worrying that we will need help fallling asleep. Many times in past and even now if don't fall asleep and can feel my mind racing when I try to go to sleep I get up and take a trazadone. Many doctors will tell you if you don't fall asleed within a certain amout of time to do something like reading, etc.
Have your doctors ever suggested a sleep study for you? Did you advise your doctors about taking telenol PM on an ongoing basis?
When I was first prescribed sleep prescription it was for Ambein. My psychiatric medication warned me that Ambein was very quick acting so don't take unless ready to go to sleep and also be aware of the common side affect of sleep walking. Ambien did not work for me at all and was given trazadone where over time it went from every night to as needed. That is for me not you as that goes for any medications mentioned on MCC it is our experience with them not yours.
Have you doctors mentioned or hae you tried OTC melotonin? It is a known natural sleep aid which many says works.
THANKS TO YOU ALL WITH THE INFO ABOUT SLEEPING TABS
I TAKE 1/2 A TAB EACH NIGHT JUST BEFORE I GOT TO BED, OK THAT HELPS WITH MY SLEEPING PROBLEM A LITTLE BIT, BUT THEN YOU HAVE ALL THE OTHER PROBLEMS THAT HAS BEEN THE COURSE OF NOT BEING ALBE TO SLEEP. SO TO OVER COME ALL OF THEM I NOW TALK VALIUM TAB, HEAPS OF THEM SO NOW I SLEEP OK AND WAKE AROUND LIKE I'VE JUST CAME OUT OF THE PUB , STONED OUT OF MY BRAIN . I'M 80 YRS OLD AND HAD A BLOOD GOOD LIFE SO WHY SHOULD I KEEP FIGHTING SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO KILL ME IN THE END ANYWAY I CAN'T SEE ANY POINT IN IT. (CAN YOU) ?????