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Tapering off of Trazadone

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@oceanlover91 I hesitate to say yes because I'm not a physician, but I'm almost positive that it's much to early for you to assume your system is now hotly dependent on trazodone. You could miss one night and see, but to me one must take weeks of the medication for it to require tapering.

I'm sorry for your horrible experience. It is so frustrating and disappointing being offered a new optimism only to have it go sour.

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@gloaming Thank you for your reply and kind words. I've been experiencing chronic insomnia for two months and so frustrating. One doctor had me take low doses of xanax but that wasn't getting me consistent sleep or few hours at a time. I tried Mirtrazpine and it did nothing at 7.5. I switched doctors and he put me on Klonipin and I finally was able to get seven hours of sleep for four nights which was great. But then I was having side effects with my legs feeling like jelly during the day and just too out of it. So he weaned me off that. I was only on Klonopin for a week before he started weaning me off. So I just started the Trazadone and can't imagine taking one more night of it since I didn't sleep at all and felt terrible. So I'm not sure what is next and very discouraged. I've practiced all the good sleep hygiene, with good wind down routines, and much prayer.