Stopping Trazodone. Need guidance

You're following a prescription and a protocol to get off the drug, so please continue to do that. I would have asked my physician to give me guidance for a four-eight week weaning period just for personal assurances of success, which I can't see any physician refusing to do for his/her patient. You have the typical first stage done, although half a dose is about twice the normal initial reduction. If you're doing okay, then in a few days try halving it again. If it seems okay after a week or two, try halving that dose for another week. After that, you might be able to stop it altogether. But do keep a sharp grounding on sleep length and quality. If they are slipping, go back to the previous dose for another week, and then try again. That is a suggestion, NOT a prescription....you should speak to the person issuing the Trazodone to you in the first place.

Also, sometimes a reasonable 'facsimile', a substitute of sorts, might help through the toughest withdrawal points. Maybe melatonin, or another drug, but you're only going to take that one, at most two, nights each week during the weaning period. Just to smooth the roughest patches. Again, see your physician about suggestions or a prescription if it will help. Keeping your eye on the ball is stopping Trazodone...nothing else. But get the okay from your doctor. First.

@gloaming Thank you so much, this was very helpful! My dr had me on the lowest dose they make & I was already halving those, so i just stopped (PCP said I was fine to just stop), so I think I should be good! Sleep has been fine since stopping it tbh, but I was given hydroxyzine in case & I have Zofran, but hopefully I won’t get any nausea!

Follow your Dr orders . Keep him informed about symptoms. Good luck

what symptoms are you referring to? I'm taking 150mg. of Trazodone and have no side effects but now I'm afraid.

@purplegrrrl they nailed the withdrawal as good as i would have done it if i had to do it again. some good advise and pointers for you to follow. Good luck on all fronts ad safe travels. Have a blessed day.

@mmwagner46 your pharmacy should have given written information on the drug including side effects unless you didn’t fill it yet. Ask your pharmacist .

I've been taking 150mg of Trazodone for at least 10 years with no side effects and sleep about 7 hours a night. It was prescribed by a psychiatrist. Please tell me why (and how) I should stop.

@mmwagner46 i’m not your dr, i am not here to tell u if u should stop. what’s right for me is not necessarily what’s right for you. i stopped because that’s what was right for me

I've had sleep problems for over 20 years and about 9 months ago my doctor prescribed 50mg of trazodone. It helped a little and he said try 100mg. It made me very unsteady on my feet when I got up during the night to pee and it didn't help. I cut it back to 25mg. The doc then told me to stop taking it.

In the meantime I had started taking Natrol Sleep Restore with melatonin and it works well. I can get back to sleep after my 2 or 3 times getting up to pee which is a huge improvement. I also take 3 grams of glycine. This combination has been a game changer for me after all these years of struggling