Does anyone have experience with Trazodone?

[UberScout]

So, as you can tell from previous statuses i've been in the hospital. Something has changed about the Oakes that is healing people like I was as fast as they come in. And it did a lot for me. I'm more positive around everybody, Maddog and I are getting along better than we ever have before, i'm not bitter anymore, I'm just not depressed anymore. I know i'll still have bad days, but now I know how to handle them, and Aloe has become a part of my whole thinking process now.

Following my discharge, I was put on Trazodone. The doctor says its supposed to be taken with food, and with my other medicines, and I have; it appears to be assigned to me primarily to help me sleep too, because I had a little trouble with that.

After doing a little research about trazodone on the web, I noticed something; almost every source I look at says its a hypnotic. And this is when I remembered that i asked about hypnotherapy while I was there, and while I never got one at the Oakes, I was prescribed this medicine, which i found to be the aforementioned.

Could it be that they couldn't find me a hypnotherapist because the Oakes didn't allow it, but they found this and decided it was the next best thing? It's a nice floaty little trance when you take it, and I like how it feels.

 

[OkRad]

No, it is not. It is an older antidepressant that is used for sleep, too. It is considered by some Drs to be safer than Ambien, et al which ARE hypnotics. I hope you are feeling better. I hope you continue to heal.

 

[SusanLR]

It is a tetracyclic antidepressant. Been around along time and I haven't heard of it being used much today.
It was created in the 1960's and didn't work well as an antidepressant.
Today it is used more for insomnia. Neither a narcotic nor true antidepressant it is an inbetween
type medication.

I took it once and didn't like the way it made me feel.
Actually it didn't make me feel much or any different, but, the one side effect that startled me the
first time I noticed it was I was getting short term memory loss.
I couldn't remember much of anything I had done one morning by noon when I was talking
on the phone and they ask me how I was doing that day.

I continued to take it for a few weeks, but, the blank periods of memory loss continued so I stopped it.
This is not listed in the common side effects, but, since it does help with sleep, I wonder if it could
do this since things like versed and fentnyl have short term memory loss effects.
They are used as twilight sedations.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Yeah it makes me sleep but grew resistance to it over time, now they want me to take Ketamine.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Psyche ward was given Traz.

 

[UberScout]

Still, I like what they did. My doctor was really nice to me about this and took the reason I got admitted very seriously (I'm not going to say why I was admitted because it might trigger some people.)

 

[zozie]

I was on trazodone for sleep in the 90s, for about 10 years or so. I don't remember much of those years, given that I was on very high doses of zoloft and later celexa, but I don't think it made me feel worse? Or worse than being on meds made me feel in general. The only med that I had a really bad immediate reaction to was abilify.

 

[clg114]

I take trazodone for sleep and it works very well. Without it I toss and turn all night. So my wife likes me taking it too. We both get more sleep if I take trazodone at bedtime.

 

[GrownupGirl]

I was prescribed Trazadone in the late 90's because my sleeping was so bad. I was so miserable about taking yet another medication I was sure I'd have terrible side effects from that I cried a lot the night before being put on it. But it seems to be effective. Usually. Seemed to take a few years to actually work, though.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Traz does not effect me anymore much, grew resistance to it, luckly covid lifting i dont need my meds much anymore, got marijuana and melotonin supliments and can sleep fine, no more insomnia.