anyone taking trazodone for help with sleep?

I was put on Trazodone over 20 years ago and up to 375 mg. a night. My doctor told me to titrate the dose as needed. I SLOWLY came down to 50mg and finally 25mg. Never quit a drug of this nature cold turkey! Still on trazodone, I have found the need to increase my dose little by little to help me sleep. This drug is a good drug with minimal if any side effects. It's important to take this drug with a little food, not on an empty stomach. Hope this helps!

I do, it seem's to work great I've been taking it for about three year's. I'm never groggy,I sleep like a baby....

I have severe insomnia, I had tried tranquilizors and every other controlled sleep medicine out there, when i was introduced to trazodone i thought it was a joke, i believed there is no way its strong enough without being a controlled substance, i took it and it worked like a miracle i sleep all night everynight, and i fall asleep quickly, it is non addictive and it is not a controlled substance so that is a big plus due tot he face that most sleeping aids that are perscribed are, I highly recommend it to anyone with sleep problems.

150mg daily and it works,unlike ambien 

I take it for sleep and I get about 6 hours now.

After telling my doctor that amytipytylin and trazadone keeps me knocked out way too long, and leave me hung over with a stomach ache, not to mention insane vivid dreaming, all they will give me is tramadol.  No luck on klonopin or librium or valium

 

Don't understand my dr. told me only to take it
when I went into nights of non-sleeping and to take 2 x 50mg and that they would not be addictive and that this med is the best out there for this problem??? So how do I do that if I take for a few nights, the meds help me sleep and if they have the effect of not sleeping when I am off them, then what is the point???? Totally confused.

 Suffered from pain so bad as a result of car accident in 1960, and the pain was keeping me awake at night. About 6 years ago my Dr. started me on Trazodone, 50mg at first and worked up to 100mg. It was a Godsend. Taking it at bedtime, I would be asleep in minutes.I'm still taking it after all this time, and the only side effect being I wake up tired. Soon shake that off with a coffe or two

I have tried everything... Ambien which caused sleep driving and a car accident, anxiolytics like Valium, Serzone, etc. I used to take 200 mg trazodone each night, then 100 mg and now am down to 25 mg. It works like a charm and I have been using it for 8+ years. It's the only psychoactive medication I take having weaned myself off an entire pharmacopia of nonsense prescribed by a variety of doctors. 

Initially, I did have vivid dreams but no longer. My only concern is that I have very low blood pressure and trazodone can exacerbate that but unlikely at such a low dose.

 

Good luck to one and all.

Anyone having trouble with names or going blank during a sentence taking these long term?

Anybody have in memory problems after taking these long term?

My Drs. tried me on Librium and Valium back in the early '70's. over time they found they had to increase the dose for it to work for me, until it no longer did. I spent 10 weeks in a hospital psyche ward to be weaned off them. I was advised to never take them again as I was addicted to them. Just like an alcoholic never being able to reach for a bottle again. Be very wary of using this long term.

I was just prescribed Trazodone today, so I haven't taken my first dose yet. I was wondering how soon before I want to fall asleep I should take it. I used to take Lunesta and I took that about a half an hour before I actually wanted to fall asleep. Thanks for the help!

My doctor just put me on 50mg to take before bed every night because my insomnia has been awful. (2-3 hours of sleep a night.) so hopefully I get to see if it works out or not. So far, three nights and nothing different.

I've also having insomnia. I took AMBRIEN for a couple of months, and it worked great. I just did not want to be the person ot do wierd things in the middle of the night and falling down the stairs. My friend took it and she would get up in the middle of the night and cook or make popcorn and  not remembering doing it. I only took 50mg. of trazodone 3 days this week and threw the rest of the pills away. I was up till 3:00 in the am. reading and watching tv. I,ll never, never take that again.