It is for me, If I miss a tablet at night I feel lots of bad symptoms, one moment freezing then sweating, goosebumps, really strange sensations in head making me unable to drive, and even more strangely a certain body part really shrinks in size, now I think that is severe
Yes stopping trazadone will cause all these symptoms including thoughts of suicide and depression. Please make sure that you talk to your Dr and they will tell you how to ween off of the meds to avoid all those side effects.
My wife just got her Rx filled for 50mg Trazodone yesterday so it is available.
I started taking 50 mg of trazadone for sleep about 8 months ago. 3 months ago it was uped to 100 mg. I also take 40 mg of celexa and 15 mg of buspirone for anxiety twice a day. When i first started taking these i did have memory problems and was a little drowsy. But the way i feel now is way better than i used to feel. My anxiety and depression are under control. I know u want to stop taking meds but sometimes u really need them. If u can get through the side effects at first you may feel better later on. These kind of meds take a while to get in your system. maybe u should not try to sop taking medicine that u need.
thats in the uk? thats great i'll check it out with the phamacist tomorrow...i went in on wednesday but it wasnt in then...
oo i hope its back saves stress of deciding what to do
Good news. Our brains are not damaged. Our bodies are attempting to find balance (homeostasis) and in time balance will be acheived. I too have the hot flashes, sweats, confusion, insomnia and anxiety. There are thousands upon thousands of us that are looking for balance and freedom from trazadone, I hope you understand that you (all of us) will be ok in time. Continue to taper, Do so slowly. You've been taking trazadone for quite a long while (your body has grown accustomed to the serotonin that trazadone has forced into your system. You will be fine. I know that there may be times when you might feel as if the world is crumbling before you, As if you are losing total control.... Don't worry. Whenever you feel hopeless hold on to the promise that it will go away in time. Be sure to eat well and drink enough water. I believe it's important to eat well. One mistake I made was drinking herbal teas. Herbal tea does not mix well with trazadone neither does coffee. Hang in there. We will all get through this nightmare..... Silence
I have been on Traz for about 4 years now. This is my 5th attempt to wean myself off. Id like to have another baby in the next 2 years. I take 200 mg, so taking my doc's advice, I have been cutting one of the pill's in half. Its been a week now. I feel itchy, I twitch and Im crazy tired but Im going to stick with it. The fact that people on here have gotten off this drug gives me hope.
I have taken trazodone for ten years. I am 63 years old and suffer from chronic pain and insomnia. Instead of treating the pain, my doctors prescribed trazodone for sleep. For years, I was in a fog. When I asked my doctors, they treated me like I had an anxiety disorder and recommended deep breathing, yoga, etc. Finally, I read about trazodone in the "lay" literature to find many people whose lives had been nearly destroyed by trazodone. I showed this to my doctor who said that these individual accounts were meaningless. I tried to quit the trazodone but got too sick. Last year, I began to have amnesia. I went through unbelievable tests to determine if I had a degenerative brain disorder like alzheimer's. They finally figured out it was the trazodone. I quit taking it but two months later, I am still shaky, sweaty and nauseated from the withdrawal. Please stay away from trazodone and pass this information on to your doctors.
I have read thru all the different testimonies & I have been on a very high dose of trazodone for over 13 years & i have wanted to stop & several times I actually started on reducing the amount & after a week I am totally back to being in a black hole that scares the dickens out of me, i get terribly undone & after reading every ones writings on this drug I just got anxious at the very thought of having to go thru this withdrawl. if you are having trouble with 50 mg. what on earth is going to happen with me as i am on 250 mg. i am frightened to say the least but thank you for sharing . i will have to think on this very seriously
I am currently on Trazadone and get very ill if I miss a does. I was on Zoloft in the past. I do not care what anyone says it caused severe weight gain. I have heard the same from others who took it. When I got off I lost an incredible amount of weight. The Trazadone hasn't done that to me.
I wonder how u r, if u have gotten off of the traz, I am so glad I came across this. I too have developed extreme forgetfullness and confusion. It is a nightmare, but every time I try to get off of it the symptoms seems to get worse. Just wish I had never started this.
Hello My doctor just put me on trazodone yesterday and told me to take 25 mg before bed to help me sleep this was one of the worse nights i have had i could not stay still could not sleep wake up to muscle pain and headache i had been using xanax for sleeping and for my severe panic attacks which works great but this new doctor does not believe in xanax for long term use trazodone made my panic and anxity worse an made me feel horrable has anyone else felt like this?
DH has been on Trazadone for 13 years. His current dose is 150mg at night for sleep issues. I didn't request his refills as usual and without putting two and 2 together it finally occured to me that he might be suffering some withdrawl symptoms. Since running out of the Trazadone, he has suffered terribly with profuse sweating, feeling cold and almost at the same time feeling hot. He has also had some strange feelings in his body.
Once withdrawl occured to me I found my way here. I was anxious to see if others had symptoms when stopping Trazadone cold turkey. My gosh I feel terrible....awful!!! It's been 6 days of hell for him due to my negligence. I began a frantic search in hopes of finding a random trazadone pill. I did. He took it and within 30 min. his symptoms have nearly resolved.
So for those of you who doubt that trazadone could/will cause wicked symptoms upon being discontinued...think again. My DH doesn't really even know which medication of his is which. He'd been unaware that his "sleeping medicine" had been missing from his nightly regime.
I just now glanced over at him. He is sleeping and is relaxed. He isn't in a sweat anymore and he seems to be comfortable again for the first time in almost a week.
I feel better now too.
This thread is a bit old, but I want to share my Trazodone nightmare: 25 years ago I was given Trazodone for depression/anxiety and insomnia. I think I was up to 150 mg a day and had taken it for over a year. Wanted to get pregnant so stopped cold turkey because no one ever told me to not do so. Couple of weeks later I collapsed while I was working in my garden - with a huge lump in my throat, salivating uncontrollably, very loud ringing in my ears, and absolutely horrible anxiety/panic attacks. I couldn't eat, sleep or do anything for over three days - I laid in the floor with a fan next to my head to drown-out the ringing in my ears. I was in hell. I finally had to call my mother because my husband had to work and I thought I was going insane! I never made the connection that what was happening to me was Traz withdrawal! So after about a week of hell I checked myself into a psych unit because I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. I was given all sorts of neurological tests, a battery of psych tests, all sorts of things - I was scared to death thinking I'd finally gone mad. Then I was put on BENZOS along with a few other meds (a med cocktail) to help with the panic and anxiety. Helped tremendously, but I still felt ill. Had to quit my job. Then, things got worse. Due to not having been informed of what was *really* going on with me, my family became tired of my illness and I had no moral support. Then I was blamed for not working and pulling my weight around the house - I could barely get out of bed...some days I couldn't at all. The day came when I had to change psychiatrists because my insurance changed, and WOW, the new psychiatrist cold-turkeyed me off Benzos! That's when things got really, really, really bad and I tried to off myself by OD'ing on an anti depressant. Again, I was never told that cold-turkey off a benzo is hell. Was eventually reinstated on the benzos and life went back to normal for about 15 years until I wanted to try tapering off the benzos. I knew by this time that cold turkey is never good for psych meds. So, I started tapering off benzos with what I thought was a slow taper (4-5 months to taper off 2mgs) and when I got to .625 mgs I had a blood pressure emergency - my bp was something like 200/110 - stroke range. Of course when I went to the ER I was treated like a benzo junkie - even though it was my idea to taper off the benzos in the first place! (What scabs some medical professionals can be!!!) So I held stead at .625 without cutting more for a couple of weeks. I thought it was safe to cut again but then I had a tiny, tiny sip of wine at a tapas party and I went into full withdrawal. This time I knew exactly what was happening. Called my doc and the benzo was reinstated to original dosage, and had to get a second benzo to help me sleep. I was in withdrawal hell for the better part of three months and I don't know how I made it through it - learned this last time that once you quit something, reinstating it may not work! This time my husband and family knew what was causing it so I had a little more support. In the end, what helped my withdrawal symptoms most were LOTS of exercise and healthy eating. And when I say a LOT of exercise I mean it. At least an hour of exercise 6 days a week and get that heart rate up there sustained for at least 30 minutes. Of course you should talk to your doc before you start exercising like that. The exercise saved my darn life. Soooo....now I'm on two different benzos and 25mg of trazodone. I'm in the process of tapering off the trazodone right now - every other night I take 12.5mgs of Traz, then the next night 25mg. I'm experiencing withdrawal symptoms, but nothing I can't shake off after getting in a good workout. I'm thinking I will hold at this dosage for a few months before I cut my dosage again. Learned the hard way that there's no such thing as too slow a taper. I hope to be off all meds one day, but it's going to take years. Life is better now that I have the info about psychotropic meds and how they affect you, as well as getting counseling and working on the issues that drove me to have to take these meds in the first place. Hopefully before I die I can go without any psych meds. We shall see. To be continued....