Trazodone withdrawal symptoms

I'm withdrawing from trazadone after 18 years 50mg a night I'm doing every other day but I'm suffering so much anxiety depression feeling ill I so want to do this but don't think I'm strong enough fir all this suffering it's an evil drug

The best way is at most 10% of current (not original) dose every 4 weeks or so. A few may be able to do it faster, but why take the chance.

I took it for 10 days 50mg and started having severe heart palpitations and tightness in chest and I just stopped taking it. Still feel weird and it's been 5 days without it.

I have been taking Molipaxin for years at 150mg I reduced it to 50 mg and feel terrible and anxious

Need advice!

I started taking 50mg trazadone over a year ago built up a tolerance and was put on 100mg. I take it as a sleeping aid. I take wellbutrin for depression. Well over a week ago I some how misplaced by bottle of trazadone. Dum as this sounds I thought o-well it just helps me sleep I can take zzzquil and get some more next month. For days I was miserable mentally and physically and did not know why. I did not sleep for four days. I was on edge anxious couldn't eat and all I wanted to do was-lay down. I had a constant migraine so bad I couldn't stand light. I almost went to the emergency room several times and finally a light bulb came on. I was withdrawing and I was in full blown agony from not having the trazadone. I got the DR to write another prescription 2 days ago and I still feel bad from the trazadone hangover feeling but not nearly as bad as I did. For anybody who did not suffer from quitting Trazadone GOOD FOR YOU but I know from experience what it can do to you. I agree with you here and to the ones saying Trazadone does not cause severe withdrawal symptoms please remember your experience does NOT speak for mine or many others.

Thank you! I had been on it six mo th 59mg n after about 3 month I started getting panic attacks on and off and did not feel well. I told the doctor as it was for sleep which it originally helped but then it got insane. Started citing the dose down and I had headaches n overall felt nuts to be honest. Tonight I took a quarter n have been doing it for the past five days n still fell lousy that is why I took it. I just feel overall lousy in many areas. Hopefully this monkey will be gone and be rid of it. The doctor wanted me to go I. AElival n I said no thanks,p, do we shall see but man this med sucks,.! Julia

I forgot to take my trazadone 50mg for 4 or 5 days. I felt like a completely different person in a bad way. Severe anxiety, irritability, confusion, uncontrollable movements- felt like my nervous system would misfire about every 20 mins or so at the worst. I didnt realize I had been forgetting to take it. I literally thought I was going crazy. 2 days after taking trazadone again the all those symptoms had subsided. I think it probably different with different people and how long they've been on it. This was last month. It scared the hell out of me.

Hi I have been on 150mg of trazodone for about 8 years once a day at bedtime, I recently have no doctor because I moved and my doctor that prescribed me the trazodone would no longer refill my scripts because I haven't been in the office for a visit which is hard cuz I am 6 hours away. I believe I am going through withdrawals I'm not sleeping, I'm shakey,I'm wide awake all the time I feel like I have so much anxiety, I feel kind of springy and can't function well, I have no ins but made a doctors appt. With a new doctor on wed at that point should I get a new script or just stay off it?? How long does this last?? Advice is welcomed ty

Please do not go off this cold turkey! Get new rx from dr. and go off it slowly as this is addictive and you will feel like hell if you just stop cold turkey (as you are already doing now!). I was taking two anti depressants with this and stopped taking them slowly -also had a hard time getting off of them all. I should have had help, but did it myself. Maybe your dr can help you with this. I recommend lowering the pill by 1/8 at a time - it will be very hard cutting 1/8 off, but try hard...then stay on that for two or three weeks, then take another 1/8 off and stay on that for two or three weeks, and keep doing cutting the pill down every two or three weeks. You may need even longer to stay on the cut down pill. Everybody's body is different and reacts differently going off it. You can always try just cutting the pill down 1/4 at a time for the two or three weeks and see how you react to this and then cutting another 1/4 off, etc, etc, I would never have taken this or the anti-depressants had I known how addictive they really are. I feel now it was like taking poison for all those years. I was on this stuff for about 10 yrs. I still have severe itching, stinging on my back and don't know what caused it, whether it was these pills or something else ,like Levaquin antibiotic, which I took, also and now has danger warnings on it now. Good luck and God bless and help you through this. Praying does help, also. Kathy

Hi Kathy. Can you tell me how long your withdrawal from trazodone was and what was it like. I'm trying to taper off it myself. The itching is probably from the meds. I've gotten a lot of itching tapering trazodone. God bless. Becky.

Hi I see you you got off of trazodone. I'm nearing the end of the traz taper. Can you tell me what the w/ds from trazodone are like. I'm a bit nervous about it all. Becky

Because I was on two antidepressants along with Trazodone, it took me a long time and I didn't know what drug was causing what. I was lowering all threeof them real slowly starting in 2013 and then really starting going off them more and more in 2014 and then by the end of 2014, I was off. I had pretty ugly symptoms, "zaps"in my head and it almost felt like a "darkness" was happening in my head and I was very crabby and just was scared to be alone.. It all sounds crazy I know and it might not happen to you, Becky, at all if you are just going off Trazodone. I used to call my sister crying because I guess I was so scared I'd end up in a nut house or something. the best thing to do is pray a lot, get out of the house, walk, do exercise as this helps with those feelings we get and it's not so scary being with others. You won't go crazy, believe me, just suffer perhaps, if you do at all. Just do not go right off the junk, that is the worst thing to do as your body is so used to it. . I still get "zaps " in my head but I just ignore them now. The itching and stinging is continuing to this day and drives me crazy as it is always there, and I don't know if these drugs caused this as now I see Levaquin, an antibiotic I took years ago, causes nerve itch. Damn drugs, I hate them all. I'll pray for you to get off them easily, Becky. Kathy By the way, the two drugs, which if you look up online, also cause horrid effects were PAXIL and Buspirone that I took. Paxil probably caused a lot of my withdrawal symptoms, if not all, too. So again if Trazodone is the only on you're quitting, you may just be fine. God bless and keep you well getting off this poison. Please let me know how you are doing..I care.

Hi again Becky. I really prayed and trusted God He would get me through the worst of withdrawal from the drugs.......and He did..as He will you I know.

Thanks so much for your answer and your prayers. I pray too for myself and everyone else who are on these terrible meds. I like to think angels are watching over me and helping me. I got off Ambien a year ago and slowly tapering the trazodone. I'm on mirtazapine also but have not lowered that yet. I'm doing one at a time. Wow you got off Paxil -good for you. Itching I've gotten from the trazodone withdrawal but it's lessening now that I'm on a super low dose. Can I ask how many months did the withdrawals last? Did you have a lot of nausea? Sorry for the questions, but I've found very few people who have actually gone off trazodone successfully. God bless you and I hope the itching goes away too. I think aloe lotion might help. Becky

Hi Becky. You are doing great! I cannot remember how long those withdrawals lasted but it seems like all of 2014 I was bothered, but you have to remember I was on some powerful stuff (a dr. once told me this!), even though it didn't seem powerful to me and it wasn't helping me so that is one of the reasons I stopped taking Paxil, Buspirone and Trazodone. But also, remember I was on it for about 10 yrs...a very long time, so my body was having a"fit" without it!! I am also a very nervous person and perhaps some of the symptoms were from "nerves", also, and wondering if I'd be okay. Our minds play tricks on us sometimes by worrying too much.. But if I had to say, I would say for about 6 months I was really bothered by weird, strange feelings. Sometimes today I get a few zaps in my head, but I just ignore them, knowing they are "nothing" and they won't stay. Just try not to panic as I think that makes them worse. Try to eat good food. I also took and still do take Vitamin D3 and B12 and that helps your nerves, Also. I used to think "Wow, it will take me a year to get off these meds..that's too long" But a year goes fast in reality and a year is nothing compared to how long I was on them! Just don't go off them cold turkey as I've said before. I think what I did, if I got too bothered, I "upped" them a little and then went "down" again, but just a little. I only used Trazodone for sleep, not in the day though. You can go off it, but it will take patience, time and trust in God..Please email me anytime. I do not mind at all. I am glad to help anyone I can with these evil drugs. I hate the Big Pharma that did this to us, not letting us know the danger of these drugs on our minds and bodies just so they could make big bucks. I feel someday they will stand before God to be judged on what they have done to so many of us by being addicted to what we thought would help us..I hope you have an easy time getting off this, my friend. Kathy God bless you and keep you safe I this crazy world.