Trazodone withdrawal symptoms

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I've started tapering off trazadone without talking to my doctor, OMG it's not going to work!!!!!! Why should I pay him 120 dollars to tell me to do the same thing I'm doing now. So what your saying is the taper I'm on, and which I feel fine on, won't work because I haven't talked to my Doctor, but if I go talk to him, suddenly it will work? "Hi Doctor"......"Hi John".....OK your taper will work now.

Yes my son had a simular situation when coming off that c**p!!

I've repeatedly tried to stop Trazadone and have had this EXACT experience. In fact, I'm having it again now. People keep telling me 25 my is such a low dose it shouldn't matter if I stop cold turkey so I've felt crazy, which make me...crazy. Gas lighting at its best. I would have thought that this was all in my head had I not read your post.

I've been on Trazadone for anxiety-related insomnia for more than 5 years now. I've slowly tapered off over the years but can't ever seem to quite stop it completely. Talking to doctors is no help because they don't feel it's a high dose. After asking to get off it again earlier this week my new doc said to go ahead and stop but didn't give me anything in it's place. Since then I've had very lucid, restless, anxiety-provoking dreams. My everyday anxiety is worse. My face completely broke out. I'm nauseous. I have a headache that at times borders on a migraine, (which I don't get). My nose is running, my asthma is worse and I'm horribly thirsty. I am agitated and moody and have a general sense of fear I can't seem to get passed and I keep forgetting to eat. My sleep app on my Apple Watch shows I haven't fallen into a deep sleep in 5 days now. I'm EXHAUSTED. I thought it was even PMS!! Now I'm convinced it's the trazadone. I'll take a half of my 25mg dose tonight and see if that helps at all. If I still can't fall asleep very well I'll just take the other half and then start a steadier taper rather than quitting cold turkey. There have been times before when I just forgot to take it or something. I can tell instantaneously and the next day I'm a mess. However, when take the dose the next night I wake up that following morning feel amazing. Addicted much?! Gawd!

What an awful feeling to want to lead a healthier lifestyle and not be able to because you're addicted to drugs that should make you healthy!!

My Dr just took me off refused to refill it...been three days I am a little cranky and dizzy but I think I am gonna just stay off it.My appt is in 3weeks she wont refill it before then anyway.

I forgot my medicine transzdone at home and I am in another state been off completely 3 days. I am on Zoloft. Will that hel

I was on trazodone for 2 1/2 weeks which I started about 10 days after going off diazepam (which I took for 10 days for sleep) and before that about 5 days of trazodone. I got on these drugs only because I was due to get hernia surgery which I was very anxious about. I quit the latest round of traz about 1 week ago. I am evidently still having withdrawal symptoms because of feelings of depression and sometimes agitation. Also experiencing frequent urination and sometimes either chills or sweaty. Exercise helps. Also getting cognitive therapy. Hope this resolves soon. I don't want to go back on trazodone!

Want to highly recommend cognitive psychotherapy to anyone trying to get off this drug (even if you haven't made that decision yet).

Sorry, but if you're taking Excedrin Pm you're gonna be hooked! Same withdrawal symptoms, I know !

How are you doing? I don't think I mentioned that since I was on those drugs and then tapering off those damn drugs (Paxil, Buspirone and Trazodone) I got severe itching,burning,stinging in my back which never leaves, day or night. I have had this for about6 yrs. now!!! II have been to about 22 doctors and none know what it is from and ALL deny it is from those pills!!!! I don't think drs know about all these pills that much as the detail men(salesman for pharmacies) probably don't' tell them) or else the drs know and don't want to go against the Big Pharmacy!!!! Some of the drs I have gone to want to put me on my pills for this condition of mine (itching,stinging,etc) but when I read the side effects, I won't take them as I don't need to add another condition to this. I do not know for sure if it was these drugs causing this, but I sure won't chance taking anything to cause me more grief. I am in pain all the time with this and try to cope. And no doctor ever told me those damn pills I was on (Buspirone, Paxil, Trazodone) were addictive and still tell me my back condition isn't form this!!!! I really don't trust too many drs now..one I told I was in agonywith this(and I was and still am!) and he said to me "you dont' look like you are in agony to me!". some drs are so cruel and only believe what they want to believe. But I cope the best I can and pray a lot for God to relieve me of this pain someday. Hope you are doing okay.If anyone else on here has symptoms of what my back has lease let me know... I will never give up HOPE IN THE LORD that someday I will be relieved of all this pain caused by drugs (and I went through hell getting off them, not including this back pain) intended to help and instead damaged so many of us.Pls.anyone readinghtis, do NOT go cold turkey off this or any drugs..your body has to adjust slowly going off them, and going off too quickly will cause you so much more agony...my dr at one time (I don't have him anymore) told me "just go off them" and how wrong he was!!!!! I knew he was wrong and did not listen to that advise!!!!

I am same guest. I am still having sleep problems. I have some counseling again today so hoping will help a lot. Is this still due to trazodone withdrawal since only took it for 2 1/2 weeks?

Been taking trazodone for couple of years. Ran out a few days ago. It's Sunday. Called in refill on Fri. No refills so Dr has to be faxed. That Dr is slow responding. Probably won't be available till Wed. I have some Konopin and some Flexeril. Does anyone know if either of those will help withdrawal till I get my refill?

I also take trazodone and I am not a Doctor, but I think the Klonopin and Flexeril will help. I can't believe your Doctor is so unresponsive. Good Luck. I have been there myself.

I wanted to share my story, hopefully I can find someone that can identify themselves with my ordeal and possibly help each other. I still can't believe I'm typing this out, its all very surreal to me, I never in my life would have imagined that, at age of 21, I'd be tossed into this mess. Not only dealing with anxiety but now terrible thoughts of suicide ever since getting sexual dysfunction.

 

I was given Trazodone 50mg after having problems sleeping on July this year, I told my doctor I had some issues sleeping, she then proceeded to ask some mental health questions and I told her I had minimal anxiety and that whether I had depression was debatable. I only took the pills 3 times, I stopped after realizing I could barely get an erection. Then came the initial crash, there was pain in my perineum and testicles that felt like blue balls, the veins in my testicles got inflamed and painful especially when I got an erection. I ended up JO, I thought it would alleviate the pain and go away, the semen was unusual, I never came so much in my life but the consistency was watery. I also suffered from terrible abdominal and pelvic pain which has gone at least 80-90% away in the two months that followed, it was annoying and really hard to concentrate on my studies but I thank God that’s gotten slightly better. I'm not sure how common this is but I feel like my left testicle shrunk, I wonder if anyone on trazodone or other anti-depressants has had shrinkage of only one of their testicles. I also have urinary incontinence after taking the drug.

 

It got to a point where I had to tell my parents, it was embarrassing, I cried and told them these pills changed me and that I'm not ok. I was pretty much saying my goodbyes, it's so easy to just end the pain and kill myself but after a long discussion I'm going to wait this out as long as I possibly can. I can't just do this to them, they’ve suffered so much and given me more than I could ever ask for, I can't end my life knowing I'd leave them in so much emotional suffering.

 

If anyone has had these symptoms and has gotten better please let me know, I'm lost, I can't take this pain anymore.

Thank you so much for this post. It helps me go through my withdrawal period which gives me anxiety, panic atracks etc plus a feeling i have a tumor in my head