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Misc Anyone else like trazodone?

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This showed up in my "old.posts" listing (postedon page 1 about 14 months ago, about an RX I'd had probably a year or.two.prior)

Never had much use for it before, wasn't on it long but I slept great.
Been stable on lamotrgine & risperidone for a while, with usual varied abuse of alcohol and cannabis (finally quit the latter for most of the last 4months.)
I really never had sleeping problems until about 9 months ago .. I.can fall asleep fine but always wake up 2-3 AM and often a few.more times before sunrise/alarm clock.

My old Dr..gave me quitiapine (seroquel) but I had a bad reaction to it and couldn't take.it. tried melatonin, helps me sleep fast but I still wake up.

So this new Dr. Wrote.me a new script.for trazodone. I was so happy.
I just started experimenting with Etizolam, and still drink.2-3 beers per day, so I've only.been taking.25.mg of.the trazodone. But amazingly I manage to sleep several hours later.

Between the combo I am quite drowsy in the AM, but that's nothing new. I live on energy shots and drinks :-P I know those might kill.me but at least i gave up cannabis & liquor..

No weird dreams for me; I usually have extremrly bizarre & entertaining dreams either sober or with melatonin, seems these are eliminated now, but I guess sleep takes precedence.

Took my dose a bit ago &.past my bedtime (go Padres) so I best log off. Hopefully I won't oversleep & be late for work tomorrow, oops.
 
It gave me nightmares, made me wake up with a painful boner that wouldn't go away for a while...but it did knock me out, but only the first few times I did it, and the doses were spaced out weeks at a time..After that it didn't even make me drowsy. Not really that fun.... Now Mirtzapine, that I liked for sleep. As opposed to nightmares, it was like I was tripping in my sleep, would give me really cool dreams. Only did those a couple of times when I was having trouble sleeping from lack of opiates...
 
Well after taking it just a few times this round, my bottle has mysteriously vanished from my house .. so much for that.
Good thing I have etizolam and alcohol
 
I see that the prescribing of antipsychotics as sleep aids seem to help some but the occurrence of odd side effects should remind to all that these drugs were developed to treat psychotic patients under psychiatric care. Not sure that your average GP really understands the pharmacology of such potent shrink drugs. Not being addictive may be attractive but possible inducing of psychotic side effects is not so nice. Benzos may be addictive but they are better understood.
 
I can't stand Trazadone. To me, it feels like a dirty drug inside my body and also made me feel loopy and just plain crazy. I don't know if anyone else got this from this shit drug but it also gave me paranoia.
 
I miss the incredible lucid dreams I got while taking trazodone a while back. These amazing dreams where I would physically wake up, and upon falling asleep again I would be in the exact same spot in the dream. Like I hit pause or something. It was quite psychedelic and really pretty cool-I understand this to possibly be influenced by the metabolism into mCPP.

I did however get prescribed tramadol when I was withdrawing from alcohol, severely alcoholic. This resulted in bizarre nightmares and when I would wake up withdrawing it was even more gruesome because I was hallucinating from alc wd's. Not a good time to start trazodone IMO, although it did help me sleep and I would still probably take it if the clinic hadn't dropped me.
 
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I certainly wouldn't say it has any recreational value.

It can be a good sleep aid, though. It has bad effects for some people, but for many it's great at helping sleep (there is no sleep medication everyone responds well to). It actually has great pharmacology for an antidepressant/antianxiety medication. It's not a tricyclic and not a true SSRI. It's a SARI (serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor), though the problem is the dose needed to get that effect would keep the vast majority of people constantly very drowsy.

Its mechanism as an antidepressant increases serotonin levels in the brain as an SSRI would, but it blocks the 5HT2A receptor and some other receptors that have generally bad effects (I know that some psychadelic drugs activate the 5HT2A receptor, but in most cases that receptor causes anxiety as well as a lot of the SSRI sexual side effects. Trazodone is sometimes taken to alleviate SSRI sexual side effects). It would be a great antidepressant if therapeutic dosages wouldn't make almost anyone tired constantly.

For me, it's a good sleep aid except that it definitely has a hangover effect. I love zolpidem for sleep, but I do have a tolerance after years of use, so I add trazodone when I really need to sleep.
 
I have no idea this thread existed, it has zero recreational value. Anyways, this is a HR focus forum, it's not a place where anything-goes or where we discuss things like "do you like this drug too?". Those threads do not belong in this forum. So I'm closing this.

No, no one likes trazodone, and if they do, they should discuss this elsewhere. Thank you.
 
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