Advice on taking trazadone for sleep and depression?

This is a terrible drug! Makes everyone I’ve ever known including myself feel like they have the WORST hangover in the morning! Try Ambien it’s much better.

It helps me fall asleep but it makes it almost impossible for me to wake up, and I feel groggy the whole day. It makes me not want to take it honestly

i’m on trazadone and it honestly is so helpful for me. i can understand the skepticism about meds. i haven’t had any side effects from trazadone

Thank you guys so much! I see my new psychiatrist tomorrow and I’m gonna bring it up with her.

I've been taking it for years and it works well! I definitely agree you should start out low and work up to a higher dose over time. be prepared for some mild dizziness and some heavy drowsiness when you first start taking it, or at least that's what happened to me when I first started it. I have crazy bad insomnia so I needed a pretty regular dose, though it helps more with staying asleep than falling asleep for me. best advice I can give is research, honestly. getting more testimonies and reading about the medications history is always a good idea when recommended a new med

I think my doctor prescribed trazadone and I ended up only taking half or a quarter of a pill because it was so strong, groggy when waking, which is odd because I usually have a high tolerance for medication. My only advice, start with a low dose.

I'm up to 200 mg a night

My doctor put me on 50mg of Trazadone a day 4 years ago to help with sleep. I was already taking 120mg a day of Cymbalta for depression and pain. I don’t notice that the Trazadone does anything unless I forget to take it. Then I notice (after the fact) that I didn’t sleep as well. Hope this helps.