I take Trazodone, 50mg every night. I'm definitely PRO-Traz as well. It really helps me fall asleep, and my awakenings in the middle of the night have decreased (but the more stressed and anxious I am, the worse my quality of sleep is, regardless of the Traz).
A little warning, though, about the drug: Over the summer I went away for a month, and I thought I brought a new bottle of Traz with me that was a fresh refill, but I had accidently taken the old bottle, which only contained about 10 pills. I was overseas, so I was pretty much screwed for that month. I split the pills in half, and took them almost every night, but on some nights I would have to take none at all so that I didn't end up going for a bunch of days in a row without taking any Traz. I wanted it to stay in my system, somewhat.
Regardless, I suffered, BIGTIME. I was SO irritable, and my anxiety hit the ceiling. I was so miserable. When I got home I read up on "discontinuation syndrome," and its side effects. I also read about people trying to get off of trazodone (and other antidepressants, because other than being a sleeping aid, traz is also an antidepressant!), and a lot of them said that it wasn't easy getting off Traz and that you need to taper off SOOOOO slowly.
Just putting this out there for anyone else interested in the drug.
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