[QUEEN OF WANDS]

has anyone here taken prazosin for PTSD? im up to 4 mg and although the physical pain of PTSD(burning neck from being choked in a traumatic experience) have not happened in the past 6 weeks since the dose went up to 3 mg,,i am still experiencing intrusive thoughts and nightmares..i would like to know if this medication has helped anyone else..........

also..i am currently taking trazadone,just increased to 350mg,will go up to 400 in 2 weeks..has anyone had some help with this medication?

its been 4 months of increasing the doses of these meds slowly and i just want them to get to a point where it is a good dose,,,it seems to take a long time.....ty

[DePressMe]

I have not tried prazosinso I can't offer you much help with it. I spent some time on trazadone and it made me very lethargic and lost interest in life. But it might work for you--everybody is different.

You said, "increasing the doses of these meds slowly and i just want them to get to a point where it is a good dose,,,it seems to take a long time." It's great that you have a doctor who is raising the meds slowly because it can be a shock to your body if you're hit with a high dose all the sudden. And you'll be able to stop at the right dose instead of getting too much.

[nightmaresurvey]

I'm doing a study on this drug now.

[QUEEN OF WANDS]

which one are you studying? i called my doc and am being weened off of the trazadone..i cant function when all i want tp do is sleep and i have no motivation for life.....the prazosin seems to be working for the ptsd..please let me know what u find

Hi there,

I just wanted to let you know that for the intrusive/obsessive thoughts that Fluvoxamine (Luvox) helped tremendously until I could do enough work in therapy on changing the thoughts and challenging them that I didn't need the meds anymore.

Love and Hugs,
Tara

[QUEEN OF WANDS]

i stopped taking the trazadone shortly after posting this because it was making me sooo tired and i couldnt do what i needed to do each day..i also stopped taking the prazosin about 2 weeks ago,i was soo light headed and not feeling well most of the time..for some reason the ptsd is not too bad,,maybe iv dealt with some of the things i needed to.. physically i feel much better..