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taking pills for sleep

Posted on 07/16/09, 10:43 pm

i am taking a pill for sleep trazdone. its working great still getting us to it still tired in the morning. i have been having a hard time sleeping because of my ptsd. it has always been a problem i was on trazdone before for sleep and it work great he asked why the nurse practiner took me off it i didn't know why it's stupid to take somebody offten something working. do other have trouble sleeping and have been put on pills for sleep also.

• Reply #1 07/17/09  12:58am
  
  FanWoman
  I'm taking Prazosin at night, which keeps away the nightmares and night terrors (although I still have nightmares if I nap during the day), and Lunesta, which helps me sleep. I used to take Trazadone a long time ago when they thought I was just depressed and before the new SSRIs and NSRIs (e.g., Prozac and Effexor) became available. Trazadone made me groggy during the daytime, but it did help me sleep. Do you have a Patient Advocate or ombudsman where you get your care? I agree it's dumb to take you off something that's working unless there's some good reason, like it's bad for you in some other way. PTSD doesn't just get up one day and walk out of your life, so my understanding is that the sleep disorder is likely to be more or less chronic. You have probably seen this website, but if not you might be interested: http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/in...
• Reply #2 08/10/09  5:34pm
  
  Fierce
  I'm a hardcore insomniac ever since i was little, so i've been on every single sleep med out there as i got older, lol. Yeah i agree too, taking people off things that work for them is lame, unless there's a good reason.. I was taking Chloral Hydrate and it worked better than everything i've tryed in the past(but didn't work completely lol.) but i was taken off of it because people were dying in their sleep because of respiratory failure. I was on trazadone for awhile but it dindn't work on me, and i got a ton of side effects.. I've been taking Ambien for years, and now I take Ambien CR and Temazepam (Restoril), it's still kinda weak on me.. The Temazepam is in the Benzo family, but is prescribed for sleep; it works like a Benzo for me instead of helping me go to sleep, but i find it helps calm me down at night, put my mind at ease. Still, nothing's worked on me as good as the Chloral Hydrate did though.
• Reply #3 08/12/09  2:15pm
  
  heidilynn23
  I have difficulty with sleep. I understand that completely, but I am not on meds for it. My therapist suggests lowering caffiene, exercise, and natural herbs, like melotonin.
• Reply #4 09/10/09  7:00pm
  
  HiveGuy
  If you take an SSRi with trazadone you can get very serious seratonin syndrome. I was hospitalized for several days. It is very bad. I take effexor and wellbutrin for depression, and ambien and minipress for sleep. It seems to work very well. The flashbacks and waking panics have almost stopped.

for people who have been diagonose with ptsd