Re: Trazadone

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To anyone out there that may be on trazadone: I was on trazadone for over a year. I started out on the smallest dose(50 mg) and the doctor increased over a period of time until I was on the maximum dose. He had given it to me for sleep and for the depression we sometimes suffer. The one thing I was not told by the doctor or by the pharmacy was that trazadone is HIGHLY ADDICTIVE! You can't just stop taking it when you feel like it stops working. You will have SEVERE withdrawals. I had tried to get my doctor at the time to take me off but he refused so I gradually started taking myself off by reducing my dose each week. That still didn't work. I ended up with withdrawals and at the emergency room not knowing what was happening to me. I changed doctors and it was through my new doctor that I found out the truth about Trazadone. He had to put me back on the trazadone and then gradually take me off it again while putting me on

another antidepressant so I wouldn't have the withdrawals. The whole incident with the trazadone really scared me because there were no warnings on my bottle, from the pharmacist or from the doctor that I was going to see at the time. So to all fibromites that might be taking trazadone-PLEASE BE CAREFUL! I dont't want you going through what I went through. Hugs,

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