Rebound Insomnia Trazodone

It generally lasts from a few days to as long as three weeks but eventually it disappears.
Rebound insomnia trazodone. Finally i learned that withdrawing from benzos often leads to withdrawal symptoms including withdrawal induced insomnia or rebound insomnia. Take trazodone for instance. Some drugs prescribed for insomnia such as ambien belsomra and lunesta are quite familiar. Approved by the fda for depression over three decades ago it has become the off label solution of many doctors for insomnia since drowsiness is one of its side effects.
The half lives of sleeping pills. Your situation is obviously different but i think the vast majority of practitioners would not suggest that daily trazodone for sleep is somehow harmful. Although in theory it is an advantage to take a drug that will be eliminated from the body by morning many clinicians have hesitated to recommend short acting benzodiazepines because patients can develop rebound insomnia or a disconcerting amnesia for several hours after taking a dose of these drugs. One common prescription drug used to treat insomnia is trazodone and many desperate people combine trazodone and insomnia in a desperate attempt to gain the restorative rest that they need.
An example is triazolam halcion. Trazodone halved the frequency of arousals interrupting sleep and it reduced the time spent in stage 1 drowsiness. Some sleep experts say that rebound insomnia is the body s way of readjusting to sleep without medication. It increased the duration of slow wave sleep stages 3 4 with a negative rebound following withdrawal.
We used trazodone routinely for hundreds of patients undergoing hepatitis c treatent with interferon which can cause depression as well as sleeplessness. Although trazodone use for sleep is common according to recent guidelines published by the american. In fact the label warns that the best time to take it is right before going to bed. I learned that the dose i was on was very high that i had been on it for much longer than is recommended and that discontinuing the drug abruptly is dangerous.
But there s another drug often used to help people fall asleep that s actually a decades old. Trazodone is an older medication approved for use by the fda in 1981 as an antidepressant. It reduced the time spent in rem sleep with a rebound above baseline levels after withdrawal.