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Posted 4/23/2012 8:19 AM (GMT 0)
Well its almost 4am and I am laying here unable to sleep so I was doing some research on medications to help insomnia with fibromyalgia. I have tried the natural route (melatonin, and gaba) with obviously no luck. I am not interested in prescription sleeping pills but have read some interesting information on trazodone. I am currently taking savella and have no interest in stopping that and was wondering if anyone has ever taken both medications together and whether you felt it was worth it? I plan on discussing this with my doctor but wanted some opinions before I did so.
Posted 4/23/2012 4:00 PM (GMT 0)
I use to take Trazodone. I had to stop due to an interaction with my meds. It wasn't savellla. Trazodone was used many years ago for antidepressent. It use to make people very groggy. Now they made better ones, they found out it serves well for a less addictive sleep aid. They use trazadone in lots of rehab treatment centers. People with addictive issues, Dr's don't like to prescrib ambien or etc. What I found in the past is my pharmacist knew more on the drug interactions then my Dr. did. That is why I had the interaction. I am like you I need the sleep, but hate the side effects to sleep aides.
Posted 4/23/2012 4:45 PM (GMT 0)
I also never wanted to take prescription anything, but after a while I figured sleep aids wouldn't be any worse
than not sleeping and at least I would have some quality of life. I tried trazodone, which is also a prescription drug,
but it left me groggy the next day. I decided to quit taking it and had some withdrawal issues. Now I take ambien to get
to sleep, gaba 200mg to stay asleep and prozac 5mg to raise serotinin levels. This seems to be working.

I do wonder if the ambien increases the brain fog. However, when I don't sleep at night I have the fog worse and
feel horrible.

Holding on for that day when 'they' actually make a sleep aid that gets us to that deep REM sleep.
Posted 4/25/2012 1:03 AM (GMT 0)
I take Trazadone 1 1/2 pills every night and it works great. I have been on it 8 years. I once ran out and I was awake the whole night.
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