trazidon - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

ashniz7 · 01-13-2008, 07:53 PM

trazidon, what does it mean?

bellablue2 · 01-14-2008, 10:48 AM

I think it's a medication to help a person sleep.

FallenAngel2007 · 01-17-2008, 10:17 AM

trazodone is useful in helping people who can't sleep. I'm on it now, started at 50mg but doc wants to increase me to 100mg. I'm not going to increase it though because i figured out someone in a dicussion group with other bp'ers and tried it last night and it worked.

i'm on lamictal as well, which seems to have some appetite suppresant affects. trazodone seems to counteract those affects, lol. So i don't eat much at all at dinner time. Then when i take my trazodone, i do get sleepy, but i also get very very hungry. I end up eating which then gives me energy and i can't sleep, lol.

So although i didn't eat dinner last night, I made myself eat around 9pm, then took the trazodone. got sleepy, no hunger, and went to bed and right to sleep.

don't know what else you're taking or if you will have this issue but wanted to share what i discovered just in case.

Angel

Jenn4508 · 01-17-2008, 10:36 AM

FallenAngel2007

You might want to ask your doc for Temazepam for sleep.... I too take lamictal and also seroquel and several others and I have no appetite... Just a thought.... Jenn

bellablue2 · 01-17-2008, 05:46 PM

Hi Angel I wish Lamitical had the same effect on me. I love to eat and eat I do, then I get depressed and start new diets. I was on Trazadone and lots of other Med's. Now I'm on Lamitical and Zoloft.