Posted by Iansf on April 16, 2004, at 0:53:03
In reply to Trazodone, posted by Flipsactown on April 15, 2004, at 19:38:42
> Is anyone taking Trazodone alone for depression and if so, how effective is it and how long have you been on it? I am currently on 15mg Nardil once a day. Just started 6 days ago and I am already experiencing insomnia. I have only been getting 2 to 4 hours sleep and am concerned that my unipolar depression will worsen due to sleep deprivation. My pdoc will not rx Trazodone or Ambien with Nardil, so I am thinking maybe I should just stop Nardil and switch to Trazodone since it is a sedating AD. I have been taking AD's mainly SSRI's for 13 years and decided to try something different like Nardil an MAOI. Recommendations or comments?
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> FSTWhen I started taking Parnate initially I could hardly sleep at all. That lasted probably four weeks. Then suddenly the insomnia just disappeared. I realize it can be difficult to bear with insomnia for so long - though in fact for some reason I didn't find it bothersome to sleep so little - but it's common for MAOIs to cause insomnia at the beginning. Typically you can't sleep at night, then practically fall over dead mid afternoon and sleep for an hour or two. If you can at all find it in yourself to bear with it, I recommend you should do so. It's worth it in the end and for most people the insomnia does end.
By the way, sleep deprivation is sometimes used to treat depression. So not sleeping may actually have some benefits.
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