Posted by psychobot5000 on March 1, 2007, at 20:35:05
In reply to Re: Trazadone fear, posted by linkadge on February 28, 2007, at 8:21:37
1. There are remedies, like standing on your head.
2. Priapisms from Trazodone might be more common than 1 in 1000, but that doesn't necessarily mean that -potentially damaging- priapisms are that common.
3. Trazodone is not a powerful enough sedative to keep you from getting to the hospital. It's just not a knockout drug, in my experience or that I've heard of. It works as a 5HT receptor blocker and H1 blocker, and doesn't seem to have the potential to put people to sleep like benzodiazepines, ambien, lunesta, etc...
4. If, by some chance, it were especially sedating for you, you could just take a very small dose of the medication, and the chance of priapism would be essentially nil! Since you're worried, why not start with a very small dose, and assuming that's not adequate to help you sleep, move up! I really think trazodone is pretty benign in comparison to the side-effects from other meds!
I'd also suggest that, as someone who hates drug side-effects, it doesn't seem especially likely that you would suffer a strange one from trazadone, just because you've suffered (presumably unrelated) strange side-effects from other meds. It's a pretty particular, specific and disconnected side-effect, after all.
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