Posted by ColoradoSnowflake on October 3, 2009, at 13:39:23
In reply to Re: 50 mg Elavil = x mg trazodone, posted by Sunbath on October 3, 2009, at 2:21:46
> Hi,
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> in my country the xr version is the only one available..
> However the reason why I wanted to switch to something else initially was a slight hangover and the metabolism to mCPP. I thought it might increase daytime anxiety a bit. Of course it's just a theory and the increase in daytime anxiety by trazodone is far from excessive (I don't even know it for sure), but I wondered if there was a better medication to put me to sleep.
> I also couldn't find anything about how much mCPP is formed in vivo. Does anyone of you know something about that?
> The bad thing for me is that I'm so dependent on trazodone that I wasn't able to reduce my dose below 125mg, even when adding 30mg of amitriptyline (still woke up far too often).
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> Concerning the dose increases you mentioned yxibow: Everytime I started taking trazodone again tolerance to the sedative effects would build up really fast as you described. But there would be a level where it didn't increase any further and would stay very useful for years (now my 3rd year or something taking it contionousely). For me this dose is around 150mg.
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> One very good aspect of trazodone is the lack of weight gain. Do you know any other "non addicting" sleep aid that comes without marked weight gain?
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> BTW: I found the hangover WAY worse with both doxepine AND amitriptyline, but it was a better feeling (with ami at least).
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> So, when there was a chance of not gaining much weight on 30-50mg amitriptyline, I'd still like to switch from trazodone!
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> Good luck to you X-ray, please tell me how your trazodone trial is going and what's the reason(s) for you to switch.Sunbath:
I am a dummy about all the chemical/brain reactions that some of you know about! So I can't respond to any of that.
I noticed you were afraid of weight gain. For me, Parnate makes the TCA's amytript and nortrip. work differently in my body. The TCA's used to make me so TERRIBLY hungry I could hardly stand it. I felt almost crazy I was so hungry,...especially on Nortript. But with Parnate, they don't make me hungry at all. It's such a relief!
Trazadone knocks me out so I don't know much about it.Best
Gayle
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