MAD!!!

[vanilla1969]

I am definitely changing Psychiatrist been taking trazadone for sleep with half of .5 of lorazapam almost drifted off but the kids was making to much noise jumped up to tell them to keep it down and OMG I thought I felt passing out before but this was the real deal I started seeing purple spots and things started to look real slow and I just knew I was about to hit the floor. Hurried to my bed and looked up trazadone and fainting and it had warnings that if you are on a blood pressure medicine and taking trazadone it can cause fainting and also it can cause fainting if you jump up from a sitting or lying position. I am on blood pressure medicine. My psyc doc has NEVER ask me what other medications I was on, aren't that suppose to do that?

[NervesOButta]

Not necessarily, that is why you get info from the pharmacist when you pick up the scripts.

[insights]

All the antidepressants and benzodiazepines can cause postural hypotension which may be exacerbated by BP meds. Certainly a warning would have been good, but since product information data have been included with meds many doctors have stopped explaining about side-effects. Which might just be nearly acceptable if not for the fact that many of us with anxiety disorders try to avoid reading about side-effects.

That said, I suspect that had you not taken either trazodone or lorazepam you still would have had about the same reaction because you jumped up from almost being asleep so the cardiovascular system has probably already begun easing down. At the small doses normally prescribed for sleep trazodone is not going to have much of an effect on the cardiovascular system, although it could at the 200-400mg needed to produce an antidepressant response.

Ian

[vanilla1969]

So trazadone only produces ant deppressants effects at 200-400 mine is only 50 mg. I have mirtzapine (remerol) for anti depressant and anxiety but I have been afraid to take it cause if I take it and cant sleep I will think something is really wrong with me.

[insights]

So trazadone only produces ant deppressants effects at 200-400 mine is only 50 mg.

Yes. At lower doses it acts more as an antihistamine, although it isn't one.

When prescribes as an antidepressant the usual start dose is 150mg. Some do get a response at this dose, but most need to be on at least 200mg.

I have mirtzapine (remerol) for anti depressant and anxiety but I have been afraid to take it cause if I take it and cant sleep I will think something is really wrong with me.

Mirtazapine as nearly as sedating as trazodone. I'd be wary about taking both.

but I have been afraid to take it cause if I take it and cant sleep I will think something is really wrong with me.

The only thing this will indicate is that it isn't the right drug for you. Many antidepressants won't be. In about a third of patients, none work.

Ian