Facts about trazodone withdrawal

By Lillian Greco Arellano


The trazodone withdrawal symptoms comes form the use of trazodone. This drug has been used because it has been prove to be a very effective drug against several disorders. Some of the common disorders that this drug has been used to treat are anxiety, mood swings, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders among several other different disorders. It has also been established that the withdrawal symptoms that are experienced by people taking this drug may also be caused by the wrong use of the drug. There are also people who use trazodone for sleep. A doctor can administer the drug but if you were going to take it then make sure that you stick to the dose.

There are some cases when one is required to be off the drug for one reason or another. This means that the person have to stop using the drug. In such a situation one might suffer from withdrawal symptoms which in some cases might be very bad such that one might require some treatment. Trazodone is not know to have serious side effects which might harm those who use the drug but the truth of the matter is that the person who have been using this drug for sometime might have trazodone sleep symptoms therefore making such an attempt hard.

One of the biggest problems that has been faced by the people who have been taking this medication is how to stop taking the drug. In many cases when a patient who was using the drug stops abruptly, the patient is sure to have trazodone withdrawal symptoms. There are several trazodone side effects. They are appetite loss, headache, nausea, irritability, dry mouth, insomnia, frequent urination, diarrhea, impaired speech, dizziness, aggression, nausea, severe chest pain, chills and blurred vision. It is terrible to go through this symptoms and that is why you need to make sure that if you are taking the drug you do not abuse it.

The abuse of several medical drugs has been a major cause of symptoms that you do not want to go through and so you will have to be sure that you always use every medication the right way. The good news about this drug is that the trazodone withdrawal symptoms are not permanent. For this reason, you can have hope if you are already going through them already. The body will go back to normal, it will start getting used to not having this drug in the system, and so the symptoms will gradually subside.

The time the withdrawal symptoms will take in order to start subsiding will vary from patient to patient. There are people who will take less time may be even a few days and go back to normal while there are patients who will have to take a couple of weeks before they can start feeling any relief. It is safe that if you are on the medication and you do not want to experience the withdrawal symptoms then you will need to be weaned off slowly from the medication. This will help you be able to stay away from the withdrawal symptoms.




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