Posted by Flipsactown on April 16, 2004, at 0:03:59
In reply to Re: Trazodone, posted by snapper on April 15, 2004, at 23:25:59
Snapper,
Appreciate the info and words of advice. I am certainly not going to give up on Nardil so easily as I am running out of AD options. I have taken Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, Effexor, Elavil, Remeron, Desipramine, Lithium, Lamictal, etc. over 13 years and they have all either pooped out or were ineffective. I have already requested a new pdoc but it will take a month for Kaiser to grant it. If within the 1 month I get desperate enough to get an rx for Trazodone, I will go through Kaiser's Patient Assistance, where they will expedite my request or possibly even have another pdoc write one for me. I have had excellent results with Kaiser's Patient Assistance since I first joined them over 20 years ago and am confident that Kaiser's Patient Assistance will come through for me. Thanks again.
FST
> Hey FST, 12 years ago I was on Parnate(maoi)and I complained of sleep problems to my pdoc and he rx'ed me some trazadone! It definitely knocked me out but too much so...(hangover affect.) I turned out to have Bipolar problems, but if you don't have bi-polar problems and really want to tackle your depression I would reccomend 'pushing your KP -managed care pdoc' to rx you a sleep aid. I def don't think that Traz. has enough AD properties to really impact depression....in fact traz. is known to be really "only useful as an adjuct sleep aid" and it is used often firstline for sleep problems because you don't build tolerance to it like the benzos' or ambien! Sounds like an overly cautious pdoc -but at the same time if he is willing to Rx Nardil than he should be at least sensitive enough to address your problems with sleep. You are def. correct in re: to only 2-4 hrs of sleep causing you an increase in depression. Lack of proper sleep will drive any body into dispair- Call your pdoc back and tell him you want to give Nardil the full run and if he can prove to you that,a short term benzo, ambien(short term) or trazadone will cause you any harm then I would demand that he check his PDR. Don't settle for ineffective treatment-
> you probably would regret not giving Nardil a full run for its money and Traz is def not the answer to serious depression. sorry so long winded but just would like to see you get the best possible remission as possible ! :) hope that helps!
> Snapper
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