Serotonin Syndrome/Anxiety Help?
- Posted:
- 28 Jan 2012 by mesh56
- Topics:
- depression, anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, clonazepam, trazodone, doctor
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I stopped taking trazodone 2 days ago because of mild serotonin syndrome it was causing me. My doctor prescribed me a small dose of clonazepam to take at night (only .25 mg at night, and only enough for 6 doses because I have a low tolerance to medication and a history of alcohol abuse). While I feel fine when I take the clonazepam at night, during the day I still feel very anxious, my teeth are chattering, my hands shake slightly, and I have occasional muscle spasms. I am hesitant to ask for my doctor for more clonazepam because I do not want her to think that I am trying to abuse the drug given my history with alcohol. What are some natural remedies to help me calm down? Or, do you think that my symptoms are serious enough to call my doctor again?
Additional information: I am also on 50 mg sertraline for depression. Trazodone was prescribed to me as a sleep aid. When I last saw my doctor, I had normal blood pressure, temperature, and pulse.
Added 28 Jan 2012:
Also, if anyone who has gone through this thinks that this is a normal reaction that will pass quickly, please let me know. So far I haven't noticed any lessening of symptoms since stopping the trazodone. I was on 50 mg trazodone for 9 days, and I have been taking the sertraline for about 4 months.
29 Jan 2012
I can't help you, but maybe you can help me. I've been taking 50 mg of Trazodone to sleep for about 5 months. What symptoms made you realize you needed to stop the Trazodone? What happened to you?
If your Doc won't give you more Clonazepam, how about Clonidine, Baclofen, Flexeril, or Zofran. One or more of these should stop the shakes.
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Hi Thor, I was just wonderin what your symtoms are with the trazadone. I used to take it to help me sleep too. They started me at 25mg then slowly up me to a dose of 150mg. The reason I quit it was because by the time I got a large enough dose to sleep, it was making me sleepy all day too. So I weaned back down, & stopped it completely. I didn't have any effects from weaning down... Mary
Hi Mary,
I don't know if I have any symptoms yet, but I'm still taking it. There were a few nights I stayed without it and I just didn't feel right. I also feel a need for more to calm me down. It was given to me for sleep, but never worked until I started to take it nightly. Now it makes me sleep. I started to take it nightly in the hopes of reducing anxiety. It doesn't do that well. So I feel a need for more. I asked about this several months ago and 3 or 4 people said they had a hard time coming off it. I'm just trying to avoid a problem.