Groggy in morning after taking Trazodone last night?

I am groggy, like the morning-after a binge!:) I forget what I'm doing, spill coffee, trip over things. The trazodone was prescribed for sleep. That never worked.The groggy feeling I can deal with but not the nightmares. About the second day I was on this, I was fine. Then the nightmares started. I was always being captured, tortured, murdered. Normally I don't have vicious/violent nightmares. Normally, my screams would wake me up. During the trazodone dreams, I wouldn't wake up & my boyfriend had to shake me to come to. He said I was thrashing and my arms were either deflecting / punching Dr. told me stop, that the trazodone was to help me stay asleep but the waking nightmares were quite disrupting my sleep. Duh.

This is normal. I had the same problem when I first started it years ago. I started taking it earlier every few days until I found the right time. Definitely get comfortable with it before you up your dose. I hope you find a right time to take it and feel better in the morning.

It does wear off, but it also helps if you take it like an hour before bedtime at night.