Trazodone - Does this medication make anyone extremely hungry?

After a few years of being off trazodone I am not looking forward to the ravenous munchies I always experienced.. But it really helps my depression.

I get extremely hungry at night after taking my 50 mg of trazodone. I thought it was just me. I thought it was because i work second shift and was just hungry. Im so glad to hear im not alone. Thank you all

No !

I posted a couple of weeks ago that I was getting off trazodone for this reason. Well, I held out for about a week. No crazy hunger but I would wake up repeatedly in the night, wide awake and unable to get back to sleep for a while. I tried CBD. Some nights I had to take Benadryl. I can’t take melatonin because it gives me nightmares. I ended up starting back on trazodone since I couldn’t function at work. Last night my dog woke me up to go out to potty and like I was in a trance I inhaled like 450 calories in a minute. I wasn’t even awake enough to feel hungry and I feel like crap this morning. I have a real love/hate relationship with trazodone. It works soooo well for insomnia.

I made an account simply to share this: I’m waking up in the middle of the night, starving to the point where it’s weirdly painful, wondering what is happening. I’m newly diagnosed with the autoimmune disease of Type 1 Diabetes so I figured my intense hunger might be related to that. But this all just started. And I was wondering if anyone had a similar experience with trazodone. Waking up in the middle of the night, aching for food, has been especially challenging when I have to give myself shots of insulin for most things, even an apple. How strange of a side effect. Certainly not ideal for someone who plans most of their meals to regulate sugar levels.

This is insane! I can’t believe I’m just finding out about this. I’m usually a disciplined eater, I work out a lot and I’m pretty health conscious. I started Trazodone in august 2020, and ever since then I cannot stop eating like a monster at bedtime. As someone else in this thread described, it feels like a monster has taken over my body. I have become so depressed and anxious about this and it’s taking over my life. I’m a 6’3 male, I’m usually between 160-170 pounds. I’m 185 pounds right now, this is the most I’ve weighed in years and my psychiatrist says it can’t be Trazodone because it doesn’t cause increased appetite. Thank you for all these responses. I’m going to start reducing the dose.

I get ravenous like 30-60 min after taking trazodone. I’ve been on it for years but it’s been getting worse as I age. I didn’t make the connection until a friend said this about her own experience with trazodone. I think it’s getting worse because it doesn’t put me to sleep right away like it used to, partly because I used to be on a higher dosage. I’m going to wean off it. My weight has gotten out of control and this isn’t helping!

I gained almost 80 lbs during the 8 yrs I took Trazodone. Problem was that I had just gone through menopause as well and doc kept blaming that for my weight gain. I was so hungry all the time especially at night.
Good news is that I just stopped taking it in September. I've already noticed the difference in my appetite AND I've lost 15 lbs!!
Problem w sleeping 1st few weeks. It has gotten better tho.
Good Luck!

Trazodone makes me crave the “bad” stuff like carbs and sweets, which is especially problematic since I’m a Type 2 “sugar head”. It’s not as bad as Seroquel was for me... the VA finally determined I was having an “allergic” type reaction to it as well. Approximately 30-45 minutes after taking Seroquel my sinuses would swell shut. I have a similar, but not nearly as bad, reaction to Trazodone. There are few alternatives for me (chronic PTSD induced insomnia) as I have bad reactions to newer compounds that try to accomplish what Trazodone does.

Yes. Uncontrollable, rampaging appetite. I resort to the simplest, most convenient foods, including entire bricks of cheese or, better yet, bricks of cream cheese. I’m 5’4” and almost 200 pounds. I quit gabapentin because it had the same effect on my appetite, and the combination packed on 65 of those pounds in just the last two years. I'm finally giving it up now that I take Saphris and occasionally, Ambien.

Hello in 2020!
I have this same issue. Not just with trazodone, but with ALL sleeps aids I take. They all give me the munchies and I can't fall asleep until I eat a bunch of junk. This year alone I've already gained 15 lbs. I hate being an insomniac! There just has to be another way to break sleeping issues

As with almost all antidepressants and antipsychotics weight changes can go either way with trazodone:
"Metabolic
Common (1% to 10% of users): Weight gain, weight loss
Frequency not reported: Anorexia, increased appetite"

Thank you everyone. Knowing that I am not alone in this battle of Trazodone turning me into the Munchy Monster gives me great relief that ai am not losing my sanity. It is as if I am possessed by someone I don’t recognize after about 20 minutes of taking my dose. I have no self control and my feet walk by themselves into the kitchen. Even my dog recognizes when the Monster comes out and she gets snacks too. It scares me that I feel powerlessness over this. I am shocked in the morning when I discover evidence of what I had consumed. I am at the point of talking to the doctor about stopping Trazodone as I cannot afford to keep buying larger clothes.