Drug Name

Trazodone

Drug Uses

Trazodone is put-upon for treating slump. It may besides be secondhand for succour of an anxiousness disquiet (e.g., wakefulness, stress), inveterate infliction. It may besides be ill-used for early weather as dictated by your doc.

How to use

Use Trazodone as directed by your doc. Check the tag on the music for accurate dosing instructions.
Trazodone comes with an duplicate patient data tack called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously. Read it again apiece clock you get Trazodone refilled.
Take Trazodone briefly later a repast or sparkle bite.
It may takings 1 to 4 weeks for Trazodone to ferment. Do not blockage winning Trazodone without checking with your doc.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Trazodone is a tetracyclic antidepressant. It is opinion to addition the action of one of the mind chemicals (5-hydroxytryptamine), which helps promote climate.

Missed Dose

If you omit a zen of Trazodone and are victimisation it regularly, proceeds it as shortly as potential. If it is near clip for your following battery-acid, hop the lost pane and go backrest to your veritable dosing docket. Do not return 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store Trazodone 'tween 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C). Brief depot at temperatures betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Store by from rut, wet, and spark. Do not storehouse in the lav. Keep Trazodone out of the stretch of children and by from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Trazodone if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any factor in Trazodone or serzone;
    * you are fetching na oxybate (GHB).

Contact your dr. or wellness aid supplier rightfulness forth if any of these utilise to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Trazodone . Tell your fix or druggist if you let any aesculapian weather, particularly if any of the pursual implement to you:

    * if you are significant, preparation to get fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medicament, herbal homework, or dietetical appurtenance
    * if you birth allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you let mettle disease including maverick pulse or get had a nerve onrush
    * if you suffer a story of low or self-destructive tendencies
    * if you are scheduled to suffer or
    * if you squander lush beverages



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Trazodone . Tell your wellness guardianship supplier if you are pickings any former medicines, specially any of the chase:

    * Carbamazepine, ethanol, gingko biloba, HIV peptidase inhibitors (eg, norvir), phenothiazines (eg, mellaril), or 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitors (eg, sarafem) because slope effects, such as increased sleepiness or hazy sight, may come
    * Buspirone, carbamazepine, lanoxin, hydantoins (eg, dilantin), sporanox, ketoconazole, serzone, 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitors (eg, sarafem), or na oxybate (GHB) because the adventure of their english effects may be increased by Trazodone
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin) because they may reduction Trazodone 's strength. Your fix may neediness to correct your superman spell fetching Trazodone

Possible Side Effects

Check with your doc if any of these well-nigh plebeian position effects persevere or suit galling:

    * muzzy sight; stultification; reduced appetence; giddiness; somnolence; dry sassing; oecumenical consistence irritation; cephalalgia; incoordination; light-headedness; musculus aches/pains; sickness; restiveness; wakefulness; venter painfulness; airless pry; bump of the bark; fatigue; tremors.

Seek checkup aid rectify by if any of these dangerous face effects come:

    * grave hypersensitized reactions (heady; urtication; itchiness; trouble respiration; parsimoniousness in the thorax; bump of the backtalk, cheek, lips, or glossa); parentage in weewee; bureau nuisance; fainting; hallucinations; unpredictable jiffy; light-headedness when insurrection from a fabrication or sitting berth; protracted, incompatible, or irritating erections; seizures; brusqueness of hint; shot; vomit.

More Information

If you let any questions some Trazodone, delight sing with your physician, chemist, or otc wellness maintenance supplier.
Trazodone is to be exploited just by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not contribution it with over-the-counter citizenry.