Trazadone

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Belsheart
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Trazadone

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Has anyone tried using Trazadone for rls ? I started thinking about it because it is a relatively safe, very old antidepressant that is now used mostly for sleep.
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DreiTageWach
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Re: Trazadone

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For me trazodone greatly exacerbates RLS symptoms. But I believe there are reports out there of people for whom it has helped with RLS
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ViewsAskew
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Re: Trazadone

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It doesn't help the movement symptoms, unfortunately. It can help with sleep. Some of us can tolerate it, some of us cannot.
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Rustsmith
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Re: Trazadone

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My doctor put me on it very early on. It didn't do anything for my movement issues and also didn't help with sleep. What it did do was leave me walking around the house like a drunk. I was bumping into walls and furniture even though the thinking part of my mind was functioning like normal.
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Frunobulax
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Re: Trazadone

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Belsheart wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:43 am
 Has anyone tried using Trazadone for rls ? I started thinking about it because it is a relatively safe, very old antidepressant that is now used mostly for sleep.
I took it for 1-2 years. Can't say that it changed my RLS in any way (positive or negative), but I guess it helped me a bit to fall asleep, at least a first. Eventually I stopped it and it made no change in sleep quality, so whatever effect it had at first must have evaporated.
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