Posted by utopizen on June 12, 2003, at 18:43:16
In reply to Thank you both, Sabina and Jane (nm), posted by Kari on June 12, 2003, at 14:11:04
Trazadone is nice. I just got it two days ago, and never tried a sleeping med before. It takes 2 1/2 hours to kick in. The problem for me is that I'd like to see it make me sleep for longer than 8 hours, since I'm still fatigued with 8, but at 6AM after going to sleep at 10PM, I wake up and can't go back to sleep.
One factor could be my metabolism. I am 6'3'' and have a very fast metabolism. When I wake in the morning, I weight 174 lbs, even though I weighed 180 before going to sleep and had a huge dinner.
It's very annoying to wake up to hunger pains, because this is the underlying cause of me waking up in the first place. At least with trazadone, I guarantee 8 hours for myself, which is progress from the typical 4-6 hours. But I wonder if there's something I could take that would slow down my metabolism? I've tried beta blockers, it didn't work.
I know it's not related to my thyroid, because that's been reviewed several times from blood tests.
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