Yes but not often. I actually have patients request it a LOT but I rarely see it prescribed. If the patient has been on it for a while, they’ll at the very least need to taper off of it to prevent seizures iirc, but honestly even then I see most doctors preferring benzos over ambien which is wild because benzos are nasty shit (if you need 'em you need 'em, but you do not want to need them)!
general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who’s having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn’t comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien
The only rationale I can think of is that trazodone has a small risk of causing mania if you’re sensitive to it since technically it’s serotonergic but what the actual fuck. Ambien is waaay more dangerous!
he considered it a psych drug. this is the same Doctor who would ask me if I wanted a prostate exam or not during my physical. like who asks that? nobody wants one, but at a certain age everybody needs one every year. found out later it’s because he was a germaphobe
Oh yeah. It still seems to be a preferred option. Dependency doesn’t seem to be an issue, although tolerance does. Not everyone has quite OP’s reaction, although it’s not uncommon.
Do they even prescribe that anymore? That shit was horrible
Yes but not often. I actually have patients request it a LOT but I rarely see it prescribed. If the patient has been on it for a while, they’ll at the very least need to taper off of it to prevent seizures iirc, but honestly even then I see most doctors preferring benzos over ambien which is wild because benzos are nasty shit (if you need 'em you need 'em, but you do not want to need them)!
general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who’s having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn’t comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien
what. the. fuck.
The only rationale I can think of is that trazodone has a small risk of causing mania if you’re sensitive to it since technically it’s serotonergic but what the actual fuck. Ambien is waaay more dangerous!
he considered it a psych drug. this is the same Doctor who would ask me if I wanted a prostate exam or not during my physical. like who asks that? nobody wants one, but at a certain age everybody needs one every year. found out later it’s because he was a germaphobe
You don’t hear horror stories about it anymore. Who was it that almost drove off a cliff? Jack Nicholson?
Yup: https://www.news24.com/news24/i-warned-heath-says-nicholson-20080124
Oh yeah. It still seems to be a preferred option. Dependency doesn’t seem to be an issue, although tolerance does. Not everyone has quite OP’s reaction, although it’s not uncommon.