Zoloft and trazadone-advice

It's to help me sleep. I have been on z for five months. I keep on getting anxiety for no reason. Along w "feeling" my heart beat and hand shakes.

I just upped to 200 mg a week ago and I'm getting anxiety still and these tingly feelings in my feet and hands but I have no problem sleeping at all. I'm worried this anxiety won't go away and I also wonder if 200 mg is too high. It's so scary not knowing what to do

I've been on 200 since the beginning of February. Not a huge difference for me. I still have breakthrough anxiety and I too have hand tremors. I recently am getting these pings in my legs-ugh!! Is that similar to what you are feeling? I'm lowering my dose to see how it goes per my doctor.

It feels almost like shocks in my toes I guess and fingers. The best way to describe it is if you are standing somewhere super high and look down I get these tingles in my toes from the height. I was on venlafaxine before this and that helped so well with my anxiety until I started lowering it to almost being off and then relapsed and I upped my dose and couldn't sleep. I had terrible anxiety and it was horrible. My doctor switched me and I just don't feel 100 percent. I have to take .5 mg of clonazapam sometimes to calm me. I'm trying not to take it though

I was taking klonopin for sleep for about three months. I got off about three weeks ago and since then have had the weird pings in my legs. I know the feeling you are describing. I'm sure it's from upping the dose. Ugh!

I'm not doing great. The intrusive thoughts have calmed down a lot but I am crying and still feeling the tingling sensations. I'm at a lost. I don't know what to do. I don't even know what normal feels like anymore

I'm sorry-this is tough. Why are things so hard?! I still have leg pricks. Are you seeing the doctor soon? How long have you been in 200?

I have an appointment with a psychiatrist Friday. I have been on 200 mg for just over 4 weeks. I use to be on Effexor for three years and then I started lowering my dose to the lowest possible dose and when I went back to work after lower back surgery I had a major relapse or intrusive thoughts about having to go to the bathroom all the time. I couldn't stop thinking about that until finally I just couldn't handle it. I upped my Effexor up to 150 mg on my own and for three weeks I had anxiety through the roof. I was shovelling snow at 12 am cause I couldn't sleep and the anxiety was unbearable. I now wonder if I just jumped too high too fast. She has since switched me to sertraline. I did one week at 50 mg of sertraline with 75 mg of Effexor and then went down to 37.5 mg of Effexor with 75 mg of sertraline tgen the third week I was just on 75 mg of sertraline then a week or two later I upped to 100mg for 2.5 weeks. The anxiety was still bad and I was crying so they upped me to 150 mg for two weeks and then 200 mg for the last 4.5 weeks

curious what the doc will say. i dropped to 150 of z for about three weeks and dont feel any different. in fact, i feel a bit worse. or my frustrations have grown with the lack of results. maybe it is the same for you? just not "cutting it" why did she want you off effexor? keep me updated. i am talking to my doc today on the phone.

What doesn't feel different to you?! What exactly are you trying to fix?

They switched me from Effexor because for three weeks I was a mess at the higher dose. I sometimes wonder if I made the wrong choice to switch. I don't know if this is my new norm now and I'm just afraid I'm not better. This is the worse. It's hard because the doctors can't see or feel what I'm feeling. I'm scared to switch to something else and feel worse or not get better.

well, it's more like i am still getting breakthrough anxiety for no real reason and still have some sleep issues. it feels like the negatives outweigh the positives right now and it's been right around six months for me. i did talk to my doc and she wants me to up the traz and keep the zoloft the same and see how it goes for the next week. she might want to switch me to prozac. it is super frustrating. i hate feeling like this. i worry that nothing will work. do you feel the same way? maybe you should go back to effexor at a lower dose? 

Hi Mere - I'm currently on 150mg of Zoloft and 50mg of Trazadone at bedtime to hlep me sleep. I've only been on 150 for 7 days and I've had some good days and some bad but mostly good. This is diferent as in the past I would have extreme anxiety 7 days a week. I think this was mostly from rebound anxiety from taking Ativan and hitting tolerance. The trazadone has helped me sleep. This is really important. Having a good night sleep makes my day that much better. Last night I woke a little early and felt some agitation. I took an additional 12.5mg Trazadone which helped me. About 10 years ago I was on trazadone for 3 years at 150mg. Go with your doctor's suggestion and hopefully you will begin to feel better.