trazodone and alcohol a safe comination?

[charmer]

i take trazodone 100mg at night for sleeping issues and mild depression. i have been abstaining from alcohol for most of the time i've been taking it (about 3 months) but i have recently wanted to have a drop of alcohol. advice on the net is patchy some sites say booze should be totally avoided and some say a few drinks is ok. what i have done before is have a drink and miss out on the traz on that particular night. that is not a problem but the next day i feel fuzzy and don't know if that is my brains way of telling me i should have taken my trazodone. what i am wondering is if i can have some alcohol and then retire to bed and take my traz as usual?. is it a dangerous combo or will it just send me to sleep a bit quicker than normal?.

[wildwood]

You are on a fairly low dose. However, I would like to try and dissuade you from taking advice for your situation on a forum. Everyone has a different reaction to drugs. Methinks you really need professional advice on this, preferably from the person who first prescribed the Trazodone.

[charmer]

thanks wildwood. i will speak to my doc about it. in the end i decided to ditch the trazodone last night. rather than risk any problems with the alcohol. i slept just as well and perhaps even better due to not having awful heavy dreams.

[ladyalex]

Trazodone will enhance the effects of alcohol which is why you have probably been advised to avoid alcohol whilst taking it. It also enhances the hangover, hence the 'fuzziness'.
Please be careful about stopping taking your trazodone. Some people can get very unpleasant effects if they stop it suddenly. (mood swings, depressed mood, that kind of thing).
My opinion only, but I think you would be better off binning the alcohol for a couple more months . Trazodone takes a while to work properly and will take much longer if you leave out taking it some days.
On the whole, though, wildwood gives the best advice. Ask the person who prescribed it.

[theprof]

The container containing your Trazodone 100mg has a legal labelling requirement that states: "Warning. May cause drowsiness. If affected do not drive or operate machinery. Avoid Alcohol."

It is a dangerous combination. Avoid it like the plague and don't mix trazodone with alcohol.

I'm confident that Sqad will support my viewpoint.

[sacha.86]

Missing your tablet for one night Sony make a difference anyway as the drug is still in your bloodstream. By the sounds of it you want to use alcohol as an added anti-dipressent to use it to lift your mood or help you relax. It might work for that one night but alcohol is a depressant whether you get drunk or not and in the grand scale of thingsyou are only prolonging your negative symptoms and low mood. Stay wrong

[sacha.86]

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[charmer]

i took all the advice offered into consideration and took a chance with having a drop of alcohol whilst taking the trazodone. from what i have experienced i have to say it is no big deal. i have two or three ciders and then settle down and take my trazodone. after about twenty minutes i fall asleep until the morning. so it's quite safe and not quite the issue that the trazodone leaflet makes out it is. i still have the totally bizarre dreams when i have the booze and traz together. some of those dreams are exceptionally weird but thats what trazodone seems to bless us with.

[cocacarlos]

if like most people you open the flood gates and drink what you should and still feel it necessary to take the pill at least take the precaution of making your self sick before sleeping. sounds nasty but it works for me.