Clonidine for sleep
Common Questions and Answers about Clonidine for sleep
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1mg at 10am, 4 pm since i started and trazodone 100mg at night for sleep... anyone have experience with these? ive heard clonidine if you just stop taking it it can spike your blood pressure... and trazodone is addictive? i dunno.... anyway any comments would help.. i was gonna start today by reducing the trazodone in half and tomorrow cut back to just one clonidine a day for 3 more days... sound alright?
He was having a very difficult time sleeping and clonidine relaxes him enough so that he can sleep for about 4 hours at one time, before we were lucky if he slept for 2 hours at once during the night. There are side effects because it is used to lower blood pressure and it might cause some weight gain.
I guess I don't have an opinion, good or bad, about clonidine. We are trying it as a place to start.
I went to see my doc and he wants me to continue taking the conidine and ativan but to reduce the clonidine to .1 for two days, then 05 for a day then stop it. He advised just to take the avtivan at night until I can fall alseep on my own. He also gave me some roxicet and told me to take 3 today, 2 tomorrow and one the next day. He claims this will help me with cravings until I get into rehab where I can get something tradition for the craving...I start rehab on Monday and it lasts 5 weeks.....
If you are at the start of your w/ds then I would talk to the DR about getting a few prescribed during your detox..They work for Anxiety & help with Sleep. I got mine finally prescribed after I went 22 days of High Anxiety & No Sleep coming off of 3 meds at once back in 2012. I could only take it at Night!!!!
Now almost 2 years later I had some Heart Procedures and have learned alot about these BP Meds.
Clonidine was initially used as an antihypertensive but it has come to be used to treat a variety of behavioral disorders including tics, symptoms of ADHD, aggression, PTSD, anxiety, panic disorder, or sleep problems. Medication of this sort can be helpful and has shown to be most effective in conjunction with systematic behavioral programming.
I posted this in my long long post about opioid withdrawals but no luck so I thought I would do a new thread....
I am coming off percocet 7.5\325 2 - 5 x a day and oxy 20 mg 2 - 3 x a day for the past couple years. I have a script for clonidine .1 which isn't doing much so I called my regular doc and he is going to put me on Klonopin ( Dosage unknown until I get script tomorrow).
From what I can tell these are 2 totally different drugs. Has anyone used Klonopin for opioid withdrawls?
anyone had experience taking clonidine for sleep issues? i have high blood pressure (and clonidine is a blood pressure med), but my doctor is mainly prescribing it for me as a SLEEP AID to try to keep me off of the benzos for sleep purposes (which have always worked so well for me!)....i'm curious about two things though.....one, how much has anyone taken strictly for sleep purposes? and two, have you had ANY problems stopping it if you want/need to?
thxs for the reply I'm taking.
Yes they will help.I took clonidine which helps with a bunch of different symptoms and a benzo as well which helps w/the awful anxiety.I did c/t used those2meds,immodium&took otc sleep aid(didnt take benzos for sleep because I didnt wanna need them to sleep if that makes any sense i took them during the day only).Those made my w/d a lot easier.
hi.....i have never used clonidine but it's suppose to be for high BP and also can be used for anxiety from what i've read. I am on a diff med for high BP. Good luck and hope it works for you! i've read that it helps alot of people calm down thru WDs.
second, my doctor prescribed two clonidine patches for me for any withdrawl symptoms. What do these do ? my doc said it woud basically knock me out...love that of course... but, i am hesitant because i had never heard of it... i know it is a little strange for a prescription lover to be afraid of a new drug...weird. but, i would like to hear about some experiences with people who have tried it before. Thank you so much.
I took clonidine for two Weeks. I'm not an addict, I was just tapering down on narcotic pain medication because I have been on them for about five years for horrible back pain. I would say that it helps you taper down but the very tired, extreme dry mouth and make me have to urinate every hour and a half wasn't worth it. I also had a very rare reaction to it (hair loss). I would suggest that if you have a decent dr. try something different or combinations of something.
I have been taking clonidine for withdrawals & anxiety & it does help, not my drug of choice, which may be a benifet, I only use it in the evenings when Im at my worst, 1pill only & I believe its 0.5, it takes the edge off & offers me to sleep, but I dont plan on taking it to much longer, maybe a few more days?
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