Insomnia Anti Depressant
By: Ayu Wuryandari
If you have ever experienced the depression or known as a person with it,
you have to understand that insomnia often come afterward. It can get in touch each other, the insomnia can evoke the depression or the depression can evoke the insomnia. For coping with the problem, an
insomnia antidepressant may be required.
Although FDA has not approved the insomnia antidepressants as the solution, some doctors have prescribed them, even to patients who are not depressed.
One of the most famous of the
insomnia antidepressant is trazodone.
In low dose of trazodone, the sedative characteristic of the
insomnia antidepressant can help sufferers get asleep. However,
doctors have known some problems with this drug. The sedative effects can go on into the next day, primarily for elderly. When waking up, they will be nervous and feeling disoriented. And they are more likely to fall and hurt themselves caused by the left side effects of the insomnia antidepressant.
Besides that,
every person using this insomnia antidepressant must be careful when driving or doing anything else with alertness. There are other side effects of this drug such as perplexity, dizzy, muscle tremors, heart arrhythmias and a dry mouth. Trazodone is also prohibited for a pregnant.
However, behind the adverse effects of the insomnia antidepressant, there is a significant advantage if compared to sleeping pills to
treat insomnia. Insomnia antidepressant does not make patients being addicted. So, you can take it for an extended period of time without afraid of addiction.
There is another insomnia antidepressant which may be better to treat insomnia. It is doxepin. This one seems to have no durable effect of sleepiness as trazodone does. Other popular insomnia antidepressant is also available. They are Prozac and Zoloft. They have the opposite effect which sometimes can evoke insomnia. However, when a person get insomnia caused by depression, treating that depression with one of these drugs can still increase his
quality of sleep.
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