Trazodone, sold under many brand names,[1] is an antidepressant medication.[20] It is used to treat major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and insomnia.[20] The medication is taken orally.[20]
Common side effects include dry mouth, feeling faint, vomiting, and headache.[20] More serious side effects may include suicide, mania, irregular heart rate, and pathologically prolonged erections.[20] It is unclear if use during pregnancy or breastfeeding is safe.[21] It is a phenylpiperazine compound of the serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor (SARI) class.[22][23] Trazodone also has sedating effects.[24]
Trazodone was approved for medical use in the United States in 1981.[20] It is available as a generic medication.[20] In 2021, it was the 22nd most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 26million prescriptions.[25][26]
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Trazodone, sold under many brand names, is an antidepressant medication. It is used to treat major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and insomnia...
This is a list of adverse effects of the antidepressant trazodone, sorted by frequency of occurrence. Very common (>10% incidence) adverse effects include:...
visual snow, HPPD, prescription drugs, head trauma, or may be idiopathic. Trazodone, nefazodone, mirtazapine, topiramate, clomiphene, oral contraceptives...
longer marketed or was never marketed. It is a phenylpiperazine related to trazodone and nefazodone in chemical structure and is a serotonin antagonist and...
Lorpiprazole (Normarex) Mepiprazole (Psigodal) Nefazodone (Serzone, Nefadar) Trazodone (Desyrel) Vilazodone (Viibryd) – a related drug but does not fit into...
caused akathisia in certain individuals. as well as diphenhydramine, trazodone, benzatropine, cyproheptadine, and beta blockers, particularly propranolol...
iprindole, mianserin, mirtazapine, nefazodone, opipramol, tianeptine, and trazodone. The agents vilazodone and vortioxetine are partly atypical. Typical antidepressants...
symptoms of IBS in some patients. Similarly to other phenylpiperazines like trazodone, nefazodone, and etoperidone, mepiprazole produces mCPP as an active metabolite...
serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor (SARI) in the same group as trazodone, nefazodone, and etoperidone. Acaprazine Enpiprazole Mepiprazole Tolpiprazole...
patient years. Nefazodone is a phenylpiperazine compound and is related to trazodone. It has been described as a serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor...
structure includes a trazolopyridine-derived ring system. One example is trazodone. Other pharmaceutical drugs that contain a triazolopyridine ring system...
found to influence relapse rate. Studies have found that magnesium or trazodone can help treat the persisting withdrawal symptom of insomnia in recovering...
frequently than nimetazepam for this purpose. Antidepressants such as trazodone and mirtazapine or Z-drugs like zopiclone and zolpidem are first line...
interrogation that she and Thyrion also smoked methamphetamine, and injected Trazodone at the apartment after the friend left. The couple then returned to Thyrion's...
of the clitoris. Drugs may cause or affect clitoral priapism. The drug trazodone is known to cause male priapism as a side effect, but there is only one...
SARIs belong to the phenylpiperazine class of compounds. They include trazodone and nefazodone. The majority of the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) act...
and is chemically related to cariprazine, nefazodone, etoperidone, and trazodone. It is unusual in having twelve known crystalline polymorphs. Aripiprazole...