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#128 - How To Stop Taking Sleeping Pills: I Can Never Stop, I Can Never Quit
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Content provided by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.
Insomnia treatment often involves pills and when those pills fail to solve the problem (or even if them seem to help) the desire to discontinue the pills may arise. In this episode we will:
- Discuss the overall theory of sleeping pills
- Highlight the use of Trazodone as a sleeping aid
- Walk through strategies and useful ways to discontinue sleeping pills
- Explain why individuals wean oof of medications
- Touch upon the dangers and risks of discontinuing sleeping pills
- Explore why discontinuing medications is difficult
Produced by: Maeve Winter
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- Bluesky: @drchriswinter
- The Sleep Solution and The Rested Child
Thanks for listening and sleep well!
155 episodes
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Manage episode 453132142 series 3365942
Content provided by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.
Insomnia treatment often involves pills and when those pills fail to solve the problem (or even if them seem to help) the desire to discontinue the pills may arise. In this episode we will:
- Discuss the overall theory of sleeping pills
- Highlight the use of Trazodone as a sleeping aid
- Walk through strategies and useful ways to discontinue sleeping pills
- Explain why individuals wean oof of medications
- Touch upon the dangers and risks of discontinuing sleeping pills
- Explore why discontinuing medications is difficult
Produced by: Maeve Winter
More
- Twitter: @drchriswinter
- IG: @drchriwinter
- Threads: @drchriswinter
- Bluesky: @drchriswinter
- The Sleep Solution and The Rested Child
Thanks for listening and sleep well!
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