UNISOM Reviews (DOXYLAMINE SUCCINATE)Average Rating: 2.5 (88 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare UNISOM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR UNISOM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | 1 days | 3/9/2017 | 4 | to sleep | 1X day | 9/20/2016 | 2 | Sleep | Weight gain & anxiety. | If you have problem with weight- stay away from this. Also causes anxiety. | F | 29 days 30 | 7/24/2020 | 1 | To try to sleep | It kept me up throughout the middle of the night and it absolutely sucked. Definitely not worth 10 bucks. | It sucked | F | 2 times 50 | 2/21/2017 | 5 | Pregnancy insomnia | It helpes me call asleep pretty quickly and I stay asleep all night. The only thing I don't like is I feel tired and groggy the next day. I almost always have to end up taking a nap. | F | 18 | 5 months 1 | 9/3/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | I began sweating although I was not hot. This lasted all night long! Do not take this pill. It made me even more anxious and kept me from sleeping once again. I hated the feeling it gave me. It made my eyelids extremely heavy yet I still couldn’t sleep. I also was having a tight feeling in my chest. It made my throat/mouth feel so dry that I couldn’t sleep either. | F | 18 | 1 days 50mg | 8/22/2018 | 2 | I have insomnia | Immediately after taking it I felt very drowsy so I laid down and tried to go to sleep. It then took me a half hour to fall asleep. Once I fell asleep I woke up about a half hour later and felt very restless and fidgety. It was almost like my feet wanted to run a marathon. I then fell back asleep and woke up about every hour after that with the same thing. It was very uncomfortable. | F | 19 | 1 days 50 mg | 6/11/2015 | 3 | can't sleep | fatigue, drowsiness, irritability, depression. | the first night taking this pill, i overslept an hour, but still woke up drowsy, lazy, had a headache, dizzy, etc. took it again the same night and it took four hours to kick in. | F | 20 | 3 days 30 mg 1X day | 4/24/2014 | 1 | Insomnia | I slept soundly for an hour, woke up feeling extremely dehydrated. Dry mouth, coughing, anxiety, and restless legs.. I've done everything from Melatonin, Benydryl, other natural supplements l.. I'm so jittery and anxiety ridden this is the absolute WORST. | Try to stay close to herbal teas and other methods before trying any kind of pill !! | F | 20 | 7 days 50 mg | 1/28/2017 | 1 | Morning sickness | Would not recommend because it started making me not be able to stay asleep and I would wake up at least 5 times a night for hours at a time. | F | 20 | 11 days 50 MG 1X day | 10/29/2020 | 1 | Sleep | I'm pregnant and could not sleep, I also have morning sickness. I was told it would help with both. However, it's hands down the worst medication I've ever taken. You do not stay asleep, you get the sweats, very tight chest, I always wake up nauseous and gagging, and the next day grogginess is accompanied by depression and anxiety. If you take this medicine, plan on doing nothing that next day. I wasn't even comfortable driving. HORRIBLE MEDICINE! | F | 20 | 7 days 30 1X day | 9/4/2021 | 4 | To prevent insomnia | None so far after taking them... | It will work when I dissolve by drinking water along with the 5HTP. Remember that this does not promote a normal or rejuvenating sleep, it helps people to fall asleep. Once people take two which those that have the melting tablets, drinking water along with the 5HTP may or may not help. As a user, I'm satisfied with this. 5HTP is to relax the mood and with the Unisom, it will last a night and wake up with a little grogginess. I'm okay so far, so no side effects as of yet. I gave it a four out of five because this will not work without taking 5HTP twice a day. | M | 22 | 1.5 weeks 50 1X day | 3/18/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | No side effects that I noticed. | I was previously taking 100mg of Trazodone nightly for insomnia but it stopped being effective once my husband started traveling for work. So my doctor suggested Unisom. I tried it for 6 consecutive nights and I never felt sleepy. I would take it at 11pm right as I lay down to sleep and I would lay awake all night long. One night I didn't even fall asleep until 2:30pm the next day and I was only able to sleep for 2 hours. | F | 22 | 6 days 50mg 1X day | 6/2/2022 | 5 | insomnia | morning grogginess, difficulty waking, increased appetite in morning | I became reliant on these tablets for sleeping so cut my dose to a quarter of a tablet and increased to half if still unable to sleep. Now I only use for emergencies. Very helpful! | F | 25 | 1 years 12.5 1X day | 10/26/2010 | 4 | Sleepless nights | The first time i took the pill i took two and it helped me to fall alseep right away. The next day i felt drowzy which was a good thing since i hadnt beem sleeping well i fiured it was a good way to catch up on my sleep. I kept taking it maybe twice a month when i couldnt fall asleep. I only take it when its absoulutly necessary. Recently I took a pill but then had intimate relations with my babe and the sleeping pill seems to not work. Just wondering if pleasure or dopamine released from my body had anything to do with it? | F | 25 | 4 weeks | 10/22/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, dry mouth, hangover. | Effects have been bad for me. Its my belief that after taking this drug for months that it has made my depression and anxiety much worse. I would not recommend using Unisom or other antihistamines over any period of time if you are predisposed to depression or anxiety. Like other hypnotics, sleeping pills alter brain chemistry the same way. Benzos, antihistamines, and SSRI's (antidepressants) target GABA receptors in the brain. Taking Unisom or other hypnotics will only mask the causes of insomnia, you will fall asleep, but it will be unnatural. This is what gives you that "hangover" effect when you wake up in the morning. That "hangover" effect may have cumulative negative effects on your brains normal operation and can, over time, make depression and anxiety worse. We know depression, anxiety, insomnia are all related. I know its tempting for doctors and patients to seek a quick resolution of insomnia or depression since they impact your life greatly. But I would caution against using Unisom or other sleep agents if you have depression/anxiety and seek practical, natural, and behavioral steps to alleviate your insomnia. There is very little information about doxylamine succinate. These drugs have only been around for a few years while insomnia, depression, and anxiety have been around for as long as human kind. We cannot fool ourselves into taking new drugs for ages old conditions. Unisom, Benzos, SSRIs, & antihistamines side effects are t | M | 26 | 2 years 25mg 1X day | 2/17/2011 | 4 | trouble falling and staying asleep | I never taking sleep meds so i started with 1/2 of one 25mg tablet after 30 mins of no results I took the other half. I still had trouble initially falling asleep but after that I was out, I had no problems with waking during the night. I won't take it again because I felt tired and groggy all the next day. Not worth it I would rather be tired from no sleep and able to function then feeling out of it all day because of a pill. It basically all depends on the past medical history. I someone has been taking sleeping pills often and have built up an immunity to them this probably won't work, but for someone using only once in awhile it does the trick. | F | 27 | 1 days 25 | 3/31/2012 | 4 | Insomnia | First time I took it I experienced anhedonia, emotional blunting and fatigue. But I took whole 25 mg tablet. I realized I can induce sleep with as little as 7mg, which is roughly a third of the tablet. Any sedation is counteracted with caffeine next day. Nowadays I have to take the whole tablet though, I still get decent sleep though. But I always reacted poorly to benzos and other GABAenergic drugs. | F | 27 | 1 years 12.5-25mg | 12/25/2013 | 3 | Insomnia | I took this med (doxylamine succinate Unisom tablet) for the first and last time last night. It was great falling asleep at midnight compared to 5 a.m. but the next day, today, I am so out of it. I can't talk, not my normal articulate self. It's a different kind of grogginess than what I get from Benadryl/diphenhydramine... I'm tired, restless, don't feel like myself. I take adderall for the fatigue associated with my depression. I took 60 mg (3 pills) in the past two hours and... nothing. I'm too scared to take 1/2 a pill lest this happens again. | F | 27 | 1 days 25 mg 1X day | 1/18/2015 | 3 | occasional restless nights | Agitation/irritable, restlessness | M | 28 | 3 days 50 | 6/2/2014 |