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 |
| 1 | I could not sleep | I feel super lazy the next day and sad very sad I'm normally a very happy person but after of taking these pills I wanna quite life the next day | M | 32 | 2 days Two pills | 7/10/2013 | 1 | Insomnia | I take this drug only occasionally and find that I am very agitated and depressed the next day. Also, get constipation. | F | 61 | 2 days 1X day | 3/30/2013 | 1 | trouble sleeping | Tried two nights a few days apart. The first night sleep came easy. BUT the next day I was a basket case and had a complete melt down. So out if character for me. I never even thought it might have been a reaction.I took again several nights later and spent entire next day in a dark depression. Very scary Will never take again Count sheep, pray, read anything else | F | 56 | 2 days 25 | 5/15/2015 | 5 | 1 days | 3/9/2017 | 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 | 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 | 2 | insomnia | It still took me nearly 5 hrs to get to sleep and an hour later I was awakened with restless feelings, twitching legs and feet. And very tired the next day. | F | 54 | 1 days 1 tablet | 2/19/2015 | 2 | Insomnia | Sure, it put's you to sleep- not only for the night, but also for most of the next day | I took 1- 25mg tab and it definitely put me to sleep, but I had bad side effects the next day. I was depersonalized, confused, unmotivated, emotionless, and didn't want to move. I drank 3 monster energy drinks- that barley helped me to get semi-motivated. I usually can't drink energy drinks, because I am so sensitive to caffeine. I also had crazy erotic dreams about Bill Clinton. Needless to say- I am done taking Unisom. | F | 28 | 1 days 25 1X day | 4/9/2014 | 2 | Insomnia | This is my first (and last) time taking Unisom. I have frequent insomnia but do not usually take any medication for it. I have tried Ambien and Lunesta in the past with no bad side affects. Unlike Ambien, I had a very difficult time falling asleep, missed my morning Alarm clock, overslept by 40 minutes, and was so sleepy that I was unable to function for most of the day at my office. The sensation was like a really bad hangover. The effects started to wear off approximately 15 hours later. Multiple cups of tea and coffee did little to help the drowsy, cloudy feeling I felt all day. | Worst sleep-aid I have ever used. Benadryl, Ambien, and Lunesa have little to no side-effect if taken once in a while. | M | 41 | 1 days 25mg 1X day | 4/23/2012 | 2 | Insomnia | Unison(doxylamine) is not as effective as I hoped. I have to take between 50 and 100mg (2-4name) pills)to feel sleepy at all and also add a couple benadryl if the unison does not work after a couple hours. I do not have insurance but I gotta find a cheap Dr. Because these otc pills are useless | F | 30 | 1 days 100mg | 3/24/2012 | 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 | 2 | catch up on lost sleep | definitely not worth the side effects next day: dizziness, grogginess, lack of focus, brain fog, nausea and mild pain in my stomach and mild diarrhea. | Went to bed at 11pm, took the pill, was a sleep by 11.30pm and slept well until about 5am, then on and off weird very light sleep till 9am, i could not get up!!! Next day is hell, not so tired, but freaking dizzy and not myself. Hard to work! Temazepan has no side effects and good sleep (10mg is enough for me), but highly addictive. Trying to get pregnant so I'm trying to find something I could take during pregnancy...any help? | F | 35 | 1 days 12.5mg 1X day | 8/25/2015 | 1 | Sleep aide | I took two pills around 11:30pm, woke up next morning at 6:30 with a very upset stomach. Can't think of anything else that could've caused it. | F | 40 | 1 days 2 pills | 10/21/2015 | 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 | 1 | Insomnia | Took this for sleep! Slept well but next day had a hungover feeling! Muscle twitching foggy fuzzy weird head feeling in the ear as well! Bad dreams and weird obsessive thinking! Off balance feeling and tired face feeling on one side of my face! | It also gives you anxiety And depressed feelings! I think this is more than just an antihistamine! You get that next day nervy stressed foggy headed feeling both in the head And ears! Sounds amplified and shocks your head and ears causing anxiety or panic! | M | 54 | 1 days 25 1X day | 2/11/2021 | 1 | Trying to help sleep | I did sleep but woke up groggy and nauseated. Brain fog, lethargic unable to concentrate and feeling of depression the next day. 24 hours later and I still feel bad. | I do not recommend this medication. | F | 52 | 1 days 30 1X day | 5/28/2021 | 1 | Help with sleep | Took this at a friend's suggestion when I couldn't sleep. I have no allergies to any meds that I know of. This stuff did NOT help me sleep! When I finally did fall asleep hours later, I was super anxious, jittery, experiencing a fast heartbeat, and had nightmares. Do not recommend! | Do not buy! | F | 32 | 1 days 50 mg 1X day | 1/3/2022 | 1 | Sleep aid | Definitely helped me sleep, but I was extremely groggy and in a fog the next day. Sooo what's the point? I honestly would've felt better with 5 hours of normal sleep than 9 hours of sleep on unisom. | Don't recommend. | M | 31 | 1 days 10 1X day | 8/12/2021 | 1 | Insomnia | It only took about 30 minutes to go to sleep. However, the next morning, I was dizzy, had a headache, felt totally messed up and could not function for at least 8 hours. I was also very fidgety during the night and restless. I experienced nausea the next morning as well. I will never take this again. | I take medication for bipolar 1 disorder. I checked everywhere to see if this will interact with my medications and I could not find anywhere that showed it would have an interactions. However, I believe it did interact with my bipolar medication. | F | 48 | 1 days 25 mg 1X AN | 10/19/2020 | 1 | Nasea from prpregnancy | Dizziness, drowsy, but caused anxiety & restless legs and muscles. | Helped very little with nausea, it did make me drowsy but the anxiety and muscle restlessness it caused counter acted the drowsiness. | F | 31 | 1 days 25mg 1X day | 2/7/2023 |