RESTORIL Reviews (TEMAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.0 (214 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare RESTORIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR RESTORIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | insomnia due to dilantin | no side effects this medicine did absolutely nothing for me 15mg | F | 27 | 14 days | 1/24/2006 | 1 | insomnia | Took this TOXIC benzo for 3 years. Could not sleep without it and now am trying to taper myself off it. Understand that getting off is a long process and withdrawal can last a year or longer. | Did NOT realize what effect this would have on my body. Besides depression, anxiety, heart palpitations, I have developed anorexia. If you are taking this drug talk to your dr. about tapering off. It should never have been prescribed to me for such an extended period of time. | F | 66 | 3 years | 3/4/2006 | 1 | Sleep | Insomnia - waking up at 4 every morning, extreme RAGE/panic, suicidal thoughts | This drug is from the devil himself. It doesn't help with insomnia at all and instead gets your body used to its effects and when the effects wear off at about 4 AM you wake up suddenly in a panic and/or rage. It also gave me extreme suicidal thoughts for no reason at all. | F | 36 | 10 weeks 15 1X day | 4/8/2013 | 1 | to sleep during overseas flight | Rapid heart beat, cold sweat,vomiting | This occurred @ 30 minutes after taking this medication to help me sleep during a long overseas flight. I was in a cold sweat and my hair was dripping. Not a pleasant experience on an overseas flight. I will NEVER take this again! | F | 62 | 1 times 30 mg 1X day | 4/7/2012 | 1 | Chronic Insomnia/Anxiety Disorder | NONE REALLY OUT OF THE NORM.. | OKAY..MED'S ARE SO HARD TO CLASSIFY BC EVERYONE REACTS TO THEM IN A DIFFERENT MANNER BUT, IM SORRY, THIS STUFF DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR ME WHAT-SO-EVER !!!!! I EVEN GOT DESPERATE TO A POINT THAT I UPPED MY AMOUNT OF PILLS EVERY NITE JUST FOR HOPE THAT MAYBE IT'D FINALLY WORK BUT NOPE, NEVERRRRRR!!! LOL. BEST ADVICE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE INSOMNIA AND BAD ANXIETY: XANAX AND AMBIEN!!!!! EVEN THE AMBIEN NOW, IM ON 10 MG'S, LESS THAN THE RESTORIL, AND IT WRKS A MILLION TIMES BETTER :) SO IF NO LUCK WITH THIS JUNK, TRY THAT!! | F | 25 | 2 weeks 15 MG 1X day | 2/27/2012 | 1 | chronic insomnia | Addicted to Klonopin2mg@HS-but couldn't sleep more than 2 hrs. Added Seroquel-gained 25 lbs in 6 months-stopped that and tried Restoril that not only didn't work, also^agitation. | This drug may work for those who aren't chronically sleep deprived. For the "hard core" insomniac, this drug is worthless! | F | 65 | 1 days 15mg 1X day | 3/3/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Rage - argued with my mate for almost 5 hours, 4.5 hours of which I don't remember. When I finally fell asleep he woke me to move me off the floor, I did sexual things I don't remember. | Have tried Ambien, Lunesta and other meds. Would rather take almost any other medication. | F | 33 | 1 days | 3/4/2007 | 1 | insomnia, rage | Sobbing tears for hours after each dose, with feelings of complete emotional exhaustion, tremors, extreme daytime agitation, dramatic mood swings | rage/irritability was reduced to managable levels butI could not tolerate the agitation, slept well | F | 41 | 3 days | 2/7/2007 | 1 | insomnia | This drug is a joke, its a waste of time. Limits your sleep to 5 maybe 6 hours, I would take that over nothing, but then a quick tolorance for it built up in a couple of weeks, putting me back at square one. Worked just long enough to make me mad, and then it quit on me. Its a huge waste of your time, skip it. | F | 37 | 3 weeks | 5/30/2006 | 1 | insomnia | I developed tardive dyskinesia on 250 mg for 1 month. I am trying to wean myself off it without going completely crazy from sleep deprivation. I am twitching all over and blow out my cheeks. I am still taking it but trying to get off if. Getting off it means you vomit and are a total insomniac. Getting off it can kill you. | Never take this. It is addictive and can damage your nervous system | F | 52 | 30 days | 7/23/2006 | 1 | insomnia | dizziness, restlessness, waking up 2-3 hours later unable to fall asleep, drowsiness, nauseous hangover feeling because I still couldn't sleep while on this medication! | This did not help me sleep much. It helped me fall asleep, unless I was especially upset/anxious then it didn't work at all. I got about 2-3 hours a night, which is better than no sleep at all I guess. When I woke up I had difficulty falling back asleep even though I was so tired. I laid there not even knowing if I were alseep or awake for the rest of the night. It also made me throw up in the morning if I could not sleep. Ambien works better. | F | 21 | 1 weeks | 7/25/2006 | 1 | insomnia | none. no drowsiness, no euphoria as one might expect on a higher dose with benzo-naive pt. fewer sides than benedaryl or mirtazazpine, at least, which was a complete and horrifying disaster. | no effect. not tired, not sleepy. doubled prescribed dose (15-30) in 30 minutes increments. very disappointed since ambien worked like a charm for me for year and suddenly just stopped, i have severe insomnia for years precded use of meds which were a last resort, tried lunesta and sonata no luck, something like temazapam was my last resort. back to 1-2 hours a night if i am lucky. hopefully i will experience some kind of miracle but on this swing shift i kind of doubt it. hoping in a month ambien tolerance will wear off but wanted something i could use in the interim. | F | 45 | 1 days 60mg 1X day | 2/23/2011 | 1 | prior to dental surgery | I was instructed to take it 1 hour prior to my appointment and to have a driver take me to the dentists office. I took my medication at 6am, my appt was scheduled for 7am, and my next cognitive thought was at appx 530pm, when I woke up in the ICU of the local hospital. I had NO idea how I'd gotten there, why I was there, or what had happened. Later, my medical doctor said this was a dangerous medication I should have never taken. | F | 50 | 1 days .5 mg 2X O | 7/1/2011 | 1 | Sleep | Rebound insomnia, akathisia | This drug makes you sleep but it is not a restorative kind of sleep. After a few days you develop a tolerance to it and cannot sleep at all...Stopping it is very difficult too as with any benzo. You suffer rebound insomnia plus extreme anxiety during withdrawal. Not worth it! It also gave me akathisia which is very scary. | F | 34 | 60 days 15-30 1X day | 9/26/2011 | 1 | insomnia | I have been prescribed Restoril for 7 years. My doctor prescribed it at a time in my life that i wasn't thinking straight. Now that i am thinking straight, it is too late. I now have to start the processing of beating this addiction. I have stopped cold turkey taking the restoril and i haven't slept since. I am on day four with little to no sleep. | Find another way to deal with your insomnia. This is a very addictive drug. When you try to stop taking the medication, you will not be able to sleep at all. | F | 48 | 15 mg 1X day | 6/11/2010 | 1 | Insomnia | I was extremely thirsty. I could not get enough water. Up all night and the next day. Bloodshot eyes and dilated pupils. | I had excessive thirst for the next day. I drank 2 Brita pitchers of water that night. I was up until 6 am when I had to get up for work the next day. The next time I took it I could not sleep again. I was more awake after taking it then I was before I took it. I plan to go back to the DR and get my Ambien prescription refilled even though it did not have the effectiveness that it did when I started it. Much better then taking Restoril. | F | 24 | 3 days 30 1X day | 8/26/2010 | 1 | Insomnia | Night terrors and incredible sweating. Only slept for 1.5 hours before waking. | I only took a 15mg tab once a few nights ago(the generic version, temazepam) I fell asleep and woke up about 1.5 hours later after a terrifying dream, drenched in sweat. It scared the hell out of me! I wanted to try this because the Ambien CR I have been taking is so expensive. I'm going to try the temazepam one more time. If I have the same results, I'm throwing it out and staying on the Ambien! The Ambien works pretty well for me so I will continue to pay $40 a month if I have to. | F | 39 | 1 days | 5/25/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | None. | Restoril does not work for me. I cannot feel it taking effect (unlike Ambien CR, though that does not keep me asleep) and do not fall asleep or stay asleep when I take Restoril. I have better results with Tylenol PM and the same results taking nothing. | F | 29 | 12 times | 5/7/2007 | 1 | insomnia | Rx did not work at all for me, plus I am pretty sure it was contributing to crying spells (I already suffer from depression) | I was prescribed 15mg, and I didnt even get groggy. The next nite I double it, and I still felt nothing. I have tried it a couple more times just to give it a shot and nothing. I am going back to Ambien. | F | 28 | 2 weeks | 3/24/2007 | 1 | insomnia | This initially worked well for insomnia, but after three weeks of 15mg, my body started to build a tolerance for it, and it stopped working. I skipped a night, and learned that I'm both tolerant and have a dependency on it, as is common with benzodiazepines. I can't sleep with it and I can't sleep without it--after only three weeks. Be careful! You can get dependent in only three weeks. I am now on a taper-schedule. | F | 33 | 25 days | 4/19/2005 |