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| 4 | Depression and agitation | Weight gain - extreme appetite - dryness of mouth. Don't bother telling the psychiatrists about the weight gain - they'll only write down 'patient refuses to accept medication does not affect her weight.' But, once I halved the dosage, I lost 20 pounds. | Good for those who are depressed and agitated, but probably too sedating for those who are depressed and lethargic. It greatly reduced my insomnia, which was a godsend. | F | 55 | 17 years 150 1X D | 3/9/2013 | 1 | Insomnia/frequent waking | I had a SEVERELY horrible reaction. 30 mins after taking I began to feel dissociative and oddly impulsive. Despite this being a sleep med, I became extremely restless and decided to go for a drive (bad idea). I was so removed that my driving was very erratic. I made it back to my house, and began to feel more and more crazy, like I wasn't in my body. I heard voices telling me to kill myself. I was sweating profusely and shaking. Didn't sleep at ALL. These effects lasted at least five or six hours. | Never taking this again. I know of some people who have loved this med, but for some reason it made me go crazy! | F | 22 | 1 days 50 mg 1X D | 10/19/2012 | 2 | Inability to sleep | On 50mg but 1/2 dosage nightly. Loss of appetite. Waking up exhausted, sleep paralysis type symptoms- ankles, wrist all numb and like jello. Mentally I'm up but my body felt dead. Anger heightened, irritability, experienced. Got off of bc like two days of taking, hear rate increased (racing fast) and tremors. Was giving ambien (horrible experience). On clonazepam and can barely wake after over 10-12 hours of sleep. | F | 28 | 2 weeks 25mg | 10/8/2012 | 3 | Sleep-onset insomnia | Ear ringing, fatigue, feel like a zombie. | I've had sleep onset insomnia my entire life. This is the only thing that works to put me to sleep. Otherwise, it literally takes 3+ hrs to fall asleep .BUT I am wondering now if it's the cause of this weird brain fog feeling I have. All the time all my brain wants to do is zone out and stare. I am only 24 and should not be feeling brain dead! It's uncontrollable and very distressing. Please email me if you are having a similar "zoning out" experience with this drug!!! | F | 24 | 2 years 75 1X D | 8/11/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | SINUS CONGESTION | How can you sleep when this medication causes, for some people, complete SINUS CONGESTION? I didnt have this problem when I took it years ago, then it snuck up on me, within 1 hours of traking Trazodone my Sinuses completely SWELLED SHUT like I had a terrible cause of Sinusitis. Is there any way to get around this sinus congestion? If you are predisposed already to nasal allergies and some nighttime nasal stuffiness, Trazodone probably will make it much worse. Any solutions anyone? Hard to sleep when you cant not breathe out of your nose at all!!! | F | 32 | 1 months 50 1X D | 6/13/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | I felt drunk, the first evening I took one. I felt groggy the next day & absent-minded. Didn't help with the insomnia either, instead of waking up at 4am, woke up at 5am, not much improvement there. Felt nauseous most of the time, had bouts of diahrrea & had strange metallic taste in my mouth. After a few days I noticed oppression ( like when about to hyperventilate ) when breathing that made me irritable. I tried to though it out but nothing improved. On the 11th day decided to cut down to 25mg, not much changed so eventually I discontinued. Had the worst withdrawal side effects in my life, and in the past I had withdrawn from other AD without horrible side effects. The first two days of withdrawals were hellish - I had vertigo, felt restless, had constant nausea but unable to vomit, my heart was racing & was shaking like a leaf, I had debilitating headaches and backaches, felt like I was on the verge of a full blown panic attack. I tried to lie down but when I did, I f | This old AD should be discontinued as I believe there are surely better alternatives to this drug. | F | 49 | 12 days 50 MG 1X D | 5/15/2012 | 4 | restlessness, and could not sleep | I experienced no side effects, other then tonight. I did not get ir take my meds tonight ( trazadone and cipralex) due to my fm not putting them out for me and in return I cannot sleep. But, every other night when I take my 25mgs of trazadone with my other med i can sleep like a baby, with no interuptions in my sleep and wake up feeling refreshed and ready for the day. A lot of reviews i see on here are by people who have only taken them for 1 day - 2 weeks and id just like to say there are things you have to deal with when you are putting a new drug into your system. You need to allow your body time to adjust to the new chemicals or hormones and sometimes the first couple weeks are rough... but don't put the drug down if you really haven't given it a proper shot. | F | 17 | 2 months 25mg | 4/5/2012 | 5 | insomnia and nightmares | At first i felt off balance and groggy, had a bad taste in my mouth, but with time they went away. This medicine helps me sleep through the night and stopped my nightmares from PTSD. | F | 41 | 6 years 150 mg | 3/11/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Severe sinus congestion and did not help insomnia. | F | 44 | 1 days 50mg | 1/28/2012 | 1 | Sleep | Did not work, plain and simple, believe it was the Pliva generic in particular and not trazodone per say | PLIVA trazodone did not work for sleep. Other generics worked fine for sleep in the past. This one does not or did not. Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem? What generic works for sleep? | F | 31 | 5 days 25 1X D | 1/13/2012 | 3 | Insomnia | Drying effect on mouth and membranes, sometimes very vivid dreams or nightmares. Can make you nauseous if taken without food. | Does anyone have a recommendation for an effective brand of generic desyrel (Trazodone) that will work for insomnia? I took this drug for years and it did work for sleep, but not without side effects. However, when I last tried it I got a generic made by PLIVA aka TEVA pharma and it had the opposite effect on me! I see another poster said that Pliva Trazodone did not work for insomnia either, it seems like a totally different drug. So, does anyone know what generic would work for insomnia? I believe the one I took years ago is off the market now (it had little divider marks in the pill to split it). The Pliva trazodone kept me awake and made me shakey, the one(s) I took before put me to sleep! | F | 30 | 3 years 50 1X D | 12/27/2011 | 4 | migraines | really the only side effects that I've experienced are the "nightmares".they are very vivid and haunting when your in that in-between zone of sleep & awake. | I was put on this med after being on two other anti-depressants for my migraines. they both worked..but, the ED factor came into play on both. then, came the chest pains. Since being on Trazodone, no ED & no chest pains ! | M | 41 | 35 days 50 1X D | 11/6/2011 | 4 | Anxiety/Insomnia | Nocturnal Erections | This stuff made me feel great and in a very short amount of time. Every time I woke, if I did wake, during the night I had an erection. Every morning I had an erection. It would go away using the traditional methods or after getting up in the morning. Doctor told me to stop using it because of priaprism risk. If I could use it agian, I would. | M | 47 | 5 days 50 MG 1X D | 10/1/2011 | 5 | Depression / Insomnia | I haven't experienced any side effects. This drug cured my insomnia. I usually would go to sleep and would wake up every 2 or 3 hrs. Taking trazadone let me sleep the whole night through. My only problem was when I ran out I went right back to the interrupted sleep cycle I experienced before taking it. | M | 62 | 5 years 75mg 1X D | 7/29/2011 | 5 | Sleep disturbances | I've been very happy with Trazodone. I was prescribed it for sleep issues.. Mostly waking during the night. I take one at night and my sleep is pretty good. I've noticed no side effects and have had no reactions. | F | 44 | 3 years 50 mg 1X D | 7/18/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | Tremor, awkward movement, dizziness, dry mouth, lost words, unable to focus. | The doctor prescribed this for insomnia. This is one drug that I have had every bad side effect a person could have. After an MRI to determine what could be the cause of the tremors, I figured out on my own that it was probably this drug. I feel silly for not connecting the two, but I have a lot of pain with RA, and initially I assumed the side effects were a flare-up. I know everyone will react differently to meds so I'm not warning anyone away. I just think there has to be drugs out there that don't have all these side effects. I have stopped taking this and it's been about a week. The tremors are better, but not yet fully subsided. | F | 40 | 3 months 50 1X D | 7/11/2011 | 3 | Insomnia | Initially panic/anxiety, severe ringing in the ears; now only have mild ringing in the ears and mild occassional headaches and inability to orgasm | I have not experienced any weight gain or hair loss like others have reported. I did not get any real relief from my insomnia until I gave it a couple weeks and now it works okay (not great, but not scary like ambien). | F | 46 | 2 months 100-200 mg 1X AN | 5/20/2011 | 3 | Anxiety, insomnia | None that I know of | I am able to go to sleep but not stay asleep. Sometimes Desyrel helps but often it does not. I take it around 9:30 for a 10 pm bed time. Of course waking up early doesn't help with anxiety only adds to it for me. From what I have read here I may ask the doctor to increase the dosage to 75 MG to see if that will carry me through the night. I will deal with morning drowsiness if I have too, | M | 61 | 2 weeks 50 MG 1X D | 5/4/2011 | 1 | Insomnia (one night) | Repeated falls, horrible nightmares, grogginess all day long, inability to carry on a conversation. | I was prescribed this after one rough night during a month-long hospitalization. For the first four or five days I had bad, lucid nightmares (and I *never* have nightmares), then I had trouble walking, especially to use the bathroom at night. After two bad falls, I had to have x-rays to evaluate the injury. Also, I felt groggy and "slow" in conversation even late in the day, when medicine should have worn off. Not recommended, especially for a sleeping problem that isn't ongoing. | F | 75 | 10 days 50 mg 1X D | 4/28/2011 | 1 | insomnia | severe congestion, severe constipation, blurred vision, diminished ability to orgasm , dry mouth. | Trazadone did help me sleep. At first I thought it was wonderful. It took 2 months for me to relaize that the new problems I was experiencing were related to the drug. I've been off of trazadone for over 1 month now. The congestion and blurred vision totally cleared up. I'm still having problems with constipation. I'm 41 years old and never had a problem having orgasms. I almost lost the ability all together while on this drug. I know it sounds crazy but I have no doubt it was from the trazadone. Luckily, that is totally back to normal now. | F | 41 | 60 days 150 1X D | 4/14/2011 | 1 | Made me a zoombie. awful nightmares. constipation. | will stop taking immediately. ambien was better than this! | F | 63 | 3 days 50mg 1X D | 4/8/2011 | 5 | Lifelong insomnia | Hair went from fine, to coarse. My legs were extremely uncomfortable, and, my sleep was just as awful as ever, until about the 2 week mark. | After taking this for 2 weeks, my life improved immensely.Sleep was a guaranteed 6hrs, sometimes, 8 or 9. I did have to give med time to work. It also lowered my blood pressure, I was a 200/100 person taking BP meds,now my pressure is perfect, and I take no BP meds!! That in turn, improved my sex life. Wonderful med for me. | F | 44 | 4 months 100 mg 1X D | 3/23/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | Although trazodone helped me sleep, the negative side effects out-weighed the benefits by far. I do not recommend this medication | I loved this medication for the longest time --but this was before I made the connection to all of these side effects: 1. Weight gain (gained 50 pounds over the year I was taking it. Have lost 30 in the last 6 months of being off of it!) 2. CHRONIC constipation. (I was considering getting a colonoscopy to check for cancer --I'm only 25) 3. Swelling/Water retention (my sister -who is a nurse- used to say I looked as puffy as her edema patients) I cannot believe how long it took me to connect these symptoms with this medication but I feel like a new person since stopping it. | F | 25 | 1 years 150mg 1X D | 2/7/2011 | 3 | Can't fall asleep | Nightmares, vivid realistic dreams. | It makes me fall asleep fast otherwise I would lie awake for hours. However, the horrible vivid dreams are freaking me out and I'm debating going off this. i just hope I'm not addicted! | F | 51 | 3 months 15mg 1X D | 2/3/2011 | 2 | insomnia | Terrific headache. Really, really painful. | F | 43 | 4 times 50 1X D | 1/18/2011 | 4 | Insomnia 1978 to 2011 | I took this medication in 2006. I was a miracle at first to go to bed for the first time in my life and sleep the whole night through. In time it didnt help any longer, so I would take more and more every night to help me sleep. I decided it wasnt helping me any longer, so I tapered down for about 6 months until I quit taking it. (long story with doctor and Walgreens insert here). My hair has become 50% thinner and is slowly coming back and I have sinus problems now on a daily basis. I thought these two symptoms might be from my job. (Stress and environment). I would recommend taking the written prescription with you and doing your own research on every medication before filling it or consuming it. Its amazing what you will read on the fine print. | F | 38 | 365 days 1X D | 1/15/2011 | 1 | insomnia | THIS IS NOT GOOD SLEEP MEDICATION IT IS KILLER MEDICATION USED TO KILL PEOPLE HOW CANNOT SLEEP BECAUSE THEIR BRAIN IS TOO DAMAGED. | Trazodone has nasty side-effects so it is only useful as really **short-term** treatment for sleep. Enough said? If you have mild insomnia NEVER start. If you have used for longer time periods DONT stop. | M | 20 | 564 years 100 1X D | 1/10/2011 | 1 | bi-polar insomnia | Had a major mental and physical freak out | very soon after taking just 1 50mg pill I had major cardio vascular issues. Felt like I was choking, suffocating, I had to purposely watch my breathing, kept feeling on the verge of fainting. Could not walk straight, was very weak and my body temperature dropped - I was shivering. I took some benadryl to counteract and calm down. Trazodone is a horrible "medication". My wonderful condescending doctor told me this was such a mild and safe option that would definitely help me sleep. Definitely the opposite. I think after trying so many meds I will pick up jogging everyday instead and do it right. | F | 40 | 1 days 50mg 1X D | 1/9/2011 | 5 | Depression with anxiety. | I did notice hair thining after the 7years of using deyrel. Also,sinus congestion in the mornings. | It does get you to sleep at night,however its very difficult to get up in the mornings. That is why I work nights now.I think the other medications available for depression cause a hipnotic state of sleep. But with desyrel you experience all the stages of sleep through-out the night. I also take klonopin with the desyrel everynight. Desyrel also cause increase heart rate.At the begining of using desyrel I only took 75mg. Had to work-up to 150 due to anxiety. | M | 49 | 25 years 150.00 1X D | 12/13/2010 | 4 | Sleep problems from depression | Hair loss, zombied out | I've always had plenty of hair, and now, after 2 years of constant use, it has begun thinning markedly; At least 3 or 4 times as much hair as normal comes out with each shower. A friend who also takes trazodone said when she doubled her dose (from 50 to 100 mg) she, too, noticed hair loss. I'm now tapering and will try to stop and use it only when I really, really need to. | F | 46 | 2 years 100 mg 1X D | 12/9/2010 | 3 | Insomnia | Raised my prolactin level, stopped ovulation completely messed my system up although it did help me sleep. But it also caused night sweats but I am sure it works well for some people just not me. | F | 32 | 8 months 50mg 1X D | 12/4/2010 | 1 | Insomnia/Depression | Weight gain, An ill feeling, feel worse then when I started 2 weeks ago ... and try to stop taking this garbage, even after 2 weeks your body will crave this SHIT | It helped with the sleep but the side effects are not worth the cure. Do Not Take This Drug .... | M | 60 | 2 weeks 50 mg. 1X D | 11/27/2010 | 3 | Insomnia due to severe back pain | I developed pustular psoriasis on both my feet because of this drug. SEVERE pustular psoriasis. I went to the dermatologist and took every drug known to man to aleviate it. It only subsided when I stopped taking the trazdone. | I was taking 200 mg Soma in addition to the Traz to help me sleep. It was effective but the side effect of the psoriasis was unacceptable. | M | 52 | 6 months 30 mg 1X D | 11/13/2010 | 1 | insomnia | Horrible experience. Nightmares, cold shakes etc... | F | 36 | 1 times 30mg 1X O | 11/10/2010 | 1 | Not sleeping | Hair Loss!!! | I have no idea if my hair will come back after I quit taking this meds...I have taken it a year and 1/2 Have a thick head of hair and its thin...Also seems to have changed my texture.I have curly thick course hair now its thin and fine.I hope someone will post that it does come back.If I had know this was a side affect I would have never taken it.. | F | 43 | 1.5 years 150 1X D | 10/28/2010 | 4 | insomnia | drowsiness in the mornings if I get up too early unexplained hunger in the middle of the night. I feel hungry and get up to eat several times / night. Other sleep meds. have same side effect. | Does help falling asleep approximately 30min after taking it. Helps stay asleep for 6-8 hours. | M | 56 | 8 years 50 mg 1X D | 10/18/2010 | 2 | Insomnia | No side effects | It just didn't work. I am only getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night, and the trazodone didn't help at all. Useless drug for me. Might help other people. | F | 50 | 14 days 100mg 1X D | 10/16/2010 | 4 | Insomnia | I have taken this for at least 4 years during the last two years I have noticed I have had foot and ankle swelling and some blood vessels showing up there. I also take Ropinirol and Gabapentin for Restless leg and Prilosec for Reflux (GERD) I am thinking this condition might be related to my Trazodone but am not sure. | I once tried to go off Desyrel but found as soon as I cut back i could not sleep and felt nervous. So I am now going to discontinue Desyrel by cutting back over 8 weeks I have divided the pills into quarters and every two weeks decrease it by 1/4 and the last two weeks I plan on just taking the 1/4 tab every other day. So far this seem t0 be working I have just started my 1/4 tab and am still sleeping. I have discussed this with MD and likes this rate of stopping. | M | 56 | 4 years 50 1X D | 9/19/2010 | 1 | Insomnia | The first time I took it about 15 minutes later I had an overwhelming fear that I was not going to wake up. I even called my husband at work and told him to come home and check on me on his break. I went to sleep quickly and had horrible nightmares and kept waking up gasping for air but I couldn't hold my eyes open. I finally somehow forced myself to get up and go get in a cool shower trying to calm down and I had a full blown panic attack and for some reason kept thinking I was going to suffocate (when I was breathing just fine). My husband did come home and said I was wild eyed. I called the doc and he said I had to take it for a week and I would adjust to the medication slowly. I took his word for it and regretted it. The symptoms stayed generally the same but the last night I took it I was unable to sleep even though I was so drunk and sleepy I could barely hold my head up. I was too paranoid and was sure I was going to stop breathing. I was hallucinating while awake and h | I think there are better options for insomnia and would not recommend this medication to anyone. I've heard only bad things about it as well and I've made sure to tell anyone that would listen not to take this. I even made my doctor mad when I refused to take it anymore. He wouldn't prescribe anything else for me for insomnia! | F | 31 | 3 days ? 1X D | 9/17/2010 | 3 | Insomnia, Depression | NAUSEA NAUSEA NAUSEA, vomiting, diarreah, groginess. | I am sure Trazodone helps SOME people because I took it as a child and had little to no side effects. (At a much lower dose). When I started taking it again, I went from 50 mg to 100 mg in a few days. Once I switched to 100 mg everything went downhill. EXTREME NAUSEA and vomiting each and every morning. Groginess throughout the day was frustrating, but the groginess in the A.M. was the worst. Took me nearly 2-3 hours before I even felt slightly awake and functionable. If you have a weak stomach I would advise you to stay away from this drug. But if you can hanedle the nausea you might be alright. 50 mg didn't help me sleep at all. 100 mg helped better, but for me, the side effects were not worth it. Everyone responds differently however so I would suggest at least trying it if you need help with sleeping. Good luck! | F | 27 | 2 weeks 100 mg 1X D | 9/14/2010 | 1 | severe insomnia | While on a course of Amoxicillin, my doctor prescribed the trazodone because I had severe insomnia. I took only 50 mg at 9:00 pm. At first, I felt this weird "rush" coming over my body, and it went away. At midnight, I started to feel really out of it, and mad. Then, at 1:00 am I was stark raving mad; an absolute lunatic who wanted to commit suicide. I DID sleep, but the next day all day, I was very exhausted, and I was a zombie. | Well, I think that it looks like Tom Cruise is right on this one. Don't f with head meds. Too high of a price. | F | 41 | 1 times 50 1X D | 9/5/2010 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety | Congestion, drowsiness, hypotension, dizziness, sedation, cognitive impairment, memory loss | A useless anxiolytic and antidepressant, unless you consider sleeping 16 hours a day therapeutic. I can see the merit of a low dose PM for SERIOUS insomnia but anything higher than 75mg will turn you into a zombie based on my experience - and I'm about as easy to sedate as an elephant. | M | 27 | 40 days 300mg 1X D | 8/31/2010 | 1 | Migraines | I have had horrible side effects with this. I can't sleep, have terrible anxiety, can't concentrate. I have had a horrible taste in my mouth and now burning. I am tapering it off, but it has made my life very difficult for the past few weeks since I've gone on it. | F | 26 | 1 months up to 300 1X D | 8/31/2010 | 5 | insomnia, irritability, depression. | strong AM hungover. | Trazodone helps me to be less irritable, and i'm having the most restfull sleep after years. great improvements in anxiety, anger, and in schizoaffective disorders. | M | 24 | 1 weeks 100 mg 1X D | 8/15/2010 | 3 | Depression, anxiety | Brain-fog, shortness of breath, drowsiness, some muscle pain | Noticed some improvement in symptoms in the first week but therapeutic benefit seems to have levelled off, with only partial remission of symptoms. Conclusion thus far: Great for sleep (a little too good perhaps), not a very effective anti-depressant. | M | 27 | 2 weeks 300mg PM 1X D | 8/14/2010 | 2 | Sleep difficulties | At first, just a horrible taste in my mouth in the morning. Now, I'm having trouble falling asleep when my initial problem was staying asleep. Horrible leg cramps woke me three times this week. I will stop taking this drug. | After taking Ativan for 8 years because I wake up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep, my (new) doctor decided Ativan was no good, refused to give me a prescription for it, and wanted me to switch to Trazodone. I am not happy - and I've been assigned a new doctor, who I hope will agree with me that Ativan is the drug or choice. | F | 63 | 1.5 months 100 1X D | 8/6/2010 | 1 | Depression and insomnia | nose a bit stuffy (not bothersome) unwanted erections dizziness/off-balance feeling the whole next day seizure when i missed a dose 1 night | Was added to my daily dose of Prozac (which I have taken for years) after new stressors in my life caused insomnia. I read it was very commonly prescribed (an older drug), non-addictive, fairly safe to try. I took 50mg each night for 1 month. It put me to sleep but the whole next day I would have the hang-over effect which totally interfered with my functioning. So I decided to stop it and not get a refill. The next day I was a mess with high anxiety/panic/headaches (which I did not have before taking it). I went to get the 1 refill I had available and I took half a pill (25mg) for 7 days and then stopped. More than a week after I am still feeling off-balance and having terrible anxiety all day. To top it all off I am finding it impossible to sleep at night which is MUCH worse than my original insomnia. I wish I never took this damn drug to begin with...and I only took 30 full pills. This led me to do more research on the web. I found that prozac increases the plasma levels of trazodone (it inhibits a liver enzyme that breaks it down) . Also traz works much differently at low dose (50mg) and higher doses(eg 300mg) and those on lower doses have more trouble getting off it. And I have read countless withdrawal horrors and how people are tempted to keep taking it to avoid these awful symptoms. I made a BIG mistake taking it - very nasty drug. | M | 40 | 37 days 50mg 1X D | 7/18/2010 | 1 | Depression and Insomnia | The second night taking this drug I ended up fainting twice after getting up to use the bathroom. It was one of the scariest things that I have ever felt. My heart started racing very fast, then I started having really cold sweats, then I just blacked out. A few seconds later I remember coming to with my husband over me and I was severely confused and disoriented. Thank God my he was there... | F | 25 | 2 days 50mg 1X D | 7/15/2010 | 4 | insomnia | hair loss with Pliva brand | I'm just writing to say that there is a huge difference between brands of trazodone. I was on Apotex the entire time until they had a problem with the FDA. Then they switched me to the Pliva brand. The Apotex brand totally agreed with me (and I actually think it made my hair grow) but it seems that once I started the Pliva brand my hair started falling out. I don't think it's a coincidence but it could have been the stopping of the Apotex brand. I stopped taking the Pliva brand and was able to get some Apotex until they are back on the US market. My hair loss seems to be lessening. So side effects can vary widely depending on the brand. I read on another site that a doctor will never recommend Pliva. He thinks it's the worst brand of trazodone. | F | 54 | 2 years 50 mg. 1X D | 6/14/2010 | 3 | Sleep Aid | First night dry mouth, but actually went to sleep after 2.5 hrs. Horrible sick feeling for the first 5 days, minimal appetite, normal foods lost their appeal, bad hang-over feeling, had headache all day long. Very sick to stomach. Felt like a zombie. ( I think my dosage was too high ) | For me on 100 mg a night it still takes me 2-3 hrs to fall asleep-which is frustrating because I think the dosage is a little too high for me. I take it 3 hrs before I want to fall asleep too negate the morning drowsiness- because it is tough- you can't get going- and I don't feel like eating anything or drinking coffee. I do sleep pretty well though, but if I have more side effects such as weight gain-or the headaches not going away- I will go off this medicine | F | 27 | 6 days 100 mg 1X D | 6/9/2010 | 2 | insomnia | The next day I was a zombie. I had no personality, was very indifferent towards everything and couldn't eat for the first half of the day. | It never helped me to fall asleep which is one of my main problems. I would fall asleep a few hours before I had to get up and would sleep so deeply I wouldn't wake up to 6+ alarms. If you don't have problems falling asleep, though, it'll probably work just fine. | M | 20 | 2 months 50 mg 1X D | 6/3/2010 | 3 | could not fall/stay asleep | HAIR LOSS! | hair loss is not listed as a side effect, medication did help me sleep very well | F | 32 | 1 months 50mg 1X D | 6/2/2010 | 1 | insomnia | Felt wierd like I was tired mentally but not physically. Stuffy nose, severe dry mouth. Wierd restless dreams all night. Couldn't get in deep sleep. Made me loopy next day. | F | 44 | 1 days 50 mg 1X AN | 5/27/2010 | 1 | Paxil-induced insomnia | Only extreme weight gain; withdrawal is the devil though and should be posted in the material as such. | Will make you super-hungry!! If you try to withdraw from it, it can be just as bad as withdrawing from a benzo (World's hardest substance to withdraw from)! Dont take it kids! | F | 32 | 9 years 100 mg 1X D | 5/27/2010 | 4 | depression, insomnia | Severe depression pretty much went away. I went from very, very high to very low sex drive. In fact, I can barely orgasm. When I decreased the mgs from 300 to 100, sex drive and strong orgasms returned. Also: I have memory loss...some confusion. | Not being depressed means the world to me. Unfortunately, this translates to low sex drive and almost nix-ing orgasms. Right now I have no partner, so I'm not minding this too much. It's worth not the inexorable sadness I felt all the time...for no reason. | F | 52 | 3 years 300 1X D | 5/14/2010 | 5 | insomnia and anxiety | mild weight gain from improved appetite | I am not on any other medications and have never taken any prescription meds other than antibiotics, so I was a little reluctant to start a routine med. My anxiety and insomnia improved within the first week of starting the drug. Started with 50 mg. at bedtime for one week, 75 mg for one week, then ultimately 100 mg. At this dose I fall asleep when I go to bed, sleep restfully all night, fall back asleep easily if I do awaken through the night and wake up refreshed and rested in the morning. I would like to wean off the medication now after 3 months and am already having difficulty sleeping well after cutting back to 75 mg. Will have to decide which is my priority: being on no medications or sleeping well at night. | F | 51 | 3 months 75-100mg. 1X D | 5/6/2010 | 4 | insomnia, mild depression | 100 mg trazedone works perfectly for me _if_ I take it about 10 hours before I want to wake up - so by 8-9 pm to get up at 7 am, since it doesn't kick in immediately. I only take it every other night or so to avoid side effects/addictions, alternating with either Tylenol PM or nothing. My brother (both of us middle-aged), however, who recommended this to me, is knocked out immediately by his nightly dosage of 100 mg and swears by it for sleep. He also takes other meds, though, and that may make a big difference in people. I would also say that it lifted my spirits some, though it's hard to tell whether that is because of the mild anti-depressant qualities or just because I'm finally getting more sleep! Anyway, no side effects at all. | F | 56 | 1 years 100 mg 3X W | 5/6/2010 | 1 | to lower my need for clomipramine | The last straw was when my eyebrows started falling out. Now they are just there in patches. I have researched this at Drugs.com etc. and found it is not an isolated instance – that hair loss on trazodone/Desyrel has been reported fairly often from post-marketing experience even though it never showed up in clinical trials. | M | 63 | 2 weeks 100 mg 1X D | 4/23/2010 History | 4 | insomnia | dry mouth,dizziness,sleepiness, | works somewhat for insomnia,doses higher than 150mg may not work better for insomnia or it could it depends on your chemistry,if you still have insomnia you could try taking other sedating meds with it:vistaril,ambien,elavil,seroquel | M | 38 | 10 years 150mg 1X D | 4/20/2010 | 5 | insomnia, pms, migraines | At first, I felt very drugged. As long as I take it knowing, I will get a full night of sleep, it has worked so well. Years of insomnia, years of migraines, years of extreme pms - they are all 95% disappeared. | F | 40 | 1 years 50mg 1X D | 4/19/2010 |