SONATA Reviews (ZALEPLON)Average Rating: 2.8 (133 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare SONATA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR SONATA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | | 1/6/2005 | 2 | | 11/17/2004 | 4 | insomnia, not staying asleep at night | sleepwalking, memory lapses, difficulty concentrating | The reason I gave this a high rating is because it does actually make me sleep. Not quality sleep by any means, but before sonata i got maybe 4 hours of sleep a week, if I was lucky. That being said, waking up in front of the coffeemaker at 4am drinking old coffee from the pot is a little disconcerting. My biggest problem with sonata is that my adhd medication negates its effects, and recently I have been getting no sleep at all because my other meds keep me up. TL;DR it might not work with your other meds and it might make you do weird stuff. | M | 16 | 2 months 1X day | 6/20/2015 | 1 | sleep. blackout | i normally took these and went straight to bed. my mom told me i was up for hours rambling on and on, going up and down the stairs nonstop, working out, and slamming doors all night. i also took 17 10mg pills the first three days! i really dont remember doing all of this. | i STRONGLY dont recommend using this drug!!! | M | 16 | 2 months | 5/9/2007 | 3 | Insomnia due to severe anxiety | My therapist told me to be near a bed when I decided to take the medicine. So for the first night I did as I was told but it took forever to fall asleep. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th night I would fall asleep within in hour of taking the meds. So I'd say the medicine improved for me. However, on the fifth night I started hallucinating. I saw colors that flew in the air when you waved a flash light. I could barely stay on my feet and I was so dizzy. So I can understand why you should stay near your bed when taking this medicine. | F | 18 | 1 weeks 5mg | 10/9/2014 | 3 | To hep with insomnia | Minor Hallucination | When I took this I had just finished eating and hopped on the computer for a while. After one thirty minutes I got up to go to sleep and when I turned around to get into bed, my bed seemed to be moving, almost as though it was breathing or had a pulse. (One ten gram pill) Besides that it was good. When I did lay down I fell asleep within thirty minutes. | M | 18 | 30 days | 10/4/2008 | 1 | Sleep | My Mother My sister and Myself has taken Sonata and each one of us had serious delusions, Horrible. I would see and hear things that were not there, and so would my mother but my sister, She didnt know where she was who we were she couldn't see my mother and I, she kept screaming saying that there were millions of people around her and that she was flying. | This should be NOT be offered anymore. It is way to dangerous and puts you through some scary stuff!!!!! | F | 18 | 2 months | 3/7/2007 | 4 | insomnia | black out, hallucinate, irritability | If I do anything after taking it, I dont remember the next morning. If Im not tired when I take it, it doesnt make me sleep. It only works if Im tired already. Then its great. It really helps me fall asleep. I've moved to the point where I dont require it to fall asleep. But it really helps. If you need to do anything that requires effort or if you'll need to remember, dont take it. | 19 | 3 months | 9/2/2006 | 4 | insomnia | weird, vivid dreams (sometimes)... otherwise, i dont experience any side effects | i take sonata as a prn when i have trouble sleeping due to anxiety. my insomnia changes- sometimes ill have trouble falling asleep and sometimes ill wake up in the middle of the night... i like sonata for its short half life- i can take it at 2am and not have the "hangover" effect the next day. i like this because i dont need to take it before i try to fall asleep- it makes me less dependent on the drug and i like knowing i can take it in the middle of the night. | F | 19 | 6 months 10-20 mg 1X day | 2/24/2012 | 3 | Anxiety/Depression-Related Insomnia | Minor hallucinations on more than one occasion, dizziness, and paresthesia. | This medication did make me feel drowsy and shortened the time it takes me to fall asleep. However, I had minor hallucinations each and every night I took it, as if I was dreaming while I was still awake. Along with the other side effects, this convinced me to stop after just three nights. | F | 19 | 3 days | 9/3/2007 | 2 | Had a hard time falling asleep | very vivid hallucination | The first time I took this i fell asleep in about 20 mintues. The second time (last night) I couldn't fall asleep.. I experienced a little bit of unessecary anger while I was on the phone with a friend and I told her "This stuff isn't working I'm not even tired" It was dark in my room and I ended up staring into my phone's screen which lit up the room.. I stared and began to see the screen form into a cube.. I was thinking "Ok, neat a optical illusion" then I looked up and my lamp had turned into 3 eucalyptus trees. I looked down at my phone to see that It was a different kind of phone then I had 10 seconds earlier. I then tried to dial my friend's number again and my phone appeared to be a bar of soap. She called back and I managed to answer with great confusion. She told me to go get my mom and I convinced her I was fine but apparently I started rambling and what I was saying made no sense.. I fell out of bed and thought I had fallen from a building into a dark al | F | 19 | 5 days | 11/13/2006 | 2 | couldn't fall asleep | hallucination | CONTINUED... My mother asked how many pills I took, I told her one. (10mg) which was true. I managed to call my psychiatrist around 12:25am and I asked her what was wrong and she said that it's a side affect of Sonata that only one of her patients besides myself have experienced. She told me to not take that pill again. She said in a few hours I should be fine, and I was.. I felt sick to my stomach and I had a headache. Everything I saw in the light was very colorful but warped. It's hard to beleive that only 10mg could make me experience such a detailed hallucination. It was very frightening for me. | F | 19 | 5 days | 11/13/2006 | 5 | insomnia | Don't stay awake when you take it. If you stay up for too long when taking it, you can have visual hallucinations. Nothing scary, just be in bed ready to go to sleep. No grogginess the next day. Sometimes it doesn't work, usually due to you eating a high fat meal shortly before taking it. | I love it. Its not for people who need help STAYING asleep. I need help GETTING to sleep. Once I'm out, I'm a deep sleeper. | M | 20 | 2 years 20 mg 1X AN | 9/22/2010 | 1 | insomnia | worse insomnia, hallucinations, agitation, panic attack | I was completely wired and agitated and had a panic attack because the dream-like hallucination I had was so creepy. I was scared to go back to sleep, which was alright I guess considering I couldn't anyway. Thank god it only lasts 4ish hours. | F | 20 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 6/4/2010 | 3 | Severe Insomnia | Extreme and scary hallucinations. Other than the Sonata I was completely sober. | It really only helps me sleep for a few hours but not through the night | F | 21 | 4 days 10 1X day | 2/9/2023 | 2 | Insomnia/frequent waking | Muscle twitches. Also, a weird tingly feeling in my hands and feet if I deliberately attempted to control the twitching, like electricity was building up in my limbs. So weird! Also, dizziness. | This medicine did not work at all for me. Not only did it still take forever for me to fall asleep, but I still woke up every hour all night. | F | 21 | 1 days 10 MG 1X day | 3/29/2012 | 1 | Insomnia, Anxiety | Hallucinations, energy | I took it at 1 this morning, and I'm now writing this at 6 am. Tired? No no no. But man, have I been tripping balls! It started with my phone feeling weird, like the case was crumpled cheap tin foil. Texting became a challenge. First the buttons became hard to press and would stick. I have an iPhone. Then the words on the screen decided to show off them moves like jagger and formed a conga line. Then I was transported to the titanic as it was sinking, because my spring matress turned into a waterbed. Sensations WERENT the only form of hallucinations either. I'm assuming math hates me as much as I hated it, because geometric shapes flew at me, hovered around me, and just stares at me. I got a special guest apparance hailing all the way from gnomes lair in south park, Colorado, the underwear gnomes! They've seem to have refined their tastes though, as they tried to pull the blanket off of the bed and take it. Once they saw themselves out, the Wild Wild west decided to swing on by unannounced. Tiny toy horses everywhere. Now don't get me wrong, sonata isn't all bad, it's slightly magical. It has the magical ability to make all technology 3D. My iPhone, kindle, Macbook, even my ancient tubular TV that was all the rage back in the 90s. Apple may have invented retnia display, but Steve Jobs MUST be rolling over in his grave because of king pharmaceuticals stroke of genius. 3D AND YOU DONT NEED GLASSES?! It's 2015, it's about time. TL;DR- I would rather stay up all night and | F | 21 | 1 days 20MG | 5/10/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | Um... Insomnia. | I might as well have taken a crap in a pharmacy, asked a pharmacist to put it in a bottle, and sell it to me for $60. The most worthless "sleep aid" ive ever taken. I might as well watch a Meg Ryan movie to fall asleep. Damn. | M | 21 | 2 weeks | 4/27/2008 | 1 | insomnia | Big time trippin effect like on LSD. Room was spinning. You are awake, but you cannot move. It's terrible. Last about 2 hours. | It would be better off sold as an illegal street drug.I cannot take it anymore.. I threw it out! | F | 22 | 3 days | 5/21/2007 | 5 | Insomnia (trouble falling asleep) | None. | I was prescribed Ambien, but Ambien knocks me out for 7 hours. I only take it on nights I have insomnia, and some nights, I don't realize I need extra drugs to fall asleep until I only have 4 or 5 hours left. This is why I like Sonata better. It gets me to sleep almost as well as Ambien does, and then I can wake up 4 hours later. I don't feel like it's quite as strong as Ambien-- I had both at one point and used Ambien on the nights I had adderall in my system and seriously needed to sleep. Sonata, however, is perfect for that unexpected insomnia. | F | 23 | 3 weeks | 12/5/2007 |
SONATA (ZALEPLON): This medication is used for a short time to treat people who have trouble falling asleep. If you have other sleep problems such as not being able to sleep through the night, this medication may not be right for you. Zaleplon is known as a hypnotic. It works on certain centers in the brain to relax you and help you fall asleep faster. FDA Approval Date: 1999-08-13 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)