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 |
| 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 | 2 | M | 34 | | 5/17/2007 | 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 | 4 | Insomnia | It puts my brain to sleep but not my body; my husband says I twitch like mad in my sleep when I take it | F | 35 | | 4/20/2007 | 2 | insomnia | Hallucinations | I am an RN and took this drug for sleep. I started having hallucinations about an hour after taking it. The valance on my windows started turning into faces and other odd experiences. I even burst into tears out of fear. Very frightening and would not take it again | F | 40 | 1 days | 3/14/2007 | 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 | 5 | Insomnia | I take 10mg before bed, works well, very mild. I try not to take it for more than 3 nights, then take a night or two off, so that it doesn't lose its effectiveness, and to limit my withdrawal symptoms. Sometimes it's hard to get to sleep on those off-nights, but Sonata is habit-forming and I don't want the symptoms to get severe. | M | 58 | 5 years | 2/21/2007 | 5 | Early Morning Awakenings | Nothing I would consider undesirable. You go into the ozone about 10-15 minutes after taking and you remember nothing while you are sleeping. In fact you could swear you never slept at all... but it is several hours later. | After several months of continuous use, 10mg only equates to 1.5 or 2 hrs sleep. I still use it for my early morning awakenings at 3, 4 or 5 a.m., but sometimes I have to take another to get me to the desired wake-up times. I may try taking 20mg (2 pills) and see if that gets me 4 hours like it used to. I like the way I get back to sleep with Sonata. Even though I've grown tolerant to its full effect, it will always get me to sleep for at least awhile. I always feel good when I wake up too. No ill effects | F | 51 | 9 months | 1/24/2007 | 1 | insomnia | Grogginess, depression | Only got one hour's sleep from it. Coupled with the side effects, it's a loser. | F | 53 | 3 days | 12/25/2006 | 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 | 1 | insomnia | Double vision, vomiting, depression, waking after 4 hours, muscle weekness, dizziness (like being motion sick), and appetite decrease | This stuff is horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm taking 10mg per night, it takes 45 minutes to even be able to go to bed and then, I toss for another hour or so. My mind is fuzzy all day the next day (probably more from not sleeping than the medication itself). | F | 30 | 5 days | 11/11/2006 | 5 | insomia | Have to take on a empty stomach for it to work quicker. sleepiness and dizziness. | have to take 20mg for it to work for me. it does help me get to sleep where other sleep meds failed. | F | 38 | 2 months | 11/1/2006 | 1 | to fall asleep and stay asleep | Did the opposite and kept me awake | Before taking Sonata I was taking high levels of melatonin which, didn't help me to fall asleep faster or sleep longer, but did help me to get deeper sleep for the 4-5 hours that I did sleep, thus making me feel more refreshed. Every night I have taken the sonata (at about 8 or 9pm) I have not been able to fall asleep for 5-6 hours (much longer than the melatonin), or about 2-3am. I then would wake up at 5:30 after only a few hours of sleep and be very tired. It's almost like it is actually making me wired. Not a happy camper! DOESN'T WORK. | F | 36 | 4 days | 10/30/2006 | 4 | trouble falling asleep | None. | After taking Sonata I start feeling drowsy about 10 or 15 mins later. I fall asleep and sleep very sound. I have no problem waking up in the morning. | F | 45 | 21 days | 10/3/2006 | 4 | trouble falling asleep | None. | After taking Sonata I start feeling drowsy about 10 or 15 mins later. I fall asleep and sleep very sound. I have no problem waking up in the morning. | F | 45 | 21 days | 10/3/2006 | 4 | sleep | Hallucinations on a grand scale.. This is a VERY odd drug, i cant believe its a CIV drug, considering the things i saw on this drug. I began to see everything double on more than one occasion.. I took it once during the day, and i felt euphoric, and highly social,.. very strange! | This drug never made me tired.. infact its only use for me was as a recurational drug! | M | 23 | 100 days | 9/24/2006 | 5 | none | This medication works great. Gets you just sleepy enough to drift off and doesn't last more than 4 hrs, but by that time you well asleep and wake up feeling bright and chipper. From what I understand, it's the only RX sleep aid that is approved by the FAA | F | 56 | 3 years | 9/19/2006 | 5 | insomnia; waking up too soon | fatigue for about 8 hours after waking up, although decreasing as that 8 hours wears on; aggravation, irratability and depession during that 8 hours | I have taken this medication on an as-needed basis for 4 years. I have tried all the others on the market as well. Sonata is not meant to be a put you to sleep for 8 hours; it has a 4-hour half-life, so it's more useful for put you BACK to sleep than to put you to sleep at the inception of your sleep cycle. Nevertheless, when you can't fall asleep to begin with, i.e., insomnia, it is capable of putting you to sleep (with some exceptions), hopefully for the rest of the night, or only for about 4 hours, after which its effect begins to wear off. So is best taken on those (hopefully) rare nights when you wake up between 2-4am, and need to get back to sleep. Beware that if you take it consistently, your brain receptors adjust to having it as part of their regular diet, at which point they are hooked, and you can experience withdrawal symptoms if you try to quit, this being those brain receptors way of letting you know that they are that they feeling deprived. Exceptions when Sonata m | M | 56 | 4 years | 9/17/2006 | 3 | insomnia; waking up too soon | fatigue for about 8 hours after waking up, although decreasing as that 8 hours wears on; aggravation, irratability and depession during that 8 hours | I have taken this medication on an as-needed basis for 4 years. I have tried all the others on the market as well. Sonata is not meant to be a put you to sleep for 8 hours; it has a 4-hour half-life, so it's more useful for put you BACK to sleep than to put you to sleep at the inception of your sleep cycle. Nevertheless, when you can't fall asleep to begin with, i.e., insomnia, it is capable of putting you to sleep (with some exceptions), hopefully for the rest of the night, or only for about 4 hours, after which its effect begins to wear off. So is best taken on those (hopefully) rare nights when you wake up between 2-4am, and need to get back to sleep. Beware that if you take it consistently, your brain receptors adjust to having it as part of their regular diet, at which point they are hooked, and you can experience withdrawal symptoms if you try to quit, this being those brain receptors way of letting you know that they are that they feeling deprived. Exceptions when Sonata m | M | 56 | 4 years | 9/17/2006 |