TRAZODONE HCL Reviews (TRAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)

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TRAZODONE HCL  (TRAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE):  This medication is used to treat depression. It may help to improve your mood, appetite, and energy level as well as decrease anxiety and insomnia related to depression. Trazodone works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural chemical (serotonin) in the brain.   FDA Approval Date: 1986-10-10 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR TRAZODONE HCLCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
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 2  Sleep Horrible urine incontince and stomach bloating after 2nd dose. F 81 1 days
25 mg
3/20/2016
 4  Insomnia At 100 mg ER the drug causes excessive sleep. Always sleep at least twelve hours and often I will fall asleep during day for another four hours. M 80 10 years
100
4/7/2016
 3  Insomnia Worked great for my insomnia for 4 days then slowly stopped where I was waking up 2-3Hours after taking between 50 and 75mg Basically no adverse side effects F 75 8 days
50mg 1X day
1/29/2023
 5  Insomnia Can't turn my brain off at night. Barely getting 3rd hrs. Love this med. Makes me very sleepy in about 20 min. Wake up groggy but two very small cups of coffee wake me right up then feel very energized. Sleep about 6 hours.. wake up for potty break once but used to wake up every hour. I think it has helped my nervous bladder. It has made a fantastic difference in getting some quality sleep. You have to give this some time. Was extremely tired in the beginning but that is much better. I suffer from severe back pain and migraines. As my neurologist says, your body cannot heal itself unless you can sleep. No other side effects. Am on Lyrics also who have makes me forget names but small price to pay for not being in so much pain. F 72 6 months
50-100 my
5/14/2015
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 1  To replace Zopidem within 10 minutes my nasal passage closed up, could not breathe through my nose and extreme dry mouth. I will NEVER take this again, it did not help me sleep and I was alarmed at the immediate affect of not being able to breathe through my nose as well as the dry mouth. F 72 1 days
50 mg 1X day
2/23/2015
 1  insomnia I guess what i had would be called a paradoxical effect. Four hours later I was wide awake an slightly agitated ( though not a panic attack). The only way I got to sleep ( after taking 1 mg melatonin to add to the Trazadone) was to take 0.5 mg Ativan, which I had successfully tapered from and gotten off 7 weeks earlier. I know many people who swear by Trazadone. There really are individual differences. I had tried this drug a few years ago ( for 3 weeks with varying doses up to 100 mg) with equally horrible results but thought I'd give it another try. F 72 1 days
50 mg 1X day
9/13/2012
 1  Insomnia Severe low back and hip pain Tapering F 72 2 years
50 1X day
2/2/2022
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 1  Insomnia Sleep for 4-5 hours soundly then wake up and bed feels like a rock. Tossing and turning for 2 hours and then able to sleep again. After being awake in the morning and eating breakfast need to sleep again. Constipated and need a laxative. Absolutely no help for insomnia. M 72 3 days
50mg
2/12/2020
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 1  Insomnia After 14 months on 50 mg trazodone for sleep I have severe hip and low back pain with muscle pain in legs dropping to 25 mgs F 72 0 days
50 mg 1X day
12/1/2021
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 5  insomnia none F 71 15 years
200mg 1X day
12/28/2012
 5  TO Sleeo at night F 70 1 days
50 mg
1/14/2015
 1  Trouble sleeping Clumsy, loss of balance. Lay on bed staring at ceiling. I just couldn't think. Bad nightmares. Threw them out. Too scary. F 70 14 days
50 mg 1X day
3/20/2023
 1  Sleepliness I started out taking 50 mg a day at night because I couldn't sleep. I went to sleep easily and slept great. After a while the dosage had to be increased to 100 and then to 150. I suffered from dry mouth and dry eyes terribly. I began to get acid reflux and was put on medication for that. I didn't connect the medication to the acid reflux which kept getting worse. Then I began to experienced racing heart. To the point where I had to go to the dr. And have tests. They concluded that the trazodone was causing the fast heartbeat..and took me off. I went thru hell getting off it. It took months. And then one day I realized that my acid reflux was gone. The stomach bloating was gone. The dry eyes and dry mouth were gone. I still haven't found a solution to my sleep problems but I'll never take trazodone again. F 69 3 years
150 1X day
9/13/2015
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 4  Insommnia Very slight headache at times, and gas. Half of an erection the next morning and throughout the next day at times. Penis muscle enlarged. Go to bed no more than 15 minutes after taking 50-100mg or you might not get to sleep. Works well with no food or with food at bedtime. Helps me sleep well for 5 to 6 hours, thinking of including Melatonin to help sleep longer, however 6 hours is usually enough to get me through the day well. Helps calm speedy thoughts of the day almost immediately at bedtime. Fall asleep in 15 minutes. Works much better than Viagra.....email [email protected] M 68 13 months
50-100mg 1X day
5/12/2015
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 2  Depression Confusion, lack of focus, forgetfulness, foggy brain, slight heart palpitations I am reducing to 25 MG tonight to wean off of it to see if side effects stop. It does help me get a deeper sleep and when I get up in the night I go right back to sleep. F 67 16 days
75 mg 1X day
7/15/2022
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 5  Sleep aid None Great drug- helps me unwind at night and to get a good sleep! Have gone up to 100 mg at night when necessary but very easy to triage back down to 50 mg again! F 66 15 years
50 1X day
11/30/2019
 5  Insomnia So far I am very satisfied. It has allowed me the ability to sleep through the night. I awake feeling rested and have not experienced grogginess. I have less anxiety and more energy throughout the day. F 65 5 days
25 mg 1X day
10/7/2021
 5  Insomnia It has a definite and very welcome appetite suppressant effect on me. I hope that continues; I know for some people it causes weight gain. It also makes me want to sweeten my coffee a lot less; less than half what I did before I started taking it. In addition it has changed my temperature perceptions; I used to get cold during the day and would turn the thermostat up, then turn it down at night and turn on two fans. I don't need the fans, and I keep the temperature the same day and night. The downside is that it makes me very loopy; I have trouble thinking of words and names, and my spelling has gotten horrible. I can live with that. It's helping me get to sleep and wake up at normal times, something I haven't been able to do for more than a year. It's causing me to lose weight; I have to force myself to eat twice a day so I can take my pills (which need to be taken with food). My life is getting progressively saner. I feel like a new person. I don't think I was depressed or anxious before, but maybe I was. Anyway, I'm happier now because of the positive changes. F 65 4 days
50 MG 1X day
12/23/2014
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 5  Inability to fall asleep; anxiety None, that I'm aware of, but am wondering (after reading these reviews) if weight gain is one. Am taking other meds, so could be a combination. Have been taking depression meds for years, but started having trouble sleeping following a family tragedy. Have taken different anti-depressants, but stick to one 50 mg. Trazodone tablet nightly, and continue to have good results. I haven't needed to increase the dosage for the same results. I agree with whomever wrote that you need to go to bed within one hour of taking it, though. After that, the effects seem to wear off, and it becomes more difficult to go to sleep. F 65 6 years
12/11/2009
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 3  insomnia I do not have my usual happy feelings, better sleep, leg pain, constipation,... I have tried so many pills such as antidepressants, and I have never received any help. I am considering stopping this medication. I feel badly that there are so many bad drugs out there. We must be in the stone age as far as meds for depression or anxiety. F 65 8 weeks
50 mg 1X day
2/26/2023
  

TRAZODONE HCL  (TRAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE):  This medication is used to treat depression. It may help to improve your mood, appetite, and energy level as well as decrease anxiety and insomnia related to depression. Trazodone works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural chemical (serotonin) in the brain.   FDA Approval Date: 1986-10-10 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

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