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 | pain at nite could not sleep | Addicted can't sleep without it. | M | 44 | 2 months 15mg | 5/1/2013 | 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 | 4 | Prescribed for insomnia | I have been taking this medication for three years and find it works pretty well, with almost no side effects. Sometimes, it doesn't work, and sometimes, I feel groggy in the morning, but I usually get 5-6 hours of good sleep when I take it. It can take up to an hour before I fall asleep, so I have to time it carefully. Take it too early, and I'm wide awake at 4:30. Take it too late and I'm still awake at 1:00 am. | F | 48 | 3 years 30 mg | 9/30/2012 | 3 | Insomnia/RLS | None? Even in combo with antihistamines, pain medd, and RLS meds it was useless | This drug is useless. Even in combination with requip and tramadol, nothing happened | F | 31 | 1 months 60mg 1X day | 4/29/2012 | 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 | 4 | failed back Sx/chronic sciatica | mild/mod morning anxiety; guilty feelings for needing to take a benzo. some weird dreams lately. Want to keep sleeping in morning rather than get up,not every AM though. | I have taken Ambien first 5mg way back in 1996, off and on; worked great, then stopped working in past few years. Xanax worked great .5-.75 to fall asleep 5 hrs at least, but also stopped working. Restoril seems to work well at this dose; 15mg wasn't enough to keep me asleep past 3-4 hrs. I worry about needing this to sleep forever...tolerance and withdrawal scare me. I am a retired PA w/lots of med experience and just wish I could fall asleep easily(spouse falls asleep in 1 minute, stays asleep all night) and stay asleep. Hot flashes, my snoring husband, my plugged up nose (pollen) and back pain all keep me awake. Restoril helps a lot though and am glad for it, all things considered. I swim 2 miles a day to wear myself out, but even that doesn't work. I hope this med keeps working. | F | 52 | 20 days 30 1X day | 4/1/2012 | 4 | Insomnia | No side effects so far. | I was on interferon therapy for six months, which causes insomnia. Also I am a shift worker and haven't gotten enough sleep in years. Restoril really has been helping me alot. If my doc will let me continue taking it I will be pleased. | M | 58 | 4 weeks 30 MG 3X W | 3/22/2012 | 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 | 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 | 4 | insomnia | calming, drowsiness, sometimes mild hangover/slugish feeling in the morning | I seem to get a relaxed feeling about 45 to 60 min after taking it...my insomnia due to failed back surgery pain was so bad I'd go 3-4 days without a single SECOND of sleep, only to then suffer what is termed "microsleep" - where you nod off for a few seconds. The mmicrosleep was incontollable, and came without warning, so I was having frequent car accidents, and falling out of a chair onto the floor at work. After a few microsleep episodes, I'd simply begin having grand mal srizures due to lack of sleep, so restoril/temazepam has been a godsend. Even after a full year, it's still fairly effective, tho I'm sure my tolerance has built up, no doubt about it. There are some nights I need to take 1, then a second one an hour later, or in the middle of the night, but "most of the time" the one 30 mg pill works fine. I DO notice I get a little anxious towards the end of the month, afraid the doc won't refill it, but so far, he's been perfectly understanding of the sequence of events that happen without any sleep aid at all. BTW - another thing that might be good for anybody reading this would be to try something called "phenebut" - it's available on-line, and it's what the Russian cosmonauts use fo sleep in space. Perfectly legal in the U.S. | M | 56 | 365 days 30 MG 1X day | 2/16/2012 | 4 | Insomnia | The only side effect that was somewhat bothersome was I would get very hungry. Sometimes Restoril would not work either. Sometimes I would want to take another capsule to make it 90 MG but I don't unless I really need to sleep as in for work or another early event. I did take Xanax for years and I think that my tolerance just built up with that and I think that is what sometimes happens to me with Restoril. I am currently not taking Xanax anymore, but the reason I was on it was for anxiety, not to sleep. I was on 1 MG three times a day, but overall Restoril has worked the best for me for the most part. | I have had insomnia forever. I have tried a range of sleeping aids. I have tried Ambien and it works but I don't like the drunk and sleep eating side effects it had on me. I have tried Trazadone, Remeron, and even Nyquil and Benadryl, but the diphenhydramine in those drugs had a paradoxial effect and made me more wired then anything. My doc said that Trazadone and Remeron act simlarly to Benadryl (diphenhydramine). So even OTC drugs like Nyquil and Benadryl (diphenhydramine) did not work for me. I have even tried natural sleep aids like Kava Kava, Valerian Root, and Melatonin, which just weren't potent enough for me. | F | 27 | 3 years 60 MG 1X day | 1/4/2012 | 2 | Insomnia due to other meds | Dizziness, increased appetite, headache, grogginess in the morning | This sh*t sucks. I started at 15 MG, didn't work. Doc bumped me up to 30 MG, still didn't work. So again another increase to my current 45 MG. It takes forever to work even if you take it after you've digested your supper. I take it & while waiting for it to "work" I develop an insatiable hunger. For sweets. It takes a little over an hour for me to fall asleep. Then I sleep for about three hours and wake up with a pounding headache. But three hours of sleep is better than NO sleep, and I've tried all the other stuff, including Ambien, which was like taking caffeine pills. The only thing that works for me is Xanax, but I got addicted to that & had to go through horrible withdrawal. I'll keep taking this crap until my doc can think of something that might work. | F | 45 | 1 months 45 MG 1X day | 10/21/2011 | 4 | Insomnia | I have not had any side effects. This works well and I wake up feeling refreshed. | I have tried to wean off this drug, but cannot sleep at all without it. I started taking it after my husband passed away. It was prescribed before but was afraid I would not hear him during the night so I did not take until after he passed. I have been on it for 2 1/2 years. | F | 64 | 3 years 30 MG 1X day | 9/27/2011 | 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 | 4 | Insomnia | strange dreams/nightmares. morning drowsiness. | Restoril worked great at first. I would get a full night of sleep and wake up feeling well. I was usually a little bit drowsy in the morning but not too bad. Now it doesn't help me fall asleep very fast. I stay up late and oversleep in the morning. I wake up feeling drowsy. I don't have as much energy. The dreams can be very vivid and scary. | M | 23 | 3 months 30 MG 1X day | 8/29/2011 | 2 | insomnia since childhood | lethargy in higher doses | began @15mg,upped last year to max. dose of 30mg.but the tolerance built quickly and now i sometimes take 2 to get only 4 hours of sleep and run out of pills early.hardly seems worth it.any suggetions?like asking my doc to let me take 60mg or finding (is there one?) a stronger sleep aid?really-this is serious-is there something stronger?and i'm not trying to michael jackson myself i just want good sleep. | F | 37 | 3 years 30mg 1X day | 8/13/2011 | 2 | insomnia for years! | None really | This drug has made me more tired but I still lay in bed for over an hour trying to sleep. I have tried trazedone, impramine, clonopin, remeron, all of them worked for like 1 night and then stopped working. Except trazedone which made me have no memory. Truly so far this drug sucks. I would like to sleep, but like my brain is still in overdrive thinking about every little thing. :/ sucks. Yes, I'm young, but insomnia runs in my family bad, and I have had it for years. | F | 16 | 4 days 15mg 1X day | 8/4/2011 | 1 | insomnia | Makes me feel a little more relaxed,but does not put me to sleep......bummer. ambien worked a lot better until my tollerance got so high I had to stop taking them. | M | 34 | 2 days 15mg 1X day | 7/8/2011 | 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 | 3 | Insomnia | I do sleep sometimes. Though, for 4-6 hrs. I take 1/2 more than the FDA recommends.So, It's 4-6 MG Klonopin during the day and the tamz taken @ night.... Usually, I just stay up all night long and watch Adult Swim because it rarely works unless I'm a little tired. To be honest, I could take 20 MG of Aderal, and drink 3 cups of coffee 6 hrs before going to bed and sleep -sometimes- most of the time. I'll say 2/3 x's throughout the week it'll work. Sometimes even 2 to 3 MG of Klonopin with 75 to 90 MG of tam doesn't even do the trick. ); Talk about having a problem, but at least the lack of sleep doesn't tamper with my 4.0.... yeaya! | I am a rare case do to my high tolerance to seds, hyps, and benzos. These effects may not apply...... | M | 34 | 10 months 60 MG 1X day | 3/3/2011 |