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 |
| 5 | chronic insomnia | None. | Works best if I only take it every 10 days and alternate with Lunesta 2mg. I take one or the other about every 4 to 5 days. I usually go through H in-between with not much sleep. I get a good 7 hours sleep with Temazepam and it also calms my anxiety. Lunesta does nothing for anxiety but it is a good sleeper. | M | 61 | 7 years 15 mg 1X day | 3/2/2011 | 1 | insomnia | none. no drowsiness, no euphoria as one might expect on a higher dose with benzo-naive pt. fewer sides than benedaryl or mirtazazpine, at least, which was a complete and horrifying disaster. | no effect. not tired, not sleepy. doubled prescribed dose (15-30) in 30 minutes increments. very disappointed since ambien worked like a charm for me for year and suddenly just stopped, i have severe insomnia for years precded use of meds which were a last resort, tried lunesta and sonata no luck, something like temazapam was my last resort. back to 1-2 hours a night if i am lucky. hopefully i will experience some kind of miracle but on this swing shift i kind of doubt it. hoping in a month ambien tolerance will wear off but wanted something i could use in the interim. | F | 45 | 1 days 60mg 1X day | 2/23/2011 | 3 | DIFFICULTY FALLING ASLEEP | NONE FOR YEARS.RECENTLY WENT TO DINNER AND BLACKED OUT FOR THE EVENING. ARRESTED FOR DUI (APPARENTLY I HAD BEEN DRINKING TO EXCESS) BUT HAVE NO RECOLLECTION OF THE EVENTS OF THE EVENING. FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE.DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT IT'S TRUE. BE CAREFUL...THIS CAME OUT OF NOWHERE WITHOUT WARNING. I AM NOT A DRINKER. | M | 62 | 3 years 30 MG 1X day | 2/15/2011 | 4 | Insomnia | Side effects have included minor loss of short-term memory. Feeling a little foggy in cognitive process. | I wish I wasn't totally dependent, but I simply quit sleeping "without help" a few years ago. I can't function without good sleep. About 4 years ago, I started on half of an Ambien, and would find myself getting up around 2AM to take another half to stay asleep. Then I switched to Restoril 30MG. Worked great at first, but now I'm waking up around 4AM every morning. I can usually go back to sleep on my own. So, I can live with that. I am concerned about weaning off one day, because I feel like I've lost the ability to fall asleep without it. I am interested in alternating sleep meds, using Lunesta one day and then Restoril next day to increase effectiveness. Waiting for an MD appointment. I am also interested in alternative therapies and have been practicing yoga for relaxation. | F | 40 | 1 years 30 MG 1X day | 2/10/2011 | 5 | Chronic Insomnia | none significant. | Best hypnotic ever tried. Has never lost efficacy, nor has any tolerance developed. Sleep 8 hours a night, going on 12 years. LIFE SAVER!!! | M | 28 | 12 years 45mg 1X day | 2/8/2011 | 4 | insomnia and restless leg sysndrome | I have more dreams that I do remember after waking up in the morning and I wake up because it makes me want to urinate. | I developed the insomnia because my roommate sleeps with the television full blast the entire nite and even though I use earplugs and an eye mask I could not stay asleep without the restoril. I wake up refreshed and ready for my daily cup of caffeine to get me started. | F | 58 | 3 years 30mg 1X day | 1/30/2011 | 2 | insomnia | opposite reaction; "instant tourettes syndrome in a bottle", i had uncontrolled movements, jitters, sweating, headache, throat/face discomfort and no sleep. i wanted this chemical out of my body. | i was perscribed after previous sleep meds (ambien, halcyon, and trazadone in that order) lost effectiveness. now officially on my personal "do not take" list. i have had other opposite effect side effects with some other medications. | M | 44 | 2 days 75 mg 1X day | 12/12/2010 | 2 | sleep | cant think concentrate feeling wierd all day feeling lke i am dying confused scared of losing control of brain a sinking feeling hopeless puffy face | F | 43 | 5 days 30 or45mg 1X day | 12/6/2010 | 3 | Insomnia | Vivid strange dreams, somewhat lethargic feeling. | I've been taking this for maybe a little over a year and the dreams I have are ridiculously vivid and strange. It has come to the point where I actually have trouble getting up in the morning because I don't want the dream to end or want to hit the snooze button and slip back in. It doesn't leave me feeling hungover like other sleep meds, but I definitely don't feel energetic in the morning. | M | 29 | 1 years 30 1X AN | 11/16/2010 | 5 | chronic lifelong insomnia | amazingly, none whatsoever | I have been an insomniac all my life. No matter how hard I try, I have to take a sleeping pill. In the 70s I took Dalmane, which gives you a horrible hangover, then the 80's came with the wonder drug halcion, which i took for a very long time, but it started not to work. I went on restoril 30 mg every night, and to this day it works perfectly. I don't care about the addiction aspect, any chronic insomniac like me would tell you that you're better off being addicted to a sleeping pill than not being able to sleep. I have no intention of ever going off of these. | M | 42 | 10 years 30mg 1X day | 10/25/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | No noticeable side effects | I don't take Temazepam everyday, only 30mg (initial 15mg did nothing) as needed, 2-4 times every couple of weeks. MY MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS: Slight GAD (not too bad, mostly when trying to fall asleep), Panic Attacks (Xanax for that, not so often once diagnosed & treated for ADHD - my H=HYPERreactive & HYPERsensitive), Adult ADHD (Adderall 10mg 2-3 times daily). Work Evenings/Nights in a Hospital for the past 13 years. I have been prescribed Ambien, Lunesta, and tried natural alternatives. Restoril is one of the older prescription sleeping aides on the market, it's been around for a long time. ****SAFETY NOTE: Temazepam has been proven unsafe for anyone trying or just not protecting themselves from getting pregnant. It has been shown to cause birth defects.**** My saving grace... I had a hard time falling asleep on Ambien and when I did I only slept for a few hours; Lunesta put me to sleep but I would wake 2-4 hours after and would have terrible anxiety. Neither one ever made me feel "rested". I have even tried doubling my xanax dose (@ 0.5mg) it does put me to sleep but I have terrible grogginess/drugged feeling the next day. Restoril is the only prescription sleep med that has worked. I sleep through the entire night and like some other people here if I do wake I dont feel anxious and can fall right back to sleep. I think it depends on your body/brain chemistry as to what will work for you. | F | 36 | 1.5 years 30mg 1X day | 9/15/2010 | 4 | Insomnia | None | Works very well but need to take "days off" as I build tolerance to it, then I go back to 15mg, work up to 30mg, then take time off or it will not work as well. I also find that at 30mg I feel very tired the next morning. This is best when you don't have to get up in the morning for work! | F | 40 | 1 years 30mg 1X day | 9/9/2010 | 5 | waking at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. | Some grogginess in the morning until my cup of coffee. It's a relaxed grogginess, so not bad. | I take it when I wake in very early morning (1-3:00a.m.). It gives me another 4 hours or so of sleep - wonderful. I've had to take breaks, a couple of days at a time, occasionally, to keep it effective. I learned that it works by increasing the efficiency of the brain's GABA receptors, so recently when it began to wear off too quickly I tried taking GABA (750mg) along with it. It worked so well that I haven't needed a break and haven't needed to increase my doseage of temazepam beyond the half capsule I've always taken (7.5mg). For me it's as close to natural unmedicated sleep that I have found. I love it. | F | 59 | 2 years 7.5mg 1X day | 9/3/2010 | 1 | Insomnia | I was extremely thirsty. I could not get enough water. Up all night and the next day. Bloodshot eyes and dilated pupils. | I had excessive thirst for the next day. I drank 2 Brita pitchers of water that night. I was up until 6 am when I had to get up for work the next day. The next time I took it I could not sleep again. I was more awake after taking it then I was before I took it. I plan to go back to the DR and get my Ambien prescription refilled even though it did not have the effectiveness that it did when I started it. Much better then taking Restoril. | F | 24 | 3 days 30 1X day | 8/26/2010 | 3 | Insomnia | No negative side effects. Relaxed me a little. | My doc put me on this to give me a break from Ambien. The Ambien was not working as well after 2 years and he said taking a month off would get be good for me. The tamazepam he prescribed was to help me sleep during this process. Well, I don't know if I am just having Ambien withdrawals, but after taking 30 mgs per night, I have not slept much at all. I don't want to take a higher dose because I don't want a tolerance to that one too. I am very tired, and not totally happy with the results of this drug. It may work better for someone who has never taken a sleep aid before. Just didn't work all that well for me. | F | 33 | 7 days 30 MG 1X day | 8/17/2010 | 2 | insomnia | This drug will put you a sleep if thats what you want, but if you take lets say 30mg you can easily stay a wake and be very relax and you will fall asleep where ever your at. But with stress and if at 60mg you will experience voices upon waking, BAD night terrors and you lose your short term memory- not nice- Yes it put you to sleep like a baby but beware of the side effects and addition. | F | 52 | 2 days 30-60 1X day | 8/6/2010 | 4 | Tiredness, lethargy, agitation, depression, mood swings, and increase in anxiety. | I have worked in the medical field for 27 years and currently work in a MD office. I was prescribed Restoril when I was unable to take any other sleep aids, i.e. Lunesta, Ambien, etc. I have a paradoxyl effect (opposite effect) to sleep aids and they would make me hyper and keep me up all night. As Restoril has been known to be prescribled with people who suffer from Restless Leg Syndrome, the physician I worked for told me to try 30 mg. nightly. The Restoril worked great. I slept 7-8 hours and woke up feeling good. I have been taking it for a little over a year, every night, and I am now experiencing mood swings, agitation, severe depression and increased ADD symptoms. I now need to start tapering off the medication but have anxiety about what I will do and how I will react. This medication works great for some people but should not be taken for a long period of time. I had no idea I had become as dependent upon it as I have. Be careful when taking this medication. It should not be taken every night like I have been taking it. | F | 44 | 1 years 30 mg 1X day | 8/2/2010 | 4 | insomnia | extremely vivid dreams, mostly pleasant | I have only taken this drug for 3 nights but so far it has been great! Having had insomnia off and on for years the dr. finally prescribed me trazodone which did not work at all. I didn't like the idea of having to take drugs to sleep and after trazadone figured i was condemned to a life of intermittent zombie sleepless-states. But temazepam worked! someone complained that they still wake, and this does happen to me after about 5 hours, but 5 hours is fantastic for me compared to 0. I haven't taken it long enough to notice any dependence but I do plan to use for a few more days, and hopefully by then i will be reset to better sleep mode and will only have to take it intermittently | F | 29 | 3 days 15-30mg 1X day | 7/31/2010 | 4 | insonmia | feeling loopy in the moerning as if i did drugs ot dranks the preiviue nght. hadhit a mailbox and had a fendd bender. sI BE CAREFUL M THIS DRUD. Som loss of memory its like i kno what i want to say but cant GET IT OUT.... | i sleep all nihgt on this drug | F | 33 | 30mg 1X day | 7/30/2010 | 5 | For a more restful sleep | NONE - NADA - NIL !!! As long as I take it early enough to get 8 full hours of sleep, I'm all set. If not - just like any other sleeping pill, I'll feel groggy. | 30 mg - 52 yrs old - 5'6" - 130 lbs. I have taken Restoril for over 20 years and it still works for me. I began with it because I was waking up with migraines - my husband reported to my doctor (and to me) that I was clenching my teeth (not grinding) in my sleep - job stress ?? So he prescribed it as a relaxant. 10 years later - I became a teacher - still stressful, but for 10 weeks in the summer I wean myself off of it and only take it if I have a PM migraine (actually Advil PM works better). During the school year I return to taking it every night. It has not lost its effectiveness for me (probably because of the break I take from it in the summer). That's 20 + years of success !! | F | 52 | 20 years 30 mg PM 1X day | 7/27/2010 |