RESTORIL Reviews (TEMAZEPAM)Average Rating: 3.0 (214 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare RESTORIL with similar:
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| 2 | Insomnia | None. Couldn't tell I'd taken a pill. | Have been a life long insomniac. Laying awake at night one of my earliest memories. After years of using Ambien, I wanted to try something else primarily to see if I'd developed any addiction issues to Ambien. (No, btw.) Well, even the 30 mg. dose does nothing for me w/out a boost. I take no other meds so two nights ago I tried combining with a OTC sleep aid at 8 p.m., then the restoril at 10 and I slept but even then only for 4 hours and with waking several times. On it's own, it's done nothing for me. I hate that it's a capsule. I'd like to try and up the dose one night and see others have, but jumping from 30 to 60 makes me nervous. Wish it was manufactures in pill form that could be split. | F | 52 | 6 days 30mg 1x 1X day | 6/24/2010 | 4 | Insomnia associated with bipolar | Vivid dreams, anxiety dreams, sweating in my sleep. | I switched to Restoril after running through pretty much every sleep med on the market. Once I hit the benzo's I started with Serax (too weak) and then Xanax (too much half life + hangover) and was switched to Restoril. I'm not getting fabulous sleep, but I am getting sleep, and more importantly, I'm able to get up and moving in the mornings which I couldn't do previously. | F | 31 | 10 weeks 22.5 1X day | 6/11/2010 | 1 | insomnia | I have been prescribed Restoril for 7 years. My doctor prescribed it at a time in my life that i wasn't thinking straight. Now that i am thinking straight, it is too late. I now have to start the processing of beating this addiction. I have stopped cold turkey taking the restoril and i haven't slept since. I am on day four with little to no sleep. | Find another way to deal with your insomnia. This is a very addictive drug. When you try to stop taking the medication, you will not be able to sleep at all. | F | 48 | 15 mg 1X day | 6/11/2010 | 5 | insomnia | i love this, it has been the only effective sleeping aid for me. I have struggled my entire life with sleep loss, and i have never been so happy, the only thing is that, i have a high tolerance for this drug, as i take it every night, and i am worried since the perscription is so high, that i may be taken off of it. | F | 20 | 2 years 30 mg 2X day | 6/3/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | None at all. | I don't think I could function without this drug. I have had 26 surgeries in my life and was put on Restoril after a pulmonary embolism due to a fall in Nov. It has worked wonders. I have a busy life running a home and a large business. I can finally rest at night and function at 100% during the day. I thank God for the rest this drug affords. | F | 62 | 6 months 30 mf 1X day | 5/14/2010 | 1 | insomnia | Fell asleep quickly, but woke frequently during the night. After about 4 hours had to get up and take some xanax, my daytime anxiety med. Unbelievable hangover. No way would I drive feeling this way. No headache or nausea but feel as if I'm made of mercury or molten lead. Dropped to 7.5 mg last night. Just as bad. | I asked for this med because I'm trying not to use too much xanax, which I was taking to get to sleep (1.5mg) as well as for daytime anxiety. I took restoril for about 6 years in the '90s and thought it was fabulous, no hangovers, etc. Now obviously it's like a totally different drug for me. I've recently tried zopiclone (Canadian Lunesta) and trazodone. The former made me feel like I had no self and the latter made me a zombie and beat the hell out of my memory, as well as giving me bad dreams. So now it's back to 1.5mg xanax an hour before bed, only problem being its short half-life, 4-6 hours, for which reason I will ask my shrink if I can try clonazepam with its longer half-life. | M | 63 | 5 days 15mg 1X day | 5/8/2010 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression/Insomnia | Increased dreaming, increased anxiety, mood swing, irritability, increased appetitte, lethargic | M | 25 | 7 days 30mg 1X day | 4/5/2010 | 5 | Insomnia due to a medical condition | No side effects, no "hangover," worked incredibly well. | I have taken Restoril many times from 15 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg, even 60 mg. Highly effective better than Ambien, Lunesta, or Imovane. | M | 21 | 1 years 30 mg 2X day | 2/9/2010 | 2 | insomnia | wake up every 3 hours | i started taking 15 mg daily for 2 months and from the start i would wake up constantly all night. my dr increased it to 30 mg a month ago and the same thing happens. now i take it before bed and i need to take another one when i wake up a few hours later. not a good night of sleep ever. my dr wont prescribe me anything else so do not recommend it if you can try anything else | F | 20 | 3 months | 1/24/2010 | 1 | insomnia | A little groggy in the morning and late afternoon. And some memory loss and loss of balance. Built up tolerance quickly, but never exceeded reccomended dose of 1 per night. | I am addicted to this drug after almost 3 years. I started out with one 30mg a couple of times a week, then it quickly became every night. I tried to stop suddenly but went into major withdrawal. I am now under doctor supervision with tapering off. It will take many weeks, even up to a year. I am scared to death of this drug and would never reccomend it to anyone. It is a highly addictive benzoid and I feel it should not be prescibed in the large amounts that were given to me. I am having a tough time even with tapering off. I get up with withdrawal symptoms. I've heard it is harder to detox than heroine because it has such a long half life. One dose is in your blood up to 8 days. Never just quit this drug. It can cause death. | F | 62 | 3 years | 1/17/2010 | 5 | Insomnia following 18 w miscarriage | leaning towards none, feel somewhat groggy next day, tho with significant sleep debt | No problems falling asleep, wake up often/for hours. Ambien allowed me to sleep for 3-4 hrs then wide awake with little memory, 15mg Restoril woke up ~5 times per night but could fall back to sleep, Lunesta worked just like the Restoril, Ambien CR excluded from my insurance, 30mg Restoril - finally 7-8 hrs of continuous sleep :) Worried about tolerance &/or rebound after stopping | F | 35 | 4 days | 11/8/2009 | 5 | sleep | none | sometimes wake up too early but i feel that it has been really helpful | F | 25 | 3 years | 11/4/2009 | 5 | Insomnia, restless leg syndrome | No side effects at all | I had severe insomnia and was only getting a couple of hours sleep, at best, and no sleep at all, at worst. After trying several other sleep medications, I was finally given Restoril, which worked. I take 15mg which is good enough for me. Since I have been taking this long term, my doctor has me alternating Restoril with other sleep meds. I was alternating with Dalmane every few weeks, but now I am alternating with generic Ambien. | M | 46 | 9 years | 10/14/2009 | 5 | insomnia | I have no side effects other than a bit sweaty | After coming down off antipsychotics I had realy bad insomnia, I had this before I was ever ill since childhood(insomnia). I take 10mg before bed and I sleep like anormal person lol. No hangover atall. And the quality of the sleep is better I feel refreshed on waking. I would recomend this to insomniacsm I had no sideffects infact I feel so much better for finding something to help me sleep I no longer feel worried that I wont sleep and that has helped me too very good so far | F | 27 | 3 days | 10/11/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | No side effects whatsoever. | Gradually increased dosage from 7.5mg. to 30 mg. Have now built up tolerance at this dosage and must increase. | M | 55 | 3 years | 7/22/2009 | 1 | Insomnia | Agitated,angry,anxiety above and beyond what I was experiencing prior to taking the temazepam. | Prescribed 10mg for sleep. After and hour and a half I took another 10mg. Two hours later still awake and agitated and anxious. Finally took 15mg Zopiclone (lunesta) and fell into a very restless sleep for 4 hours - Major hangover this morning. Temazepam is not the drug for me as it seems to do nothing at all. Have been Taking Lunesta for 3 years but it had stopped being effective so switched to a Benzo instead - mistake. | F | 43 | 1 days | 6/4/2009 | 4 | Chronic Slppeing Disorder | Fomer 2 1/2 mg of Xanax per day, also 5 - 10mg of Valium Daily. I would alternate between the two once one stopped taking effect. Used to take 4mg of Roche Rofinol (aka Ruffies) Daily. sometimes up to 8mg. Been diagnosed over 12 years. Starting taking 30mg of Restoril, then immediately uppped to 60mg. Now I can take 80mg and still function like normal, as if I drank a couple of glasses of wine. Makes me feel good, and I sleep like a baby. | Cannot take Restoril for more than 2 weeks. It's not the high doses I take, but its the acid reflux after I take them. Only there's no acid, on the Restoril med comming back up in a burp. Tastes nasty and leaves a little heart burn. But when you're feeling good, its okay for a small side effect. I wake up feeling like I had a weeks long sleep. The following next 12 hours after I wake up are awesome! Drink some coffee and it feels like the world is yours, no matter how bad things really are. Downside, it's only temp. After 14 days you need to get onto something else because of the reverse chemical reaction. No Sleep, slight mental convulsions (nerves spazzing). But transfer to something soon like a ambemien to tapper off. Not another benzo. That will only prolong the withdraw symptoms. I'm 240 lbs, a well fit body builder, no steroids. Just life stress, i need sleeping meds to get me by. | M | 33 | 14 days | 4/19/2009 | 4 | Ambien no longer worked | None. I have chronic insomnia, nothing ever worked prior to Ambien, but it wore off. Now I am on Restoril 60 mg. | To function, we need to sleep. There is no grogginess in the morning. | F | 53 | 2 weeks | 3/18/2009 | 2 | Insomnia due to Effexor | Nightmares | I started out taking 15mg and that did nothing at all for me. My doctor increased the dosage to 30mg and that helped for about a week or two, now it's like taking nothing at all. I sleep less than three hours a night. I have asked my doc to put me back on Ambien CR, that worked well but made me groggy the next morning which is why I switched to Restoril. I would rather be groggy the next morning and get some sleep than be up all night and unable to function at work the next day. | F | 41 | 2 months | 3/5/2009 | 4 | Honestly, I can't say I've had any side effects. The drug does the job when I use it. | Over the past years I've taken it more often than others and I would suggest that I can build up a tolerance to it. As to it's being addictive, I don't find that. I do depend on it rather easily, but that's because I've always had a hard time getting to sleep. And that's what the drug has done for me. I can take one or a half a capsule, lay down and read and very soon I've gone to sleep....perfect. | M | 58 | | 2/10/2009 |