DESYREL Reviews (TRAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.0 (290 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DESYREL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DESYREL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | insomnia | None. I finally got a good night's sleep! | I have a connective tissue disorder that makes me feel a great amount of pain at night, and I was unable to sleep at night. After taking this pill, I was able to fall and stay asleep all night every night. Best of all, I woke up feel rested and not groggy or impaired. | F | 25 | 3 years | 7/12/2007 | 5 | Insomnia | None | Work great with no side effects. I can got to sleep quickly and sleep at least 7hrs and feel fresh in the morning. | M | 43 | 10 months | 7/10/2007 | 5 | insomnia | just some dry mouth during the first month. and lengthy sleep, with long, memorable and pleasant dreams [finally!] this is the mildest psychiatric drug i've been on. | i had never ever slept well until i started trazodone at 50mg. my psychiatrist prescribed this in hopes that "the mild antidepressant qualities" might also help. didn't do anything for my depression, but then again, i was later diagnosed bipolar, which doesn't respond to antidepressants alone. since i started trazodone, i do sleep much more than usual [10-12 hours is not uncommon for me]. but i also still have severe depression [which involves sleep disturbance] and i work late nights. i don't go to bed until at least 4am and don't have to work until 6pm, so no wonder i sleep all the time. i love it. | F | 22 | 4 months | 7/9/2007 | 1 | insomnia, | TERRIBLE side effects: I was told my my doctor to take one to three 100 mg per night. The first night I took 1 pill and several hours later I was still wide awake so I took a second one (I did eat before and after I took it). I woke up extremely dizzy, migraine-like headache, and nearly 10 hours after taking the second pill I had extreme nausea and vomited 4 times. Have been dizzy, unsteady on my feet, had headache, extremely fatigued, poor vision, heart palpitations, dry mouth, hangover feelings though I have never been drunk so I don't experientially know what an alcohol-induced hangover is like. | My Psychiatric NP wants me to cut back to 50mg for 3 nights and then gradually increase the dosage, but I will speak to her again, because I don't want to ever take it again. I have been taking seroquel 100mg for sleeping (I also am treated for major depression with Wellbutrin 450mg a day, 20 mg Lexapro). Because of extreme financial stress, my NP was suggesting me quit Seroquel and start trazodone to save monty. I have already had so many other health challenges in the past three years that I don't want to mess around with this any more. I have been unable to do anything at all today--having to stay in bed all day. I hate trazodone with a passion!!!! | F | 49 | 1 days | 7/7/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | I'm a woman, and I had priapism-it was AWFUL!!! It also didn't help me sleep. I'd be exhausted and feel so tired, but I still couldn't get to sleep. | There are newer drugs that work much better. | F | 26 | 2 months | 6/7/2007 | 3 | insomnia & mild depression | anxiety/irritability upon awakening | The anxiety upon awakening (which from my own research comes from the metabolite) was improved slightly when I kept dropping the dose. I got down to around 10 mg -- yes, that's 10, not 100-- which still knocked me out thru the night, but even at that level the anxiety would not disappear upon awakening. The drug served a purpose when used intermittently over a year since the benefit of better sleep outweighed the anxiety effects, but I'm past the insomnia need now and so have discontinued use. As an aside, I sometimes have severe hayfever reactions at night, and have been using 5-10 mg Claritin at bedtime; strangely, it also seems to help my sleep (the "non-drowsy" claim notwithstanding) and doesn't result in the intense hangover you get from Benadryl. | M | 47 | 1 years | 6/6/2007 | 5 | insomnia | Works well at 50 mg. However, cannot take more than 3 to 4 days per week. Otherwise, mental functioning affected. I alternate with temazepam as needed for chronic insomnia. Regimen works really well and is really cheap. | M | 61 | 5 years | 5/31/2007 | 5 | insomnia, anorexia, depression | difficulty waking up in the morning (mild) | it's been great for me -- I take a 1/2 of a pil (25mg) at night. It helps me maintain a normal sleep cycle. | F | 24 | 6 years | 5/30/2007 | 2 | sleep probs | Dry mouth/nose/eyes, night sweats, grogginess the next day, strange dreams, balance/memory probs | Glutathione works wonders getting off of meds (I used it for Celexa and Wellbutrin), and I am going to start it when I get up from the computer in order to get off of Deseryl. I found the info online when I was having probs getting off of Celexa, and I got it at the health food store. Give it a try. It is supposed to help release toxins from your liver (including medications), it really helped me the previous times I used it. | F | 3 weeks | 5/17/2007 | 4 | insomnia and anxiety | none really...except decreased appetite | it knocks my ass out most of the time..but when decided i wanted to get off of medications and tryed to stop taking it i suffered some pretty severe withdrawl(Depression was the worst of it and moody but the depression was really bad)so therefore im right back on it and what really pisses me off is when i told my doctor i wanted to stop taking it she said ok just stop.I asked her if that was safe and she said it was fine...She lied.. u definenlty have to be weened off that shit...thats goes with every medication.im finding out the hard way..I cant wait to get off them all and try to deal with all this shit naturally..no offense to all who take this but theres gotta be a better way then taking all this shit that most of the time messes us up even more with all the side effects and dependency...I hope in time ican be without all these drugs and feel what i should be feeling and dealng with it instead of trying to suppress it with medication..LOL talking outa anger i guess..dont mind me | F | 28 | 10 months | 5/12/2007 | 5 | insomnia | I would fall asleep easily, then wake up between 2 and 5 in the morning and could not go back to sleep. Trazodone gives me a good night sleep. I don't know of any side effects. | F | 66 | 10 years | 4/30/2007 | 1 | off doxepin to take allergy tests | Felt fluey dopey dizzy ,mood was good, slept OK. heavy headed | took for 18 days and had HORRIFIC withdrawal for 15 days Worst experience of my life. Should have been in a heroin detox center. Constant nausea ,pain in the pit of my stomach agitation depression Terrified that I would never come out of it Be warned A NIGHTMARE!! So grateful to be back to normal. NEVER AGAIN | M | 60 | 18 days | 4/23/2007 | 5 | insomnia | I felt a bit nauseous the first few times taking it, but now I make sure I take it with some food or on a full stomach. It also made me a bit constipated, but I have added more fiber and water to my diet and that seems to work. | I am finally sleeping and feel so much better! The morning grogginess factor is so much less than other medications. I sleep 6-7 hours straight and can fall back asleep more easily (which has never been the case before). I am in a better mood, and because I am sleeping I feel much more on top of mental tasks. I am taking 50mg 1/2-hour before bed and I'm able to fall asleep fast. I actually can fall into a deep sleep for the first time since I can remember. | F | 32 | 2 weeks | 4/3/2007 | 1 | Insomnia caused by other medication | wierd dreams, tossed and turned all night and did not feel rested at all. extremely groggy the next day, felt like i was half asleep and out of it. horrible taste in mouth, awful headache, swollen glands. | I personally did not respond well to this medication. Sounds like others did but I prefer a lighter sleeping pill like Ambien or Lunesta...they make you feel refreshed in the morning. This was awful and made me awful all day. | F | 26 | 1 days | 3/12/2007 | 5 | sleeping problems and anxiety | None | I was put on 100mg of trazodone to counteract the sleeplessness caused by lexapro. Now i take both (low dosage of lexapro) and Im feeling like my old self. I know it probably is going to take more time to feel the full effects, but right now im feeling pretty good. | F | 22 | 3 months | 3/9/2007 | 2 | depression, insomnia | heart racing, insomnia, fear of dying and doing selfharm, anxiety, depression | This medicine didn't work for me. In a half an hour after taking it, I was in hell on earth for 2 hours before I took Xanax. I'm going back to Remeron. | F | 21 | 1 days | 3/8/2007 | 2 | surgial menopause insomnia | I was very hyper on this drug and develped abnormal movements in my arms as well as myoclonus. I had severe mind racing and didn't even realize I was having dyskinesias until I started lowering the dose. Withdrawals are very similar to effexor withdrawals and they are HORRIBLE. I am still going through severe brain/body zaps, body vibrations, creepy crawlers on my skin, mood swings,auditory hallucinations, concrete-like headaches and head pressure, anxiety and a host of other withdrawal symptoms. Not worth it. | I was put on this drug due to menopausal insomnia. It seemed to work pretty good but I felt very strange on the drug. I still woke up several times a night and was very "wired" most of the day, unlike my usual self. I decided to wean down and going from 100mg to 75mg was okay, with just a little sweating. Then at 50mg it seemed okay. Once I got down to 25mg I started experiencing what I would call a mirror to effexor withdrawal symptoms. I went back up to 50mg and it didn't work. I stayed at 50mg for 3 weeks and just went cold turkey and now I'm going through nightmarish withdrawals that I hope will end soon. Beware of trazodone. | F | 49 | 3 months | 3/6/2007 | 2 | sever depression, anxiety, insomnia | In a half of hour, after taking the medicine : fear of dying, heart palpitation, insomnia, anxiety and depression. Dizziness and mild headache in the morning. | I'm going back to Remeron. | F | 21 | 2 days | 2/22/2007 | 5 | Sleep | Works Great | F | 41 | 6 weeks | 2/20/2007 | 3 | bipolar disorder/insomnia | extremely painfull headaches upon waking | helped alot with sleep but couldnt deal with the headaches. no over the counter pain medicine helped. | F | 24 | 2 weeks | 2/15/2007 |