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 |
| 3 | DEPRESSION-SLEEP | Didn't really help my depression but help me get to sleep. One big side effect is that I could not have an ejaculaion when I was taking the drug, | M | 38 | 3 months | 2/4/2007 | 5 | insomnia | None, until I got pregnant - after that, it still put me to sleep, but I had terrible headache and zoned out feeling the entire next day. Had to stop taking it. | F | 38 | 1 years | 1/25/2007 | 3 | Insomnia and anxiety | Parenthesias: pins and needles sensation in skin all over body; skin crawling sensation; chills. Drug-induced daytime depression for intial weeks, especially at 50 mg dose. Headaches. | I had months of intense anxiety and insomnia beginning earlier this year. The anxiety partially resolved on its own, but the insomnia continued. After a brief and very bad experience on Effexor, I tried trazodone. At 25 mg, my sleep patterns somewhat improved (from 1-3hrs/night to 4-5hrs/night). 50 mg was even better for sleep, but the side effects were worse, so I went back to 25mg. Side effects resolved, EXCEPT for parenthesias which eventually became so intense, even at 25 mg, that I had to stop taking trazodone. My sleep patterns remained at an improved - but not perfect - level after stopping. I may try again, at a higher dose. I plan to tough out the side effects as long as I can to see if I can get improved sleep that lasts even after I have to stop the med. | M | 43 | 7 weeks | 1/3/2007 | 5 | Depression, anxiety, insomnia | Easiest way to feel better with the least amount of side effects. Paxil was great but I slept all the time and gained a ton of weight, so used Prozac to wean off and switched to Trazodone. Dry mouth if I take 50 mg needed for winter, but I take less in summer. That and a 5 mg. Valium pill put me out peacefully. Some water retention and no weight gain. I take it at night only. When in a very tense situation need extra valium, but normally Traz cuts the need for valium and I feel human, not drugged. Easy to get on and off and cheap! Full benefits felt almost immediately. I can ignore things that used to get me down. No upset stomach and don't take with food. Start out at 25 mg. or less for several days and cut most of the few side effects. So glad I found this drug. I'm still losing weight slowly thru exercise after the SSRI's put the weight on! | F | 62 | 15 months | 12/29/2006 | 3 | Severe chronic insomnia | VERY difficult to get up in the morning, vivid dreams (not usually frightening) | Without any medication, I typically don't fall asleep until 3 am, sleep so lightly that I wake up about every 20 minutes, and wake up early because I can't stay asleep. This has been happening since I was an infant. A doctor finally took me seriously in seventh grade and put me on Trazodone to help me sleep. It knocks me out, but the amount I have to take to fall asleep makes it next to impossible to wake up before 10 am and not feel like crap (this is okay now because I'm in college and can schedule late classes, but I don't want to think about what getting a job will be like...). I also cannot sleep without it; I accidentally left it behind once when I went to visit my parents and practically went nuts because I barely slept for three days. I'm still giving it a three though because I am getting some form of sleep. | F | 21 | 9 years | 11/20/2006 | 5 | SAD, Insomnia | First couple days groggy a bit in the morning, but after that no side effects, including weight gain. | Reduces need for tranquilizers, gives me the added sleep I need, reduces any pain I have. Does not knock me out and I take a bit of valium with it at bedtime. Dose is 50 mg. Gentle compared to the SSRI's with the brain zaps, numbness and nausea. | F | 62 | 2 years | 11/14/2006 | 5 | anxiety with insomia | a bit sleepy in the morning at first but this has diminished. | I take this as directed at least one hour before bedtime with food. In my case 2 slice low carb bread. About 10 minutes before bed I take 0.5 mg of lorazipam. Works great. I sleep continuous, dream, and wake up feeling like I actually slept. Tried lunesta and felt like I had woken from a coma (no dreams and felt as if I did not sleep). So this pill in combination to early anti-depression/anxiety med (first 2 weeks of lexapro) has brought my life back to normal. Hope is that eventually I'll pull off once my GAD dissipates with therapy and lexapro. | M | 43 | 3 weeks | 11/13/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | Heavy feeling in head and headachy all day. Fogginess, short term memory loss. Never had short term memory loss when on Ativan or Dalmane. Increased Reynauds syndrome (cold hands). Shakiness. Moodiness. Increased esophageal dismotility (swallowing) -- especially at night. Decreased appetite. Digestion seems slower. Some cramps in legs. Helps me be more relaxed. | I have had difficulty sleeping for over 20 years and have been using Ativan and Dalmane to help me sleep. Recently, I have been taking Trazadone (between 25 and 100MG). Desyrel helped me sleep most nights. Desyrel helped me fall asleep more quickly and more natural. After taking Trazadone, I was able to sleep at least 6-8 hours; sometimes longer (just like when I was a child). Desyrel helps me sleep more deeply. Works best when taken just at bedtime, but needs to be taken with small amount of food to avoid stomach upset especially for individuals with GERD or stomach ulcers. Real stressful days and confrontation sometimes interferes with Trazadone's effectiveness. Also concentrating on television and reading cause my brain to be more wired and therefore Trazadone is less effective on these occasions. Non addictive. Sometimes I can stop taking it for 3-7 days with some minor adjustments. In order to gradually decrease my dependence on Desyrel, I taper the drug off. I do the revers | F | 60 | | 10/19/2006 | 3 | sleeplessness | involuntary leg movement, arm jerking. Still unable to sleep as these movements wake me up. | None | F | 52 | 35 days | 10/12/2006 | 1 | Social Anxiety,GAD,OCD,Insomia | anxiety and OCD worsen,heart palpations,Depression,makes me feel really out of it when i take the 100mg dose at night | got really depressed when i never had a problem with depression before,ive been on several kinds of antidepressants,and i think this one has been the worst one and i will never take it again | M | 16 | 2 weeks | 10/5/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | Terrible throbbing headaches, thick-headedness, memory loss, dizziness, dry mouth, weirdly amplified hearing (eating cereal was difficult, to say the least) | I took 50mg of Desyrel 36 hours ago and I'm still not feeling right. I feel like I have the alien mother of all hangovers and nothing helps. I'd rather have insomnia than feel the way I do right now. | F | 35 | 1 days | 9/27/2006 | 1 | sleep aid, anxiety | extreme hangover, extreme throbbing headache, extreme nausea, extreme fatigue | I used to take this pill a few months ago and stopped taking it because it didn't seem to help me much...then last night I decided to take it again (150 mg). I was expecting the dizziness and drunk feeling upon falling asleep, but I felt shortness of breath and mild nausea. I didn't wake up till 14 hours later with severe pain. I can't even describe how bad I felt. I couldn't even get out of bed. I threw up a lot, then fell asleep for another 4 hours and wake up with severe pain and nausea again. The pain didn't go away till another 3 hours later and I just regained some energy. I was even dreaming that I had a fever and was throwing up in my dream..that's how bad the pain was..I was dreaming how I really felt in real life. | F | 18 | 1 days | 9/12/2006 | 5 | adjunct to meds/ocd/dep/anx | In the beginning experienced naseau upon taking it , take with food it stops that effect. Great medication and used with my prozac and clonopin I have been GREAT!!! Give yourself the time to adjust . Used to be on 400mg a day. Now 100mg. Can't say enough good things. Sleep well, No hang-over feeling. A drug of many applications and relatively safe is MY EXPERIENCE ONLY!!!!!!! | M | 48 | 10 years | 8/31/2006 | 5 | Chronic Insomnia | I had a terrible episode of insomnia about 6 years ago where I didn't sleep for probably two months. I went to a hypnotherapist and virtually tried everything and was at my wit's end when my doctor prescribed trazodone. It has been a lifesaver!! She prescribes 50 mg a night but I cut that into 1/4 tablet so I take approximately 12.5 mg a night and do not have a problem with sleeplessness. Occasionally, I have to take another 12.5 mg but I don't have any wild dreams and no early morning grogginess. I basically have no side effects at all from this medication. I never want to be where I was before so I will continue taking this medication as I feel that it has saved my sanity!! | F | 45 | 6 years | 8/28/2006 | 5 | Fibromyalgia syndrome | on high doses I lost my appetite. But I was able to go down to 75 mg. | It has been very effective for me for 15 years, no bad side effects that I know of. It helps me sleep deeply (delta sleep, not rem sleep) and my muscles heal and I have little or no pain from FMS. I went on it slowly and it took several months to see the difference. At most I took maybe 225 mg and then tapered down to 75 or 50. | F | 57 | 15 years | 8/16/2006 | 5 | Difficulty falling/staying asleep | It took several months for my body to get used to it. Before that, I could never tell how I'd react to it. Sometimes 50mg would lay me out in 15 minutes. Sometimes it wasn't quite enough and it would put me to sleep, but keep me going into that early sleep cycle where you have odd, vivid dreams. Other times it wouldn't do anything and after lying awake for an hour or two, I'd have to get up and take some more. (For a brief time, I took Ambien to help me fall asleep.) I now take 50mg Trazadone and sleep fine and feel good in the morning. I'm a little more scatterbrained than I was before the meds, but that could be due to the Trazodone or the Effexor XR, which I started at the same time and take in the morning. | I used to think it was normal to wake up several times during the night and look at the clock. Now, I fall asleep fairly quickly, sleep through the night, and often don't wake up until my alarm clock goes off. Some people think that having poor sleep when you're off the Trazodone is a sign of dependence, but it's not if you're just going back to your pre-med sleep pattern. | F | 37 | 2 years | 7/15/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | I don't recall any side effects. | This medicine helped me sleep and it also helped my sore back. | M | 27 | 5 months | 6/26/2006 | 5 | insomnia, fitfull sleeping | grogginess in the morning which doesn't last very long | It helps me sleep much better through the night, even though I usually wake up fairly often. I take only 25 mg. My libido is very low, but that might be due to menopause. It has been a great help to my sleep. | F | 58 | 1 years | 6/15/2006 | 2 | sleeping aid | most annoying was the feeling of needing to urinate in the morning even after i had relieved myself. the sensation would last for a few hours. also, some grogginess the next day. | M | 26 | 1 years | 4/24/2006 | 4 | insomnia/depression | dry mouth, grogginess in the morning | Helps me get to sleep much faster, if I am anxious I increase the dose by 25mg so I sleep through the night, otherwise I wake up very early. Very minimal side effects. | F | 17 | 9 months | 4/17/2006 |