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 (started in childhood) | lucid dreams, any other side effects were so long ago I don't remember. | Suffered several traumas in childhood and adolescent. Had a nervous breakdown at 16. Received one-on-one therapy. I didn't want to take any drugs. Was diagnosed PTSD. Had another breakdown at 19. Received therapy and drugs. Tried Zoloft. Made me more moody. Took Celexa for depression and started on Trazodone for insomnia. Been on both ever since then. | F | 24 | 5 years | 4/2/2006 | 5 | Chronic insomnia and no REM sleep | I don't have problem falling asleep, but did wake up continuously during the night. Desyrel at 75mg at bedtime helps me get an uninterrupted night of sleep. THE DOWNSIDE ? If I don't let the medicine wear off with a full night's sleep, I'd be like a zombie at work. Memory...what's that? Thanks goodness my car drives itself to work ! | Still beats the pants off other sleep medications such as Ambien, Lunesta, Rozerem et al. | M | 56 | 12 years | 3/31/2006 | 5 | depression, anxiety, mild insomnia | lucid dreaming (dreaming while I was still awake) and nausea | the side effects wear off after awhile. it has really helped me a lot, and i feel like now that i get a good sleep at night that i am able to cope with my issues. i have felt a huge difference, and people around me have noticed my mood during the day being better. i wake up feeling really good, and every day it only gets better. | F | 21 | 2 weeks | 3/6/2006 | 5 | depression | At first vivid dreams, knockout effect, groggy in morning. Now at 9 mo. I only have to deal with "passing out" (falling asleep suddenly) 2-6 hrs after dosing. I wake up fine. | I was already taking Wellbutrin 450mg/day which helped motivation but only partially helped mood. I quickly acclimated to increased doses of Trazodone until I hit 600mg/day, where I am now. Most doctors and nurses can't believe I can tolerate this dose. The positive change with this combination was huge. Since I had maxed out on Wellbutrin and Trazodone and still kept falling back into depression, I recently began supplementing with Lamictal. Too soon to tell about that. | M | 44 | 9 months | 2/26/2006 | 5 | insomnia | The only side effect I can possibly say is sometimes I get off and on tiredness during the day. But that problem started a few months before I took Trazadone (but maybe I had it then because I wasn't getting enough sleep!). Or my tiredness during the day could be because of anxiety. So I don't know if Trazadone is to blame for that or not. It is still worth it because I need to sleep! | I really don't know what I would have done without this medicine. I take 50 mgs at night (sometimes 75mg if I'm really anxious or something is bothering me that night). I was having panic attacks before this medicine because I would get so anxious before bedtime cause I could never sleep. Now that I can sleep I don't have pannic attacks anymore. It hasn't gotten rid of my anxiety but because I sleep I'm a less anxious person. I am not saying this medicine is perfect but it is much better than alot of sleep aids because it doesn't have that addictive side effect that alot of them have..and it doesn't loose it's effect over time. I am still taking the same dosage I started with. | F | 23 | 2 days | 2/9/2006 | 5 | insomnia | Oops! I didn't take Trazadone for 2 days..I ment to put 2 yrs and 7 months. | F | 23 | 2 years | 2/9/2006 | 5 | anxiety, depression, insommnia | no side effects at all | I have tried every drug available for depression and anxiety---they either knocked me out, or freaked me out with panic. Trazodone has helped me enormously with anxiety/depression and for the first time in decades I can have a normal life. I usually sleep very soundly for 7 hours and wake up feeling totally rested. It saved my life. | F | 46 | 11 months | 2/4/2006 | 1 | insomnia, depression | This drug actually kept me awake rather than helping me sleep. Even though I was mildly sedated, my brain buzzed like a hive of bees. Couldn't sleep till after 3:30 AM and when I did, had very frightening nightmares. Sensation of skin crawling. | My experience with this was so bad that I would under no circumstances EVER try it again. Called my MD and insisted he try something else. Flushed the rest of the prescription down the toilet where it belonged. | F | 54 | 1 days | 1/12/2006 | 5 | to get off Ambien-insomnia | None that I know of except I get a great nights sleep. | I am on 250 mg. at night and I sleep like a baby. I've always had nightmares so nothing new there. I have experienced some absentmindedness--is it peri-menapause, too much marijuana or Trazadone? I may never know for sure. | F | 43 | 3 years | 1/11/2006 | 1 | INSOMNIA | TERRIBLE HAIR LOSS, I'VE ALWAYS HAD A THICK HEAD OF BEAUTIFUL HAIR. SINCE TAKING DESYREL FOR 5-6 MONTHS, I'V ALMOST LOSS MOST OF MY HAIR. MY HAIR IS THIN AND STILL FALLING OUT. I HAVE NOT TAKEN IT FOR 3 DAYS NOW. I COULD NOT WAKE UP WHEN I WAS TAKING IT. I TAKE OVER THE COUNTER BENADRYL NOW, NO MORE WAKING UP AT 11AM. TERRIBLE MEDICATION. I'LL JUST CONTINUE TO SUFFER NOW WITH INSOMNIA. THE DOCTOR DID NOT TELL ME THAT I WOULD LOOSE MY HAIR! | F | 40 | 6 months | 12/13/2005 | 1 | depression | loss of all emotions, manic | I took this medication for probably about a month, because my mother forced me to take it. It changed who I was for the worse. If I would have continued to take it, my parents would probably both be dead right now. That is something I never would have thought of but this drug made me a horrible person. I would NEVER recommend it to anybody no mater what! | F | 19 | 1 months | 12/12/2005 | 4 | Insomnia | Less memory, lower libido | I have started taking desyrel (25mg) and Paxil (20mg) 8 years ago for depression and insomnia. I have felt over the last 2 years that my libido is lower and my memory is not as it used to be. I'm not sure if it's Desyrel or Paxil that's causing this but thought I'd mention it anyway | M | 35 | 8 years | 11/30/2005 | 3 | Insomnia | I experienced very few side effects while taking this medicine (please see additional comments, though) | I do NOT recommend that anyone begin taking trazodone unless it is the only option left. Getting OFF of trazodone is absolutely miserable. I have tried to get off of it for about 8 months now, but the withdrawal has been so bad that I've always ended up back on it. It causes anxiety, agitation, early-onset dreaming, and some mild paranoia. | F | 21 | 2.5 years | 11/19/2005 | 3 | bipolar | confusion, dizziness, headache | I am supposed to take 300 mg/night, but I don't because I don't like the hang over effect I get in the morning. | F | 22 | 1 weeks | 8/27/2005 | 2 | insomnia/bipolar | Severe long term memory loss. I don't remember anything about the year I took it. It seems I was functional, I still see things I did at work during it (I'm a programmer, so I can verify that the code I wrote during the time is in fact mine, despite having no memory of writing it), people have remarked that I was a little zombie-ish and not quite myself during the time but mostly I kept going. I'm not sure what other effect I had, if any, since I can't really remember the time. My work seemed cohearent and sensible, including written notes, documentation, comments, etc so appearently I was functioning at least at 80%, possibly 100. I've asked a few people if my short term memory during the time, but (as I expected) they said that I was the most scatterbrained human alive, before, during and after. I'm inclined to concur, while I usually have pretty good long term memory my short term memory has always been so bad that worsening it would be of no consequence. | Since I don't recall the period, I'm not sure what to say. I did stay alive though, which was by no means a given going in (I had attempted suicide before and was considered at great risk of going for it again). The functionallity is also significant as I wasn't particularly functional before, or rather only functional in leaps and bounds rather then all the time. I'm not sure if the memory loss was worth it, but I'm glad to still be alive none the less. Though I don't know how typical my experience is, I'd recommend that you have a trusted third party monitor you and probe you a bit regarding your long term retention, such as ask you about major events a few weeks or months back to make sure they're sticking. If my wife hadn't (after a year) started questioning if this was the right option I would still be on it and be none the wiser - I had no complaints at all during the time. Had she known what to look for, I'm sure this could have been taken care of much more quickly and with no significant period of lost memory (a month or two rather then a year). Should this effect be absent, I'd be all for this medicin. | M | 30 | 1 years | 8/16/2005 | 2 | Insomnia Caused By Wellbutrin XL | Dizziness upon waking, my brain feels heavy all day, loss of appetite, rapid heartbeat, severe headaches all day, severe anxiety before falling asleep, nausia, dry mouth, stomache cramping, brain farts, I also have really terrible feelings of things touching my skin, and I don't fall asleep for about 3 hours after taking it. I feel like crap when I take this med. | I was needing to sleep because the Wellbutrin XL has the side effect of not sleeping. I could not get the full effect of from the depression med when I was not sleeping. My doc prescribed Desyrel 50-100mg every night before bed. You saw the list of side effects. I have 2 children under the age of 2 and I need to be rested to keep up with them during the day. This drug did not do that for me. If it works for you-good for you. It does not work for me. I would rather not sleep than feel like crap all day. | F | 25 | 7 days | 8/5/2005 | 5 | restless leg syndrome | none! | It worked the very first night. My legs use to twitch every night and would stay awake till 3 am. I won't stop using it. | F | 61 | 2 days | 6/9/2005 | 1 | depression | Felt half alive, numb & for the first 3 months behaved like a zombie. Very vivid dreams. Destroyed my sex drive. | Sex drive has never been the same - I cannot get the medical profession to admit that this was a lasting side effect. | F | 37 | 2 years | 6/6/2005 | 5 | Severe insomnia, depression | Memory loss, loss of concentration, weight gain, loss of libido. | This drug saved my life. I would have killed myself if I hadn't been able to sleep. It definitely has side effects, but instead of being six feet under, I am now married and have a 3-year-old kid. I did take the drug while pregnant, every day, but I cut the dose back to 75 mg nightly while I carried my son. Although I hardly slept while pregnant, and worried constantly about whether he would be affected by the drug, he seems perfectly normal today as a 3 year old. As for the memory loss, I write everything down. My computer at work is plastered in sticky notes. I send myself emails. I call my own voicemail to remind me to do things. I'm sure some people think I'm stupid or a bimbo sometimes because I'm sort of | F | 37 | 9 years | 6/5/2005 | 2 | insomnia | TOTALLY OUT OF IT, SICK TO MY STOMACH | I don't understand why it didn't help me sleep, it did work fast, but I felt like I wasn't even in my own body! After one night, I quit it. Just made me feel horrible | F | 34 | 1 days | 4/23/2005 |