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 |
| 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 | 4 | insomnia | extreme fatigue in the morning and some throughout the day | I began taking this medicine for insomnia after quitting Remeron. While taking Remeron, I gained weight, suffered back pain, and experienced considerable irritability. I like Desyrel much better because the side effects are minimal in comparison. I feel quite groggy in the morning after just 25mg at night, however. Taking this with a light snack is crucial for its effectiveness for me; I didn't realize this at first because I was nauseous after quitting Remeron and did not want to eat. I plan to ask my psychiatrist if I can try a 12.5 mg dose and see if I can sleep through the night without morning grogginess. I have occasional problems with waking during the night. | F | 30 | 30 days | 3/23/2005 | 5 | | 3/7/2005 | 2 | insomnia/depression | groggy, feeling like I was drunk,not able to get up in the morning | I did not like trazodone because I only took one tablet at night, then was taking two because one wasnt working. Trazodone did help me to sleep but then getting up became a problem.I think it made me even more depressed, and if I conotinued to take them I could have come addicted. I felt like I couldnt get to sleep without them. Would panic if I didnt have them when I ran out I didnt get more just had to do without them. Now I take seroquel which I like way better doesnt give me a sleep hangover are make me feel dizzy. | F | 19 | 2 months | 2/28/2005 | 3 | severe chronic nightmares | i still take this medicine, which was given to me for unusually vivid and chronic nightmares, which rendered me terrified to sleep. this is not really the answer for dreams, though. it does knock me out and force me to sleep, with dizziness and a hungover waking, but it induces MORE horrific dreams, cold sweats, restless legs, etc. i have to constantly raise the dose, i am up to 7 now. going to stop. | taken with lamictal, ambien, provigil, effexor. a whole string of issues, and i'm only 17! | F | 17 | 3 months | 2/27/2005 | 3 | Bipolar II | Took Trazodone as main antidepressant for bipolar depression. 200mg day at bedtime. It worked well until it gave me priapism, which is basically a boner that won't quit for a few hours... | Helped me sleep. Its a mild, sedative antidepressant that works ok. Changed to Celexa a few yrs ago and find it better than Trazodone. Less side effects + more powerful. | M | 26 | 1 years | 2/20/2005 | 3 | depression and insomnia | groggy in the morning if i take too much. at first, no sexual dysfunction, but my libido has suffered in the last year or so (some signs of impotence and impaired ejaculation, as well). | since i've switched to wellbutrin xl, i'm going to try to taper off of trazodone. | M | 42 | 4 years | 2/15/2005 | 3 | For sleep | I have very strange dreams. About twice each week I dream about snakes. | F | 38 | 2 years | 2/4/2005 | 1 | Insomnia | Extreme anxiety, dry-mouth, headache, dizzyness. | After a very short time on this med, 50mg, I experienced dreadful side effects. Caused terrible nightmares along with extreme anxiety and panic. Although most people benefit from this drug, please be wary of potential effects. | M | 45 | 3 days | 1/18/2005 | 1 | insomnia, pain, some anxiety | Dry mouth | Seems to work for quite a few people, but not me. Even tried 100 mg. I was counting on it, because it is almost the only one you can supposedly take long-term, and it stays effective. But it let me down. | M | 49 | 2 months | 1/17/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | I am almost manic.... but I was when I was younger and this feels better than the alternative, which for me was depression and anxiety. | I think I have taken about all there is to take for anxiety and depression. Either it made me sleepy or it freaked me out. I was prescribed 75mg of Effexor and 100mg of Provigil. I felt ok for about a day and then I felt like my skin was crawling. I am still taking the Effexor, which seems to help the anxiety and am taking 100mg of Desyrel at bedtime. I have to admit, I am not sleeping that great yet, but I am soooo productive at work and the days pass sooo quickly. I work w/computers and have always battled sleepiness during the day. Not now! I love this med! | M | 44 | 5 days | 1/13/2005 | 2 | to help with frequent nightime wake | Wow. I sure do wake up with a headache, it's terrible! I woke up feeling unrefreshed, even with only 25mg of Trazadone! I came onto the computer to see if headaches are a side effect, sure are. And we are going out to dinner tonight. I feel like I shouldn't have taken the Trazadone, I am not myself due to the fatigue and headache from it. I tried it last month for a few days and finally went off of it because I was leaving for a trip to Hong Kong and Australia, and didn't want to NOT feel my best. Now that I'm back, I jumped back on it and I don't think I want to even THINK about taking another one tonight... | F | 45 | 7 days | 1/8/2005 | 5 | migraines | none | If I don't take it, I get very sleepy in the afternoons. | F | 62 | 10 years | 1/5/2005 | 2 | Severe Depression/Anxiety | Starting this med didn't cause too many problems but when my doctor increased the dosage, it completely knocked me out even when it wasn't night time. I was dizzy, nauseas, confused all the time. Does help with sleep but had no effect on me in treating ym depression | F | 21 | 9 weeks | 12/9/2004 | 2 | insomnia | Extreme drowsiness, dizziness, dry mouth, poor concentration, chronic nightmares, morning-after | While Desyrel (otherwise known as Trazodone) did help me fall asleep, its side effects are too much of a pay-up to bargain with. The drowsy, almost drunk feeling just after the pills set in was expected, but the extremely frightening series of nightmares I experienced on a nightly basis were not. My nearly non-existant dreamlife became so active and so disturbing upon taking this medication that I ended up requesting another medication from my psychiatrist. It became apparent that taking the medicine was for naught when I awoke in a cold sweat numerous times every night because of such scary dreams. My other complaint about Desyrel is the terrible hangover feeling I experienced every morning. It was difficult to awaken, and I was still quite sluggish, dizzy, and disoriented for at least an hour after rising. | F | 20 | 4 months | 11/30/2004 | 5 | chronic insomnia | None. The very first time I tried it - originally for anxiety during a crisis - it came on so fast and strong and I was so unprepared for it that it caused a panic attack. But later, when I knew what to expect from the drug, and was taking it only at night for insomnia, the knock-me-senseless-with-a mallet effect was exactly what I was looking for. Yet I have no morning hangover at all. And unlike almost all other sleeping pills, most of which belong to the benzodiazapine family of drugs which are quite addictive, people taking trazodone tend not to have to increase their dose over time. I take the same 50 mg dose I started on 3 years ago and it still works. | I've had insomnia for 10 years and before finding trazodone I tried every sleeping pill on the market with no success and many side effects. I LOVE this drug. It changed my life. | F | 42 | 3 years | 11/29/2004 | 4 | Couldn't sleep. | Mental confusion in the morning and mild distonia. | AAnnhh worked, but didn't like the way I felt in the morning. | M | 23 | 1 days | 11/11/2004 | 2 | insomnia | Freaky dreams of the scary, traumatic, and evil variety. Woke up freaked out from my dreams. Daytime grogginess that never wore off even after a week. Slept 10-12 hours and felt I needed 10 more hours of sleep. Felt like hell. | Yuck. | F | 34 | 1 weeks | 10/13/2004 | 4 | Insomnia/bi-polar | None that I know of, however I also take Topamax and Wellbutrin | Works better if you take with food. I take a dividose, I can take as much as I need depending on the time of night or how much sleep I need. I have been taking long enough to know how it affects me. I can't sleep well without it. | F | 37 | 5 years | 10/6/2004 | 4 | insomnia | just that it is hard to wake up in the morning | F | 29 | | 9/23/2004 |