DESYREL Reviews (TRAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.0 (290 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DESYREL with similar:
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| 5 | Depression with anxiety. | I did notice hair thining after the 7years of using deyrel. Also,sinus congestion in the mornings. | It does get you to sleep at night,however its very difficult to get up in the mornings. That is why I work nights now.I think the other medications available for depression cause a hipnotic state of sleep. But with desyrel you experience all the stages of sleep through-out the night. I also take klonopin with the desyrel everynight. Desyrel also cause increase heart rate.At the begining of using desyrel I only took 75mg. Had to work-up to 150 due to anxiety. | M | 49 | 25 years 150.00 1X day | 12/13/2010 | 4 | Sleep problems from depression | Hair loss, zombied out | I've always had plenty of hair, and now, after 2 years of constant use, it has begun thinning markedly; At least 3 or 4 times as much hair as normal comes out with each shower. A friend who also takes trazodone said when she doubled her dose (from 50 to 100 mg) she, too, noticed hair loss. I'm now tapering and will try to stop and use it only when I really, really need to. | F | 46 | 2 years 100 mg 1X day | 12/9/2010 | 3 | Insomnia | Raised my prolactin level, stopped ovulation completely messed my system up although it did help me sleep. But it also caused night sweats but I am sure it works well for some people just not me. | F | 32 | 8 months 50mg 1X day | 12/4/2010 | 1 | Insomnia/Depression | Weight gain, An ill feeling, feel worse then when I started 2 weeks ago ... and try to stop taking this garbage, even after 2 weeks your body will crave this SHIT | It helped with the sleep but the side effects are not worth the cure. Do Not Take This Drug .... | M | 60 | 2 weeks 50 mg. 1X day | 11/27/2010 | 3 | Insomnia due to severe back pain | I developed pustular psoriasis on both my feet because of this drug. SEVERE pustular psoriasis. I went to the dermatologist and took every drug known to man to aleviate it. It only subsided when I stopped taking the trazdone. | I was taking 200 mg Soma in addition to the Traz to help me sleep. It was effective but the side effect of the psoriasis was unacceptable. | M | 52 | 6 months 30 mg 1X day | 11/13/2010 | 1 | insomnia | Horrible experience. Nightmares, cold shakes etc... | F | 36 | 1 times 30mg 1X O | 11/10/2010 | 1 | Not sleeping | Hair Loss!!! | I have no idea if my hair will come back after I quit taking this meds...I have taken it a year and 1/2 Have a thick head of hair and its thin...Also seems to have changed my texture.I have curly thick course hair now its thin and fine.I hope someone will post that it does come back.If I had know this was a side affect I would have never taken it.. | F | 43 | 1.5 years 150 1X day | 10/28/2010 | 4 | insomnia | drowsiness in the mornings if I get up too early unexplained hunger in the middle of the night. I feel hungry and get up to eat several times / night. Other sleep meds. have same side effect. | Does help falling asleep approximately 30min after taking it. Helps stay asleep for 6-8 hours. | M | 56 | 8 years 50 mg 1X day | 10/18/2010 | 2 | Insomnia | No side effects | It just didn't work. I am only getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night, and the trazodone didn't help at all. Useless drug for me. Might help other people. | F | 50 | 14 days 100mg 1X day | 10/16/2010 | 4 | Insomnia | I have taken this for at least 4 years during the last two years I have noticed I have had foot and ankle swelling and some blood vessels showing up there. I also take Ropinirol and Gabapentin for Restless leg and Prilosec for Reflux (GERD) I am thinking this condition might be related to my Trazodone but am not sure. | I once tried to go off Desyrel but found as soon as I cut back i could not sleep and felt nervous. So I am now going to discontinue Desyrel by cutting back over 8 weeks I have divided the pills into quarters and every two weeks decrease it by 1/4 and the last two weeks I plan on just taking the 1/4 tab every other day. So far this seem t0 be working I have just started my 1/4 tab and am still sleeping. I have discussed this with MD and likes this rate of stopping. | M | 56 | 4 years 50 1X day | 9/19/2010 | 1 | Insomnia | The first time I took it about 15 minutes later I had an overwhelming fear that I was not going to wake up. I even called my husband at work and told him to come home and check on me on his break. I went to sleep quickly and had horrible nightmares and kept waking up gasping for air but I couldn't hold my eyes open. I finally somehow forced myself to get up and go get in a cool shower trying to calm down and I had a full blown panic attack and for some reason kept thinking I was going to suffocate (when I was breathing just fine). My husband did come home and said I was wild eyed. I called the doc and he said I had to take it for a week and I would adjust to the medication slowly. I took his word for it and regretted it. The symptoms stayed generally the same but the last night I took it I was unable to sleep even though I was so drunk and sleepy I could barely hold my head up. I was too paranoid and was sure I was going to stop breathing. I was hallucinating while awake and h | I think there are better options for insomnia and would not recommend this medication to anyone. I've heard only bad things about it as well and I've made sure to tell anyone that would listen not to take this. I even made my doctor mad when I refused to take it anymore. He wouldn't prescribe anything else for me for insomnia! | F | 31 | 3 days ? 1X day | 9/17/2010 | 3 | Insomnia, Depression | NAUSEA NAUSEA NAUSEA, vomiting, diarreah, groginess. | I am sure Trazodone helps SOME people because I took it as a child and had little to no side effects. (At a much lower dose). When I started taking it again, I went from 50 mg to 100 mg in a few days. Once I switched to 100 mg everything went downhill. EXTREME NAUSEA and vomiting each and every morning. Groginess throughout the day was frustrating, but the groginess in the A.M. was the worst. Took me nearly 2-3 hours before I even felt slightly awake and functionable. If you have a weak stomach I would advise you to stay away from this drug. But if you can hanedle the nausea you might be alright. 50 mg didn't help me sleep at all. 100 mg helped better, but for me, the side effects were not worth it. Everyone responds differently however so I would suggest at least trying it if you need help with sleeping. Good luck! | F | 27 | 2 weeks 100 mg 1X day | 9/14/2010 | 1 | severe insomnia | While on a course of Amoxicillin, my doctor prescribed the trazodone because I had severe insomnia. I took only 50 mg at 9:00 pm. At first, I felt this weird "rush" coming over my body, and it went away. At midnight, I started to feel really out of it, and mad. Then, at 1:00 am I was stark raving mad; an absolute lunatic who wanted to commit suicide. I DID sleep, but the next day all day, I was very exhausted, and I was a zombie. | Well, I think that it looks like Tom Cruise is right on this one. Don't f with head meds. Too high of a price. | F | 41 | 1 times 50 1X day | 9/5/2010 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety | Congestion, drowsiness, hypotension, dizziness, sedation, cognitive impairment, memory loss | A useless anxiolytic and antidepressant, unless you consider sleeping 16 hours a day therapeutic. I can see the merit of a low dose PM for SERIOUS insomnia but anything higher than 75mg will turn you into a zombie based on my experience - and I'm about as easy to sedate as an elephant. | M | 27 | 40 days 300mg 1X day | 8/31/2010 | 1 | Migraines | I have had horrible side effects with this. I can't sleep, have terrible anxiety, can't concentrate. I have had a horrible taste in my mouth and now burning. I am tapering it off, but it has made my life very difficult for the past few weeks since I've gone on it. | F | 26 | 1 months up to 300 1X day | 8/31/2010 | 5 | insomnia, irritability, depression. | strong AM hungover. | Trazodone helps me to be less irritable, and i'm having the most restfull sleep after years. great improvements in anxiety, anger, and in schizoaffective disorders. | M | 24 | 1 weeks 100 mg 1X day | 8/15/2010 | 3 | Depression, anxiety | Brain-fog, shortness of breath, drowsiness, some muscle pain | Noticed some improvement in symptoms in the first week but therapeutic benefit seems to have levelled off, with only partial remission of symptoms. Conclusion thus far: Great for sleep (a little too good perhaps), not a very effective anti-depressant. | M | 27 | 2 weeks 300mg PM 1X day | 8/14/2010 | 2 | Sleep difficulties | At first, just a horrible taste in my mouth in the morning. Now, I'm having trouble falling asleep when my initial problem was staying asleep. Horrible leg cramps woke me three times this week. I will stop taking this drug. | After taking Ativan for 8 years because I wake up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep, my (new) doctor decided Ativan was no good, refused to give me a prescription for it, and wanted me to switch to Trazodone. I am not happy - and I've been assigned a new doctor, who I hope will agree with me that Ativan is the drug or choice. | F | 63 | 1.5 months 100 1X day | 8/6/2010 | 1 | Depression and insomnia | nose a bit stuffy (not bothersome) unwanted erections dizziness/off-balance feeling the whole next day seizure when i missed a dose 1 night | Was added to my daily dose of Prozac (which I have taken for years) after new stressors in my life caused insomnia. I read it was very commonly prescribed (an older drug), non-addictive, fairly safe to try. I took 50mg each night for 1 month. It put me to sleep but the whole next day I would have the hang-over effect which totally interfered with my functioning. So I decided to stop it and not get a refill. The next day I was a mess with high anxiety/panic/headaches (which I did not have before taking it). I went to get the 1 refill I had available and I took half a pill (25mg) for 7 days and then stopped. More than a week after I am still feeling off-balance and having terrible anxiety all day. To top it all off I am finding it impossible to sleep at night which is MUCH worse than my original insomnia. I wish I never took this damn drug to begin with...and I only took 30 full pills. This led me to do more research on the web. I found that prozac increases the plasma levels of trazodone (it inhibits a liver enzyme that breaks it down) . Also traz works much differently at low dose (50mg) and higher doses(eg 300mg) and those on lower doses have more trouble getting off it. And I have read countless withdrawal horrors and how people are tempted to keep taking it to avoid these awful symptoms. I made a BIG mistake taking it - very nasty drug. | M | 40 | 37 days 50mg 1X day | 7/18/2010 | 1 | Depression and Insomnia | The second night taking this drug I ended up fainting twice after getting up to use the bathroom. It was one of the scariest things that I have ever felt. My heart started racing very fast, then I started having really cold sweats, then I just blacked out. A few seconds later I remember coming to with my husband over me and I was severely confused and disoriented. Thank God my he was there... | F | 25 | 2 days 50mg 1X day | 7/15/2010 |