DESYREL Reviews (TRAZODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.0 (290 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DESYREL with similar:
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| 2 | sleeping / anxiety | memory loss, lathargic, feel like I am slowly declining mentally, not working as good as it did when I started it. | I am glad I found this site and read others have memory problems - I have been fearing alzhiemers or something may be the problem. It worked great at first, I think I started on it about a year ago - seriously I don't remember! I never had a great memory to begin with but it is terrible now. I get times when it goes blank for a few min also - it is scary. I took 50mg mainly for sleep and it helped a lot. But the last month or so the return of the 3AM wake up returned. Increaed to 75 mg and I seem to sleep one night, then I don't - back and forth. When I do sleep I think it is from exhaustion, and I still feel lousy all day. I think after reading this I am going to taper off and go pray. I can't trust any of these meds. | M | 52 | 1 years | 7/17/2009 | 5 | Insomnia | Amazingly, none. | Doctor prescribed this to help me sleep at night. It really works for me, without any apparent morning grogginess, etc. I have become quite dependent on this drug helping me to sleep. | M | 61 | 3 years | 7/5/2009 | 1 | Insomnia | I have gained weight like crazy taking this stuff! | DON'T TAKE IT! I barely helped me sleep and all it did was make me gain weight. I gained over 10lbs. in one month! | F | 32 | 1 months | 6/23/2009 | 1 | depression & sleeplessness | Swallowing mechanism in throat stopped working; can't wake up in the morning, can't think til about 1-2 pm; can't process information; can't compose a damned letter. Mental confusion; short term memory gone--very troubling; slowed down like I was retarded.Ongoing daily headaches & migraines all of which abated when I stopped taking it. | After having described the mind numbing effects of 50mg seroquel, 200 trazodone/and three heart medications; the docs empathized, but stopped short of taking me off of it. Now, I can think, mental faculties restored; no fog; no headaches. I am really angry that an ongoing meds review was not performed by my docs. This after getting to the point of crying to ask for help to get my brain (working) and to think again. I trusted these folks. | F | 50 | 9 years | 6/9/2009 | 5 | fibromyalgia | dry mouth | i could not sleep because of my fibro. i hurt as a result of my lack of sleep. i was a zombie and became very depressed. i have a low tolerance to drugs, but this one works for me. it gave me my life back. :) | F | 31 | 14 days | 5/21/2009 | 5 | Depression, Insomnia, Migraines | Morning grogginess for the first few weeks. Abrupt termination causes an almost intolerable sense of malaise (I've forgotten to take it a couple times). This is a drug I will taper off of VERY slowly if I ever stop taking it. | I started Trazodone (400mg HS -- a whopping big dose) to help with insomnia and depression. I did not notice that it virtually cured my migraines (from 3 a week to 4 a year). After the depression lifted, I started to taper off of the drug. My migraines returned, so I went to a neurologist who told me to stay on it. I have, and rarely suffer migraines or insomnia. | M | 53 | 10 years | 5/18/2009 | 1 | Depression (misdiagnosed) | Hypersomnolence, homicidal thoughts. | Taking this medication was the worst experience of my life. I can be an angry person (I was going through a divorce) but I've never been violent. I wanted to kill people. I wanted to feel bones crunching under my fist. At least, I did during my 10 waking hours. I was also sleeping 14 hours a day. I'm mostly furious at my shrink for blowing me off, misdiagnosing me, and prescribing a medication so utterly irresponsibly. This medication may well help people who are depressed, have anxiety, or have insomnia. It certainly did not help someone who did NOT have those conditions. | F | 40 | 10 days | 4/25/2009 | 2 | chronic insomnia with anxiety | Titrated up from 25 to 100 mg. The first week was rough for me. I felt severe headache, hot/cold sweats, dizziness,extreme grogginess and loss of short term memory. after about two weeks the side effects went away mostly... except the memory loss. I already have a high sex drive, so didn't notice a change. decided to stop taking the med cold turkey because after 2 months of taking it, I still can't sleep through the night. | I think the effectiveness of medications depends on the person's profile and past experiences with drugs. I am desperately in search of curing my insomnia. It started when I got my first real job in a hospital. I am stressed all the time, in fear of failure. I work early (6am), full time, so it is difficult to experiment with different meds, due to the lasting side effects in the morning. I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of a 25 lane freeway with traffic rushing by me a million miles an hour, and I can't get out. Physicaly I don't have any problems. It realy sucks when you know your diagnosis is solely a mental one. I cann't escape my racing thoughts, and my mind has now become a prison. I'm only 23, and when I see blogs from people who have suffered insomnia for over 15 years, its scares the hell out of me. Have considered trying restoril, since I still have not had one good night's sleep in about a year. Would anyone like to talk about this with me? I feel really alone. | F | 23 | 2 months | 3/27/2009 | 3 | insomnia | Dry mouth, daytime lethargy, vivid dreams, compromised short-term memory | Increased libido, decreased pain in neck and back due to accident. Decided to stop taking it after three months because I couldn't concentrate during the day. Severe mood swings and insomnia for three weeks as a gradually decreased dosage, substituting with melatonin for the last two weeks. | F | 48 | 3 months | 3/17/2009 | 5 | depression, irritability, insomnia | distinct but brief AM hangover | As a physician with a life long history of depression, I decided to stop making life so hard on my wonderful wife. This drug helps me to sleep in 25 mg amounts. I won't use higher doses for myself and rarely do so for patients. I have also started Wellbutrin (part of my plan all along) 150-300 mg a day. Yes I sometimes forget the afternoon dose. But since I'm not sure if I need it, it don't know if it matters. My irritability is less, and I have not noticed the myriad symptoms others have. Perhaps you could talk to your doctor about multiple meds in lower dose for each. I know that is counter-intuitive (and a tough sell for MDs and patients both) but it just might be a solution for some of you. | M | 47 | 3 months | 2/15/2009 | 3 | Insomnia | At first, morning "hangover" or grogginess but that went away. Recently I've been experiencing pain in my kidney area at a dose above 50mg. | I've been taking this off and on for over 10 years. I've used as much as 200mg, with MD's approval. It works well but in the past year I've not been able to take more than 50mg, which isn't enough to help me much with sleep, due to pain in my left kidney area. The MD seems to ignore my comments about this even though I've had infections in that kidney some years ago and have some mild bladder retention problems due to nerve damage. I'm ready to find something else for sleep. Currently thinking of dropping the Trazadone completely, must ween off it, and try melotonin. | F | 51 | 12 years | 2/8/2009 | 1 | Depression | I was on Trazodone for a year or so due to long term depression (combination of hormones causing depression and child hood mental/physical abuse). The Trazodone knocked me out so I slept no problem as I had a 5 year sleeping problem. It solved that and made my depression alot better. BUT - my balance has never been right, nor have I lost any of the weight gained, and the worst thing is the memory. I feel like I have lost 90% of the words I knew before and have gone from being a very intelligent women (with 3 degrees) to having no concentration span, and a constant blank mind. I have been off the drug for over 2 years now and feel I am left like this. This has made me more depressed than I ever was as my career is suffering as I can't really remember what I do at work and can't learn new things anymore. I attend interviews and just sit there with a blank mind. I basically now want to end my life, so thanks for the Trazodone. It also ruined an already poor sexual relationship with my hu | DONT TAKE IT | F | 35 | 1 years | 2/1/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | I was up to 100mgs of this stuff at my highest dosage, and after I took it, I would lie in bed for about an hour (sometimes 2) before I started to just feel listless... tired, but I couldn't fall asleep. I was just lying there... it was a very creepy feeling. I felt like I had to remind myself to breathe otherwise I'd forget to. | Started off low with 25mgs, worked a bit, but not as well as I wanted, so I had the dosage upped to 50mgs. That worked okay for the first few days, but then it just stopped having the desired effect. I got up to 100mgs, and after the side-effects I experienced, I decided that it would be best to get off the med. | F | 20 | 2.5 months | 1/31/2009 | 5 | imsomnia, depression | If taken at dosages higher than 50 mg -> weight gain, dry mouth, dry skin. Bought back libido whilst being on Seroquel. | I second another females experience on this site about Trazodone doing an excellent job as libido-enhancer. I also feel that the lowest dosage (25mg p*day)does more for libido than the higher dosages. Now I'm able to orgasm again 3x a day like when I was younger. I couldn't do this whilst on 50 mg Trazodone. Traz doesn't really help for sleep, not even on 100 mgs. So I went down and noticed improved libido. I also take 75 mgs Seroquel + 1 Ativan for sleep. | F | 41 | 6 months | 1/24/2009 | 5 | Chronic Pain-Insomnia | Some weight gain and altered lab results (High blood sugar) on higher doses. When I first started taking it, I had about a week of feeling "groggy" during the day while adjusting and then no more side effects. | I had no side effects at all with this drug, I started at a low dose of 50 mg for relief of pain to help sleep, over the years it was increased to 150 mg, and that is when I had weight gain and some blood sugar (pre diabetes) problems. In all fairness, it was not 'just' this drug that caused it. My doctors put me on far to many meds (Lexapro and others) so be wary of what your taking and have your monthly bloodwork labs done. If the other drugs had not messed up my system I would still be on this. I am now having to wean off and take a "medication break" from Trazodone, but I would recommend it. | F | 44 | 8 years | 12/20/2008 | 2 | insomnia | tremors | didn't help much with sleep. i was on a 50mg dose. | F | 25 | 14 days | 12/10/2008 | 5 | insomnia | Over time, it became increasingly more difficult to have an orgasm. I'm suffering from short term memory loss as well. since I've always had a weight problem, I can't attribute weight gain to my side effects. Mostly its the sexual side effects that I have a problem with. I've been on it for 7 years, as a replacement for Ambien. But it does nmake me sleep like a baby. | F | 46 | 7 days | 12/9/2008 | 3 | chronic insomnia | severe muscle pain, mild nausea, weigh loss, headaches | I have been taking this for about a week and am in pretty severe pain still. I don't know what is causing the muscle pain, but my back, legs, and jaw are throbbing and have been since I began taking trazodone. However, I would much rather have muscle pain than not be able to sleep, so I am staying on it unless my doctor tells me i cannot. | F | 27 | 6 days | 12/5/2008 | 3 | | 10/28/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | Grogginess in the morning, weight gain | No other drug has helped me sleep, I take 150 mg. a night. I went up to 300 mg. But I sleep about the same on 150 mg. I usually wake once or twice during the night, and when I do I eat (something sweet). I think this has contributed to the weight gain. I feel groggy in the morning, until I have coffee. This med works for me about an hour after I take it. I also take it with Xanax, as the two of them together keep me asleep longer. I did try to wean off it 50 mg at a time for several weeks, ended up feeling wierd and started not sleeping again, so I'm back on it and probably will be for a long time! | F | 38 | 2 years | 10/15/2008 |