DOXEPIN HYDROCHLORIDE Reviews (DOXEPIN HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.1 (252 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DOXEPIN HYDROCHLORIDE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DOXEPIN HYDROCH | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | rash | took it one time and now I am going to the bathroom. Feel like I am having contraction, peeing a LOT! | M | 52 | 1 days | 11/10/2009 | 4 | urticaria (hives) | sleepy and weight gain! | It took nearly 4 wks to be effective, my hives are still there but not everyday and not bad, but it makes me fall asleep almost instantly. Also I have gained 20 pounds, not too happy at all about that. I laughed when reading people's notes about craving and never feeling full, but it's very true for me. Want to go off, it, but I'd sell my soul to not have hives. | F | 45 | 3 months | 11/2/2009 | 1 | itching, stress | So far, I have been taking it for three days. itching is still there & always sleepy in the morning. Don't know if I gained any weight yet. | F | 27 | 3 days | 10/22/2009 | 5 | insomnia | weight gain, dry mouth | I'm 5'2" and have probably gained about fifteen pounds, which shows up a lot on me. But it's been worth it because I have had trouble sleeping my whole life, and it's sooooo wonderful to be able to fall asleep easily now. | F | 53 | 3 years | 10/12/2009 | 5 | Itchiness | Weight gain, drowsiness in the morning, increased appetite, uncontrollable food cravings, decrease in the quality of sleep I was getting | It worked great for the itchiness and I wasn't itchy anymore but I gained about 8 lbs and have trouble fitting into some of my pants. I was craving foods I don't normally eat. I am normally a healthy eater and keep my bad food cravings in check but on this medication I wanted to eat ice cream, chocolate, fries, etc. every day. When I would give into the cravings I never felt satisfied and would want to keep eating more and more. All I could think about was food. I workout regularly so the weight gain was really frustrating. I also would wake up in the morning feeling exhausted and had really vivid and intense dreams every night. I just went off it before the weight gain got out of control. | F | 27 | 2 months | 10/10/2009 | 5 | Insomnia | none! | I've had insomnia for several years. Fall asleep around midnight and wake up between 2-3AM. Unable to shut my brain off it just goes on non-stop preventing me from falling back to sleep. Tried Ambien, I sent emails that were jibberish in the middle of the night and not remember in the morning - wasn't good. Dr. put me on Doxepin, works well for me. I still wake up on occasion but generally fall back to sleep. I do find myself groggy between breakfast and lunch but it beats 2 or 3 hours of sleep a nght! | M | 8 months | 9/5/2009 | 3 | Chronic Pain - Neuropathy | Extremely tired in the morning; I forced myself to get up at 8 or 9 after 9 hours of sleep, and then I had to stare into space while I drank two cups of coffee. Also: sun sensitivity (a known side effect), and weight gain/edema (although I don't know for sure which of my meds or eating habits lead to this), and muscle cramps (which I have not confirmed to be due to the doxepin). | I was taking 2400 mg of gabapentin (generic for Neurontin), along with low dose hormone pills and 150mg of doxepin. I decreased the doxepin to 100mg with no noticable physical/mental changes. Then, because I was getting daily, serious muscle cramps, and because the gabapentin is non-negotiable, I stopped taking the hormone pills and slowly reduced the doxepin to where I am now: 25mg. The muscle cramps have lessened but not gone away. Perhaps not a cause and effect, and I am having my electrolytes tested because vitamin D deficiency (which I, and most chronic pain people have) messes with calcium levels (and calcium is part of the delicate equation, along with sodium, potassium and magnesium, for proper muscle function). I took 10mg of amytriptyline for two years before being switched to doxepin, and had no problems with it - but it was a low dose. | F | 43 | 4 months | 8/26/2009 | 5 | Chronic Hives | Tiredness, feeling weak, breast enlargement, weight gain, and feeling Bloated. | Worked great for hives. Hives are gone!, and no more itching. I just feel like if you took a pin you could pop me, just like a balloon. I have gained weight on this drug, and increased my exercise and went on a strict diet, and I can't loose an ounce! I think it slows your metabolism down unfortunately. | F | 37 | 3 months | 8/2/2009 | 4 | Chronic Uticaria | No major side effects. I was very drowsy the first few days, but that tapered off. My appetite definitely increased but no major weight gain because I'm trying to eat healthy and get to the gym. Getting up in the morning is a bit of a struggle but once I'm up I feel great. | I definitely have relief from my hives. The benefits outweigh the side effects for sure. | F | 31 | 2 months | 7/22/2009 | 3 | chronic uticaria | weight gain, dry mouth, strange dreams, very tired, hard time getting up and going in the morning, would just like to stay in bed. | I was having terrible breakouts of hives and itching. I tried Atarax, prednisone, but Doxepin worked the best and for the longest. I went approx. two months without any hives! They are coming back but not as bad, I probably need to increase the dosage (been taking 50 mgs at bedtime for almost five months) but I do not want to because of the weight gain, so I am trying to take Benadryl also. I am making an appointment with an allergist/immunologist to see if they can get to the bottom of the cause. Very frustrating to me because they just started one day approx. 8 months ago and I have never had them before in my life. | F | 41 | 5 months | 7/7/2009 | 5 | sleep aid | weight gain | Original prescribed 50mg had hangover next am cut back to 25mg,now dose is perfect for sleep aid | M | 47 | 3 weeks | 7/4/2009 | 1 | Migraines | Horrible weight gain. im disgusted. and very bizzare strange dreams and very tired wanting to sleep all the time bu thas got a little better. | I can't control my hunger, i was 120 when i started and now im 145. i have been taking it for almost 2 months. it has helped so much with my migraines but there has to be something else out there that can not take over my appetite this severely and still be able to control my migraines. | F | 2 months | 7/4/2009 | 2 | insomnia, depression | extreme weight gain - have only been on it 2 weeks and have already gained 10 lbs. helped a lot with insomnia, but if I have to deal with this continued weight gain, it's not worth it. i struggle with my weight enough as it is. | F | 20 | 2 weeks | 6/25/2009 | 3 | Chronic Idopathic Hives | I feel very tired even when I get 8 or nine hours of sleep. I wake up exhausted, feeling as if I got no rest at all. I am going to start taking doexepin around 730 at night and try to be in bed by 9:30 to insure a full nine hours of sleep. I may start to take it every other day? I am starting to eat more, it’s a little bit uncontrollable, but this feels like a total mental thing. I am going to start buying more fruits and replacing ice cream and bad snacks with sweet fruit. I am going to start going to the gym two to three times a week. I will not allow myself to gain more weight. At work I feel like I can’t concentrate, it is the weirdest thing. My thoughts are all discombobulated. I feel like I am drunk. I try to focus but it’s really hard. I am getting weird joint pain in my knees & wrists. The worst part is feeling this tired. Its bad. | I can tell you that this medication is working to reduce my hives. They are not gone completely, but I am getting relief. Also, as many others with chronic hives, the only other thing that would help was prednisione. Now that's a terrible drug. | F | 21 | 40 days | 6/23/2009 | 5 | itching | Very intense dreams and some nightmares. Weight gain, crave cupcakes uncontrollably. | For the first time in 20 years I do not have to sleep with a round brush by my bed to accomodate the head to toe itches that attacked me every night. My itching was so bad I would have to pull off the road and take off my shoes to scratch my feet. My legs would bleed because I would claw them. It literally made me miserable every day of my life. I can deal with the dreams, and I guess the weight gain, because I'm finally free from itching! | F | 49 | 3 months | 6/18/2009 | 4 | Severe Itching / Chronic Sinusitis | Itched all over and and could not stop scratching. Took all sorts of steroids creams and ointments, even did allergy shots for months, didn't work! I would scratch so much I broke skin and would bleed. As much as I tried to not scratch, I would. I did benedryl, but it didn't work. I been to several dermatologist for 2nd..3rd..4th opinions, nothing helped. Test came back negative. It came down to it being I was severely allergic to the world! My last doctor I saw was a dermopathologist who gave me a Rx for Doxepin, and I was thinking, great! Waste of time and money. WOOHOO I sneezed only once in the 3 days I been taking it, as oppose to the 300 times daily I would sneeze. | I have had very minor side effects, some minor drowsiness, but I take it about 6:00pm and I sleep peaceful at night. I don't wake up in the middle of the night trying to find a new position to sleep in cause I can't breath or am too itchy. | F | 32 | 3 days | 5/29/2009 | 4 | anxiety, SI, Depression, | Weight Gain... 125-150 in 7 months I listed what happened to me when i first started taking it in Novemeber, but I think that was due to an ambien cocktail | It has helped me, but I am going taper off. The weight gain is bothersome. I have also started ativan, I will try to manage with topomax and ativan | F | 40 | 7 months | 5/20/2009 | 5 | PTSD, anxiety, irritability | My boobs look AWESOME! OK, I also look like I'm pregnant after gaining 15 lbs all in my abdomen since I started, but whatever, that is sooo not important compared to how amazing I feel now. I can handle stress in a NORMAL way, and I swear I didn't even realize what normal was before. The dreams are odd and highly entertaining but don't last more than a couple weeks. I take 50 mg in the morning and 50 mg at night, I'm not having sleepy during the day issues, quite the opposite, I'm actually crossing things off my to-do list but not being depressed or overwhelmed about things I haven't crossed off bc I can handle time management and stress better now. I have been craving milk, ice cream and sugar like nobody's business, but since I've always hated the way sugar tastes, I'm enjoying this added bonus on the tour of how 'everyone else' lives that this drug has given me. Also, I started behaving better after just a couple days and it's reassuring to read the drug has been around for so long | If you prefer your psych problems over not having psych problems but being a little chunkier, then you probably didn't have the level of issues this med warrants being prescribed for. | F | 26 | 2 months | 5/17/2009 | 2 | Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorder | Increased sleeping, weight gain, increased panic attacks, bloating, dry eyes and mouth | I was put on Doxepin primarily for the depression and anxiety and i have to say while it helped me maintain a steady level with the depression it only served to backfire when it started making me gain weight. I put on almost twenty five pounds in a little over a month. Im now getting random panic attacks at all hours of the day and have been put on valium to combat them but nothing seems to be working. Im afraid I'll have to stop taking Doxepin. | F | 24 | 2 months | 4/18/2009 | 1 | Ulcer | Tired, nightmares, blurred vision, uncontrollable shaking, dizziness. | Due to reaction to other medicine doctor said to take early in afternoon. I fell asleep sitting up within the hour and then slept for the next 18 hours. It was not a good sleep - bad dreams and blurred vision in the morning. I felt like a caged animal wanting to pace when I did wake up. If I did manage to stay seated for any period of time, my foot would shake uncontrollably. After one day, the doctor said it was not a good option and took me off the medicine. | F | 38 | 1 days | 4/18/2009 |