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Benzonatate User Reviews & Ratings (Page 2)

Brand names: Tessalon Perles, Tessalon

Benzonatate has an average rating of 4.0 out of 10 from a total of 774 reviews on Drugs.com. 30% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 62% reported a negative experience.

Reviews for Benzonatate

  • cherr...
  • March 1, 2013

Tessalon (benzonatate) for Cough "I have had allergies for months. The drainage caused me to develop a severe case of bronchitis which triggered my asthma to be worse than ever before. Nothing was working for my cough which was keeping me awake night after night. Sleeping sitting up on the couch for 30 min at a time... Doc at ER gave me 2 Tessalon. Cough stopped almost immediately. First night of sleep I have had in weeks. Thank heavens she wrote me a prescription. Now I am looking forward to my second night cough free. Thank God for small miracles."

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  • Cracked...
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • January 2, 2017

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "A sudden fit of nonstop coughing landed me at doctor's office. Nothing over the counter helped. I felt like my ribs were cracked and pain was awful. My Dr prescribed Tessalon Perles 100 MG. No more cough and no side effects. I am back to normal. "

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  • Pano
  • Taken for 6 months to 1 year
  • November 3, 2019

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "Tessalon is helpful for Bronchitis. Especially before lying down at night. Have not observed differential effects between 100mg and 200mg nor between 1 and 3 doses daily. Most effective dose appears at nighttime with remediation within 30 to 60 minutes. Also helpful with occasional use for chronic sinusitis relief."

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  • Anonymous
  • February 24, 2020

For Cough "I had a slight cough going into the doctors to get checked out for flu like symptoms. The doctor prescribed me these useless pills and an inhaler when my cough wasn’t terrible. 2 days later here I am with an even worse cough while taking these, I think it made my cough worse if anything"

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  • Ruffy
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • February 19, 2024

For Cough "This medicine has saved my life. I had pneumonia for 2 months on 2 kinds of antibiotics. I couldn’t get well until I started benzonatate. My deep tracheal cough significantly improved. By day 10, mucus evaporated and overall strength came back. I call it the 'angel of mercy.'"

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  • Debbj...
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • December 16, 2019

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "The Tessalon pills are great! I’ve been coughing for a month and having difficulty with sleeping. The last 4 nights I have slept through the night. It seems to work best for me if I take one around an hour to an hour and a half before bedtime.Finally getting some rest."

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  • kirasea
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • June 6, 2014

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "For me, these are wonderful - IF I don't have to drive anywhere, or work. I've been on every other cough suppression & this definitely works the best for coughing fits! They also give me a "sedated" feeling, but not to the point where I need to go to sleep."

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  • tallguy
  • July 18, 2011

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "I have used this medicine for almost a year (as needed) within my arsenal of other medicine to treat my bronchitis. It is extremely effective. I use the max dosage of 200 mg. As far as I can tell I have had no side effects from this medication and usually I'm very sensitive to many medicines."

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  • Perley
  • August 25, 2016

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "Have been prescribed this med twice before. First two times worked like magic. Just swept the urge to cough away. This time, years later, same story. After 8 days of continuous wracking coughs, and 20-hours a day in bed, gave up on OTC-DM tablets and went for better help. After 1 perle, the coughing has subsided. No side effects. Bliss."

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  • Icesq...
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • December 18, 2023

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "Tessalon Perles worked very well for me. Stopped the hacking cough of COVID dead in its tracks. The only side effect I've had is a slight increase in sleepiness, which, given the situation, isn't a bad thing. It makes it easy to rest while recovering."

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  • Sore...
  • March 25, 2019

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "Bronchitis. I'm also a smoker for almost 30 years. Was hacking due to a mucus in my esphogus/bronchi that I could *not* clear out. My stomach, back, sides, throat and chest were in agony from useless coughing. Urgent care gave me these...along with the steroid and Levaquin I asked for. I had never had nor heard of this medicine. I didn't expect much. Says take three times a day. Well, you know I took one perle and within half an hour later-blessed relief? No coughing. Three hours or so later I started coughing. Had to dose again. Again....after half an hour of hacking--*poof* cough is gone. In my honest opinion this pill is fabulous!! It should be available OTC because everyone should be able to get this relief when needed. I have experienced no side effects from it this far. I have never experienced any cough relief like this. I used to lament the discontinuation of the old Vicks44, because that was the best cough relief I"d ever had. This stuff right here? Superb."

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  • Simi...
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • June 27, 2016

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "I've had asthma since I was a baby. all colds since I was a baby have ended up turning into bronchitis or pneumonia. I am 29 now and asthma only flares up once or Twice a year from a bad cold. The ONLY thing that has ever helped my cough was codeine cough syrup... It's a miracle drug. (Aside from inhalers but that never stops the cough) However after 2 weeks of horrible bronchitis with coughing fits so bad I am dry heaving, I went back to the doc and told him I needed something that didn't make me drowsy so I could actually function during the day without coughing. He gave tessalon perles. I just took one dose 100mg an hour ago and my coughing has virtually stopped even laying down. THANK GOODNESS FOR A NON-NARCOTIC MED THAT WORKS!"

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  • Anonymous
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • June 7, 2023

For Cough "This medication is absolutely useless!! It doesn’t help with coughing whatsoever. The only medicine that has ever helped for extreme coughing (a cough that literally keeps you awake the entire night) is codeine cough syrup. Of course, doctors no longer prescribe that cough syrup because they fear you’ll get addicted to a three-day supply of medication! Now I get to spend the next 12 hours sitting in an emergency room with my daughter because she has chest pain from continually coughing."

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  • Barbara...
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • January 11, 2016

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "This is the second bronchitis episide (6 months apart) that I have used Tessalon perles. They are like a miracle that let me stop coughing so severely and also sleep at night! I tried taking just 1 when first prescribed and didn't notice any improvement, so I've found 2 at each dose works miracles for me!"

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  • MrRed
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • February 21, 2020

For Cough "Have been prescribed benzonatate twice. Took one 100mg pill every 4 hours. Completely useless. A dry unproductive cough, that plagued me for days and days, just kept right on going. Eventually took come left-over cough prescription with codeine in it that we had in the house. Stopped the cough in less than an hour. Benzonatate is worthless. Don't waste your time. If your doctor prescribes this, skip it. It isn't even worth an $8 prescription co-pay."

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  • Vonne
  • January 4, 2016

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "I was prescribed this for cough. My sister is a respiratory therapist of 25 years. She said it's really bad to stop the mucus being coughed up and suppressing the mucus to settle into your lungs. She said a lot of people end up getting pneumonia when they take it for long periods of time."

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  • Befou...
  • April 4, 2016

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "Just started using tessalon perles while having a horrible cough from bronchitis. Very shortly after taking first dose I am hardly coughing at all! That's awesome as last night I was coughing so much I woke up with no voice! Not having any side effects from it as others have reported. Love it!!"

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  • LeFow...
  • November 14, 2016

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "Made the cough completely vanish, but had a pretty bad headache couples with constant drowsiness and light dizziness. Definitely worth it, but awful when i have to get a lot done at night (which i often do). Overall: They get the job done, but it ultimately you must weigh the cough vs the side effects."

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  • Chris...
  • January 31, 2020

For Cough "It does not help. I feel like the pharmaceutical companies are pushing the doctors to prescribe this medicine to their patients so they get more money. Why else would they not just give us the good old liquid cough syrup that has Codeine in it. These new pills SUCK!"

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  • Anonymous
  • August 2, 2012

For Cough "My doc told me I had an upper respiratory infection and prescribed the Z-pack and Benzonatate for the coughing. My cough was severe and already had lasted a week with it. My abs were super sore from coughing so much. The first time I took this, it seemed to work. I barely coughed the next few hours. When I took it again though it didn't do anything. In fact it made me cough more than if I hadn't taken it. Kept taking it before I went to work and it would cause me to have coughing fits and now my ribs hurt."

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  • Anonymous
  • October 24, 2009

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "My cough kept recurring for weeks. It returned two days ago and kept me in bed. I picked up my prescription for Tessalon Perle 100 mg this morning and took one and immediately stopped coughing. I have taken 3 more throughout the day and have not coughed. It worked amazingly well."

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  • afagan
  • January 1, 2008

Tessalon (benzonatate) for Cough "I have trouble finding something non-narcotic to help with my cough. I dont do well with most over the counter cold medicines for one reason or another. This medication worked great! It did make me a little sleepy but otherwise did the trick. I could tell after about 4 hours the effect wearing off. "

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  • sharo...
  • January 3, 2015

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "I was sick for a few days and the constant coughing was making my chest hurt. I thought I had bronchitis or something worse so I ended up going to the ER. The doctor prescribed Tessalon Perle. I figured it was a "magic" pill after hearing about the side effects. Cool! I took one. I did noticed the cough was reduced but still there. I did sleep better that night after taking 1 pill. By the next day, my cough was gone. I did have a lot of green mucus so I took Tylenol severe cold. I did cough but it was to bring up all that mucus. I feel better after 2 days and 4 pill later."

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  • Sickl...
  • December 21, 2016

Tessalon Perles (benzonatate) for Cough "I have had my respiratory virus for quite some time which had turned into a infection. I was up all night coughing and with a tickle in my throat. Could not even get a quick nap in I was coughing so much. I decided to bust out the Tessalon Pearls my doc prescribed me a year or so back.. after trying DayQuil and NyQuil severe which didn't seem to be working whatsoever for my cough. I took 100 milligram Pearl and within 20 minutes the urge to cough Reduce by at least 50% I'm amazed at how quickly it works and can't wait to fall asleep for the first time in days. I would suggest trying this before going to the more sedate of a narcotic and of things with the cough syrup definitely worth it and way less symptoms and side effects."

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  • Chris
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • November 17, 2023

For Cough "For 59 years, I have had terrible coughs that interrupted sleep for sometimes a month or more. Bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, common cold, flu...all of them left me with terrible coughs and exhaustion from lack of sleep and trying to sleep sitting up so the cough was a little better. These little beauties seem to take a little longer to work on me...about an hour...but after that, my cough is very light and far in between compared to normal, and I can sleep soundly once they kick in. They do make me very drowsy during the day, but it is far better than feeling like a lung is going to come up every time I cough for weeks on end. I just wish I had been given them sooner!"

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