Trazodone for Sedation User Reviews (Page 4)

• Fri...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 12, 2015

"Had similar experiences as many have commented on - primary reason for use was horrid insomnia lasting over 3 months (if I snuck in two hours a night it was a blessing). Tried all the usual stuff and some older tricks my Dr. had... Nothing. Biggest problem was I would doze off and have beyond horrible flashbacks from 5 combat tours and a chopper crash. Shrink says my mental status is not an issue, fit and sound. Just something that's gonna be trial and error. Lunesta was the worst as the flashbacks were nightly and freaked my girlfriend out to the point the relationship failed. Have no idea why this works for several friends (civilian) and I think it's a placebo. Switched exercise hours, diet. Just did not work for me."

• Har...
• November 23, 2009

Trazodone "I am taking 200 mg a night for sleep for a little over a year. No problems, except when I miss a nightly dose, I feel hung over the next day. Recently, I have been waking with a headache. I am going to cut my dosage down by 25 mg and see if that will help. My worry is to have an uncomfortable withdrawal period."

• EXa...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• May 9, 2021

"Started taking this after asking my doc to switch from fluoxetine (I started having bladder issues and was waking up every couple of hours in a night). The fluoxetine was supposed to help with my insomnia, but with my sleep cycle being repeatedly disrupted, the insomnia didn’t seem so bad anymore. I’m currently on 50 mg of trazodone, and boy, does it kick in real quick; makes me super drowsy, so I always take it before I get in bed. It’s nice because I’m knocked out cold for the entire night, but the drawback(s) are the groggy, hungover feeling in the morning, as well as making me feel a lack of motivation to do much during the day."

• not...
• September 8, 2009

"I have bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, so I know what medical side effects are all about. My doctor prescribed me trazodone to help me fall asleep. I am on 100 mg. It works miracles for falling asleep, however, in the morning, I cannot wake up. If I try and force myself to wake up, my limbs barely move, and I cannot hold myself up. I could not even get out of bed."

• Lyn...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• March 18, 2018

"I had been suffering from sleep deprivation and depression for years, but tried to ignore it. Once I started losing weight (130 lbs), I was concerned because I had no control, I decided to put it out there and fix it. My psychiatrist diagnosed PTSD and depression and prescribed Trazodone for sleep and other meds for the depression. Initially, the side effects were tremors, aching limbs during the night, and instability when walking. I persisted, and the results were well worth waiting for. I am now sleeping through the night, for the most part, the tremors are minimal, and the eating disorder is gone. Yayyyyy!"

• Glo...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 23, 2019

"Horrible, don’t take this. Took it one night for sleep. Usually, I am that type of person that once my second alarm goes off, I jump out of bed. With this, I couldn’t even get up. I felt so heavy, like I was dragging myself. Feeling didn’t go away until 4 in the afternoon. It wasn’t a pleasant day at work. Never ever again."

• Yo ...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 22, 2015

"I just started this medication a few months ago to get off Klonopin. It gives me insomnia as soon as I pop one. When I finally get sleep, it's bad dreams. I don't feel rested when I wake up. I've never felt shittier."

• Ano...
• May 6, 2021

"I took 100 mg of Trazodone to help me stay asleep through the night. It was the worst experience. Not only did it take hours for me to fall asleep, but the next day I had a headache that persisted the entire day, was extremely dizzy when standing, I had muffled hearing and ringing, and just felt terrible. This is day 2. The headache pain is slightly better, but I feel like a zombie and can’t think straight. Never will I take this drug again! I hope these side effects pass."

• Che...
• January 10, 2021

"This is my 2nd bad experience with this drug. I was prescribed trazodone 10+ years ago and chalked up my bad experience to my doctor prescribing too much. I agreed to try it again under a new doctor because a lot can change in 10 years, apparently, I was wrong. I was given 50 mg. I took one pill, felt the slight drowsiness after about 30 mins, but not enough to put me to sleep. It took about an hour or two for me to fall asleep. When I woke up in the morning, I had a terrible migraine with sensitivity to light and nausea that lasted the entire day and night. I feel weak and am barely able to do much moving. I am able to eat, but the nausea won’t go away. Excedrin was able to get rid of the headache. I took Benadryl in hopes that it would ease the nausea, but it has not. My only hope is that it will go away by morning if I ever fall asleep. I will NOT be taking this med again. I would much rather deal with possible weight gain from Seroquel than to feel like this for even one day."

• La ...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• May 13, 2016

"I took it for some years. It is addictive as you need it for sleep. After a while, you wake up at night with heart racing. I stopped, and finally, I need only 1/2 of .5 clonazepam. And I even forget. It was hard to stop that drug. But if you need it for other reasons, it may work for others. I think it's bad. Thank God I'm off of it! You need to withdraw slowly."

• 201...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 31, 2021

"I have been on trazodone 50 mg for 2 weeks now for insomnia. With trazodone, I can fall asleep within 20-30 minutes, but I still wake up after only sleeping about 2 hours. I do fall back to sleep easier with this med, but I continue waking up several times during the night. The last couple of nights, I have had terrible night sweats and bad dreams that I jerk awake from. I get up in the morning feeling very tired and lightheaded, dizzy with heart palpitations. I took my blood pressure this morning just to check it out, and it was 98/63 with a pulse of 96. I will not continue with this med because, for one, it doesn't work for me, and another, it has too many side effects I can't handle."

• Moa...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 22, 2019

"Trazodone doesn't work?! I have suffered from insomnia and anxiety for 8 years. I drink one cup of coffee in the AM. I have no alcohol or drug use. I was prescribed 50 mg. I took one, and 5 hours later, nothing. Not even the slightest bit drowsy. Took another tab. Still nothing. I slept fitfully for a few hours ...the same way I do when I take nothing. However, I woke up with the worst anxiety. My pulse was pounding so fast I could see it in my neck. Anyway, after two days of trying, I won't be taking this medication again."

• Lau...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• July 5, 2018

"Wow, I almost died from this drug. When I first took it, it worked wonderfully until it gave me non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. I went off of it, and then a few years later went back on it, and then it caused my blood sugar to skyrocket and then drop real low, causing me to wake up in the middle of the night, not being able to breathe and having panic attacks. I thought that I was dying from some other disease as my blood sugars rose to 284 and then dropped to 40 until I stopped it, and then a year later went back on it, and the same exact thing happened. It also messed up my vision. So this drug basically caused NAFLD, pre-diabetes, severe blood sugar imbalances, worsening insomnia, and panic attacks. I will never use this again."

• Anonymous
• May 9, 2008

"I have been taking trazodone for a few years. I had bad anxiety and a lot of trouble sleeping. It definitely helped me sleep. I had to stop taking it for both pregnancies. I will go back on it as soon as I'm done nursing."

• Jus...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 19, 2021

"I was prescribed a very low dose to help me sleep at night. The first night, about an hour after I took it, I felt like I was weighed down; I could barely stand to go to bed from the couch. I slept hard for the first time in months; but the next day, I had the worst headache all day, and I was dizzy every time I stood up. The second night I took it, it didn't make me even a little bit sleepy, and I had insomnia all night; no headache or dizziness the next day, though. Tonight is the third night, and it's the same as last night. I took it 3 hours ago, and I'm still not sleepy. I don't understand how something could make me have such severe side effects the first night and none any day afterward."

• con...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• February 19, 2016

"My doctor put me on trazodone and temazepam. I took the first at bedtime. Time did fine and took temazepam in the middle of the night. She gave me 30 mg, which was way too much for me. Most of the time I was unconscious, falling down every day and when I got up. The nurse put me down to 15 mg and I did much better and took it at bedtime, still had problems. I wrecked my car three times. Insurance wouldn't believe me and I lost that. I was in the hospital and sent to rehab and while there totally stopped the temazepam. I don't fall anymore, thank God, but can't find any insurance and I drive as little as possible. I do have COPD and have enough problems with that."

• Jim...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• April 28, 2022

"I took trazodone 150 mg for 8 years. My new PCP asked me if it helped me sleep. I told him it has become ineffective. He stopped it that day without tapering me. I didn't know it was also an SSRI. I can't take what I call regular SSRIs because I always had side effects. Two days after I stopped, I couldn't go to sleep until 3 a.m. I had vivid dreams and felt like I wasn't sleeping at all. By 6 a.m. I would wake up like clockwork with a mild headache and very nervous until I got out of bed and had a cup of coffee. The doctor told me this doesn't happen with trazodone. I moved two months later to Nevada. It's been 9 months since I was cut off from trazodone. I still can't go to sleep until 3 a.m. I still have the vivid dreams while I am sleeping and still wake up at 6 a.m. without seeing the time, with the same mild headache and nervousness. My new PCP told me I have discontinuation syndrome and it can last up to a year since I took it so long. It's been hard for me to do anything and wish this would go away."

• Id1...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• August 17, 2022

"First used trazodone when I was in treatment for alcohol abuse. Took that at 50 mg to actually get some sleep and ended up taking it and worked great. I have never been a fan of sleeping pills, as I always wake up super drowsy. For me, I ended up getting 100 mg after about a year, and I sleep great and never wake up groggy or drowsy. Not as fast-acting for me, usually about half an hour before I feel the effects."

• Dut...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 9, 2020

Trazodone "I was prescribed Trazodone so I could get to sleep-many nights of awake all night with no relief! I am a very healthy and active 76-year-old woman. This drug is the worst excuse for 'medicine' I have ever tried. I vomited all night, had the trots, and the stabbing pains in my back, chest, and acid-burning stomach were the worst pain, including childbirth, I had ever had. I really thought I was going to die. I took one (50 mg) pill. I fell on the floor and was literally paralyzed. If I could have reached a phone, I would have called 911. Don't take this trash-EVER."

• Gub...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 9, 2021

"I tried trazodone to help with sleep. It stuffed up my nose to the point I couldn't breathe through my nose, making sleep more difficult. When I did sleep, I woke up with a dry mouth and throat multiple times, and I woke up 3 times with my eyes so dry they hurt and ended up using eye moisturizing drops in the middle of the night multiple times. Trazodone, for me, helped get me less sleep...not more."

• bog...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 18, 2022

"Trazodone is an amazing sleeping aid, if not the best. It had some side effects for me, including increased appetite and hypotension. I use Seroquel now - it is less effective at sedation but has negligible side effects. Despite the side effects associated with Trazodone, I really don’t think there’s a better sedative for getting to sleep and waking up feeling rested."

• One...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 11, 2021

"I took this at 50 mg to offset activating side effects of my antidepressant. 50 worked a while without much issue, but then was increased to 100 mg after a few days because it stopped working. Took a break for a while. Last night tried to take 100 mg of trazodone again since switching to bupropion, which causes major issues with insomnia (sleeping 1-2 hours at most or not at all). Bupropion gave me no headaches, but when I added on trazodone 100 last night, wow, this is one of the worst headaches I have ever experienced. Similar to when I had viral meningitis. Whole head is throbbing, and I can’t move my head without making it worse. And I have suffered from chronic migraine for 10+ years, so I know what a bad headache feels like. This is right on the level of headaches that I have gone to the ER for."

• Wid...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 9, 2016

"I was given trazodone by mistake in the hospital after hysterectomy. I normally take clonazepam for sleep and asked for that but was given trazodone instead. One of the worst nights of my life. I was anxious and unable to sleep, and whenever I closed my eyes, I had visions of gory dismembered body parts that would not go away (like a vision of hell or something, crazy). It went on all night long, never experienced that before. I only took it that one night in the hospital (didn't find out 'til later it was the wrong drug). Evil, evil drug. At least for me."

• Kat...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 26, 2018

"On my 5th day of trazodone, jittery at times. Started sleeping, then it stopped. Most people say it takes 10 days to work, so I am hanging in there. Removed depression fast, but heard this drug can give you euphoria also. Need my sleep, so will give it a few more days..."

• Tra...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 18, 2021

"I was prescribed trazodone 50 mg to help me sleep better. It made me have suicidal thoughts, increased my anxiety by a lot, and made me have panic attacks more than once every day. It basically made me not want to live, which, you guessed it, is not very good for a drug supposed to help me sleep. I got off of it, and the side effects lasted for about 2 weeks, but I was on it for only two weeks. Not everyone reacts the same to drugs, but considering the horrible side effects it had on me, I could not recommend it less."