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Below are Trazodone reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. This information is not vetted and should not be cosidered as clinical evidence. | | Trazodone review by 37 year old female patient | | | Rating |
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| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Sleep Disorder, insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 150 mg taken daily for the period of 2+ years |
| Other conditions: | | Fibromyalgia, Depression |
| Other drugs taken: | | Tramadol, Effexor XR | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | I was able to fall asleep and stay asleep. |
| Side effects: | | I do not experience side effects IF I practice these other habits: not drink any coffee after 10 am; I have to take the drug between 9:30 and 10:15 pm and go to sleep then. If I take the drug after 10:30pm, I will be woozy and drugged the next day. If I have to stay up later for any reason, then I can't take the drug and therefore will have insomnia and interrupted sleep. |
| Comments: | | Take 150 mg at bedtime and go to sleep immediately thereafter. |
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| | Trazodone review by 27 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50mg taken nightly for the period of 4 years |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | relief of insomnia |
| Side effects: | | grogginess in the morning |
| Comments: | | 50mg nightly |
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| | Trazodone review by 27 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 25mg taken nightly for the period of 4 years |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Sleeping through the night |
| Side effects: | | Grogginess in the morning |
| Comments: | | Nightly use, one hour before bed. |
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| | Trazodone review by 54 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | depression/difficulty sleeping |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50mg/night taken nightly for the period of three years |
| Other conditions: | | hay fever |
| Other drugs taken: | | over-the-counter antihistamine | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | I took it before bed, and it helped me get to sleep. It also helped me cope during a difficult time emotionally. |
| Side effects: | | The drug is an anti-depressant. The side effect was sleepiness, which is also therapeutic when taken at night. |
| Comments: | | Ongoing treatment for several years with 50 mg at bedtime. |
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| | Trazodone review by 54 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Moderately Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Fibromyalgia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 25mg taken 1 pill at night for the period of 2 years |
| Other conditions: | | Insomnia |
| Other drugs taken: | | Premarin | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | This medication greatly helped me to sleep well. I felt more restored after a nights sleep. I no longer had trouble going to sleep and no trouble with waking up in the middle of the night, and not being able to get back to sleep. Unfortunately this medication did not seem to help with the Fibromyalgia very much. |
| Side effects: | | It put a damper on my libido. I wasn't much interested in having relations with my husband. He was not too pleased with this. I wasn't happy with this side effect either since it is not very good for a marital relationship. |
| Comments: | | I was to take this medication once a day. At one time the dosage was increased to 50mg but with the decrease in my libido and too much grogginess in the morning my dosage was reduced to 25mg. This seemed to do well in helping me to sleep better. |
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| | Trazodone review by 51 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Insomnia/poor sleep quality |
| Dosage & duration: | | .5 mg. taken nightly for the period of 2 years |
| Other conditions: | | Fibromyalgia |
| Other drugs taken: | | Cymbalta | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Could fairly quickly fall asleep, and usually stay alseep, with little "sleep hangover" problem that most other medications result in. I could function in the morning. My general health started improving (fewer flues and colds, headaches, stress and depression, and I had much, much less pain as I started getting regular sleep. |
| Side effects: | | Some constipation, maybe dry mouth and eyes (not sure if there is a direct cause and effect, but definitely an overlap in timing). About three months ago I started waking up during the night (anywhere from 12:30 am to 3 am) without being able to go back to sleep. Have tried numerous other medications and they all had much, much worse side effects that trazodone. |
| Comments: | | I'm not sure what you mean by this, I take trazodone nightly, and have taken it for at least two years. My worst experience from other sleep medications came from ambien (well before my doctor had even heard of the side effects I was having, nor were they listed on the medication or mentioned in the news). I also take cymbalta in conjunction with trazadone, which also supposedly helps you sleep, but the cymbalta alone is not effective for sleep at all for me. |
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| | Trazodone review by 41 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50mg taken 1/day for the period of 5 years |
| Other conditions: | | depression |
| Other drugs taken: | | effexor | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Trazodone allows me to fall asleep within ten minutes and sleep through the night, awaking in the morning without grogginess. |
| Side effects: | | I have noticed no side effects. I have never needed to increase my dosage over the course of five years, and when I skip a dose, my insomnia is exactly what it was before taking trazodone, no worse. |
| Comments: | | 50 mg taken with water directly before bed puts me to sleep within ten minutes or so. I wake up 7-8 hours later (unless forced to get up earlier by my alarm clock) without feeling drugged or groggy. The insomnia being treated was the kind where I was able to fall asleep after about a half hour in bed, but then I would wake up again after a couple of hours and be unable to fall back asleep. This mild, nonaddictive drug has successfully addressed the insomnia that has affected me since childhood. |
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