Flurazepam for Insomnia User Reviews (Page 4)

• cbonnie
• September 26, 2017

"I've been on Dalmane for 21 years now, and my insomnia started after I went through a divorce and had my house, job, then boom!! I couldn't sleep for 3 days! One of the docs I worked with prescribed flurazepam, and started with 15 mg, but it just didn't give me a full nights sleep I am on 30 mgs a night..no side effects, and thankful that there is an aid to help me sleep!!!"

• Barry...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• October 23, 2016

Dalmane (flurazepam) "Yes - dalmane is very effective at putting and keeping you asleep. I was prescribed it for four years before the dangers were known. By blocking neuron transmissions, mine were not communicating next day. I had a career that required thought, concentration and problem solving. I no longer could do any of that. My professional, domestic social and economic life fell apart insidiously over that time. I became agoraphobic and withdrawn, dependent on others who told me what to do. Recovery of my own mind took well over five years, many of them in a spin. I had been made very very ill indeed"

• Sleep...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• January 17, 2024

"For those in the U.K., Viatris began distribution of Flurazepam in Ireland under the Dalmane brand in November 2023. I don't know how things work in the European Union, but assume that Dalmane would be available throughout Europe."

• Nicko
• Taken for 10 years or more
• January 14, 2024

"I am so pleased to read that I am not alone here. I have been taking Flurazepam (Dalmane) 15 mg for 40 years for insomnia and anxiety after a traumatic period. In fact, I have been living a normal life with Dalmane and have always been happy and productive. Sometimes, I could skip a night, and at other times (end of the tax year, etc.), I would need to double up. Nobody around me, even my close family, was aware of my dependence. While on Dalmane, I have built up a successful business and put three kids through university. And now, they have made it unavailable in the UK. I am a mess, taking 20 mg of Temazepam and staying up until 4 a.m., getting more and more anxious, and eventually getting a couple of hours of sleep but staying in bed until it gets dark. I have no interest in food, muscle aches, and unbelievable anxiety about everything. I have lost a stone in weight. I have not been to work for a month, and my business is falling apart. Is there any way to get Flurazepam in the UK?"

• ehmwww
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• June 9, 2017

Dalmane (flurazepam) "CORE Med for sleep: This combo works for me & I've tried everything!!! Dalmane (30 mg), Gabapentin (600 mg) & 15 mg Remeron (VERY careful re: Weight Gain Side Effect, gained 20 lbs in short order), dramatically increases your appetite for Carbs & Sugars & overall appetite (what they don't tell you is that they give this to patients in the hospital who won't eat to increase their appetite). ***Dalmane can cause next day drowsiness but it disappears after a week or two."

• Kitten
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• December 15, 2019

"Was on Flurazepam 30mg for 3 years. It is a Benzo, with all the risks of addiction all benzos have. When it was abruptly unavailable, I fortunately realized quickly I was in Benzo withdrawal and switched to 15mg Valium. Valium has a similar long half life of Flurazepam. I am now slowly tapering it by .5mg a week via The Ashton Manual Protocol. Please google this and learn for yourself. There are FB groups that will help you if you are experiencing wIthdrawal. The answer is not to return to Flurazapam... it is to get off benzos. Read the Ashton Manual, it is the good standard for this unfortunate situation we are in."

• Layla
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• September 17, 2020

"I've been taking flurazepam as needed for over a year and can't get it anymore. I have no side effects whatsoever and I have one pill left. Flurazepam is a good drug and should be made available, I hope, soon. Does anybody know about this? Is Mylan making more of it? I sure hope so."

• DJM
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 2, 2020

Dalmane (flurazepam) "Dalmane in my experience is a "dirty" benzodiazepine like Librium. It lasts far too long and has a nasty next-day hangover. Its metabolites accumulate over time and made me fuzzy and forgetful. I wouldn't even recommend it for a short time. There's a reason it was discontinued by Roche, and only a couple generics exist. If you need a benzodiazepine sleeping aid, I would opt for a short course of temazepam or lorazepam, or even diazepam/Valium."

• Andie
• Taken for 10 years or more
• April 15, 2021

"I have been taking Flurazepam on and off for years to help my insomnia it was off the market for over a year and a different company is manufacturing it and its not the same. I'm going to contact them and voice my concerns It has done nothing to help my insomnia"

• basell
• May 17, 2015

Dalmane (flurazepam) "I have taken Dalmane 15 mg. since I had breast cancer in 2008. Worked great getting to sleep and staying asleep. I continued using it since I had several surgeries in the past years. This year I wanted to stop taking it. I didn't know after 4-5 weeks you are hooked on them, they are that addictive.It took me almost 3 months to ween myself off them with my doctors help. Dropping the dose and using Benadryl on that night until I wasn't using them anymore. I would try another med. if I never they were do had to stop."

• Neuro...
• July 29, 2021

Dalmane (flurazepam) "I am very angry. I wish there were a way to bring a class action suit——to force Roche to bring Dalmane back. My insomnia began 47 years ago and is currently worse than any of you could imagine. Mine is depression-related. My mental fatigue is a living nightmare of stress. I go for three nights with zero sleep, then black-out for two hours on the morning of the fourth day. I am seriously going to contact the Swiss headquarters of Roche. I know they will not give a damn but at least I will be one insomniac who is desperate enough to express my disgust. The generic Flurazepam my pharmacy gives me is garbage. The situation is no different from the difference in potency between generic Diazepam and real, brand-name Valium made by Hoffmann La Roche. Yes, Valium is very addictive, but tell that to patients who have major panic attacks every week. Real Valium stops a panic attack stone cold. The shame is that the real thing now costs a fortune."

• Dutch
• Taken for 10 years or more
• January 19, 2020

Dalmane (flurazepam) "I’ve used Dalmane for many years, but only occasionally. It does work very well. I take it about a half hour before bedtime. I tend to use it when I have something that throws my usual schedule off. I’m sure anxiety is a major factor. I’ve never taken it more than two nights in a row. My usual month entails taking it twice, if that, so I get a small supply at my annual physical."

• EGxac...
• January 23, 2014

"For me nothing put me to sleep and I had like 10 different things given, Dalmane worked and it keeps working, I have heard of the long term effects and well I tend to add melatonin lozenge with the approval of my Doctor and it keeps working, no side effects, no grogginess no bitter taste, tried going to lorazepam and that gave me palpitations, and every now and then when it builds up."

• LAS
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• January 14, 2022

"I'd take Klonopin for 20+ years and it took me many tries and much pain and suffering to withdraw from it, even though I devised a step down that was gradual. My body seemed to be saying that it could not function without it. I asked for diazepam after being off klonopin for two years and getting by with magnesium and melatonin. I knew I couldn't take it nightly but it sort of works 2-3 nights a week. I never want to be addicted again. Then I asked for something that might actually give me a full night's sleep and tried two at GP's recommendation and loathed them both. Then I remembered Dalmane. My dad took it after he retired many years ago and it was good for him and he gave me one years ago I still remembered that night's sleep as be blessed! So I asked my doc who said she really didn't want to give it to me. What docs resist giving meds they fail to recognize that lack of decent sleep is harmful, too. So I got Flurazepam and it works. I only take 1 time a week, occasionally twice. It is a miracle."

• Doug...
• December 3, 2015

"I have taken Fluazepam for IBS and sleep for over 20 years.I am 77 now get up for frequent bathroom trips but go right back to sleep. I take one 15 mg every three or 4 days, The days in between I don't need it for sleep."

• Peter
• Taken for less than 1 month
• June 28, 2022

"The 30mg Mylan flurazepam is, I am convinced, fake. I used to use the Roche brand and 30 mg was too much! Well, a few years after not taking it, I got a prescription of the Mylan 30mg caps. I took one. Absolutely no effect. 2 hours later I took another one; NO effect. TO NO EFFECT!!!! I am POSITIVE there is no active ingredient in the prescription I was given. I took a large dose the next night and literally nothing happened. I wasn't sedated or even slightly drowsy. I got fake pills. I reported this to my pharmacy and they accused me of abusing the pills! The very nerve of those people!!! Selling fake pills, and gaslighting me to make it seem like I was the one with a problem. I don't take any other meds or drugs."

• Timmy
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• February 17, 2020

"I am bipolar with severe insomnia. I rotate between temazepam, and dalmane so body doesn't get to used too it. With dalmane I can take less compared to the other, and get a better sleep at 30mg. No grogginess, just a good night sleep"

• basell
• May 17, 2015

Dalmane (flurazepam) "I have taken Dalmane 15 mg. since I had breast cancer in 2008.Worked great getting to sleep and staying asleep. I continued using it since I had several surgeries in the past years. This year I wanted to stop taking it. I didn't know after 4-5 weeks you are tooked on them, they are that addictive.It took me almost 3 months to ween myself off them with my doctors help. Dropping a night use every two weeks and using Benadryl on that night until I wasn't using them anymore. I would try another med. if I never they were do had to stop."

• Theda...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 21, 2014

"Chronic insomnia for years, had gotten really bad about a year ago so my doc made me try Flurazepam which I must say is by far the best benzodiazepine out there, at least in my experience with about every one of them that is used for sleep. From day two I slept like a baby and it reset my sleep cycle after the 10 day cure on my first time taking it. (Day one was 15mg and didn't do much for me but every other day was 30mg and worked wonders) My sleep was deep and quite refreshing and nothing made me anxious during the entirety of the time it was in my system. Only reasons I cannot give it a 10 is that it is very addictive (and stays for a long time in your system) and that my second cure didn't work so well...(didn't put me to sleep at all)."

• Anonymous
• March 13, 2012

"They tried everything in the book. I had a major motorcycle accident and had insomina ever since. Ambien worked for awhile. Then stopped. Was on Valium for years. Then I went a stretch of 3 months no sleep. Doc trying everything. Finally Dalmane. It works like dream. Due to my TBI I believe the insomina is worsening."

• Fredd...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• March 19, 2022

"I used Fluazepam years ago, worked great, no problems with long term use. Helped a lot with daytime anxiety as well; it has a very long half life. Doc switched me to Klonopin 5 years ago. It is very similar, a long half life BZ. Take it 1-2 hrs before bed. I tried Flurazapam again recently. I was disappointed. It was identical effect to Klonopin. But Flurazapam now has availability issues, and insurance company hassles. It seems today that the first line treatment for anxiety/depession, which is usually the root cause of insomnia, is Zoloft, 100mg, can be increased up to 200mg. If that doesn't work alone, add some Neurontin (600mg+) daily. Neurontin is falling out of favor now; but in my case, this combo has brought my 45 years of severe GAD under full control. I add to that Klonopin 2mg for sleep. Micro-doses of Remeron or Trazadone at bedtime help when insomnia return. Just watch out for Serotonin Syndrome symptoms. Good Health! Find a smart, compassionate doc to help you."

• skule
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• October 21, 2018

Dalmane (flurazepam) "I have been on dalmane for over 3 years as well as zispin as I suffer from depression. I was out of tablets a couple of times as I had to get to the pharmacy. I got some dalmane from my Aunt, and a few times it has not worked at all. "

• Bobby
• Taken for 10 years or more
• October 8, 2021

"Was put on Dalmain to help sleep then in 2021 it was withdrawn. I suffered real bad I tapered off but was than taken off completely it was a nightmare. I was on it for 35 years. I can't stress enough get professional help when coming off if used for long periods You may need other meds to keep a balance."

• Dave
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 13, 2019

"On flurazepam the first two nights I slept better than I had in my entire life, but for some unknown reason, those were the last two days the pills were effective. I take one every couple of weeks with negligible effects. How I wish they worked like they did the first two nights!"

• Lolly
• Taken for 10 years or more
• June 27, 2022

"I took Dalmane for 18 years. Pulled off the shelves in 2019. I have been in hell since then. Multiple Mri's, permanent ear, and brain damage. Dizzy, lightheaded, & now blood pressure and memory loss issues. I have realized after 3 years, & not getting better that these pills have ruined my life. I wish someone had told me to never take these!"