Rozerem for Insomnia User Reviews (Page 2)

• CV4Pe...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• August 6, 2014

"Initially made me drowsily sleepy, but did not remain asleep. Got up after two hours to pee. Trouble after that falling asleep, slept two more hours. Got up again to use bathroom. Then fell asleep again and slept for approximately four hrs. Got up and was dizzy all day long and had stomach upset and diarrhea as well."

• SNARI
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 10, 2014

"I have been diagnosed with Bipolar, anxiety disorder and a few others. Insomnia is included in the mix. If I do not have normal sleep patterns my mental and emotional health become at risk very quickly. For the first month Rozerem 8mg worked well. I fell asleep easily within 30 minutes. I could have chosen to fight the drowsiness, but why take a medication then deliberately work against it? I found I had no side effects. However now I am into my second month and I am finding I can only average 2 to 4 hours sleep again and during the day I suffer vertigo and tunnel vision. So I am not sure that I will continue this medication. My insurance covered the medication without any extra paperwork."

• Chooc...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• October 16, 2016

"I have been taking it for four nights. I fall asleep for about an hour and go into a state of mind in which my mind is awake but my body is asleep. Then my body wakes up after one hour and I am awake for the rest of the night feeling extremely fidgety like I need to pace or jump out of my skin. The feeling continues for about 12 hours. I can't take it anymore. If it had no effect, I would keep taking it waiting for that magical night that many seem to express happens. This reaction frightens me. I don't want to chance rage like Wellbutrin causes in me."

• Mike
• Taken for less than 1 month
• October 16, 2015

"I just went to the doctor for insomnia treatment. I have tried some hypnotics before but it was a benzodiazimide drug and I had a terrible withdrawal from it. He suggested I try this drug since it is not known to be habit forming. At this point I'll try just about anything if it helps. The reviews here however are sort of discouraging and one pharmacy I went to didn't even carry it as he said there wasn't much of a demand for it. :( Hopefully it will work for me. I am running out of options. Have tried CBT-I with some success but am only able to sleep 4-5 hours with that and I get tired during the day. What's weird is I will fall asleep watching TV at night but when I go to bed I am awake all night it seems."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 1, 2012

"While Rozerem is effective for getting and staying asleep, I am spaced out the next day with a strange feeling that, even though my body has had a good night rest, I still want to go take a nap at periods through the day - not a normal tiredness, but a drug induced grogginess that comes on suddenly. Also, hard to focus my attention the next day. I went on this because Ambien gave me short term memory loss though I had no grogginess the next day on Ambien. The best result for me is to just sleep naturally with whatever hours I can get."

• Ophelia
• September 22, 2016

"Drowsiness but no sleep, so much worse than the Ambien and Lunesta that at least work a little. Finally fell asleep at 6am, woke three hours later, felt like death all day. Dizzy, drowsy, poor appetite, felt like my body was made of lead. I'm often low energy but this was scary. Took for one night, would rather stay awake all night than do it againz"

• Laurat
• December 18, 2015

"I only took it for three nights before I gave up. It seemed to keep me up longer than usual. The worst part was that I was dizzy the next day almost like vertigo, usually when I go from a laying down to standing position. The room just spins. It's been three nights since I've taken the medication and these side effects have not gotten any better."

• Fossil
• April 2, 2017

"It's very expensive for it NOT to be effective. My insurance paid $400 & my copay was $100. Pharmacy said it was effective which within 3 days nothing happen. It seems I stayed up longer. Took it at 9 pm. Supposedly you are to take it 30 minutes before bedtime. I stayed up till 4 am & 5 am. I took Advil PM since I had to get some sleep. It was more effective then this very expensive medication that I can't get a refund. Do not buy it unless your insurance covers it all. Maybe asked for a sample before buying a month supply."

• Loop
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• May 16, 2019

"I found that Rozerem worked very well with my insomnia. It didn’t knock me out/ keep me knocked out like most anti-depressants that are also used as a sleep aid. I was able to wake up normally and fall asleep and stay asleep. Only problem is I became tolerant to it and it didn’t work as well after a couple years. Another problem is that there is no generic so my insurance stopped covering it and I had to stop taking it."

• Jgal
• May 11, 2011

"Took Rozerem last night for the first time and got drowsy and fell asleep, but my body twitched all night. My sleep was not consistent and I woke up all throughout the night. In the morning I slept well past 11 a.m., I felt like a ton of bricks and could not get up. I am usually up and about and running around all day long. Today, I couldn't even leave the house I was so lethargic from the medicine. I stayed home, didn't even change clothes, and laid on the couch with my eyes closed for hours. It's almost 9pm the next day and I still feel really weird and tired. My mind was in a daze all day as if I couldn't get anything done as a result. "

• Anonymous
• December 9, 2009

"This pill is the only sleep medicine that hasn't made me hallucinate (like Ambien and Sonata), made me gain weight (like so many mood stabilizers) or made me sleep too much. In fact, I haven't had really any side effects whatsoever. It takes 3 weeks to get working, but after that, my sleep became regular, and I get about 6-8 hours a night. Perfect!"

• thomas...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• April 9, 2019

"Like ambien, rozerem causes drowsiness and decreases mental alertness and they both carry over these side effects into the next morning. Unlike ambien, rozerem does not carry the same risk of negatively effecting your GABA receptors over time. Rozerem increases and ambien decreases frequency of dream states."

• N rec...
• November 11, 2011

"I am coming off more than a couple non-prescribed medicines and could not sleep. I didn't want anything else addicting so the doctor said try this. I take this combined with 1mg of melatonin. Seems to work great so far the only thing I don't know is whether the 50mg of doxepin has something to do but I have taken it 5 days and no problems. I take it at 11pm and am out cold within 20 minutes but I get straight in bed. Other than that no side effects. I sleep right at about 8 hours a night and wake up refreshed, maybe a tiny sluggish for 15 minutes but not really noticeable. "

• Forda...
• November 2, 2015

"It replaces Ativan. No, it doesn't! It works, in combination with 10mg Melatonin, for a max four hours, four hours of seriously intense dreams! At 3:30a I'm wide awake, tossing and turning till daylight. Only thing left is good old Nyquill!"

• Anonymous
• October 29, 2011

"I think this medicine is a great alternative to the other prescription sleeping aids. I have had no trouble with it, and on the first day it got me to sleep through the night waking only once, and I fell right back asleep. I'm shocked the rating at the time of my review is only a 5.4."

• Anonymous
• February 27, 2008

"I try going to bed around 9pm,inorder to try to get some sleep, but usually wake up in the middle of the night 3-4 am, and can't go back to sleep. Last night I took my first tablet as perscribed. Today I feel fatique, dizzy, headache, bluh. What do I take to compensate for this side effets. Or, will they go away after my second dosage? "

• Peter
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 23, 2021

"Age 25, I had mild insomnia, and a tendency to stay up too late, and sleep too late in the day. On my doctor's advice, I took Rozerem, when it first came out in 2005. HUGE mistake! I used it for a month, during which time I felt strangely nervous, "edgy," and very restless at night. My doctor convinced me to continue it. Well, after that month I said "no way!" I had to get off of it, because it was literally making me feel crazy. Well, now the "fun" part of the story starts. You see, now without it, I had SEVERE and intractable insomnia. I stayed awake for 9 straight days after stopping it, only sleeping when going to the hospital and getting an injection of midazolam. So began an endless cycle of horrible insomnia, and prescriptions of sedatives, a nightmare which persisted for 11 straight years. FINALLY, around 2016, my brain got itself back together and now I sleep normally again without any medication. I will NEVER take a sleeping pill again! Rozerem damaged my SCN, we believe."

• Pops
• April 22, 2019

"My doctor put me on Rozerem as an alternative to ambiemto help me sleep. I have taken it for four nights now and at most slept two hours each night. I agree with the other reviews this just doesn’t work for severe insomnia."

• PK1947
• February 21, 2018

"This is a terrible medication. I have been taking Trazadone for insomnia for many years. I wanted to try something different because Trazadone causes fatigue. I did not sleep one wink after taking this medication for two nights, and my body ached throughout the night. I don't know how this medicine was ever approved for sleep. I feel terrible today. I will "never" take this drug again."

• Joano
• September 10, 2020

"Usually take clonazapam, but was too early for refill so dr prescribed Roserem which cost me $57.00 because deductible wasn’t met. Took at 9:30, it’s now midnight and just took melatonin liquid & two Advil pm’s. Obviously rozerem didn’t do squat!"

• IWANT...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• June 3, 2020

"Um, so this has to be the worst medicine for sleep ever! I felt like my arms were floating and other strange body sensations. My mind was going in circles. I took it for three nights then for the next night after that it seemed the med has messed up my cycle....this med is as useless."

• Histo...
• September 17, 2016

"my issues with sleep have always been getting to sleep ok but waking up 3am and difficulty getting back to sleep. to counter this i take 20mg of doxepin which works wonderfully and lessens my general anxiety and depression. However recently i had trouble falling asleep (work stresses) and the dox doesn't work like that. so my doc prescribed rozerem 8mg and in conjunction with the low dose dox it worked wonders. only had to take it a couple days to get my sleep cycle back on track. like melatonin it produces crazy weird dreams but no bad side effects. now i only take it occasionally when anxiety strikes causing bad sleep induction insomnia. Even with my copay it's expensive @ $5/dose (doxepin 5 cents/dose). Recc for occasional."

• Anonymous
• October 31, 2009

"People are quick to judge this medication. I have found that it does indeed make me sleep. However, I still wake up at my usual time at about 3-4 in the morning. This medication is really good for helping you fall asleep but not keeping you asleep."

• Pills...
• March 15, 2011

"Tried Rozerem for the first time the other day. It definitely helped me fall asleep, and without the "heavy sedative" feelings that come along with most other drugs- such as Ambien, Lunesta, etc. closest to a natural feeling of wanting to go to sleep, very calming, also helped with racing thoughts. The letdown of this medication was the next day...could NOT get up! Felt as though I had taken a tranquilizer. All day feeling...like I had taken a high double-dose of Ambien. This is my experience though, unfortunately - seemed perfect at first. Everyone is different though, most will probably hopefully have a much different experience. I say try it."

• Billy...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 9, 2017

"Scary!!! Was only able to be on this drug for a few weeks. It gradually increased depression to such a degree that I almost admitted myself to the ER for depression watch. I've never felt depression like this. It peaked in the morning and let up by the afternoon. (3-4pm). It's now the third day since I took it and it is lifting more and more every day. Never again!"