"my doctor prescribed trazodone for insomnia recently and it has helped better than any of the previous medicines prescribed. elavil was 1st, but i still woke up throughout the night and in the morning had that groggy feeling in my head that was hard to shake. the trazodone is working best if i take half before bed and when i wake in the middle of the night, i take the other half of a 50 mg tablet. i was taking ambien and it made me sleepy enough to doze off, but i would wake up every 2 hours and had trouble falling back to sleep. so far, trazodone is the best for me for insomnia. i still wake up after a few hours, but can go back to sleep after taking the other half. hope this helps someone! i know how bad insomnia is!"