My wife is currently taking Temazepam for sleep, along with an antipsychotic, fluphenazine/prolixin, that has kept her out of the hospital for her schizoaffective mental illness for over 40 years, she's 72 now. Recently, during the last 5 years, she began taking the Temazepam, first at 30mg, which helped for a while, till she began getting real depressed, wanting to die depressed, and wasn't sleeping, 45mg and for the last 2 years at 60mg. As her depression worsened, her use of temazepam increased... then she ran out, and had to go without for 4 days, as the pharmacy would not grant her a refill. Major withdrawal symptoms, nausea/dryheaving, etc., started occurring, called her psychiatrist, and he recommended Lexapro.... She took one, and it brought her completely out of her depression... stopped her fall... but on the second pill, her side effects were 10 times worse, nausea/dryheaving 4-6 times every hour., bad side effects... sever nausea and dry heaving, so she stopped eating... nothing changed... never took a third pill, the dr put her back on Temazepam, and after 1 week, the side effect began diminishing and 3 weeks, Lexapro, was gone. During that time the dr refilled her Temazepam and I hold the pills, and giving them to her to just stabilize her dosage, no more than 60mg in a 24 hours. She still has a slight nausea but no dry heaves, as she found the 30mg stops the nausea, but we realize that is from the Temazepam... either as it leaves her system... or like when she was taking too much.