AMBIEN Reviews (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE)Average Rating: 3.1 (1450 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare AMBIEN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Insomnia | Some "hangover" the next day (drowsiness, etc.) | It has less day-after hangover than any other medicine I've tried, and I've tried the lot. | M | 42 | 2 years | 8/13/2001 | 5 | Life long insomnia | It's a miracle drug. Sleep for the 1st time in my life. No adverse side effects. | I'm 48 and have never been able to sleep. Ambien is the only thing that has ever worked. You have no idea what a gift it is to finally be able to sleep at night AND wake up fresh in the morning. It has completely changed my life. I take 1/2, wait about 15 to 30 min, lie down in bed and take the other 1/2. Usually works in about 5-10 min. It doesnt make me sleep in a coma. If there is noise I will wake up, but usually can fall right back to sleep if I need to. If I need to wake up I can with no problem. | M | 48 | 5 years 10 1X day | 3/23/2010 | 5 | For insomnia, duh | None besides tiredness! | I LOVE Ambien, I don't know what all you crazies are talking about! My life is hell without it. I cut my pills in fourths--yes fourths--and it is still effective! I've never taken a whole one. You people who are doing crazy shiz while on Ambien either need to take responsibility for your actions or cut down your dose! Don't ruin it for the rest of us, jeez. | M | 30 | 6 years 5mg 1X day | 4/26/2010 | 5 | Severe insomnia | Sleep | Ambien is the only thing that has ever worked for me. Changed my life. Regular people have no idea what it's like to go thru your entire life in a sleep deprived state. Ambien is a life saver. I've had none of the neg side effects some have described. It's like we're talking about 2 diff drugs. I would recommend to anyone who has severe insomnia. | M | 46 | 2 years 10 1X day | 6/4/2010 | 5 | Not sleeping well | I did not know there were side effects until I visited this website. I am one of the lucky ones. I can break it into quarters and it works like a charm. I am a 240 lb. male who at 48 years old went from the best sleeper I know, to the worst in about six months. Talked to my Dr. and he recommended Ambien, which was ok, but I would wake up after about three hours and was right back to where I started, but now it was 2:00 am and did not dare to take another. The Ambien CR was the trick and it changed my life back to normal. | M | 48 | 12.5 2X W | 7/10/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | Have woken up hungry in middle of night a couple of times only. | I did not sleep for more than 2 - 4 hours per night for the last 10 years. I tried all the o.t.c. meds and they only made me more restless-none of them worked at all. I could not fall asleep quickly and I could not stay asleep. I never asked my doctor for anything because I thought nothing would work. Finally I asked my doctor and he prescribed me Ambien 10 m.g. It is The Miracle Pill. Ambien works great. I fall asleep instantly as I only take it just before going to bed. I sleep all night and get a good/great night's sleep. I feel great in the morning with no side effects. I'm sorry to hear about the horrible side effects some people are having because I do not experience any of them. Maybe it's because I'm using the drug properly and as prescribed. I don't know. But it has been a life saver for me. I can finally go to sleep fast and sleep all night. Thank you Ambien! | M | 44 | 8 months 10 MG 1X day | 8/6/2010 | 5 | can t fall asleep | NO REAL SIDE EFFECTS IN MY CASE | AMBIEN IS A WONDER DRUG.......I STAY UP TIL MIDNITE, TAKE MY AMBIEN AND SLEEP A SOLID 7 HOURS. I HAVE NOT HAD ANY OF THE STRANGE SIDE EFFCTS MENTIONED BY OTHER USERS..........JUST GREAT SLEEP............ | M | 56 | 1 years 10 mg 1X day | 8/19/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | the only side effect is that it lose effectiveness with a coupple of weeks, so you have to look an alternative until ambien get out of your system and then back again on ambien | Perfect! It makes what is suppose to do, put you in sleep.. I'm 6'1, so i need to take 20 mg (i don't know why the manufacturerers don't consider to make the 20mng pill.. anywa, take it with empty stomache (at least 3-4 hours without meal before bed), put your headphones and lay down onece you take in bed, and it works, no side effect, I dont know why people give bad rates of ambien, is the best sleep medication avaliable, is not a benzodiazepine, so addiction is very low compare to ANY benzo.... | M | 32 | 2 years 10-20 1X day | 10/5/2010 Patient History | 5 | chronic insomnia | My Sisters husband used to accuse me of making noise in the kitchen an leaving a 'mess' I would get odd cravings tho- like frying just a slice of American cheese till it gets semi burnt. Eatng a hanful of uncooked pastina or orzo, an spilling some | Best sleep med I ever had, and I think Ive tried them all- Id pop one pink ambian, and one blue Xanax, and I was asleep solid in 5 minutes or less, until daylight No side FX- no getting argumentative, slurry or pugnacious, no trying to drive the car, or open a beer- just lay down, close eyes, and then Im waking up 'cause its morning- Best sleep aid ever made. | M | 63 | 4 years 50mg 1X AN | 10/6/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | Makes me feel drunkish, slightly euphoric and tired (thank God). | First off I just want to say some of the stories you guys post here about your Ambien-induced shenanigans crack me up! Always makes for a good laugh. That said, people who say things like "This medication needs to be taken off the market" need to seriously check yourselves. Ambien is a GODSEND to people who suffer from chronic insomnia like I do. It really is. I've never done any sleep-driving or sleep-eating or any of these other alleged activities while taking it, and I've used Ambien for a decade now. If you're doing crazy stuff like that, perhaps you need to reduce your dosage! I cut my 10mg pills in quarters and it still works like a charm. Please don't ruin it for the rest of us who do just fine on this medication! | M | 31 | 10 years 5mg 2X day | 12/22/2010 | 5 | Sleep Terror Disorder | Outward visual hallucinations that become less as tolerance builds, seems to set up the dreaming part of brain and if still awake rarely causes grandoise hallucinations. | I have been taking ambien for awhile, and use it to keep excessive nightmares featuring the thoughts of everday allday schizo voices that have not managed to hack the visual cranial nerves or photo recepetors of the retina and have mainly stayed auditory. This drug works well to put "vocies" to sleep and become lethargic also in my own motion. Any attempts to sleep without it are mostly random, and the dumber part of the brain, or the brain used while sleeping can't seem to figure out that it is the same voices that bother the me all day, unless, and usually once weekly if no sleeping pills are taken it will just override the hacking attempts of voices during sleep cycle to regenerate and even cause a reverse effect where schizo is in a nightmare that I create for them. Still playing games with the bigboys in the larger scale dimension between organized bacteria and individual bacteria or cellular sized organisms of lazy atoms. Taking the ambien, which is a fine drug, does a fantastic job and does not seem to cause any reliance without it, besides the desire to sleep without nightmares, which was a preexisting condition to taking ambien, at least for myself. If they could make some zoli ambien that can be taken during the day, I would take it as I have noticed if I stay awake, schizo voices, seem to become lethargic and less chatty, and seem as though drunk and much less organized in their attacks on me. | M | 26 | 8 months 10mg 1X day | 12/27/2010 | 5 | anxiety at night/insomnia | none | I love it...not only do I sleep like a baby but I get so relaxed and horny...it's like weed without the munchies and the anxiety highs. I do not sleepwalk or drive the wrong way down the freeway, but I feel SO RELAXED and if I take it during the day, calm anxiety-free, I will drink some coffee, and it gives me a chilled out wakeful energy! 30 mg is even better than 15...the horny factor particularly...anyway gotta go and pop and ambien yo WORD | M | 23 | 2 years 15 mg 2X AN | 12/30/2010 | 5 | insomnia due to anxiety | the only side effects i have EVER experienced was if i stayed up too long after taking it and it becomes like a mild hallucinogenic and you wont remember much if anything after about 10-15 minutes after you took it. BUT it is not for recreation so take it correctly and go to bed and it is the BEST drug ever if you cannot get to sleep!!! | GREAT!!! Don't listen to the hype and just follow the directions! | M | 38 | 6 years 10mg 1X day | 3/4/2011 | 5 | hard falling & staying asleep | I had one episode of sleep phone calling to my 93 yo mom @ 3 in the morning & 1 episode sleep cooking of raw eggs PLUS the eggshells & episodes of sleep eating, which stopped eventually. | I was on Ambien generic 10 mg for 6 years & about 1 year ago I had to increase my dosage by 5 mg until I reached 20 mg nightly--then it stopped working altogether. When I ran out, I took Trazodone 100 mg plus Elavil 40 mg at bedtime. I have not experienced ANY withdrawal from stopping the Ambien cold turkey. When I receive my 3 month supply from a mail order pharmacy I will stop the other 2 meds & go back on the Ambien 10 mg at bedtime. Substituting the Elavil & Trazodone for the Ambien has provided very good sleeping---you may even be able to get by with just the Elavil or just the Trazodone alone. I am a retired pharmacist. I plan on going off the Ambien periodically, for a week or so (substituting with the Elavil & Trazodone, so I do not build up a tolerance to the Ambien. Good sleeping to all !!! | M | 60 | 6 years 10 mg 1X day | 3/28/2011 | 5 | shift work | None | This sleeper works a treat i do night shift 7 out of 28 days. i use it occasionally for a brain reset also. i even find it has an antidepresant action, gets rid of brain fog | M | 49 | 7 years 5 mg 1X AN | 8/18/2011 | 5 | insomnia | M | 53 | 3 years 30mg 1X day | 10/29/2011 | 5 | Knee pain and insomnia | NONE THAT I AM AWARE OF | Usually take 5mg, fall asleep, wake up 4-5 hours later, go right back to sleep, feel refreshed and alert in the mornings. Am a college professor and do my best work in the mornings. When I go off for a few days when I am between prescriptions, I simply go back to the way it was before Ambien ... my mind is too busy to go to sleep and I wake up throughout the night. So, when I begin to get tired after a few days of that, I get another prescription and enjoy being able to go to sleep and return to enjoying an energized life. I do wish there was more animal research and neurological fMRI studies being done on long term use of Ambien because I think it is a great pill. People often ask if I have been tested for sleep apnea and I have not. | M | 67 | 7 years 5-10 mg 1X day | 3/2/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | Slight addiction. Tolerence. Funny thoughts. Uncoordination. | I could not help but get up and move when the ambien hit me. I loved the high it gave me. So i stopped taking it before it became a problem. I used to take 4 or 5 just for the feeling of escaping the crazy insomnic thoughts. | M | 16 | 1 days 10 7X W | 2/28/2012 | 5 | Sleep aid | None | Has helped me sleep immensely. I have cardiac PVCs/PACs and Ambien helps me get to sleep. | M | 42 | 1.6 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/12/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | Take this drug for sleep not to get high and all those other people saying don't take this it ruins lives.… | M | 20 | 4 years 10 | 5/19/2012 |
AMBIEN (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE): Zolpidem is used to treat a certain sleep problem (insomnia) in adults. If you have trouble falling asleep, it helps you fall asleep faster, so you can get a better night's rest. Zolpidem belongs to a class of drugs called sedative-hypnotics. It acts on your brain to produce a calming effect. This medication is usually limited to short treatment periods of 1 to 2 weeks or less. FDA Approval Date: 1992-12-16 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)