Drug Ratings for AMBIENAverage Rating: 3.2 (1308 Ratings)
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
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| 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 10/5/2010 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 D | 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 | 5 | Insomnia | Hunger in the middle of the night (not sleep-eating, I knew what I was doing) and hallucinations if I didn't go to bed right away | I was having a pretty bad bout of insomnia and finally decided I needed to see the doctor about it. When I heard he was giving me Ambien, I freaked out. I had heard many scary things about it from other users. I was terrified to take it, but I figured not sleeping was worse, so I tried it. I slept so well that night. I didn't even remember drifting off. I felt so rested. I would notice that if I took it and stayed up doing anything, like reading, I would eventually start seeing things. One night the lights in my house looked like they were moving around and floating through the room, like orbs. It never scared me, though, because I knew it was the Ambien doing it and I was the one stupid enough to stay up after taking it when the label said to take it right when going to sleep. I also noticed that if I happened to wake up some nights, I'd get intense urges to eat anything crunchy, like cereals. But the sleep I got was so good. Eventually, the 10 MG I was taking started to poop out on me around the three month mark. My doctor did not want to increase my dosage any higher, so he just discontinued the Ambien altogether and put me on Lunesta, which was way more expensive. I was worried about stopping the Ambien cold turkey after three months and he said it shouldn't be a problem. I have been off the Ambien for going on three days now, and I have not experienced anything unpleasant. | M | 27 | 3 months 10 MG 1X D | 9/13/2012 | 5 | Help sleep good. | My wife also takes it and she experiences the side effects, which I would classify as bonuses for me. She was given a prescription for Ambien after having her third child. It helped somewhat when she took 1 to 1 1/2 on an empty stomach. Well one night when she took two, when I got into bed with her, I thought I was with someone else. She was very horny, very nasty, and extremely hot. She did things she normally doesn't care to do. She then began asking about all the people in the room. Well, I thought it was humerous, so I told her they were here to watch, and did she want to give them a show. She said she did, but she wanted other partners also. Trust me--not normal. So we both did some fantasizing, and we had an incredible experience, about which unfortunately, she remembered nothing in the morning. | I still get good sleep with ambien, but we still, about once a month, or more if she's trying to bribe me or reward me, we'll have an "ambien" date. It's different, and we enjoy it. But I can see how this could be used as a date-rape drug. I can do pretty much whatever I want to with her on ambien. And she thoroughly enjoys it as well. | M | 43 | 3 days | 12/13/2005 | 5 | insomnia | good | M | 16 | 2 months | 3/5/2006 | 5 | Cannot fall asleep | I get very hungry shortly after taking the pill and then start eating everything I can get my hands on and I barely recall doing it. I have very vivid dreams and begun to snore very loudly. I sometimes have conversations and never recall having them. | This pill has worked wonders for me as long as you follow the directions. Get into bed shortly after and take it on an empty stomach. Since I have been on it for over 2 years I think it has lost it's effectiveness. I know longer fall asleep in 15 mins, it now takes over an hour or more. | M | 42 | 2 years | 3/4/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | I've been taking Ambien for almost four weeks, every night; starting with 10mg. After one week, moved to 15mg (a night). Twice I've taken 20mg. It generally only creates a sleepy-dreamy euphoric state until I fall asleep, which generally takes about two hours after taking one (and a half) pills. On one occasion, I began to hallucinate and thought a house plant was talking to me and begging me to water/prune it. At least...I think it was a hallucination! | For about two weeks, my left hand (middle, ring, and pinky fingers) have been almost totally numb and tingly. After reading a similar statement on this page, I can only assume it is from the drug. | M | 31 | 25 days | 8/24/2005 | 5 | Cant sleep, racing mind, bad dreams | I must take it while in bed or I turn into a zombe. I sleepwalk, cook, talk on the phone, go outside the house and look in the mirrow and talk to myself and eat like a pig. I will cook and eat anything in sight. | I don't even know what I did until the next day when I piece the night before together like a detective. Looking in the sink and the garbage. It scares my wife more than me because we don't know what I'm going to do next. I do like taking it, but I am going to begin to ween off Ambien with her help. You need a despenser that only lets you have proper dosage per night or you might take more that the rec dose without even knowing it. Be careful while traveling also. Lock yourself in your room. Seriously!!! | M | 34 | 3 years | 6/15/2006 | 5 | Trouble falling asleep | Memory Loss. Scarily vivid, unusual dreams. Dizzy if not laying down. | The first few nights were freaky. Woke, after crazy dreams, to find things written in my handwriting that I didn't remember writing (was that guy in Momento on Ambien?). Was sure that someone was moving my bookmark forward because I couldn't remeber reading chapters (actaully though the maid in the hotel I was staying at might be messing with me). 10mg completely knocks me out consistantly. Never thought such a small bit of anything could have such an effect on a person. | M | 39 | 10 days | 9/8/2006 | 5 | Occasional difficulty sleeping | None that I can think of. | I work nights on a rotating basis, and as you may imagine, it does tend to make a sleeping schedule impossible to follow. I may take ambien once or twice a week to help when switching my sleep schedules. I have had absolutely no problems with this medication, however, I followed the instructions, i.e., used occasionally, made sure that I had 8 hours to sleep, no alcohol, etc. | M | 43 | 6 months | 1/4/2006 | 5 | Bipolar 2 / insomnia / hypomania | 10 - 15mg of Ambien ( called stilnox in Australia ) gives me no side effects at all. Its only when I also take 100mg of Seroquel as well that I get a little memory loss. | I take 10 - 15 mg of Ambien every night and have for the last 8 months (along with 100mg of seroquel and 2,500mg of epilim to treat bipolar and insomnia) If I only take the Ambien with my Epilim I find that I only get a maximum of 5 hours sleep and then BANG - I am wide awake exactly 5 hours after taking it add seroquel into the mix and I can get up to 9 hours sleep! many of you seem to have had increase effects on your libido, if anything its been the opposite for me. | M | 33 | 8 months | 1/5/2006 | 5 | Sleep problems for a few days | No negative side effects, only improvements in my mood, anxiety level. | Ambien is the greatest creation man has come up with. I have been taking it for five years. Yes, five years, which is 250 or so times the recommended time period. I have never had insomnia, but I was having trouble sleeping for a few days and so I told my doctor. He gave me Ambien and I have to say it didn't knock me out, but just made me feel better. When I first started taking it I really enjoyed the euphoric and strange feelings. After taking it for about 1 month the strange feelings went away and the euphoric feelings calmed down to a nice feeling that just put me in a better mood, not severely altering me. I am now taking somewhere around 20 to 30mg a day at multiple times throughout the day, not just at night, sometimes in the morning. It has absolutely no sleepiness effects, just functions like the best antidepressant/anti-anxiety drug that ever existed. Ambien has improved my waking life dramatically, I am not as shy when taking it and I just feel 100 tim | M | 32 | 5 years | 1/11/2006 | 5 | sleeplessness/depression/bad dreams | No side effects from this drug IF taken as directed. Get in the bed and THEN take the pill. | I have had depressive episodes that last for years. And, I have terrible dreams when I sleep. Ambien has been a life saver for me. I sleep well and if I dream, I don't remember it. I have one worry, once I'm in ambien sleep, the house could burn down around me and I don't think I'd wake up. | M | 46 | 11 years | 1/27/2006 | 5 | Insomia related to Prednisone | The usual, dizziness, loss of balance, double vision, and I wouldn't call them hallucinations like others, but more of a change of perception. I didn't have any side-effects in bad sense, except that I like this drug too much. I guess I'll just have to deal when I run out. | I love to write and stay up at least an hour before I go to bed. Sometimes I would wake up in the morning to find I had written the wildest things, includiding e-mails I normally would never have sent. Not good. I've been taking it over a month now and am pretty acclimated to the drug, but I still like it. Someone said they like to take it in the middle of the day...you have to have some problems to be taking something this powerful for a recreational purpose, at least during daylight. I can't imagine not being able to go to be after the main effects wear off. | M | 19 | 30 days | 9/2/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | I have made full meals and eaten them, cleaned the house, done the dishes, and done laundry and not remembered doing it. I think that those are great side effects. On the other hand, I have called friends and family and not remembered doing it. I don't really mind it, but they said that I talk like someone on drugs. | It works. | M | 37 | 2 months | 9/21/2006 | 5 | Insomia | none | Knocks ya out! sleepy time! | M | 19 | 7 months | 11/30/2006 | 5 | insomnia | none | good drug--it gets me 6-7 hours sleep and sometimes 8 whereas before I got 4-5. It's gentle too. | M | 65 | 6 months | 11/23/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | None | This is a great medicine for those who really need it for insomnia. I take 10mg 30 minutes before bedtime and get a good nights sleep and wakeup rested and alert with no drowsiness at all. | M | 45 | 1 years | 11/7/2006 | 5 | insomnia | amnesia, loss of inhibitions, crazy things. Three times now I have been at my computer after taking it, and discovered in the morning that I emailed strangers and propositioned them, wrote gibberish or absurd things to friends and family, and someone sent me a text of a online chat I'd had where I said utterly insane things. I never remember any of these things in the morning, and only find the evidence in my email out box, or find out from what people tell me later. | It works really well for sleep. I take it, sleep soundly for 4 hours, then wake up completely refreshed. But if something happens to wake me up during those 4 hours, like my daughter crying or my wife wakes me, then I am confused, disoriented, and likely to discover in the morning that I did/said crazy things. | M | 40 | 2 years | 5/25/2006 | 5 | chronic insomnia since childhood | If I take it and don't go straight to bed, I get these odd visual hallucinations that make it hard to judge proportions. Shapes on the PC screen, for instance, begin to move around a bit. My balance is also off. It's not an unpleasurable feeling, as long as you don't have to work or deal wth the kids. | It's changed my life. I worry, though, that I take it when I should really be trying to establish better sleep patterns by more regular bed times and so forth. Beucase it's a pill it's too easy. But it is a great drug, very helpful. I also wonder if it has any effect on 1) sex drive and 2) memory during the day. | M | 48 | 2 years | 12/30/2006 | 5 | mistake | walking while asleep, memory loss during the medication | my father in law took ambien by mistake (thinking it was a hay fever pill as my mother in law kept it in the same box), they went out to do some grocery shopping straight afterwards. He stood in the supermarket check out point and fell asleep and had to be waken several times to be ask to get back in the car, he even helped 2 load and unload the groceries and ate a bag of lychee after he got home, my wife said he was acting weird untill we realised what happened, i asked him to go to bed and he did just that. He took 10mg at 12:30pm and woked up at 6pm and wondering why he was left at home by himself lol | M | 59 | 1 days | 3/25/2007 | 5 | Insomnia | euphoria, sexual arrousal, when staying awake feeling as if there are other people with you even though you are alone... the next day, a bit of sinus headache..amnesia from events while awake and had taken ambien. | I sincerely believe that if you try to stay awake while taking this drug it brings your conscious and subconsious to the same level making you do things that you would never do consciously, but subconsciously want to do, it makes you primal..and you can hallucinate things (dreaming while awake) because youre mind is put to sleep but your body is not. staying awake on ambien can be very very dangerous if you are not supervised. (and i love it) | M | 21 | 1 years | 10/4/2005 | 5 | insomnia & waking up during night | some memory loss | this is a great drug... i normally fall asleep within 30 minutes. however, after being on ambien for the past 4 months, i have had a few nights were it seems to have an opposite effect keeping me awake & very hyper. | M | 28 | 4 months | 11/22/2006 | 5 | Sleep Apnea/Trouble Sleeping/ | Wow. Hallucinations, trips, memory loss... alot happened. 1. waking up in strange places 2. on nights that i actually can remember, things look like they're moving, when theyre not. 3. TV/video games appear to be 3D... not sure why. but it affects your vision in some way. 4. MANY hallucinations. 5. Feels like your on drugs. more than marijuana, less than mushrooms... somewhere in the middle. 6. you walk like you're drunk. very dizzy. 7. you will do many things that you cant remember. phone calls, whatever... 8. increased appetite. 9. very social feeling. you act like there are alot of people around you, sometimes cracking jokes to yourself. its weird. 10. strange/unrealistic ideas. they vary. All of the above may happen, but its unlikely if you go straight to bed after taking it. but on a weekend, why not experiment, its pretty fun... ******* only take when your inside your house and secure. im not sure what would happen if you went out and drove around, but | if you want to experiment staying awake while on ambien, be prepared... and DONT GO OUTSIDE! you could make some very stupid decisions, and who knows what will happen. | M | 15 | 2 months | 2/14/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | What every you do, take this to go to SLEEP ONLY if that was it's prescribed for. DO NOT drive on this stuff. It's more powerful than alcohol. I can't even continue computer work after I take Ambien. I wake up and realize things I've typed or clicked than would NEVER had happened if I had not just taken Ambien. Absolutely DO NOT drive and forget coordinated activities, such as computer work, if you don't want to wonder what in the universe happened while you were doing that, such as being online. The effect is has is for sleeping and NOT for your awake commentary! The hallucination commentary made laugh extremely hard! I never had such effect but the effect of knock out power guarantee of sleep for at least 4 hours at which point it goes away. Taken as prescribed, I have no side effects. It appears people are enjoying this stuff as a recreation or something. I’m Ambros at http://www.myspace.com/carnaldesire | I agree this stuff is GOD send for answer to my long insomnia. This stuff always knocks me out and I've been on it since last summer of 2006 and its 4/2006 now. Extremely power stuff and DO not skip the side effect commentary by myself. Forget about doing anything coordinated on this drug. Sleep only! DO NOT drive or you may kill someone when pass out cold! I’m Ambros at http://www.myspace.com/carnaldesire | M | 35 | 8 months | 4/14/2006 | 5 | anxiety induced insomnia | hmm, mostly good, sleepy, content, mild hallucinogenic properties, lucid dreams, blueish vision (at times). | It's the only med that I can count on, I've been on wellbutrin and klonopin as well, for a long time. It's far more effective than klonopin for sleep. Unlike something like xanax, if you stay up, you have fun but relax, I'd still be awake if not for the ambien, but im still conserving energy and when i go to bed, I'll fall asleep instantly. The price is absurd w/o insurance I've been diagnosed with chronic insomnia for 10 years now, but Ive tried sontata,melatonin,calm easy,beer :( ,and benedryl(which also works, but gives me nightmares, or wake me up) | M | 25 | 3 years | 11/25/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | None | I love Ambien! Makes me so horny and chill. Almost like bud without the anxiety or munchies. Ambien is just fine, day or night! | M | 21 | 2 months | 6/29/2006 | 5 | anxiety | Sleep fine but made my IBS and gut really burn and act up. I do not suggest this for those with abdominal issues. Makes your symptoms worse the next day. Had to stop because the IBS symptoms became so bad. | Great for sleeping and acting like an idiot if you try to stay awake. | M | 35 | 2 months | 7/3/2006 | 5 | insomnia | M | 40 | 3 years | 2/28/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | You can all see my first post with the quesuenas@yahoo.com on the right of the screen for further commentary. It should be five comments under this post. Ben sent me an e-mail and thought everyone else should know the detail I’m telling Ben. I’m www.myspace.com/carnaldesire in the first post as well. 5 mg usually does the job. 10 mg is a guaranteed knock of my insomnia and that is something great to be said since you have to consider my insomnia is the type that will keep me up all night long; until Ambien came around. The stuff is a God send unless you take it and drive. You're looking at ending in the grave from falling asleep doing that. While it does guarantee sleep, it’s usually completely out of my system within 4 hrs. After 4 hours, there are no side effects at all. The stuff hits with power and completely disappears out of your system like it was never there. If you've ever taken diphenhydramine, you may have noticed that tiredness and other effec | after you take Ambien because you might go into shock from all the wrong keys you hit in what you were doing. I do NOT know what people are talking about with hallucinations. They must be abusing Ambien. I hear abusers inject the stuff in mega dose. I believe the effects they have by abusing it are true based on the knock out effect it has on me. Problem is, I'm not awake long enough to tell you about the effect. It hits then its lights out without time to contemplate all that stuff that people are talking about. At higher doses, I would be out too fast to anything that wasn’t there or maybe for a minute before waking up without much to remember. Important point with Ambien is that you need to take it on an empty stomach for the knock out effect. Take it with food and you take away a fast route to sleep. It's just like alcohol, Cialus, Viagra in that the effectiveness is ruined or dissipated with food. The Dr. said not to eat before bed anyway, so if you are following | M | 35 | 9 months | 5/8/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | None at all. | I take Ambien 1-2 nights a week and it helps me to fall asleep and sleep straight through 4-6 hours which is something I haven't been able to do since childhood. This medication has really helped me. | M | 46 | 2 years | 6/1/2006 | 5 | M | 30 | 10 days | 6/5/2006 | 5 | Sleep issues | None | Wow | M | 18 | 1 months | 11/25/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | Hallucinations, some other crazy stuff. | I love this drug! Makes me sleep like a baby, makes me sexually aroused, gives me awesome hallucinations, and an equally awesome high. Even better when NOT taken at night for sleep. Chills me out. No negative side effects, mild memory loss. Highly recommended for a benzo-effect; that is, taken during the day to relax and hallucinate. | M | 22 | 1 years | 7/15/2006 | 5 | Get to sleep fast | Ambien works great. I got bold and stayed up past 20 mins one night. I guess I got on the computer and send my boss an email. I checked my send mail and saw it. The letters were out of place and a lot of extra words not in order. I think my mind was already out cold. I had to explain in morning. The good news was all my clothes were laid out and I can watch the same movie over and over again. The wife not big on the way I get when I take one. Works great! | 2 years, 2-3x a week. | M | 38 | | 7/13/2006 | 5 | insomnia due to travel | vivid dreams | been very helpful with my frequent travel and time zone changes, if i can sleep on a regular basis I feel better and maintain good health | M | 62 | 2 years | 7/24/2006 | 5 | Sleep Loss | Well, the side effect usualy are less potent after a few days of use but I've had some crazy shit happen. After about 25minute if I'm sitting at my computer, say looking at a myspace picture it starts talking to me. And the sad part is, i have a full conversation with it in my head, other voices feel like im in a bar/and or where picture was at. The one nite i thought my monitor was a fishtank and tried feeding it paperclips. However, doenst always make me fall asleep, sometimes im up a few hours before i Fall asleep...but your half asleep with your eyes open. Holding conversations with people that are in your head but your not even talking, its like your really somewhere else but you know your in your bed as well. | I don't sleep well, maybe 90minutes to 2hours a nite for the last 5yrs untill i found ambien then i get about 4 hours | M | 27 | 12 months | 7/22/2006 | 5 | sleep disorder/PTSD | Groggy in the am. For a couple of weeks I have been waking up at 3:00AM. Prior to that I slept a full 8 hours. May be due to high stress lately? I dunno. Have been experiencing some blurry vision in right eye. Have also been using Wellbutrin XL and am tapering off of that at this time. So hard to say about the vision issue. There are so many relative variables in life. | The only thing I don't like is I stopped using it for two days and I COULD NOT SLEEP AT ALL THOSE 48 hours! Don't know how others have dealth with this issue. | M | 50 | 3 months | 1/7/2007 | 5 | unable to sleep | waking during middle of the night and eating ..... | i have been taking ambien for many years. it has proved to be a miracle cure for my insomnia. i have tried many times to discontinue but after 17 days of little sleep and feeling like a total wreck during the day i resumed the medication. i take 5-10mg nightly as i get into the bed and fall asleep in approx 15-20 mins. whatever side effects ambien may or may not have i am assured of a good nights sleep. of course it's not a 'one size fits all' med. it has worked well for me for years. | M | 61 | 6 years | 3/21/2007 | 5 | to get to sleep | slurred speech, dizziness,clogged throat, periods of slow motion,loss of date and time, im watching the spanish channel and im talking back to it but i don't speak or understand spanish , i feel good, short memory loss, dry throat, you feel creative. Things around you seem to be floating. | i feel like i can jump through a wall right now, oh i took twice what i was suppose to, with alcohol. Im gonna use this the next time i have to write a paper for school or something. Im starting to get tired so i guess its working. | M | 23 | 1 days | 10/8/2006 | 5 | insomnia | crazy hallucinations, memory loss | for getting sleep it's not worth very much but the fun i had made up for the lack of sleep. i always seemed to end up naked and delirious in the living room. | M | 21 | 10 times | 10/30/2004 | 5 | insomnia | morning fatigue if not long enough sleep. LOUD snoring (says my wife). | love it. best sleep ever. | M | 33 | | 10/31/2004 |