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 | Could not sleep | None | No side effects. Not tired in the mornings. | F | 55 | 5 days 5mg 1X day | 8/31/2023 | 5 | for sleep | No side effects so far | My nurse practitioner put me on Ambien generic 5mgs at the end of May 2023 was on trazodone 25mgs for years and wore off she prescribed me Ambien generic and I have had the best sleep ever with this drug and wake up feeling refreshed! It's a wonderful sleep aid! | 51 | 13 days 5mgs 1X day | 6/8/2023 | 5 | Insomnia | Was on for years b4 a new dr insisted I come off. Finally psychiatric nurse re-prescribed. Even w/Benedryl and trazodone (100mg), I don't sleep well at all w/o zolpidem. Very drowsy, very quick acting for me. | Usually works w/n 20 minutes, depending on when I last ate and how much. A little slow start day after but I've always been that way. Gets brain to shut off so can go to sleep easily, and *stay* asleep. It's truly a life-saver for me. | F | 68 | 0 years 12.5 XR 1X day | 5/5/2023 | 5 | insomnia | I have suffered from severe sleep problems for many years. My experience with zolpidem is positive. | Thanks to Viagra-cialis-pharmacy.com, I can now sleep easy at night. They provide secure payment, discreet delivery, and excellent customer service. Thoroughly recommended! | M | 41 | 10 mg 1X W | 6/14/2022 | 5 | Insomnia due to anxiety disorder | Best drug ever for me. Gets me to sleep within 20 minutes or so...sleep 7-8 hours and never groggy! Usually only need to take half (5mg) too. Never had any side effects either thank goodness. | M | 49 | 9 years 10mg 1X day | 11/5/2021 | 5 | sleep | calm feeling and sometimes night time eating | This medication is very good at helping with sleep. I am a female and have noticed the 10mg does work better than the 5 mg if they will prescribe it to you but I will warn you that it loses it's effectiveness after a couple of months. Sometimes 5mg will not help me sleep. The drowsy feeling for me in the morning or (afternoon in my case) wears off very quickly when I wake up. This seems like a much cleaner medication than seroquel for sure and quicker to act than lunesta. Lunesta tends to help you stay asleep a little bit longer better. I haven't tried the ambien XL yet though. Lunesta hasn't ever lost it's effectiveness when I take it. I usually switch between ambien and lunesta. I feel like the ambien is more calming and doesn't give the weird metal taste that the lunesta can give. They are both really good medications. (I do not ever recommend seroquel.) | F | 32 | 7 years 10mg 1X day | 12/9/2020 | 5 | Insomnia | Got hungry at times | Worked GREAT for 20+ years! I decided to come off it and did it easily in a few days. Easy to get on and off for me. Must be taken on an empty stomach for it to work well! | M | 50 | 20 years 10 | 12/29/2019 | 5 | RECREATIONALLY | makes me horny and relaxed and energetic and chill...weed without paranoia or hunger especially good with adderall | M | 20 | 4 years 40-50 1X day | 8/20/2019 | 5 | 0 days | 12/10/2018 | 5 | Insomnia | I've been taking ambien for over 10 years. My primary care doctor wanted me to stop taking after 3 or 4 years, but I protested as I couldn't rally get to sleep without the Ambien. It works for me. I usually split the pill: half (5mg) when I go to bed; and I split the remaining half into quarters (25mg) as I get up several times in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I am probably "psychologically" dependent on Ambien. While I would like to get off, I ask myself "Why?" It works! I have not experienced the bad side effects I read about (memory loss, sleepwalking, vision problems). I experience anxiety, although I don't think this was caused by the Ambien - I think I had the anxiety before I started taking Ambien. I've been taking ambien for over 10 years. the instructions were to take it only for 7 days, but my doc said that it was ok for me to take it on a continual basis. when i first started taking it i did not need it for getting t | Overall, I think Ambien (zolpidem tartrate) is a good drug for insomnia. It has worked for me. | M | 74 | 10 years 10mg 1X day | 8/2/2018 | 5 | Insomnia | A little hunger | I take 1/3 of a 5mg pill at bedtime; then 1/3 again around 12 or 1 when I wake. This very low dose has been extremely helpful to me. Taking 5 mg makes me feel odd. The 6.25 mg make me hallucinate. I think people are prescribed too high an initial dose, in general. | F | 73 | 9 years 3.6 mg | 8/22/2017 | 5 | Insomnia | Usually none. Sometimes goofy or silly if I have had a drink (rarely) and don't go to sleep soon after taking the ambien. | Taking the 10 Mg tab didn't always get me to sleep. Especially if I had a late night snack. This is the trick I came up with about 3 months ago and it works like a charm almost every time. I bite of a small piece- about a third of a tablet. I swallow the large piece and then I tuck the small piece under my tongue so it dissolves and is absorbed sublingually it usually work pretty good. The sublingual dose acts quickly and the other part kicks in later. I typically get 6.5 to 8 hrs of good sleep. I do have a fan cpap and sometimes earplugs. Works well for me. | M | 59 | 2 years 10 mg | 4/9/2017 | 5 | Perfect description | 1 days | 3/25/2017 | 5 | Ongoing insomnia | Amazing sleeping pills. I always fell asleep after about 15-30 minutes. and slept whole good night . | There are a few funny site effects. For me it was dizziness, feeling drugged, feeling slightly horny .. And different people and sounds were in my head like 30 minutes after taking weird feeling. | F | 19 | 4 months 10mg | 9/15/2016 | 5 | Insomnia | I was well rested & and would wake up happy and ready to exercise , now that I'm not on it , my sleep is not so great , hard time waking up & falling asleep . I miss it , but I won't take while my baby is little . I need to get up through the night. | Love it | F | 30 | 6 months | 4/26/2016 | 5 | insomnia | I take ambien when I get into bed. Just before going to sleep. It has helped me fall asleep and stay asleep with no noted side effects. | F | 60 | 10 years 5mg | 3/22/2016 | 5 | insomnia | If taking more than 5 mg a headache the next day is the result. Some days a little dull feeling, but 100mg caffeine cancels that out beautifully.Have to stop some days to increase the number of sleeping hours, use .75 mg of lexotan 4 days and all is okay.Always feel that I have good memory. No alcohol use. Use generic Zolpidem white tablet fabricated in Danemark, good results. | If used Zolpidem(ambien) with care and intelligence results are splendid to alter psychophysiological insomnia. God send! | M | 70 | 8 years 5mg max. 1X day | 2/19/2016 | 5 | Severe pain wakes me up at night | None | We just started with a brand new PA fresh out of school. She said she would not do an RX for over 5mg and 30 days at my age (65). Quality of life is more important to me and has been to my other Dr's in other states. (We worked for the government). I have MS, Osteoporosis, Arthritis mid back, lower back, and spinal injuries, problems, from C-5 down. I have excruciating pain, and even break thru Ambien 10mg, but it is what it is. I've never had any of my more experienced Dr's say anything about my dose. They know what I'm going thru. At least I've been getting five hours of much needed sleep since starting this med. Any contraindication, that says its so dangerous? I've used it without any problems for a few years. Occasionally skipping it if I'm lucky. Thanks | 1 years 10 | 12/22/2015 | 5 | Sleep problems due to nerve pain | None | Works great. Fall asleep within 10 minutes. No problems the next day. Cannot say the same for Linsey's. | F | 55 | 5 years 10 | 11/22/2015 | 5 | chronic pain causing sleep deprivat | Ambien makes me sleepy and takes away a substantial amount of pain so that I can sleep, at least more than half of the night. | This medicine has changed the quality of my life. Before using it, after a car accident, I was in too much pain to sleep. Opioids interrupt sleep patterns and do not take away enough pain. Ambien takes some of the pain away, as well as making me sleepy. Ambien's effects seem to be a little like the effects of alcohol, such as lowered inhibitions. It takes a couple of years to adjust to that. Reading another user's review here helps to confirm that it does that. If a person is psychotic then their psychosis will increase. If a person is normal and happy, they get happier. No financial decisions should be made while in the adjustment phase of taking Ambien. I hope that the pharmaceutical companies will do further research on Ambien's ability to alleviate pain. | F | 53 | 5 years 10 mg 1X day | 10/30/2015 |
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)