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 |
| 1 | Sleep | I really wanted this to work. I tried it and I felt like one feels after a terrible hangover. Nausea, deep depressed feeling, tired even though I slept better than without it. I kept trying hoping the bad effects would not continue but they did. I switched back to taking Ativan for sleep. Much, much better | Like taking poison, but we are all genetically different so what works for some won’t work for others | M | 69 | 30 days 3.5 mg. 1X day | 10/13/2022 | 1 | sleep issue | I have lost my sense of alternes after taking for 9 years. then gradually get rid of in 2018 . now I have developed memory issue while only 53 years old . I can drive anymore and memory is terrible . no neurologist has any idea what to do while going for multiple MRIs in 4 years. now I have lost my job and really scared about my future since memory is not normal upto the level it used to be. | Never use this medication. | M | 52 | 9 years 10 1X day | 9/30/2022 | 1 | Sleep problems associated with CPAP | Never had history of depression. Suddenly lapsed into severe depression, joint pain, other... 61 year old male. Depression started at ~59. | I never had issues with ambien driving, cooking dinners, etc. It always helped me sleep. I got to the point I could not sleep w/o it. Only recently researching depression did I discover the link between ambien and depression | M | 61 | 15 years 10mg 1X day | 2/28/2022 | 1 | Insomnia | No side effects. Also no sleep. | I don't know what they've done to generic Ambien, but it no longer works. At all. I've been an insomniac all of my adult life and have taken generic Ambien as needed since 2000. It was always a miracle drug for me. I'd take a quarter of a pill and 15 minutes later it'd be lights out. Zero side effects. That is no longer the case. Around 2018 I noticed generic Ambien was no longer working at all, even at much higher doses. I tried different makers and each one would make me feel different, but never tired. Eventually I Google'd "Generic Ambien doesn't work" and found tons of others complaining of the same thing. Name brand Ambien is WAY overpriced ($800 for 30 pills!) so clearly that's out of the question. What have they done to this drug!? After two decades I'm now having to try and find another sleep aid because I'm certainly not going to keep taking pills that don't work. | M | 41 | 2.5 1X AN | 9/11/2021 | 1 | To get to sleep | No side effects. It doesn't work.for me. Back.to the basics for me. Benadryl works like a charm. Bye Ambien. | It was prescribed to me because My mind races at night. | F | 56 | 3 days 5 MG 1X day | 6/19/2021 | 1 | Insomnia | Severe hairloss, thinning, no new growth. Very Itchy scalp | I started crying daily not knowing why my hair was falling out. I'd find it everywhere. I probably lost half my hair within a few months. I saw so many dermatologists & they all thought it was due to Seb. Dermatitis or Psoriases. My scalp started itching so much to the point it felt like something was crawling on my head or moving through my hair. It was becoming unbearable. I finally realized Ambiem/Zolpidem was the cause when I came across the following website: “ balding.com†| F | 45 | 2 months 5mg 1X day | 4/2/2021 | 1 | Insomnia | Don't!!! This is The Most Dangerous mind-warping Drug I've ever taken including whiskey beer wine and others. It causes severe psychological changes which can destroy your life completely. I would much rather take valium if I had to fall asleep or muscle relaxants. | For god sakes do not touch this drug or you will be sorry | M | 64 | 1 days 16 | 3/15/2021 | 1 | Insomnia | Joint pain, depression, anxiety, less and less sleep, agitation | Initially it worked well and I only took 2.5 mg but as the years went by and I got my stressed out I started taking more and more | F | 70 | 6 years Up to 15 m 2X day | 7/22/2020 | 1 | Sleep | Pass out totally lethargic very hard to wake up...sweating...clothes soaking wet. It happened at least once every 1-2 month. Was diagnosed with a rare cancer and I thought this was the reactions from the cancer. Went off the pills and that never happened again. My oncologist and myself now know it was Ambien. Think real hard before taking this drug this went on for years before we realised...we are hoping that this drug hasn’t effect my cancer. | M | 68 | 0 years | 1/2/2019 | 1 | Trouble falling asleep | Sleep walking, talking in sleep, weird & vivid dreams, online shopping that I did not remember, texting I did not remember. | Stopped taking when it became dangerous. | M | 58 | 3 years 1X day | 5/31/2018 | 1 | isomenia | I was sleep walking, actually crawling around on the floor at 2:00 am in the bedroom according to my husband. In the morning I had no memory of being out of bed. On the other night my husband found me in the closet hiding in the corner, again with no memory. | This drug is poison and will never take it again, it should be BANNED! | F | 67 | 3 days 30 1X day | 5/30/2018 | 1 | insomnia | Horrible dreams, trouble waking up, heart palpitations | Saw a different doctor who prescribed another medication because "Ambien is addicting and has terrible side effects". New medical is so much better, no side effects | F | 58 | 90 days 1 1X day | 5/30/2018 | 1 | Shift sleep disorder | Sleep walking, amnesia, head ache, inability to sleep, memory loss, confusion, waking in places that I did not go to sleep in, combative. | I stopped taking it after I awoke in my basement with some of my firearms disassembled and in various stages of cleaning out of my safe. I did not go to sleep in my basement, but 2 floors above. I also grabbed the keys to my truck and attempted to leave and go somewhere, but my wife stopped me. I had no recollection of these events. | M | 45 | 60 days 5mg 2X day | 5/30/2018 | 1 | Insomnia | M | 70 | 30 days 10 1X day | 5/30/2018 | 1 | New C Pap machine and couldn't get | Fell asleep in an instant while driving in the afternoon and ended up in the ditch alongside the road. I was not even sleepy. Scared me to death. Never took another Ambien! Dangerous stuff! | The silent killer as far as I am concerned. | F | 70 | 2 months don't know 1X day | 5/30/2018 | 1 | Persistent insomnia | No sleep worse anxiety and depression | Bad stuff | F | 39 | 3 days 10mg | 4/5/2018 | 1 | insomnia | Memory loss, sleep eating, online shopping, feeling groggy, spacey the next day, moodiness, lethargy | Never should have started when dr prescribed this. I am presently weaning off. Good riddance to this drug. Nothing positive to gain taking it. | F | 64 | 10 years 10 1X day | 6/1/2017 | 1 | insomnia due to MS | Sleep was disturbed by waking and vivid dreams. Day after side effects are horrible- dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, headache, severe depression. | I would rather not sleep than deal with the day after side effects. | F | 44 | 1 weeks 5mg | 2/20/2017 | 1 | insomnia | Woke up off and on all night headaches vivid disturbing dreams, heightened senses too much so change in mood aggressiveness | Hated it and remeron been on trazadone for years has finally stopped working is there anything g I can take? | F | 59 | 1 days 5mg | 12/14/2016 | 1 | For insomnia | FELL ASLEEP, BUT WOKE UP ONLY 4 HOURS OF SLEEP. COULD NOT FALL BACK TO SLEEP. NEXT DAY BLURRED VISION, HEADACHE, NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK LIKE I WAS LIGHT HEADED. NOT TAKING IT NO MORE. | NOT FOR ME, THIS MEDICATION. WHAT ELSE IS SAFE, THAT KNOCKS YOU OUT FOR PEACEFUL SLEEP? | F | 65 | 5 months 10mg | 9/26/2016 |
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)