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 | To help sleep after surgery | Hallucinations, confusion | My mother was given Ambien in the hospital after hip surgery after falling in rehab after knee surgery. She is totally not here ....talking to walls, babbling, seeing things, talking to people not there, thinking she is standing and falling while laying in bed....and what is more is that she hasnt been able to sleep now for three days. I demanded to see all the meds she had been given and then the hospitalization doctor, case woker and nurse were all surprised to see she had been given Ambien! Surprised???? She has been out of it for two days now! This drug is bad! She has never had dementia or anything like this until she has had these surgeries and been put on all of these medications. Please watch for these side effects. | F | 82 | 2 days 1X day | 6/18/2012 | 1 | My mom couldnt sleep | falling, hallucinations, depression, screaming at night, hands shaking and eventually death. | Ambien killed my mom | F | 69 | 12 months 5 1X day | 6/16/2012 | 4 | Chronic insomnia | Sometimes a little bit groggy in the morning, or some light headaches, but usually I experience no side effects at all. | This drug has been a life-saver to me in many respects. My quality of life was really going downhill after more than a year of getting only 2-4 hours of sleep per night. My doctor prescribed Ambien, and my insomnia went away with the first pill. Took 5 mg/night for a few months, then cut back to 2.5, which I've been taking ever since. I only take 5 mg now if I'm having a really rough time falling asleep. The only downside to the drug (that others have talked about extensively), is that it's hard to get off it. I've been on it for five years, and just about every time I try to stop taking it, I have a rough night or two and end up getting right back on it. For me, it's mostly a psychological addiction. | M | 33 | 5 years 2.5 - 5 mg 1X day | 6/14/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | Having conversations with my husband that I have no memory of...but otherwise, this medicine has been a blessing as I have had life long insomnia. I take it only as prescribed and I do not leave my bed after taking it. | F | 39 | 3 years 10 MG | 6/13/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | I took this a few years ago and did not follow the warnings and had all the side effect that have been mentioned. Now I follow them exactly as prescribed and immediately get into bed. I may watch TV for 20 mins or so but them its off to sleep I go. My sleep has been fantastic !!! I have always had trouble sleeping waking every 90 mins or so, which lad to feeling very tired and out of sorts. Now I wake refreshed and ready to tackle the day! | Ambien is not right for every one, but if the doctor gives it to you, follow his/her guidance. Never take more than prescribed or drink alcohol with it. As soon as you take it go right to bed and relax and let the meds work. If you have a spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend or partner and tell them about the possible side effects so he/she can be there to support you! | F | 49 | 6 weeks 12.5 1X day | 6/12/2012 | 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 | 3 | Sleeping disorder | Some mild hallucination | M | 18 | 4 days 10 MG | 6/6/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Helped with sleeping, but caused major depression, fuzzy thoughts, inability to concentrate, suicidal thoughts, self injury | I had been having trouble sleeping for about a year. Drs found I had borderline apnea, not bad enough to get a cpap or do anything else. Dr prescribed ambien. Worked great for about a week, then the side effects started in. I had had chronic depression as a teenager, this was worse. I started planning my suicide, and started cutting myself, which I had not done in 20 years. I drove away my wife and several friends, and ruined my job by not doing pretty much anything useful for a month. Fortunately a friend with her own history of depression recognized what was going on, helped me to see it and got me off the meds. A few days later I was mostly back to normal, and set about repairing the relationships I damaged. Unfortunately it was too late to fix my job and I ended up being let go. I don't doubt that that friend saved my life. I was progressing so rapidly through the depression that I expect I would have taken my own life within the next few weeks. | M | 37 | 6 weeks 1X day | 6/6/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Not remembering anything I had done after taking it. Drove twice after taking it and "going to bed." God only knows what else I've done while on it. | Do not take this medicine. You will become addicted. | F | 26 | 4 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/3/2012 | 5 | insomnia | increase in sex drive . Hard time concentrating or focusing on anything. Foggy light headed. | Want sax after taking Ambien | F | 41 | 30 days 10 mg 1X day | 5/30/2012 | 4 | Difficulty staying asleep | 3D VISION. does anybody else experience this or only me? PLease tell me there are more of you out there, | M | 42 | 1 years 10MG 1X day | 5/30/2012 | 3 | insomnia | short term memory loss, no longer works past 4 hours | after about 3 years it only worked for 4 hours and I wake suddenly. I tried the sustained release but I still slept a little over 4 hours. I tried taking half and then the other half when I woke which worked another 6 months or so. Now I take it in conjunction with other meds that cause drowsiness and only to fall asleep if the others don't work. | F | 62 | 6 years 10 mg 1X day | 5/24/2012 | 3 | Sleep issues/insomnia | very high blood pressure, digestive issues/stomach problems, mood swings, breathing issues | I took this in the past, and it made me itchy, so stopped taking it. This time I had to take it on a vacation. I took it for 2 days 2.5 mg, then when I got to my vacation destination, I was taking 5mg for 7 days. This time I was not itchy, but it did mess with my breathing a little (I have asthma). When I got back, I discovered it made my blood pressure go up to 168/112. Needless to say I stopped taking it, and my blood pressure came down. At the same time I started to take 5mg, I was having stomach upset and pain on vacation, along with gas and bloating. I read another blog where people have had all kinds of problems with Ambien such as acid reflux, nausea and vomiting, etc. So not sure what to think. This is my third day off Ambien, and am still having stomach problems, so i'm going to give it another day, and go to the doctor to make sure it's not something else. I was fine before Ambien. | F | 41 | 9 days 5mg 1X day | 5/23/2012 | 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 | A little nausea and some wild dreams | Ambien works fantastic as long as you don't take it over 4 days in a row or long-term. It is a short-term quick fix for insomnia. As with all sleep meds you will develop a tolerance if you take it on a regular basis. Go to bed immediately after taking ambien for it to work properly. If you don't, you might sleep eat, drive, call, etc. Improper use is why this medication gets a very bad name. If used correctly, it will work and for all of us true insomniacs, it is a miracle drug. | F | 46 | 4 days 10 MG 1X day | 5/14/2012 | 4 | Insomnia | Doesn't always work. | Good for 4 hours. Sometimes only 2. As a teen, thought it was great to only need 4 hours sleep a night. Worked 2 jobs, had lots of time for fun, school, everything! Maybe its even normal for some of us (4 hours), I still don't know...but I know that whenever I sleep for over 8 hours (it sometimes happens!), then I drag, and am feeling tired all the next day. On the other hand, 1 or 2 hours isn't fun, either. I tried other prescriptions off and on during this time and felt with some of them like I didn't sleep at all...which is extremely stressful....! Also tried the hormone melatonin. It may work for one night, maybe even 2, but, being a hormone, would be unlikely that it could work any longer than that. | M | 64 | 4 years 10 mg 1X day | 5/11/2012 | 1 | for sleep after surgery | nursing staff were weird dressed weird | My mom recently had terminal cancer never sleeps under stress and still scared & still in hospt.Upon my requist 4 her to rest, ambien was given. The next morning mom was NOT MOM. She said staff was mean, dressed funnyWeird, ABUSIVE, Nor would give her , her meds, had been placed in a chair & left 4 long time, no nurse checked on her 4 three hrs. Could not get to remote. In mean time she got up to go to bed & fell. I asked how long on floor & who picked u up(no one i crawled). Mind u she has iv's, cathiter ect. So i asked who hung cath. bag ( nurse). I go see my mom and she is NOT MY MOM never crys throughout all her illness. She was freaking out VERY EMOTINALLLL. Mind you this was only her 2nd night in Kendred rehab. I believed EVERY WORD SHE SAID. Come to find out it was the medication AMBIEN. SO in meantime several days later she still believes all that she told me happened to her is true. And I tried to explain to her it was the medication . She knows I do not Lye to her about anything . Still 3 days later she thinks that I am trying to sugercoat & take up 4 the staff just to keep her from comming home. TOTALLY UN TRUE So what I am saying it was ALL DO TO THE MEDICATION AMBIEN. And IM PRAYING EVERYONE SEES THIS POST REMARK ABOUT THIS DRUG AND DOES NOT LET THEIR LOVED ONES BE GIVEN IT AND PREY IT IS TAKEN OFFFFFF THE MARKET. I give this drug a 0000000 rating . | F | 66 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 5/6/2012 | 4 | insomnia | Knock-out fatigued after about 12 years of taking Ambien. So dead tired, it started to greatly affect how I was living my life. | Quit sleeping after my Mother died, 15 yrs. ago. Doctored for about 2 years now trying to find out what was wrong w/me, that I just couldn't function anymore after about 2 p.m. All blood tests would come back normal, so no answer could be offered. Then just recently I read an article about Ambien, saying it was very dangerous, like smoking, which I gave up 40 years ago, and that it could cause great fatigue during the day. That was it. I am now going to an acupuncturist to help me start sleeping normally, and it seems to be working for me. I originally started out taking 1/4 of a 10 mg. to just get me to sleep, and if I woke up in the middle of the night, I would take another 1/4, so I never had any of the weird things going on. But I was now up to 1/2 of a 10 mg., and not knowing where it would stop. The first 2 nights off, even from that small of a mg., was hell. Just to lay there awake all night, and feel like a zombie all the next day. And I was so addicted to it right from the start, that I hope I will never have to take it again. That was when I started w/acupuncture. | F | 67 | 14 years 1/2-10 mg. 1X day | 5/5/2012 | 1 | insomnia | Anxiety, paranoia, extreme mood swings | I took this drug 5 years ago when I was having trouble sleeping with infants in house. Couldn't figure out why I couldn't handle everyday life events anymore. I was finally sleeping, right?. Finally read about it on here. I had turned from a normal, tired new father into a complete psychopath. It was Ambien. I flushed 45 pills! Felt like a new person in days. Stay far away form this stuff. It made me nuts | M | 40 | 45 days 10 MG 1X day | 5/4/2012 | 2 | Insomnia | Upset stomach, nausea, groggy feeling upon wakening | After tappering off Xanax for insomnia, I needed something temporarily to help with insomnia and my doctor prescribed Ambien. He prescribed 10 mg, but most of the time this dosage doesn't work at all and I end up taking one or two more. I feel nauseous, have an extremely painful stomach, and feel very groggy. This happens on every dosage and just gets worse the more I increase. At this point, I'm thinking I'd rather deal with no sleep than these side effects, as they are really taking away from my quality of life. | F | 28 | 2 months 10-30 mg 1X day | 4/17/2012 |