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 |
| 3 | No sleep | Starting to have memory loss. Can't remember how to spell words. The way it works starts to wear off. | I still take it because I do sleep. | F | 40 | 11 years 10 1X day | 8/25/2020 | 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 | 3 | To help me sleep | After three nights of taking Ambien, I woke up feeling nauseated and exhausted, with a really bad headache. However, it did help me sleep. I decided to hold off for a few days before taking it again. So after four days, I took another pill about 20 minutes before bedtime. When I got up to walk to my bedroom, I could barely stand. I had to hold on to furniture and stuff just to get to my room and to bed. Scared the heck out of me. Haven't taken it since. | Don't think the side effects are worth it, even though I only get about two hours of sleep a night if I'm lucky. Have hardly had much sleep a night for about thirty years now. I have such bad reactions to so many kinds of medication, I was hoping this would work, but just not worth it. | F | 62 | 4 days | 6/30/2020 | 4 | Sleep Problems from Chronic Pain | I have taken 10 mg and started 12.5 mg when it came out a few years ago. I do agree that it is written to much to people that do not follow the directions. Also the hospital does not give this medication even if it's on a patient's med list. Why? Dry Mouth Sometimes vivid dreams that bother me the next day. | I've learned how to take my Ambien at bed time so I don't have all the different negative things happen like other people I've read about. As soon as I get into bed I take the Ambien with a full glass of water or Gatorade. Once I wake up in about six/seven hours, I go to the bathroom and decide if I need my muscle relaxer for the rest of the night until Im ready to get out of bed for the day! I feel this medication has to be followed exactly as the directions state. | F | 54 | 10 years 12.5 | 12/30/2019 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 3 | Sleep | Headaches in the am, heart pounding, palpitations, bad impulsive shopping online, eating late, sending inappropriate text messages then regretting! Anxiety. Only got 5 hrs of sleep from it. | F | 41 | 2 years 10mg | 11/4/2017 | 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 | 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 | 4 | sleep | None | I wish I could get my regular sleep back but can't get off of the Ambien. Gives me that feeling of good sleep. Please someone have any recommendations to wean off of the pill... | F | 73 | 16 years 5-10 1X day | 4/28/2017 |