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 | Incomnia | Diarrhea three times a day, lower abdomen pain, eye pain, head pain, spacey weird feelings. Horrible anxiety - I've never had anxiety in my life until i took ambien. | This is an absolute DRUG FROM HELL. I would only get 3-5 hours of sleep, and I would wake up and be unable to sleep. The sleep deprivation was severe. The abdominal pain was severe. I just wasn't myself. When I quit, the rebound insomnia and anxiety were severe, and last for four very hellish long months. I have never fully recovered, and I don't know if I ever well. THIS IS A DRUG FROM HELL. PLEASE, PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE IT! | M | 54 | 5 months 1X day | 8/29/2014 | 5 | Insomnia | Short Term Memory loss over time. | I took half a dose of Ambien 10mg for 4 years with great results. Slept well and no after effects. Occasionaly I needed the full dose to be able to sleep. I noticed with the full dose I started having nightmares and felt tired throughtout the daytime so cut back to half doseage and was fine. Occasional sleepless nights but mostly a good night sleep. After about 5 years I started having a lot of short term memory loss and the doctor even put me in for a brain scan which turned out normal. Took me off Ambien and put me on Tamaepam and my memory has begun to return to normal. | M | 58 | 6 years 10mg 1X day | 8/27/2014 | 4 | Unable to sleep | The first time i took ambien i mix it with beers. Not a good combination of course. Did stuff i dont remember. Memory loss, left car open, had sex, ate. When i took it without alcohol, went to sleep fast and no side effect. But after a while it did not worked so good. I would fall asleep but wake up after 3-4 hours of sleep. I stopped cold turkey 5 days ago. The only withdrawal effect is that of course cannot sleep that well. I think its a good pill but only when you use it a couple of times. This should not be used all the time. | F | 38 | 3 months 10mg | 8/27/2014 | 1 | After about 6 months of use (I took it due to sleeplessness caused by acute back pain), I began experiencing constant, all-over pins and needles. Didn't realize the cause initially. Over the next few months, the symptoms worsened. Finally, suspecting it might be the Zolpidem, I quit cold turkey; and within 24 hours the pins and needles were about 80% gone. I realize now that the drug also caused increased anxiety and all-over muscle aches and pain--yes, I could sleep, but before the drug kicked in it was tough to find a comfortable sleeping position. Off it for about three weeks now, I feel like a new person. | Perhaps the side effects I experienced are rare. | F | 57 | 10 months 12.5 MG 1X day | 8/27/2014 | 1 | Years of Insomnia | I have tried quite a few sleep aids over the past 25 years due to Insomnia. I took a 10mg Ambien at 9pm. It is now 2:30 in the morning & besides making me a little light headed,, it had absolutely no effect at all. Was looking forward to a good sleep & instead, hugely disappointment. | F | 41 | 1 days 10 | 8/14/2014 | 4 | insomnia | Short term more loss. Daytime sleepiness. Some thinking fogginess. | This is a tool if you can't sleep. Not a demon. Took this for 5 years. Helped me get on with life although not as sharp thinking. Like any med it can be good or not so good. Duh if you are sleepwalking get other treatment. But this helped me get off the non sleep anxiety circle. I'm off now and can think clearer. But when I needed it this drug was a blessing. | M | 60 | 5 years 12.5mg 1X day | 7/15/2014 | 5 | insomnia | I have had conversations with people I don't remember and also eat and don't remember during the night. Nothing dangerous. I have tried so many different medications and got no where or had terrible side effects! I cannot sleep without it and is helped alot! | F | 21 | 9 months 10mg | 7/14/2014 | 5 | Sleep | None other than desired sleep | F | 43 | 2 years 10 | 7/5/2014 | 1 | insomnia | Dizziness, vertigo, sadness, stumbling around. Horrible stuff...should be taken off the market! | M | 66 | 1 days 12.5 mg | 6/29/2014 | 1 | I have fibromyalgia and insomnia | Memory loss, anxiety, feeling more pain and more headaches. Depression, can't concentrate, feel like I am half asleep all the time. I had taken this before and did not seem to have any problems. It does help me sleep but now I feel terrible all the time. I am so afraid. I want to stop taking this but when I don't take it I can't sleep but a couple of hours at the most. I wish someone could help me. | I would not advise anyone to take this I take Ambien CR 12.5 MG and do not feel rested when I wake up. My cousin has taken regular Ambien for over 10 years now and doctor will not take him off of it. He says he has no problems with it. I am so afraid. I say run from this drug before it is too late. | F | 51 | 60 days 12.5 MG 1X day | 6/19/2014 | 3 | insomnia | Altered mood, mild hallucinations, the need to stay up on my phone for hours. | This medicine helps if you put away all distraction and close your eyes. Otherwise, I have found it keeps me awake in a slightly hypnotic state just browsing the internet and downloading applications from the app store. It's good for me when I'm really in need of a good night's sleep, but otherwise I don't like taking this consistently. | F | 27 | 2 months 5mg 1X day | 6/12/2014 | 1 | Insomnia | F | 56 | 8 months 10mg 1X day | 5/31/2014 Patient History | 5 | could not sleep and have nerve dama | No bad side effects. In fact this med takes all the burning and nerve damage pain away. I had surgery on both feet which made the pain worse. Tis pill stops all the pain. | My doctor is currently looking for a similar drug that I can take during the day to help with my pain. I take lyrica and pain meds which I don't really need if I had something like this during the day. Ambien could help many people with nerve damage. I have never had any side effects that you guys have written but I don't read the side effects my family does because a lot of people who read them start having symptoms and I know for me it's been a life saver. I can sleep and have no pain in my feet and if I didn't get that relief who knows where I would be. I just wish I could take this during g the day. I would love a study to be done on me I bet it could help so many with nerve damage. | F | 39 | 12 years 10mg 1X day | 5/24/2014 | 1 | Insomnia | I took 1 5 mg tablet had serilous reaction. Hallucinations rage anxiety sleep walking an driving etc... During this time I took 1200 mg of Vyanse. Didn't realize it for 48 hours. Word of advice if you are taking this for yen first time, lock up any other drugs on the house | F | 47 | 1 days 5mg | 5/3/2014 | 1 | Chronic Insomnia | Was all fun and games for Sanofi-Aventis until the lawsuits, right? NOTICE--- No more advertising since early 2000s. No more TV markekting. | I commented on this site 5 years ago which was the year I broke my addiction to this toxic poison. It is a memory eraser, a powerfully addictive substance, and a life breaker. Your "primary care physician" will never you tell you that. He is every incentive (monetary and suppressed evidence) to hide it from you. Read -every- page below this one, proceed at your own peril. 5 years CLEAN AND FREE off this disgustingly over prescribed danger pill. | M | 41 | 4 years 10mg 1X day | 5/3/2014 | 4 | Chronic insomnia | This is the only sleep aid that works for me however I've had many of the dangerous side effects as mention. I worked 11p-7a shift went home after a bath took ambien while in the sleepwalking phase I drove to the nail salon got a full set of nails upon waking up and noticing I drove myself while sleeping to the nail salon I reached into my pockets to find $50 worth of scratch off lottery tickets I'd purchased. I've made meal, had full blown conversations and did not realize until the next day when someone would recite something we talked about. The thing that happens a lot is I will take more of the medication while I'm in my sleeping phase and will not know that I did that until the next day. It's a good medication but it comes with a lot of dangerous side effects. Overall while in the sleep walking phase of ambien I've drove my car to the store, nail salon, cooked meals, had conversations and was sexually active while in the sleep but awake phase of ambien. | F | 41 | 4 years 12.5 1X day | 4/25/2014 | 1 | Insomnia | I would have entire conversations and meals at night I did not remember the next day. Made me tired in the morning to where I just wanted to sleep but at night it was frustrating to try to sleep if I did not do so 15 min after taking it. This is a bad drug. Hide your phone, kitchen and car keys! It also made me anxious during day. I finally found chamomile tea that is medical strength and it works better than ambien ever did. I felt like I was just going thru the motions and not engaged in living on this drug. It was awful because I wanted to sleep. Wish I knew sooner but started when ob prescribed for sleep during pregnancy. It is addictive. | F | 38 | 4 years 10 | 4/21/2014 | 3 | Insomnia | I first took Ambien to deal with insomnia brought on by a medical condition that really upset me and disrupted my sleeping patterns. As the years went by I found Ambien to be a "good friend" when I needed to get to sleep...until the dangerous and unwanted side effects started to happen...what happens is, before you actually fall asleep, you slip into this weird "twilight" phase, when you can start sleep walking and doing things you don't know you are doing. You can talk on the phone, cook a meal, go outside and make alot of stupid choices while in this weird frame of mind and not know you are even doing it until you wake up and see the mess you made in the kitchen, etc. It's like you are operating on autopilot, making odd, "indulgent" sort of choices like online shopping, etc. The big wake up calls started happening then..I would wake up and realize I took many pills all at once..without knowing it. Somewhere down the line, after entering that "twilight" period, I decided to swallow more pills. Now I finally understand how people can accidentally overdose. Thank god, I did wake up in the morning and nothing horrible happened. There is also no way to prevent this from happening, outside of getting one of those timed, locked pill boxes, You end up doing things you dont even realize you are doing. The final straw came when, at some point, I tripped and fell and broke my nose, and I woke up with bruising on my face and sore knees. I | F | 47 | 7 years 1X day | 4/16/2014 | 5 | Insomnia | Sleep | Great Med! Tolerance will develop very rapidly, suggest using it sparingly.(1-2 days week max) The strange stuff only seems to happen when I take too much. Taking too much also makes me want to stay up and enjoy the cool buzzed feeling, so I fight the sleepiness. Too much being the entire 10mg pill at once. These days I just cut it in half, take 5mg, and I am out in 10 mins. | M | 40 | 1 years 5mg 2X W | 3/24/2014 | 5 | insomia | If I take more than recommended then I would get the amnesia sid effect. Now I just stick to the recommended dosage. | I do get a full nights rest & wake up refreshed | F | 41 | 6 years 5mg 1X day | 3/13/2014 |