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 | 1 | severe insomnia | I got out of bed and into my car in my night clothes, drove a few blocks and into a tree. I remember nothing about the whole episode except for "waking up" in the booking room of the county jail. Apparently I was "cooperative" with the police during the whole thing, but have no memory of it at all. I have never even sleep-walked before, or done ANYTHING like this. For days afterward I felt confused and disassociated. Now I am facing major legal problems, and I still can't sleep! | Stay away unless you want to end up dead or in jail! | F | 54 | 5 days | 4/9/2008 | 1 | insomnia | Thank you for this web site. I took ambien for 1 year before I realized Ambien was what was affecting me adversly. I experienced neurological pain and damage to my feet and hands. I spent endless hours being tested for everything from rheumatoid arthritis to neuropothy issues including MS. I have now been off ambien - which I did cold turkey - for 6 weeks. Most of the tingling and burning in my hands and feet are starting to subside. I also developed a slower thought process and extreme clumsiness - this too is returning after one month. Anxiety was also a side effect. My peace was missing - stress was taking over. I have not even added up all the expenses and time I have spent on doctor visits and prescriptions. The pain and heaviness in my legs made it difficult to walk. My normal life was truly turned upside down. | I would strongly recommend not taking this drug. Any pain, throbbing, burning, pins & needles feeling and anxiety can be side effects. These side effects are not on the pamphlet. | F | 54 | 1 years | 8/14/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Depression, twitching, aching muscles, fatigue, general overall feeling lousy | I prescribed this medicine by a family physician. After being on the medicine for 6 weeks, I went back to the Dr. and told her all of my symptons, she prescribed an anti-depressant - Cymbalta. The symptoms became worse. I went to an internal medicine physician. He immediately took me off the Ambien and told me to gradually go off the cymbalta. I was feeling like in a couple of days. I would never take this medication again. | F | 54 | 3 times | 3/30/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Joint, bone, muscle pains, feeling of being detached from body. Memory loss. Accelerated aging in face. Withdrawal while trying to stop | Please, avoid this drug at all cost. It has robbed me of my health, looks, vitality, memory and family; and still not a good night's quality of sleep. I have driven, shopped, ordered things online and over the phone, texted and called friends - all with no recollection. I was amazed looking at emails and text sent at how eloquent I was expressing my thoughts to people I barely knew. This drug gives temporary relief but can ruin your life. I look like a 70 year old lady and people treat me as such. | F | 54 | 4 years 10MG 1X day | 9/14/2010 | 1 | insomnia | It works great for getting to sleep, but im wide awake 3 hours later. It you stay up past a certain point you become fixiated on a task and can act in ways, do things, and not remember a thing. | The worst aspect of Ambien is its apparent ability to damage your memory to the point of dysfunction...will this be permanent??? | F | 54 | 1 years 10 mg 1X day | 5/24/2011 | 1 | it was forced on me | nightmares , bad dreams halucination | they made me take it for no real reason while some one was robbing my house. | F | 54 | 1X day | 8/20/2011 | 5 | insomnia | M | 53 | 3 years 30mg 1X day | 10/29/2011 | 5 | occasional insomnia | mild aphasia - difficulty finding the proper word | I take zolpidem (generic ambien) a couple of times a week. My primary difficulty is waking during the night with hot flashes then being unable to fall back to sleep for an hour or more, being wakened again an hour or two later - as many as 3 times in an 8 hour period, being awake 1-2 hours each time. Since it is usually too late in the night to take a zolpidem, I typically take one the next night to avoid building up a sleep deficit. On the days after I have taken a zolpidem I have noticed more difficulty in finding the right words. | F | 53 | 3 months 5 mg 1X AN | 6/19/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | Memory issues. | I am honest enough to admit that this drug scares me. But it's also the only thing that has helped me to sleep. One of my earliest memories was laying awake not sleeping and as I entered my 40's it started to take it's toll. The memory issues occur when I take the pill and do something before going to bed. I know I should not do that but since it takes a while to work, it's hard to not "use" that time. The key is that after I see what I did after taking the pill (like seeing that I'd gone in and cleaned up in the kitchen) then I remember doing it. So the memory is not totally lost, just masked by the drug. At this time I have made a decision to accept this since it has been so helpful in keeping my life together. I need sleep. This is my chosen way. | F | 53 | 3 years 10 mg. 1X day | 6/24/2010 | 5 | Can't fall asleep or stay asleep | None whatsoever but little groggy in morning if I don't get a minimum 7 hours sleep. | Best night sleep I have had since my 20's! Most natural sleep I have had in over 20 years. | F | 53 | 3 years | 6/1/2006 | 5 | insomnia | NO side effects!!!!I started to have REAL bad insomnia cause of menopause. I grew sick of it and my doc gave me some Ambien. I take half a tab. It just helps me "get over the edge" and I finally just sleep,not toss and turn for hours and hours. I take it IN bed, then, in about 10 minutes, I put down my book and I SLEEP in no time! I can sleep about 7 wonderful hours with Ambien, wake up REFRESHED! WOW! FOr me, Ambien is an answer to prayer! I have my life and engery back. | 53 | 6 months | 6/8/2007 | 5 | insomnia in menopause | NONE | Ambien gave me my live back!!!! I am "hard" to get to sleep when there are other people still up roaming the house, and I have a lot of grown children with their kids who moved back in with me! I'd lay there, listening to my husband sleep- i'd toss and turn... AMbien lets me go to sleep and I wake up refreshed, not feeling the need to lay in cause I've stayed up til 3AM worrying about not falling asleep! I LOVE THIS STUFF. I take only 5mgs when I do take it. | F | 53 | 2 years | 7/26/2007 | 5 | NIGHTTIME LEG CRAMPING UNABLE TO SL | ALWAYS STICK TO RECOMMENDED DOSE | F | 53 | | 12/2/2002 | 5 | sleep problems | when awakened by loud noises once and got up, I was extremely dizzy, disoriented, laughed almost uncontrollably, and hallucinated (bedspread and rugs appeared to be levitating). | now I take only 1/2, and take it very sporadically, only when absolutely necessary. Never more than 4 nights in a row. | F | 53 | 5 months | 12/12/2003 | 5 | insomnia | I posted once before about 7 months ago when I had just started taking 10mg.It still works great-it is a great sleep medication.I have noticed some tolerance problems-sometimes I take a pill and a half now but it sure does work.I started at no more than twice a week I'm now up to 3 or 4 times but no more.As all the posts indicate you must take it as prescribed-at bedtime-no booze.I admit my husband and I are still playing with it a little bit-shame on me- never more than once a week.15mg. and a cocktail or two.I am completely and totally gone--a little hazey the next morning,absolutely no memory,with a very happy husband,and a well rested wife who has learned to live with no pubic hair | This medication really works for sleep.Probably everyone should try not to take it too often just for tolerance problems-I take it more often now than when I first started 6 or 7 months ago,I don't want to be addicted but I love the sleep--we should all just be careful.And unless you want to play,lose your mind with no memory of your actions--you must take it as prescribed at bedtime | F | 53 | 7 months | 11/14/2008 | 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 | 4 | sleep disorder | cant remember what I said at night. | very good at helping you sleep, but go to bed when you take it. | M | 53 | 2 years | 9/17/2007 | 4 | chronic insomnia, bi-polar, anxiety | I am not sure if I can blame my bad memory on the ambien or the other medications I take for my bi polar disorder. I take a 10 mg pill every night and am addicted at least mentally becuse if I don't take that pill , there isn't a chance in hell that I will go to sleep. I suffer with extreme anxiety at times and although my doctor tries to fill me up with anti depressants that are suppossed to induce sleep, which they don't. I know I can depend on at least 4 hrs of sleep with the ambien. | I was glad to read that others have taken this drug as long as I have because it takes a bit of the pressure off that I am the only one out there with chronic insomnia. My doctor is just about ready to cut me off and I don't know what I'll do then. Freak out probably | F | 53 | 6 years | 4/14/2006 | 4 | Insomnia and perimenopause | Next day grogginess, headache, blurred thinking and memory loss. | Puts me to sleep quickly and sleep pretty well. I often get up and eat during the night, especially within the first 4 hours of taking it. My foods of choice are always BBQ chips and chocolate. I sometimes do work on my computer which I don't see till the next day. I have more of a desire to have sex with my husband which makes him very happy but I have no recollection of it the next day. We laugh about it the next day but it is strange to not have control of your thoughts and behavior. Thank goodness we have a security system, I can't go far. | F | 53 | 4 years 12.5 1X day | 9/17/2010 |