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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
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| 4 | insomnia | dizzy, hallucinations, like eating magic mushrooms, crazy trip, trouble telling reality from imagination, afraid I might do something crazy under the influene | It works, you just might want to invest in a baby-sitter for yourself so you don't fall down the stairs or somehting. | F | 20 | 2 weeks | 6/4/2007 | 4 | insomnia | hullucinations | resisting after taking it is bad. go to sleep immediately. i watched shadows move across walls, retreat and crawl back. i giggled and talked nonsense. i watched the furniture reaarange itself. taking ambien and going to sleep immediately caused no problems whatsoever. | F | 20 | 2 months | 6/18/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | Vivid and strange dreams, very dizzy after taking the medication.Made me think differently honestly if I didn't get to bed right away I felt like I had smoked pot. I did weird but (nothing harmful)things.But other than that I think it works great | Being dizzy is common which is why you take it and get into bed. Why are people leaving comments about driving after they have taken this?? That's just stupid! After reading about the wild sex I can agree, I just never thought it could be the Ambien. | F | 20 | 8 months | 8/8/2008 | 4 | Sleep problems | When I disregarded the instructions or took more than 1 a night, I would sleepwalk, have memory loss, eat excessively, and would often have strange dreams. | If taken properly (meaning, taking only 1 and going to sleep very soon after) it works very well. If you don't do this, you're going to experience the side effects. | M | 20 | 1 years 10 1X D | 9/15/2010 | 4 | insomnia/bipolar | IF you seriously are trying to regulate your sleep schedule/gradually work your way down to an earlier "bedtime", you need to get into bed (with lights off, no computer, phone, etc) NO MORE than 10 mins after taking it. i personally have a hard time doing this simply because if i could (healthfully/logically) stay up 24 hrs/day, i would. i write in a journal before i go to sleep and i am always suprised with what i've written the night before. i've traced all the shadows on my wall, made strange concoctions in the kitchen which i've found the next morning, etc. | feel good in the morning-able to wake up when i set an alarm, and usually without an alarm, without feeling groggy/hungover unlike other medications have been on. of course it completely depends what time you take it. the later you take it (after 2:30 am-ish) the later your body will naturally wake you up. i initially went on ambien temporarily, thinking it'd be about 2-3 months...it's been like 5ish months and stil using it, but i've started taking 5 mg instead of 10 mg and think i can definitely ween myself off as long as i'm serious about it. | F | 20 | 5 months | 6/2/2009 | 3 | Problems staying asleep | Ive been taking this drug on and off for about 8 months, everytime I take it I always find myself in lala land and I tend to pick up the phone and have crazy conversations and not remembering them the next day. But the sleep is awesome! I dont feel groggy the next day | Be carful! DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE, Driving under the drug really makes you do crazy things. | M | 20 | 8 months | 9/12/2006 | 3 | Depression-induced insomia | Hallucinations if I didn't go to bed and fall asleep immediately after taking 2 pills. I thought all the books on my shelf were falling down and going to smother me. THe biggest problem was that I was unable to have orgasms consistently. It would take lots of work and then it was weird, lots of pre-ejaculate and very little semen and sperm, followed by an anticlimax. The sensitivity is so great it is almostg numbing | I did get twenty pages out of my book on ambien and they're some of the best stuff I've written in a while. I remember writing this, but only faintly, | M | 20 | 1 days | 9/17/2005 | 3 | insomnia caused by lexapro | craving sugar and cigarettes after taking it; if taken too often, daytime anxiety/depression | Just a very, very strange drug. Deceptively powerful. The bad for me does not outweigh the good...yet. For falling asleep, nothing is better. However, it is strangely addictive and psychological dependence develops in a matter of days. If you're going to use it, use it very sparingly. If you have trouble falling asleep every night, try alternating it with something else. You do NOT want to get hooked on this drug. It is quite unlike anything I have ever used before. | M | 20 | 1 years | 4/10/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | Ambien did help me to catch up on some z’s, but the side effects were absolutely intolerable. Basically it makes you trip out: an overall sense of elation, mild visual hallucinations, and memory less. It also makes you stupid. In particular it made me believe I was having conversations with inanimate objects. It was as though the whole room itself were urging me on to contact everyone in my phone book. This inspired me to leave numerous incriminating Facebook comments on many an acquaintance’s Wall. | F | 20 | 1 years | 1/20/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | None really, except for increased appetite & increased nighttime anxiety. | I was not on this medicine for long. I forgot the doseage I was taking, but I would lie awake for hours and I would have thoughts running through my head and would not for the life of me be able to fall asleep. It definitely did not work. | F | 20 | 1 weeks | 1/31/2009 | 2 | Anxiety related insomnia | Felt heavy, it took about 20 minutes before I actually fell asleep, and I woke up about 5 hours later not able to move my arm because it had pins and needles so bad due to sleeping on it weird, which I would've woken up earlier if not on the medication. So now here I am...typing this comment, unable to go back to sleep 5 hours after taking it...worthless drug | Worthless drug | M | 20 | 1 days | 10/27/2007 | 2 | insomnia | the side effects included me driving to walmart in the middle of the night... buying tons stuff... and me thinking it was a dream...sleep driving happened to me quite a lot (so my roommates said) Scary stuff you shouldn't take it if your depressed.. It can make you paranoid and anxious... also you grow a tolerance to it... which means you have to increase the dosage... if you take one you're body is in a coma but your mind can still be going a mile a minute... I refuse to take any sleeping pills after my experiences.... BE CAREFUL | Make sure you talk to a family member or friend before taking it.... you can become addicted pretty easily... especially if you're younger (college years) | F | 20 | 1.5 years | 1/23/2008 | 2 | insomina | Severe Sleep Walking (including violent outbursts), still tired, groggy in the morning | I've been taking ambien for 2 weeks now. The first couple nights i woke up still tired and couldn't figure out why. My wife informed me it's because i was up all night. She's found me downstairs (all of this i do not remember doing) staring out the back door, watching TV, i've had sex and held conversations with her, I've said hurtful things to her, I swear at her a lot (which I never do), and my wife has now informed me last night i hit and threw my 70 lbs black lab across the room (which i never have and never would do, he's fine btw).. she said i kept swearing at her to make the dog stop barking.. which he wasn't it was some other dog.. I'm done with this drug.. it doesn't put me to sleep it just makes me lose my conscious state of mind and do wrong things.. it's been 2 weeks and I'm exhausted every moment of every day because i still haven't had a good nights sleep | M | 20 | 2 weeks 10mg 1X D | 11/1/2010 | 2 | Insomnia [recently diag. bipolar1] | High addiction factor; walking amnesia; general anger and non-congruent mood | It might work for a select few, but the reports are mounting high and this drug will likely be pulled sooner or later. It brought on mixed state [bipolar] episodes and ultimately resulted in hospitalization for sucide/psychosis. Many other [including personal accounts] of people having walking amnesia--- blacked out, but doing stuff [one person went driving]. Note: my time on the drug was on and off due to ill side effects. | M | 20 | 2 years | 1/26/2010 | 1 | insomnia | Even more difficulty sleeping than usual (I slept off and on for only 2.5 hrs). The ceiling and door frame was moving around. It felt like a combination of smoking weed and that feeling right before anesthesia knocks you out. | It was calming and I wouldn't have minded the weird visual stuff if I wasn't desperate to sleep. I now understand why one of my friends does it recreationally. I honestly thought she was making stuff up. | F | 20 | 2 days 5-10 mg 1X D | 6/3/2010 | 1 | Cannot Fall Asleep at Normal Hours | None | I took it last night because I normally can't fall asleep until about 4 in the morning.. Well I took it and it did nothing to me whatsoever. Did not make me drowsy, nothing wierd, still didn't fall asleep at all. Actually, I fell asleep around 5:30 this time which is later than I normally would have fallen asleep. | F | 20 | 1 days | 3/14/2009 | 1 | insomnia | horrific hallucinations, amnesia | very scary side effects to this drug, after one experience one time taking this drug, I will never take another sleeping pill | F | 20 | 1 days | 7/2/2007 | 5 | Insomia | none | Knocks ya out! sleepy time! | M | 19 | 7 months | 11/30/2006 | 5 | Insomia related to Prednisone | The usual, dizziness, loss of balance, double vision, and I wouldn't call them hallucinations like others, but more of a change of perception. I didn't have any side-effects in bad sense, except that I like this drug too much. I guess I'll just have to deal when I run out. | I love to write and stay up at least an hour before I go to bed. Sometimes I would wake up in the morning to find I had written the wildest things, includiding e-mails I normally would never have sent. Not good. I've been taking it over a month now and am pretty acclimated to the drug, but I still like it. Someone said they like to take it in the middle of the day...you have to have some problems to be taking something this powerful for a recreational purpose, at least during daylight. I can't imagine not being able to go to be after the main effects wear off. | M | 19 | 30 days | 9/2/2006 | 5 | lack of sleep with night terrors | sometimes hung over from the night before as has as its harder to wake up... well its harder if u wake up clear and fresh too early and go back to sleep i sleep for ages. i now am a rbbid sleep eater.... i always have food by my bed bc im too lazy to get come some | as far as if it works--- it does as far as it feels "good"--- it does as far as it makes you feel high--- it doesn i definitely believe this sleeep aid is very benficial to those who have serious sleeping disorders i have serious sleeo problem associted with the life of drugs i chose to give up (1 year 5 months clean) anyways this stuff ruined my sleep... they tried serquel and trazodon,, didnt work... ambien--- ambien really works.,... and after so long of not being able to sleep bein able to get a nice full rest is spectacular | F | 19 | 4 months | 5/1/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | I was talking to my boyfriend and told him that I saw people walking through walls, I don't remember any of the converstaion. Other than that, I've been able to go to sleep and stay asleep for 8 hours and feel better in the morning than I use to. | F | 19 | 2 weeks | 12/4/2009 | 4 | insomnia | hallucinations, increased appetite, insane amount of sexual stimulation | LOVE IT...ESPECIALLY WHEN TAKEN 15+ MG DURING THE DAY...with a little coffee and maybe 1 mg or 2 of alprazolam | M | 19 | 6 months | 11/27/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | well the first two months i been taking it, the drug worked wonders....then more recenly ill take it and it makes my mouth dry out and everything just starts to move real slow...i get full body shakes and confusion...also if i try to talk it is just mubbles...i also hallocinate that there are people watchin me...but all this last for about 15 mins then im fine... | IT puts me to sleep and thats all i care about | M | 19 | 5 months | 10/5/2009 | 4 | Depression/Insomnia/Stress | Usually I take this right before bed and LAY in bed. I fall asleep right away. But the times where I wait for it to kick in, and I am awake on the computer, I remember nothing the next day. I had sex with my boyfriend and had no recollection whatsoever. We watched a movie, I had no idea. It's almost scary. | If you're using it to get to sleep then lay in bed right when you take it. | F | 19 | 90 days | 1/2/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | Euphoric feeling, childlike voice, munchies, nausea, random texts and Facebook status', odd behavior | I love Ambien. It does have those effects that people warn about, but hey- as long as I sleep, I'm all right with it. I've been known to talk strangely, dance around and basically act like your everyday drunk- but I have not sleepwalked, sleep eaten, sleep sex or sleep driven. I have not done anything destructive. The first few nights it made me nauseous, but then it eventually stopped. After awhile the drug doesn't work as well, so I detox for a couple days and then it starts to work again. I usually remember what I did the night before- I just feel so great and tired that I don't care if I look like a fool. I would definitely recommend this drug to anyone who has problems sleeping. It can get addictive so please use responsibly. I sleep great, no nightmares and I wake up refreshed. | F | 19 | 6 months 3 MG 1X D | 1/26/2011 | 4 | insomnia | I generally take about 5 mg/2-3 times a week on those rare nights as a college student that I can fully devote 8 hours of sleep and can be into my bed in 10 minutes. If I take the pill, and don't immediately get into bed, I have a tendency to feel very drunk/high and spacey. Once in bed, I have experienced mild hallucinations (nothing nightmarish, just odd subjects wander through my mind) and my body feels really weird and heavy. I find I have to remind myself that I'm in bed, trying to sleep, and I will feel fine in the morning. Then I'm asleep for the entire night. In the morning after taking Ambien, I tend to feel sort of foggy for the 30-45 minutes I take to shower and get ready, but then it clears up after that and I feel great all day. | Although there are some side effects that I experience with this drug, I still think it works great as a sleep aid. I definitely recommend taking this drug only once you are in bed, ready to sleep. This is a sedative, after all, and it is extremely unsafe to try to stay awake after taking it. | F | 19 | 2 months | 11/19/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | I would say and do things i normally wouldn't- with no idea i had done them when i woke up the next morning. I would then only take the medicine right before i went to sleep and made sure my phone was off and away so i wouldnt pick it up and call/text someone. When I did begin to get tired i heard music in my head.. I knew no one else could hear it but it was beautiful, amazing music.. many times it was classical music but nothing I recognized. I felt like I was on some sort of shrooms. The feeling was comforting at night but it was scaring in the morning to not remember anything i had done an hour or so before falling asleep- much like a black out from alcohol- sometimes i could remember little parts of what i had done if someone reminded me.. Also, I was only able to sleep 5 or 6 hours at most and was then very tired duringthe afternoon. I don't take the medicine anymore instead I just make sure not to nap at all during the day and to a lot of mind stimulating things and stay actu | F | 19 | 3 months | 12/16/2008 | 3 | Sleep patterns were thrown off | I hallucinated, but fell alseep after | I took this drug when I was younger, and it made me hallucinate pretty strongly. My parents were suprised when I had a very similiar reaction to it, since I have grown so much since then. My father got very scared, and he stayed with me until i fell asleep. I don't really remember anything from within 15 minutes or taking ambien to when I fell asleep, but my dad said that I was reaching out with my hands and mumbling pretty incoherently. Hearing that, and not remembering anything, made me stop taking the medicine after 2 nights. Scary experience for me... | F | 19 | 2 days | 12/26/2005 | 2 | Insomnia | I would take it before going to sleep. If I even had to check my email quickly I couldnt hit any of the right keys. The Keyboard seemed to be moving around, and the screen was shaking. It has not worked well at all, I would take it at 12:30am and be awake by 4:12am exactly. The next night I tried taking it at 11:30pm and still work up at 4:12am. It was not helpful, and I could not fall back asleep. | I also found an empty box of Wheat Thins next to my bed, I'm assuming I had been sleep eating since I had my retainers in and they were filled with cracker muck! | F | 19 | 9 months | 12/15/2007 | 1 | ...recreation... | Man, this stuff really messes you up. Don't take it. I got about 10 or 12 pills from a friend cuz he said they get you fucked up and i took 2 or 3 at about noon one saturday and then don't remember much of anything until about 9:00 that night. Turns out i took every last one of them (thats 10 or so pills--WAY TOO MUCH) while i was under. Think about that: I took a double, maybe triple dose (wish i could remember) and was so screwed up from it that i took pill after pill after pill. I bet if i'd had a whole bottle i'd have taken every last one. I literally have no recollection of putting any more pills in my mouth after the original 2 or 3, but the bag was empty when i looked the next day. Scared the hell out of me. This isn't a sleep medication, guys--its a hardcore drug. The "side effects" are ridiculous: I was seeing double, and i could not focus my eyes to save my life. It's a complete de-inhibitor--i remember doing awful things that i would never do if i were sober. Basic | M | 19 | 1 times | 4/2/2008 | 1 | insomnia | hallucinations, permanent memory loss | I started taking ambien because I was going through some tough times and could not sleep because my mind kept racing when I would try to sleep. After about 4 weeks of taking it sparingly I noticed that I honestly couldn't remember what happened the day before or even what day it was. This was completely out of character for me, a person with a great memory. It has been 6 months since stopping ambien and I still don't really remember what happened the day before after I wake up unless someone jogs my memory along!!! DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG! | M | 19 | 4 weeks | 1/15/2009 | 1 | Severe Insomnia | Hallucinations, sleepwalking, sleep-talking, incoherence, night-eating, panic attacks, etc... | I took Ambien for about five months. It's addictive properties were immense. It was something I used at a borderline recreational level toward the end of things. Numerous times, parents or girlfriend would comment on something EXTREMELY bizarre that I had done the evening before (like peeing in the garage "so burglars wouldn't come in"). I gained weight from eating meals I didn't remember. Finally, it culminated when, one night, I took an Ambien, woke up (apparently) in the night, not remembering I had previously taken one, and took two more. I ended up in the hospital after assaulting a paramedic and accusing a police officer of having an affair with my girlfriend. I'm a calm, rational, non-violent person with no predisposition to addiction or drug use. This is by far the worst thing you could put into your body. | M | 19 | 5 months | 1/9/2010 | 5 | for fun | I dont even know where to begin! thinking i am beyonce, looking like chucky, drowning while washing my hair in the sink, talking to the wall, thinkning someone ate my chicken wings, thinking there were more people in the room, burning my hair on the stove, thinking my room was a cabin, wanting to be naked, talking to random people on the phone and computer, watching home alone, doing crazy shit!! thats the ambien experience and i love every minute of it even thought i black out and cant remember half the stuff i do. me and my friends are on it and we have a good ol' time! | Ambien is a god! | F | 18 | 10 days | 3/12/2006 | 5 | Can't fall alseep | After about 5-10 min, i start to notice that my vision gets blurry and i can see things far away doubled. i have double vision on things that are far away. sometimes i just fee kinda drowsey and my vision gets blurred when i walk aroung. but mostly, i wake up and i dont remember a thing. like i wont remember writing this cuz im on ambein rightnow. | Works great as a sleeping-aide, but has its addictive proproties i dont take them every single night, just when i feel i neeed it. other then that, have fun! email me if anyone wants to discuss their feelings on ambien and share stories,,,,, have fun! | F | 18 | 9 months | 6/1/2006 | 5 | Depression, insomnia | After about 5-10 min, i start to notice that my vision gets blurry and i can see things far away doubled. i have double vision on things that are far away. sometimes i just fee kinda drowsey and my vision gets blurred when i walk aroung. but mostly, i wake up and i dont remember a thing. like i wont remember writing this cuz im on ambein rightnow. | Works great as a sleeping-aide, but has its addictive proproties i dont take them every single night, just when i feel i neeed it. other then that, have fun! email me if anyone wants to discuss their feelings on ambien and share stories,,,,, have fun! | F | 18 | 9 months | 6/1/2006 | 5 | Sleep issues | None | Wow | M | 18 | 1 months | 11/25/2006 | 5 | insomnia | the pros outweight the cons for me, but I do experience some tiredness the next day (sometimes it's worse than others), occasional headaches, but overall it is a miracle drug for me! | I'm only 18 and have been dealing with insomnia for about 7 months now, it sucks! Ambien is the only thing that had worked for me. I like it because you don't get that drowsy, drugged feeling. I lie there and then I go to sleep. I do still wake up, but am able to go back to sleep easily. I only take 3 nights a week.. the other nights I just try to do without it. I have noticed that I want it more and more, but overall it's helped me a lot. | F | 18 | 6 months 3X W | 3/25/2010 | 4 | insomnia | I took ambien CR... didn't have any side effects except i became dependent on them and needed more and more for it to work...not cool | helped me go to sleep, woke up feeling awake as i used to wake up feeling groggy | F | 18 | 2 years | 6/19/2009 | 3 | Sleeping disorder | Some mild hallucination | M | 18 | 4 days 10 MG | 6/6/2012 | 3 | inability to sleep | Drowsiness, hallucinations, anxiety, grogginess, hangover. | It made me overly drowsy-- if I took it when I was not already laying in bed I would start hallucinating/dreaming while still awake. Don't take it unless you are already in bed, preferably supervised. I took it when I was plucking my eyebrows before bed and I hallucinated that they were talking to me....not a pleasant experience. I was missing half of my eyebrows for my senior pictures.The side effects outweighed the benefits for me. Yes, it made me sleepy, but it made me drowsy and groggy | F | 18 | 1 years | 9/22/2005 | 3 | wanted a normal sleep schedule | the first few times i took it i fell asleep directly after. i found that i would wake up at the exact same time every night i took it, at 3 am, and i'd get a drink and go back to sleep. it worked decently when i used it for what it was meant for. | i heard such "great" things about how good ambien was if you took it and fought the urge to sleep and just stayed awake, so i tried it. i took it late at night while i was laying in my bed watching tv and talking to people online on my laptop. i had a few things laying on my bed, like a pair of pants and a hairbrush. WELL. after i took it, i was talking online and my laptop screen started changing. it was like i was staring through the screen into another world, where i was walking around the side of a mountain. i couldn't even see my instant messaging boxes because they kept moving and i was just so confused and trying to concentrate on the mountain. it hurt my eyes so bad that i just threw the computer on the floor. after that, i layed in bed and i started hearing voices (which was actually the tv) and i thought it was coming from the pants and hairbrush that were on my bed. i all of a sudden got this random idea that i was an egyptian queen and the pants and the hairbrush | F | 18 | 4 days | 9/4/2008 | 3 | depression, anxiety, insomnia | about an hour after taking, felt ridiculously drunk, wandered around my room and hallways for a while, mezmerized by certain textures and colors. loss of sense of balance or any desire to be balanced | it doesnt really work for me, even if i am in bed when it starts to hit me, 3/10 times i get up and stumble around instead of fall asleep | M | 18 | 10 months | 3/7/2008 | 1 | insomnia | 10mg doesn't do anything, 20mg and it feels like I've taken a benedryl tab. | You really have to have an empty stomach for this medicine to have any effect. | M | 18 | 4 days | 3/13/2005 | 1 | My son--sleep cycle problems | On 5 milligrams, my 18-year-old son only experienced dizziness and loss of coordination. We know this because it didn't make him sleepy. After two hours in the bed, it wore off and he was up on the computer. Next night 10 milligrams. Wham! Still no sleep, but extremely dizzy, threw up, room spinning, things moving, hallucinations. I've taken it in the past with no probems, but no more for him. (He was still dizzy some the next day.) | M | 18 | 2 days | 8/31/2006 | 5 | sleep disorder | am 17 started ambien when I was 14 . there wonderful. gotta be carful not to take them til you go to sleep when I first took them I got really dizzy stuff look like I was in a scary movie. they kinda gave me a sicafrangat zone saw things heard things made me feel like I was in a room full of pll wen I wasn't. people told me that it would give real tragic dreams such as bloody scary stuff I always had them so I couldn't tell y'all if they made them worse. there very addicting I can't go with out them or ill be up for days . NEVER take more than 2 . they make you do crazy stuff when yuu wake up your memeber nothing .i woke up with crazy stuff. other than that after awhile you tend to get used to them. most side affects are do to me having to take 2 anxiety pills 2 depresson pills and my ambein. so now I can't sleep with out all 5 or 6 . | F | 17 | 3 years 10 MG | 3/20/2012 | 5 | To Help Me Fall Asleep | Well as the drug was setting in i felt very light headed, still awake and capable of doing something, but almost as if your floating on air, and your full of energy, but your slowly being forced to close your eyes. Do not stand up, i was standing up talking to someone and i was falling asleep. Also as i was falling asleep in my bed i had extremely vivid animated dreams, very entertaining i must say! | I Am a computer programmer, my sleeping patterns over the past few months have been very odd, in essence my night is my day and my day is my night, i can't stand this fact, so i am using this drug to get my sleep cycle back to normal. | M | 17 | 1 days | 5/22/2007 | 5 | insomnia | disclaimer../i took an ambien about an hour ago now and it kickin and feeling it tightfeel it kicking in so | disclaimer'i am on ambien right now i would say that i have some additional comments things i type are weird and not how i would usually spell them so beware things on the screen are moving...the letters, yeah, blocks and the web address is shrinking and stretching so i'm pretty chill now though i have a concerto stuck in my head...but usually when somethings stuck in ur head you can just kinda hear it its one person one tune.....with this its like GIGANITI symphony and....and...its beautiful!! but its time to get off of the computer. | F | 17 | 1 days | 11/28/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | lost inhibitions | I have always had issues falling asleep cause my brain is really busy and ambien helped a lot. Just take it as directed, and dont do it every day. AND if you are abnormally sad one night, do not take it. since you lose inhibitions it gets worse and you can do weird things. but anyway, I think its worth it. | F | 17 | 5 months | 10/30/2008 | 4 | cant fall asleep | first i took it then about 10 to 15 min. later, you get very loopy,once i have halucinated.you feel very glee almost you could run for miles but as you feel this you are feeling exusted.you just want to break something and say come on, bring it! also i have felt very random, a true story as i was loopy i would look in the mirror and say "im going to get a buzz cut".but the next morning i would look back on it and would say "over my dead body" if you are strong you can fight the pill and the temptation to sleep will go down as the time goes buy.i personally can take it at 12 at night and wake up at 6 in the morning. Do not take two pills... i havent even done that!!!!!!!!! | M | 17 | | 3/15/2007 | 4 | cant fall asleep | first i took it then about 10 to 15 min. later, you get very loopy,once i have halucinated.you feel very glee almost you could run for miles but as you feel this you are feeling exusted.you just want to break something and say come on, bring it! also i have felt very random, a true story as i was loopy i would look in the mirror and say "im going to get a buzz cut".but the next morning i would look back on it and would say "over my dead body" if you are strong you can fight the pill and the temptation to sleep will go down as the time goes buy.i personally can take it at 12 at night and wake up at 6 in the morning. Do not take two pills... i havent even done that!!!!!!!!! | M | 17 | | 3/15/2007 | 1 | Imsomnia | Severe hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and attempts, grogginess, increased hunger. | I took one during the summer and went absolutely mad. I thought I was going to be attacked by the hairy goblins in my curtains or raped by pastry chefs knocking at my door. My mother found me the next morning with my wrists cut slightly and I had drawn a very disturbing picture of deer nursing eachother back to health after a car accident. I'm sure we probably could have gotten a lawsuit out of the injuries but we never went through with anything. Not recommended for anyone who is even slightly unstable. | F | 17 | 1 days | 12/30/2006 | 5 | insomnia | good | M | 16 | 2 months | 3/5/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | Slight addiction. Tolerence. Funny thoughts. Uncoordination. | I could not help but get up and move when the ambien hit me. I loved the high it gave me. So i stopped taking it before it became a problem. I used to take 4 or 5 just for the feeling of escaping the crazy insomnic thoughts. | M | 16 | 1 days 10 7X W | 2/28/2012 | 5 | fun..iguess. | well..i took this with a soma..of which my friend gave me..and we went to a coffee shop. Immediately i started feeling so weird..like my life was a movie that i wasnt in..like i was watching everything go on but it wasnt real. My boyfriend told me i was being mean..but i have no memory of that. I was Hallucinating..BAD. I almost wrecked..alot..and..it made me see little midget like soilders running across the road. The road was also swiving and coming at me it seemed. The next day..i had to basically sit on my bed and try and remember what happened the night before and if it had really happened or not. Im serious..this drug freaked me out. | i dont think i will be taking it again..even though i slept good.. | F | 16 | 1 days | 6/23/2005 | 3 | for insomnia | No initial side effects if medicine was taken as directed. | Ambien in my case became and addictive drug. one that i craved because it made me sleep well. but i also had a bad experience with it. My prescriber never told me that ambien worked immediatley. so because i took it a half hour before bed i experienced major diorientation and a panic attak. I had no sense of direction. I didnt know where i was, and i was disoriented. soon after, i could contol this feeling and i learned to like the feeling i recieved if i didnt go to bed right after taking it. i craved the disoriented "high" feeling. Because i would only take it within an hour before bed i got loopy and pleasurably disoriented and then put myself to bed. i eventually was tkaing 25 mg before bed. I found that a 5 or 10 mg tablet wouldnt keep me sleeping all night. i have been tkaing this medication for one year and 7 months. | F | 16 | 1 years | 7/26/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | If staying up: TOTAL amnesia. While under it's effect (even on ~15mg) my short term memory is so severely affected I can't function coherently or rationally. Also some strange but fun mental imagery (*NOT* the same as hallucinations). If sleeping: Very, very strange dreams, otherwise nothing. | The guy who said it was a dangerous drug and should be taken off the market wasn't too far off. It's great at what it does; I haven't found a better hypnotic; but if you resist sleep or are kept up for some reason, things can get very, very strange or in some cases, dangerous... and worst of all you won't remember a thing. Be careful with this drug. | M | 16 | 1 months | 8/22/2005 | 5 | Sleep Apnea/Trouble Sleeping/ | Wow. Hallucinations, trips, memory loss... alot happened. 1. waking up in strange places 2. on nights that i actually can remember, things look like they're moving, when theyre not. 3. TV/video games appear to be 3D... not sure why. but it affects your vision in some way. 4. MANY hallucinations. 5. Feels like your on drugs. more than marijuana, less than mushrooms... somewhere in the middle. 6. you walk like you're drunk. very dizzy. 7. you will do many things that you cant remember. phone calls, whatever... 8. increased appetite. 9. very social feeling. you act like there are alot of people around you, sometimes cracking jokes to yourself. its weird. 10. strange/unrealistic ideas. they vary. All of the above may happen, but its unlikely if you go straight to bed after taking it. but on a weekend, why not experiment, its pretty fun... ******* only take when your inside your house and secure. im not sure what would happen if you went out and drove around, but | if you want to experiment staying awake while on ambien, be prepared... and DONT GO OUTSIDE! you could make some very stupid decisions, and who knows what will happen. | M | 15 | 2 months | 2/14/2006 | 4 | insomnia | uncontrollable crying, little hallucinations, horrible nightmares | it works really well if i go to bed right away like im supposed to | M | 15 | 1 days | 11/22/2005 | 4 | insomnia | hallucinations and dizzyness if i cant fall asleep right away. EXTREME memory loss---i took a math test today and couldnt remember ANYTHING we learned since I started taking it (three days ago). If i didnt get to finish it tomorrow i would have completely failed it. although so far i can remember everything i do while on the drug, so im only drawing blanks on things i do while awake...weird i know. | this medicine helps TREMENDOUSLY with insomnia... i can go 7+ days without even dozing let alone sleeping, and when i take this i knock right out. dont take it if you arent going to fall asleep right away, crazy stuff happens!! i take the medicine correctly, so my side effects arent because i am abusing it. | F | 15 | 3 days | 3/8/2007 | 4 | To get a full night sleep. | Hallucinations. While reading about the overdoses online the words started moving back and forth and some seemed to wrap around the paragraph. I remember being told to do something then taking a few steps and completely forgetting. I fell once. The as I tried to read a magazine article I found myself making up my own story with the words in the article. It did help me get the sleep I needed though. | Take it, it works. | M | 15 | 2 times | 4/12/2007 |