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 | insomnia | Not really any side effects. I just am worried about taking for a long period of time and developing an addiction to it. | F | 49 | | 12/31/2004 | 3 | insomnia | A total truth serum. many things i did and behaviours got me into trouble. There are some things that belong in your head and they should not come out. this drug lets them escape and i was arrested. I have no control over dosage after i take 10 or 20 mg. I can not take it. I have had 2 bad reactions in 3 years | it works but if you have any bad thoughts ever you can not take this TRUTH DRUG | M | 49 | 3 years | 7/7/2007 | 3 | insomnia | At first it was great. I woke after 7 hrs feeling rested. I have had 2 blackout moments that I don't remember. I rearranged my closet & have no memory of that. My son just told me that my husband who is ill got up last night & fell. I helped him back to bed & don't remember this. NO MORE AMBIEN FOR ME! It's very scary to not remember this. I'll stay up all night if I have to, but no more. | F | 49 | 6 months 10mg 1X day | 8/20/2010 | 3 | Insomnia | After only one or two nights taking it, I was wired the following night unless I kept taking it | M | 49 | 1 days 5 MG | 2/20/2014 | 1 | insomnia | memory loss, sleep driving, double vision | I was on this medication for about 4 weeks with no problems until week 5. I took one night after not using it for about a week. We had been out of town visiting family when I experienced the worst side effect ever! I had decided to take my 5 yr. old grandson to school so he could show me his classroom and introduce me to his teacher. Well, I remember leaving the hotel to go pick him up and my next memory is an officer asking if I was on any new medication that would make me drowsy. My grandson had been with me in the car and I had driven to the school and couldn't remember any of it. The officer called my husband at the hotel and had him pick me up. I was lucky it was a small town and I had a very understanding officer who didn't file any report. I could have been charged since there was evidence that I had hit something and there was scratches on my vehicle. I have no memory of most of the day. It scares the heck out of me to think of what could have happened! Don't let your doctor tell you that this medication can not cause these side effect! It is very scary that this drug is approved. | F | 49 | 4 weeks 10mg 1X day | 10/11/2010 | 1 | Insomnia | Didn't always work, extremely groggy the next day if you don't get 8 hours of sleep on it. Horrible side affects when you stop taking it. | I was given Ambien for insomnia. The first night I took it, it worked great and I slept 8 hours. The next night I slept 6. The third night I slept 2 hours and was a zombie the next day. After taking it off and on for three weeks, I decided to try Melatonin since it is non-addictive. The Ambien gave me terrible anxiety and horrible night mares. I had not had night mares in years, so it was definitely the Ambien. It took me a couple of weeks for it to completely be out of my system. I now use Melatonin Spray, Simalisin homeopathic sleep aid, and Vitamin B5 to sleep. No nightmares or grogginess the next day and no addiction. | F | 49 | 21 days 10 mg 1X day | 6/23/2010 | 1 | insomnia | This is a horrible drug that can RUIN your life as you know it. The pharmeceutical companies benefit - you do NOT. The only true complainers about this med being taken off the market are addicts - don't believe me? Read the posts. | After almost ruining my career, marriage and general reputation, I quit Ambien 2 years ago. I had been mercilessly plagued with chronic insomia for years and knew that hell that brings.... Oh, haha, you ate some food and don't remember it? Order something online and forget? Have great sex and your partner likes you more? How about not remembering driving and getting a DUI? How about going to your neighbor's house and screwing the husband there? How about taking a nap and leaving your kids at school to where the police are called? That could easily be you!! I know a small percentage of persons have no problem with Ambien, but it is the devils drug. The ones that complain are freaking ADDICTS that can't get any other good crap online anymore. And to the gentleman that wondered about memory loss? I would constatnly forget the names of office mates and even my own phone number...... The Drug gods are reaping blood money. Ambien can and will kill you. Ther are non-narcotic sleep aids out there - knock off wanting to get high and utilize them. I take an anti-psychoic that knocks me out for 6-8 hours with no other side effects... | F | 49 | 20mg 1X day | 2/14/2013 | 1 | Can't sleep. Temporary depression. | I weight 100 lbs. and took 1/2 a pill last night, instead of the recommended whole pill. Within 20 minutes I could hardly stand up. Went to bed and heard knocking at the door which woke me up. There was no one there. Today I feel excessively tired and somewhat 'spaced out'. Not good. | F | 49 | 1 days | 12/12/2006 | 1 | insomnia | initially I thought Ambien was a miracle. I have now been taking it for nearly 2 years and in the past month have started dozing at the wheel and find my memory loss is likely not CRS disease but a side effect. | My sleep quality has gotten worse the longer I've taken Ambien. Quitting leaves me worse off than I was before - literally nights and nights where I hear every 15min chime on my clock making work extremely stressful and being a nice human being a real challenge. | F | 49 | | 3/18/2007 | 1 | Insomnia from stress & fibromyalgia | Whoo Hoo - Hallucinations, memory loss and increasing irritability. | I've been taking Ambien every night since 1999. Sure I read the side effects from the package, but it wasn't emphasized as a major side effect, nor did my doctor mention them. I didn't realize that my unremembered noctural activities had anything to do with the Ambien. In the beginning, they were mainly phone conversations I had no recollection of having, finding an empty bottle of alcohol in the recycle bin (I'm not a drinker and this was a partial bottle at least 7-8 years old), partially cooked meals, food spilled in my bed, etc. These things began to happen more frequently. My partner often tried to direct me back to bed, but said I would get very agitated and angry. I wasn't sure I believed him. Then last year, while sharing a room with my sister and her family, I got up in the middle of the night, still sleeping, rummaged through my luggage, found some dried fruit, and proceeded to try to feed everyone. I had absolutely no memory of it. Now sometimes, there's a positive. | F | 49 | 7 years | 3/9/2006 | 1 | Insomnia caused by Prednisone use | Rapid heart rate, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, blurred vision, leg/arm twitches, long-term rebound insomnia. | Took it for 3 months almost every day. Symptoms of depression/suicide crept up on me slowly over a several week period. I've been off it for 5 weeks and I'm still not sleeping. Avoid this like the plague. Even if you take it only one day to sleep, you'll always give up the next night w/no sleep due to the strong "rebound" insomnia effect. | M | 49 | 3 months | 3/27/2006 | 5 | chronic insomnia since childhood | If I take it and don't go straight to bed, I get these odd visual hallucinations that make it hard to judge proportions. Shapes on the PC screen, for instance, begin to move around a bit. My balance is also off. It's not an unpleasurable feeling, as long as you don't have to work or deal wth the kids. | It's changed my life. I worry, though, that I take it when I should really be trying to establish better sleep patterns by more regular bed times and so forth. Beucase it's a pill it's too easy. But it is a great drug, very helpful. I also wonder if it has any effect on 1) sex drive and 2) memory during the day. | M | 48 | 2 years | 12/30/2006 | 5 | Fibromylagia/Insomnia | Absolutely NONE | Ambien is a very safe drug that must be taken as directed...take the pill and then immediately go to bed. I've used 10mg every night for 14 years with no side effects.. | F | 48 | 14 years | 4/20/2006 | 5 | sleep aid | none....I take it as prescribed. It works a little less than it used to because on it so long but I take Lunesta for a few days and then it works again. | For all you idiots out there with these side effects try reading the literature. You MUST got to bed IMMEDIATELY. Do not eat anything about 1-2 hrs before especially if it has high fat content....REDUCES the absorption rate. Do not take more that 10 mg or you will have weird side effects. Get an education and read. | F | 48 | 3 years | 10/16/2005 | 5 | no rem sleep. rare sleep | Had cereal once that I didn't remember fixing myself but also hadn't eaten supper. This drug is the reason I actually sleep. I feel rested and happy. | F | 48 | 1 years 10 | 9/27/2012 | 5 | Life long insomnia | It's a miracle drug. Sleep for the 1st time in my life. No adverse side effects. | I'm 48 and have never been able to sleep. Ambien is the only thing that has ever worked. You have no idea what a gift it is to finally be able to sleep at night AND wake up fresh in the morning. It has completely changed my life. I take 1/2, wait about 15 to 30 min, lie down in bed and take the other 1/2. Usually works in about 5-10 min. It doesnt make me sleep in a coma. If there is noise I will wake up, but usually can fall right back to sleep if I need to. If I need to wake up I can with no problem. | M | 48 | 5 years 10 1X day | 3/23/2010 | 5 | Not sleeping well | I did not know there were side effects until I visited this website. I am one of the lucky ones. I can break it into quarters and it works like a charm. I am a 240 lb. male who at 48 years old went from the best sleeper I know, to the worst in about six months. Talked to my Dr. and he recommended Ambien, which was ok, but I would wake up after about three hours and was right back to where I started, but now it was 2:00 am and did not dare to take another. The Ambien CR was the trick and it changed my life back to normal. | M | 48 | 12.5 2X W | 7/10/2010 | 5 | trouble falling/staying asleep | If you don't take it and go to bed and stay there, you might do things you don't remember. Use it correctly and you get fairly good sleep. | Use it as directed, stay in bed, turn off tv. | F | 48 | 5 years | 6/17/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | None, really, except becoming dependent. | I have arthritis and have had trouble sleeping for years. I take 1/2 to whole Ambien 10 mg around 4 nights a week. My only worry is becoming too dependent on it for a good night's sleep. I only sleep a fitful 1-2 hours a night without it. I have had severe adverse reactions to other drugs, but not this one. To those who can't tolerate ambien, trust your instincts and don't take it. | F | 48 | 3 years | 9/11/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | Very mild, nothing compared to how I feel after a night or two with no sleep! A bit sleepy, sometimes vivid dreams, but not too disturbing. If I wake up and need to use the bathroom I feel a bit stumbly so try to be extra careful. Can cause amnesia when combined with alcohol. | I break a 10 mg pill into 3 parts (just use my fingernails - pieces aren't EXACTLY the same size). 1/3 of a pill knocks me out. I try not to use it every night. | F | 48 | 5 years | 6/1/2009 |