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 |
| 4 | post surgical sleep problems | not much to mention | It was a godsend..after heart surgery..I was able to get a full nights sleep without feeling drowsy in the morning and have now been able to sleep without medication..I also did not experience any side effects as I gradually withdrew taking it | F | 48 | 5 months | 1/5/2003 | 4 | Insomnia | F | 48 | | 9/24/2003 | 4 | can't fall asleep or stay asleep | 1. night binge eating that I sometimes don't remember 2. feeling as though others are with me (not threatening at all) if I stay up after I take it | This medication has been a godsend for me . . .I would like to stay asleep so I wouldn't eat . . .but I am so happy to sleep every night! I suffered with insomnia for years and doctors would always give me a 10-day supply . . finally went to a psychiatrist and now I take it every night with no habituation. | F | 48 | 1 years | 2/19/2003 | 4 | insomnia | With ambien 1/2 a tablet - i.e. 5mg of the non-cr it can make me feel a bit depressed the next day and sleeping the next night a bit more difficult without sleeping aid. | This has overall helped me and I take it mainly 2 nights a week and 3 nights if it's a "bad" week. CR makes me crazy and almost impulsively too honest where I don't have to be. I am better off with 1/2 a 10mg non-cr. | F | 48 | 3 days | 7/18/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | Binge Eating At Night After Taking Medication | I like this med as in it puts me to sleep and I can stay asleep until morning. I decided to cut down and eventually go off this med because of enormous weight gain over the past 3 years due to binge eating at night after taking med. (It didn't work, I could not sleep after cutting down). I take 12.5 mg. I have also tried multiple over the counter and prescribed meds for sleep. None work well except this med. I will try to take my med and then not get out of bed to go downstairs for late night snacks...It's the best I can do at this time. "I NEED TO SLEEP." | F | 48 | 3 years | 9/29/2008 | 4 | Recent divorce, Work hour changes | SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS INCREASING IN THE DAYTIME, Alzheimer's like symptoms, headaches, heart palpatations, dizziness, recalling conversations that never took place. | Originally prescribed Ambien 10mg for insomnia due to a divorce. I would fall asleep briefly and then would wake with negative, obsessive thoughts running through my head. It worked like a charm. Ambien knocked me out immediately and provided the mental, as well as physical, rest I needed. No drug hangover like Tylenol PM gave me. Felt well rested. No addictive effect. When I no longer needed help falling and staying asleep due to stress, I began to take them on days that I worked swing shifts (3-11 one day, 7-3 the next). Ambien allowed me to instantly fall asleep and feel rested in the morning rather than watching the clock all night counting the hours until I had to get up. Usually I've had no more than 6 hours sleep after taking one and got up without issue. I've been taking it approximately 5 times a month for about 18 months. I've been becoming more aware of increasing short term memory loss. Completely forgetting to do things I was engrossed in minutes earlier. Missing in | F | 48 | 18 months | 1/10/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | Ambien works for me. I need to sleep. Ambien puts me to sleep. Side effects are some "spaciness" the next day, blackouts at night after taking. I actually ordered a pair of shoes off of eBay, another night a DVD from Amazon and have absolutely no memory of the purchases. My rule now is NO Internet after 11 pm. | F | 48 | 2 years 10 mg | 1/27/2013 | 3 | insomnia | memory loss, early waking. | I have a love/hate relationship with this drug. Try to keep it down to 4mgs (less than half of a 10) twice a week -- I quickly build a tolerance and wake increasingly early. Generally, I get solid sleep in 20 minutes, then only get 5 1/2 to 6 hours, which isn't enough, but can't get back to sleep. My memory definitely suffers the next day. | F | 48 | 5 years | 10/28/2007 | 1 | sleep trouble while travelling | waking up completely disorientated, topsy turvy like feelings. Possible hallucinations after taking Ambien a few times while travelling. Sleep is very hard now that I'm back home and not taking it. | I will never take this medicine again. Do not take while travelling or you could ruin your life as well as your trip. Better to miss a little sleep. | F | 48 | 3 days | 7/3/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Sleep Driving | Last Wednesday I took one of my pills and fell asleep very quickly. The next thing I remember was being in the Sherriff's office arrested for a DUI. I was told what I had done the next day since I have NO memory of any of it. In my mind I don't think it happened. I literally cannot remember anything. That is a very uncomfortable feeling. I obviously woke up and got in my car and along the way drove down an embankment, tearing through a fence and getting stuck in a field. Had I went left instead of right I would have ended up in a deep slough. ( for some reason all of my windows were down during this and I drive a black car, I'm certain if I would have went in the water I would have sunk & drowned and no one would see it) Somehow I got out of the field. I then proceeded to continue on and drove through someone's yard striking and breaking a ceder tree. The police were called and they gave me a field sobriety test, didn't pass, was handcuffed and taken to jail and booked. I was wearing my pajamas and slippers. This has scared me to death and I threw away my one pill shy of a full prescription. I won't be taking this ever again and I am looking into filing a lawsuit for the maker of this medication. I've read far too many stories since this happened to me and even worse, DEATH. I would urge everyone to think long and hard before taking this medication. It could ultimately kill you and then you wouldn't have to worry about not sleeping anymore. DANGEROUS!!!!! | F | 48 | 8 years 5-10 mg 1X day | 4/7/2011 | 1 | unrefreshing sleep | Hallucinated - told my husband he had four eyes - and took a picture of it to show him! | F | 48 | 20 days | 7/6/2009 | 5 | Insomnia | I night eat. It could be perimenopause or my acid stomach. I did this before I took Ambien but only before my period but it seems to happen more now. I think it puts you in an hypnotic state. You would only do what you might normally do. | I take it every night. I believe that it is a life saver for me. Very few people understand. I don't like the night eating and wish I could stop. It upsets my family. Wish I knew what a sleep specialist thought about how long I've been taking it. If anyone knows, please respond. Besides insomnia that started in childhood, my fibromyalgia has increasingly gotten very bad since I was first diagnosed 13 years ago. | F | 47 | 8 years | 9/27/2009 | 5 | insomnia | SLEEP | I have always been a restless sleeper most of my life. A traumatic event 1 yr ago kept me from sleeping at all. Was prescribed Ambien over a year ago & now sleep wonderfully and feel refreshed in the mornings. I do have to take the medication while I'm in bed because I become dizzy/disoriented if I take it & don't go directly to bed. I fall asleep w/in 10 minutes & sleep a solid 6 hrs a night. Have not had any of the strange urges that everyone else has reported. Love it! Doc said he would more than likely keep me on forever because uninterrupted sleep is important for physical/mental health. | F | 47 | 1 years | 11/12/2009 | 5 | work nights to sleep during day | Mild drowsiness when waking | F | 47 | 2 years 10 mg | 1/18/2014 | 5 | Insomnia/ptsd | Sleep | I wish I could find the people who invented Ambien and give them a big hug. Insomnia has plagued my entire life. I've never been able to sleep. I've spent huge chunks of my life in a stupor from lack of sleep, been fired from jobs, could not participate in major events because of no sleep. For the 1st time in my life I can get a full nights sleep and be ready to go in morn. It's changed my life. I work, I do things. I make more $ than ever before because I am productive functioning and happy. I suffer none of the side effects mentioned by others...well don't send emails right after taking, as it relaxes me they tend to get sappy. I can't recommend it enough for those with severe insomnia. Sleep is not a luxury. | M | 47 | 5 years | 1/6/2010 | 5 | insomnia | got to sleep quickly with no | going off ambien was awful. although ambien is not a benzodiazipan, it acts like one and withdrawls lasted months. BEWARE!!! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE AMBIEN FOR A LONG TIME TO HAVE TERRIBLE WITHDRAWLS. CALL YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY ROOM IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME.. they see overdoses and people unwittingly going thru withdrawls. and believe it or not your regular doctor may not know. | F | 47 | 7 years | 8/17/2004 | 5 | severe insomnia, no slow wave sleep | some memory loss of events during initial drug onset. | saved my life! although long-term use leads to short-term memory loss. worth it though. | F | 47 | 20 years | 5/26/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | Hunger! I have been taking for about a year and a half but the last 4-6 months I have been experiencing insatiable hunger, both right after taking and the day after taking. I have also gained, and been unable to loose quite a bit of weight from this. Also some mild hallucinations and eating late at night from hunger, stomach growling.....That said, now that I realize what is making me so hungry..I feel that I may be able to work with this in some way to find an alternative to eating all of the time and it is a load off my mind to be able to stop blaming myself for being so hungry all of the time and eating.... | But honestly, I have tried many other prescriptions for sleep both over the counter and prescribed by a doctor and by far this is the best for me. At 50 mg it puts me fast to sleep within 20 mins or so unless I am watching TV and staying awake on purpose...I am somewhat groggy the next day, but not terribly..at 25 mg it is harder to fall asleep and I sleep o.k. To me it is worth the side affects to get a decent nights sleep...Can't function at all without rest.... | F | 47 | 1 years | 3/22/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | I have had two occasions of when I wake up in the morning, there is no recollection of taking my glasses off, turning the TV off or even remembering what I was watching the night before..no matter how hard I try to remember. Last night, I apparently slept thru the phone ringing at 11:15pm..and the phone is on the nightstand next to the bed. That is sorta scary. Other than the occasional memory loss, I sleep well now..even thru my husband's snoring. | F | 47 | 2 months | 4/3/2009 | 4 | waking too early | Some disorientation if I wake too early. On nights I do not take ambien, I have an extremely difficult time falling asleep. | Puts me to sleep quickly, however, I still cannot get more than 4 to 5 hours even with the ambien. But I do sleep more soundly during that time. | F | 47 | 1 years | 10/9/2004 |