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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | insomnia | Interesting history. It worked very well at first and caused me to have extremely PLEASANT dreams. HOWEVER, I have always had a drink bef. bed - a hangover (pun both intended, and not) of yrs. of insomnia. Of cs., Ambien w/ alcohol is strongly counteradvised, but I persisted: "I'll be ok". This was 11 yrs. back. It worked v. well until 3-4 yrs. ago, then became less effective. Upped the alcohol. A few years ago my MD suggested that I cut back to 5 mg, because of my age (67 yrs.). I did, and things seemed ok. About that time I cut back to 1 can of beer/PM. Still pretty good, but less able to fall asleep at will. Hm. Recently, however, needing to get up earlier, I went back to 10 mg.; then started having two cans of brew. It was only then that my wife noticed that somebody had been doing rather wierd things around the house at night. Who? I'm never able to recall a thing. You can't have something for nothing - you always pay. I know I must kick these habit | It works, but if you abuse it, it will abuse you. | M | 67 | 11 years | 5/3/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | I started takindg Ambien three weeks ago, I have had no side effects. I didn't take a tablet last night and had very terrifying nightmares. I don't know what that is all about. I am not sure if I should continue with Ambien or not. | One thing that I did notice about Ambien users who have posted on here is that Ambien tends to interfere with their ability to spell correctly, use grammar correctly, use capital letters correctly, e.g., "your" for "you're"...."there" for "their", etc. | M | 67 | 21 days | 3/11/2009 | 4 | insomnia | Knock-out fatigued after about 12 years of taking Ambien. So dead tired, it started to greatly affect how I was living my life. | Quit sleeping after my Mother died, 15 yrs. ago. Doctored for about 2 years now trying to find out what was wrong w/me, that I just couldn't function anymore after about 2 p.m. All blood tests would come back normal, so no answer could be offered. Then just recently I read an article about Ambien, saying it was very dangerous, like smoking, which I gave up 40 years ago, and that it could cause great fatigue during the day. That was it. I am now going to an acupuncturist to help me start sleeping normally, and it seems to be working for me. I originally started out taking 1/4 of a 10 mg. to just get me to sleep, and if I woke up in the middle of the night, I would take another 1/4, so I never had any of the weird things going on. But I was now up to 1/2 of a 10 mg., and not knowing where it would stop. The first 2 nights off, even from that small of a mg., was hell. Just to lay there awake all night, and feel like a zombie all the next day. And I was so addicted to it right from the start, that I hope I will never have to take it again. That was when I started w/acupuncture. | F | 67 | 14 years 1/2-10 mg. 1X day | 5/5/2012 | 3 | insomnia | Normally no side effects. However, the day before yesterday my daughter found me with a bloodied face and incoherent when she came home from school. | I often wake early (4:30-5:30 AM) but on Thursday I woke at 3:30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep. As I need to get up at 5:30 I didn't want to take anything but thought I would take a longer nap than usual. After delivering my wife to her job and my daughter to school I seem to have puttered around the house - I found an e-mail that I wrote at 11:40 AM that I otherwise had no recollection writing. I remembered taking half and Ambien (5mg of a 10mg tablet) and a vicodin (I have chronic pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis), setting my alarm for 1PM and going to bed to take a nap. It must have been right after my e-mail. Two days later I was able to remember waking up to the alarm and resetting it for my usual 5:30AM. But later that day all I could remember was taking a call from my daughter about the fact I was supposed to pick her up at 3PM and wasn't there. I vaguely remembered cleaning a wound on my face with q-tips and propolis. The next thing I remember is the horrified look on my daughter's face when I opened the door when she came home from school on the bus - about an hour after our phone conversation that I don't recall. I had a one inch gash across my chin - deep gash - and a swollen nose and was not making any sense. She asked me my name (I knew it) and what month it was - I was off by two months. What day of the week - I said Monday, it was Friday. She got the neighbor who took me to the hospital. Most of the day was a blank to me, with just vignettes here and there, ev | M | 67 | 2 years | 12/14/2009 | 2 | insomnia / sleep apnea | night eating and feeding same to my dog - night walking (outside) - phone calls - ordering a lot of stuff via internet -no REAL memory of this activity but would see the evidence,food all over my house - weight gain (me & dog)- being told of my trips, to my car,neighbors cars and walking down the street | I know that this drug helps many with no ill side effects. However I am doing my best to GET OFF IT. I would rather take daily naps and put up with comments about me not being able to stay awake for lunch, golf or what ever than to continue taking this drug and having all the strange "AMBIEN ADVENTURES" IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE!!! | F | 67 | 7 months | 3/3/2006 | 1 | isomenia | I was sleep walking, actually crawling around on the floor at 2:00 am in the bedroom according to my husband. In the morning I had no memory of being out of bed. On the other night my husband found me in the closet hiding in the corner, again with no memory. | This drug is poison and will never take it again, it should be BANNED! | F | 67 | 3 days 30 1X day | 5/30/2018 | 5 | not sleeping | F | 66 | 10 years 10mg. 1X day | 5/14/2010 | 4 | sleep apnea | The only side effect was poor erections, but this isn't too important for a 66 year old man with limited opportunity for sex | after reading the other comments in this posting, I must be a lucky Ambien user. I have had trouble falling asleep after eating too late in the evening. I don't take Ambien if I drank alcohol with dinner,however. I have had central sleep apnea for 30 years plus,Long befor taking Ambien I could not remember my Dreams, still can't. | M | 66 | 1 years | 9/26/2006 | 2 | insomnia | Ambien put me to sleep quickly but I woke up within 2-3 hours, and usually couldn't get back to sleep without taking another pill. I started taking half a pill before bed, then another half in the middle of the night. Recently I tried to stop taking it, but found I could not sleep AT ALL. My doctor has prescribed a small dose of amitriptilene (Elavil) for my chronic insomnia, and it seems to be working to keep me asleep all night. | F | 66 | 3 years 10 mg 1X day | 1/18/2011 | 1 | for sleep after surgery | nursing staff were weird dressed weird | My mom recently had terminal cancer never sleeps under stress and still scared & still in hospt.Upon my requist 4 her to rest, ambien was given. The next morning mom was NOT MOM. She said staff was mean, dressed funnyWeird, ABUSIVE, Nor would give her , her meds, had been placed in a chair & left 4 long time, no nurse checked on her 4 three hrs. Could not get to remote. In mean time she got up to go to bed & fell. I asked how long on floor & who picked u up(no one i crawled). Mind u she has iv's, cathiter ect. So i asked who hung cath. bag ( nurse). I go see my mom and she is NOT MY MOM never crys throughout all her illness. She was freaking out VERY EMOTINALLLL. Mind you this was only her 2nd night in Kendred rehab. I believed EVERY WORD SHE SAID. Come to find out it was the medication AMBIEN. SO in meantime several days later she still believes all that she told me happened to her is true. And I tried to explain to her it was the medication . She knows I do not Lye to her about anything . Still 3 days later she thinks that I am trying to sugercoat & take up 4 the staff just to keep her from comming home. TOTALLY UN TRUE So what I am saying it was ALL DO TO THE MEDICATION AMBIEN. And IM PRAYING EVERYONE SEES THIS POST REMARK ABOUT THIS DRUG AND DOES NOT LET THEIR LOVED ONES BE GIVEN IT AND PREY IT IS TAKEN OFFFFFF THE MARKET. I give this drug a 0000000 rating . | F | 66 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 5/6/2012 | 1 | insomnia | This drug will cause memory lapses and they get wors the longer you are on the medicine. I also noticed that my hands have started to shake for about 60 seconds when I become anxious about something. No pill for sleep is worth that. | F | 66 | 11 months | 11/11/2008 | 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 | 5 | sleep problems due to back pain | Possibly a little short-term memory loss, but very little. Groggy on waking if on more than 7.5mg. Fine if I keep the dose at that amount. | It has been exceedingly helpful with very few side effects. I take 7.5 mg. immediately before bed. Sleep well, and wake sometimes with pain--but can go back to sleep. Without Ambien, I can't do that and there is to much pain break-through. I also take a low dose of Percocet (5mg.) and 10 mg. of diazepam. This combination has made it possible to sleep well after four back surgeries. The surgeries were successful, but I knew that they would not totally eliminate pain--and night pain had been an ongoing problem. I don't always get eight hours--but six to six and a half is a lot better than what I got previous to Ambien. Is it addictive? I don't care. I have not had to increase the dose, and I sleep so much better--so maybe the ability to sleep is addictive. You need to take the minimum amount that is effective, take it immediately before bedtime, and not experiment with it. | F | 65 | 4 years | 2/9/2008 | 5 | Travel/snoring spouse | My hands itch and I'm becoming concerned. | Ambien has truly been a life saver as we do quite a bit of traveling. My husband's snoring wakes me up, and I find it impossible to go back to sleep especially when we're in a small hotel room. However, lately my hands have itched within one or two minutes, and I'm concerned. Could this lead to complications? I do not take Ambien on a regular basis ... only when we travel or other unusual circumstances. | F | 65 | | 4/28/2006 | 5 | insomnia | none | good drug--it gets me 6-7 hours sleep and sometimes 8 whereas before I got 4-5. It's gentle too. | M | 65 | 6 months | 11/23/2006 | 4 | night terrors | Kind of groggy during the day; I always wonder if I should quit it. | Without the drug, I have night terrors. I do things like smashing sliding glass doors to get us out of a horrible situation. 5mg Ambien does allow me to get a good night's sleep. Like others, if I wake up after 6 hrs, I can't get back to sleep. I cannot sleep without the ambien. Helpful when driving when tired; no chance of falling asleep. No chance for taking much of a nap either. Works great to help with jet lag when travelling over seas. Can't imagine taking more than 10. 10 really knocks one out. I need at least 5. | M | 65 | 5 years | 4/18/2008 | 3 | Problems Sleeping | I tend to feel groggy and have difficulty waking up quickly. | I do think this drug is safe, as long as you do not need to get up quickly and are not woken up suddenly... it is regularly used by leaders and congressmen... ABC has a report on this here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Politics/story?id=4919842 | M | 65 | 1 years | 8/26/2008 | 3 | insomnia | Wild hallucinations!!!!!!! I have never slept so good, but will not take anymore Ambien because of the hallucinations and a new problem I experienced today. I live at the beach and have always been accustomed to riding my bike to the beach in the heat. Today, I experienced dizziness, weakness in my legs and trouble breathing. The only other time I have ever experienced these symptoms was 2 years ago when I took Wellbutrin. When I suspected Wellbutrin was the culprit and stopped taking it, all the symptoms disappeared within 2 weeks. I have been taking Ambien about 3 weeks and am willing to have insomnia to no longer have hallucinations and this weakness while riding my bike. Be careful with this drug. I have always been a very active person and am very leary of most prescription drugs. They can inhibit your ability to live. | F | 65 | 3 weeks | 5/21/2006 | 2 | to re set body clock. insomnia6. | Requested a sleep aid to help reset body clock, after 3years of extreme fatiguefrom taking Tamoxifen- post breat cancer. Ambien seemed superb for first 3 or 4 days. Then, I started having amnesia with regard to conversatiins, put dog's Rx's in garbage can ...??? Excessively sleepy..weeping and depressed. Thien read these varied reviews. THANK GOD YOU HAVE THEM ON HERE! THANKS TO WOMAN WHO REPOSTS EVERY 9 MONTHS! I HAVE BEEN WARNED. THERE IS NO WAY I AM GOING DOWN THIS PATH. | F | 65 | 6 days 6.25 mg CR | 2/21/2014 | 1 | For insomnia | FELL ASLEEP, BUT WOKE UP ONLY 4 HOURS OF SLEEP. COULD NOT FALL BACK TO SLEEP. NEXT DAY BLURRED VISION, HEADACHE, NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK LIKE I WAS LIGHT HEADED. NOT TAKING IT NO MORE. | NOT FOR ME, THIS MEDICATION. WHAT ELSE IS SAFE, THAT KNOCKS YOU OUT FOR PEACEFUL SLEEP? | F | 65 | 5 months 10mg | 9/26/2016 |