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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | insomnia | Waking up during the night - unable to fall back to sleep; severe anxiety in the mornings, mind racing, suicidal thoughts | My husband has no history of mental illness. He recently lost his job and had been having trouble sleeping from the stress. Took Ambien just a handful of times and always woke up in the middle of the night very agitated and desperate...never able to fall back to sleep. He kept saying "mornings are the worst" when talking about how he was feeling. I had to drive him to the ER early this morning for suicidal thoughts and panic. I now think the doctor should have treated the depression/anxiety and the sleep would have naturally followed. I just had to explain to my young kids that daddy wasn't coming home for a couple of days. I believe he had a paradoxical affect of this drug. Do not take this medicine if you also have anxiety, panic, or depression. | M | 38 | 10 days 10mg 1X day | 5/19/2010 | 1 | girlfriend uses it | My girlfriend uses Ambien and it has a VERY BAD side effect on her. She has hallucinations and according to her things and walls start to move. I am very worried and want to stress that this is a very DANGEREOUS medicine which should be forbidden. It's ridicilious that her doctor gave her this medicine and the bad thing is that she actually "likes" it which causes me to be worried. | M | 38 | 6 days | 3/4/2006 | 1 | My father was...I was not | The other day I heard a discussion on the radio about Ambien and things started sounding familiar. Even though the side effects discussed were serious. People were joking about it. I don't see anything funny about it. My father who passed away last year of inoperable lung cancer was given a low dose of Ambien when diagnosed. He would be up all night and sleep all day. He would put a movie the the VCR during the day (when not on Ambien) and be asleep by the time the titles at the beginning of the movie stopped and the movie started. Then he'd be up all night. About 2 years ago my father fell out of bed and hurt his head and arm. We thought he must have been having a nightmare (he'd never fallen out of bed in his adult life). Then it happened again 6 mo later and he split his head open on a bed table next to the bed...very dangerous when also on blood thinners. | I heard about hallucinations...my father thought the hospital he was in was on fire and was begging to get out of the bed and know the way out of the hospital. He could not stand anything on him...clothes, sheets, leg wrappings to help with circulation. In the hospital he told us to bring back a little girl who had been in to see him, but I never left the hospital room the whole time my father was in the hospital and there never was a little girl. At home when he was dying he would mumble a lot. Sometimes a little made sense and sometimes it did not. One time I asked him what he was doing. He said praying that they do not kill his family. I said who. He named an old friend and started naming other people, but I could not understand the rest. I would have to tell him I had a gun and boarded all the windows and doors and was standing watch and would swear I would not fall asleep so he and we would be safe. After a half an hour of telling him this, he would finally start to calm down a li | F | 38 | 3 years | 3/13/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | Black outs, weird behaviour complete amnesia | I live in Europe (UK) it is called Stilnoct and I would advise strongly on not using this. I woke today with no memory of what happened yesterday and other days, I nearly set my home on fire and dont remember a thing. BETTER TO BA AWAKE AND ALIVE. | F | 38 | 3 months | 1/20/2006 | 1 | Sleep aid | If you find yourself with unexplicable abdominal, back, or shoulder pain, try quitting the Ambien for a while and see if it abates. After one year of periodic use (2-3 tabs every 10 days or so), I was finally able to equate my neuropathic pain with continued use of Ambien. I would stop, feel no pain, continue use of Ambien, and the pain would return. I preformed this "test" several times and the Ambien appears to be the pain trigger. I thought I had gallstones, liver problems, pancreatis, an ulcer...you name it. It was Ambien. | Told my doctor and he didn't equate Ambien with neuropathic pain. I have heard of countless others for whom Ambien screws with there nervous system. Stay Away | M | 38 | 2 years | 9/26/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | I would have entire conversations and meals at night I did not remember the next day. Made me tired in the morning to where I just wanted to sleep but at night it was frustrating to try to sleep if I did not do so 15 min after taking it. This is a bad drug. Hide your phone, kitchen and car keys! It also made me anxious during day. I finally found chamomile tea that is medical strength and it works better than ambien ever did. I felt like I was just going thru the motions and not engaged in living on this drug. It was awful because I wanted to sleep. Wish I knew sooner but started when ob prescribed for sleep during pregnancy. It is addictive. | F | 38 | 4 years 10 | 4/21/2014 | 5 | Insomnia | I have made full meals and eaten them, cleaned the house, done the dishes, and done laundry and not remembered doing it. I think that those are great side effects. On the other hand, I have called friends and family and not remembered doing it. I don't really mind it, but they said that I talk like someone on drugs. | It works. | M | 37 | 2 months | 9/21/2006 | 5 | Insomnia & Night terrors | Amnesia, lowered sexual inhibitions IF I do not take Ambien and go directly to sleep! | Ambien is the ONLY sleep aid I have taken that not only gives me 4 to 6 hours of natural sleep that I don't feel hung-over or groggy from but does not cause increased nightmares/terrors. (I have tried everything from tylenol pm to xanax, klonopin, sonata, lunesta, all the SSRI's and all of the non-pharmacological therapies: music, relaxation, warm milk, white noise, massage, on & on & on...) This is a very powerful drug and if I try to do a few things while I'm waiting to get sleepy I often will say or do things that I don't remember AT ALL. My husband calls it the Ambien "fog" and says that I become sexually uninhibited and demanding. Health care providers need to increase education about going to sleep immediately and not engaging in any activities that could be risky (driving, cooking, etc...) | F | 37 | 1 years | 1/9/2007 | 5 | Insomnia | None. | I've had insomnia for about 10 years. Ambien is the only medicine that I've taken for sleep that doesn't have side-effects such as morning drowsiness. It is a reliable medicine that never lets me down. | F | 37 | 4 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/25/2010 | 5 | Trouble falling & staying asleep | amnesia, decreased inhibitions | My issue with sleep before Ambien was "my mind wouldn't shut off." I would review the day over and over. I would get up to write reminders down several times a night. I also needed to have a movie playing in order to fall asleep. Nights without Ambien, I’d stay up until 3am. Recently, I was diagnosed with ADD and am now taking Adderall as well as Ambien. THAT has made a significant difference because it calms my mind throughout the day, and it stays calm until bedtime. I still need Ambien most nights because I don’t feel tired enough at bedtime, but the nights without it are not nearly as severe. I think the effects depend on the person – it really affects me much the same as alcohol would, and I don’t mind it. I don’t remember the sexual activity until my husband brings it up the next morning, then it’s a little hazy, but while it’s happening, I don’t have any problems with it and remember just feeling very impulsive and turned on. BECAUSE I’m very happily married, I think the effects are not a bad thing for me. I highly recommend this medication IF you have a responsible partner/roommate that you can depend on to prevent you from making bad decisions while on it and would NOT take it if you tend to react negatively to being intoxicated. The Ambien does its job very well for me – I tend to fall asleep within 15 minutes of lying down and have not had to have a movie playing or gotten up to write | F | 37 | 3 years 10 mg 1X day | 7/27/2011 | 5 | Difficulty falling asleep | Beautiful sleep comes quickly. Dry mouth, bad taste in mouth, memory lapses after taking my nightly dose. Wake up to find websites open on my computer that I have no recollection of ever seeing. No recollection of sex (which I've been told is very good!). Dosage creeps up on you... | At first taking half of a 7.5 mg tablet worked well; now it takes 1 - 1/2 to get the same effect. I tried going without it for a day and had a horrible headache. Not sure if they are related, but next time I try to cut back, I will go slowly. | F | 37 | 1.5 years | 1/26/2009 | 5 | Insomnia / chronic shoulder pain | At first I felt occasionally drunk from this med. I am beginning to have terrible/ I mean terrible nightmares (never had this before). I get up in the night sometimes and snack - never did this either. Sometimes it makes me feel tired the next day. | As this med has really done it's job, that is helping me sleep. It works great - it a matter of deciding how worth the side effects are, it seems like some have a low tolerance some high. I have a very high tolerance. My husband only needs to take a 1/4 of the 10 mg generic and he is out like a light, no side effects. I take 1 x 12.5 CR, and sometimes 1/2 that amount more and it does not work.. I am seeing my dr and asking for something else to help. Something like Pamelor and old tried and true med... As I think the Ambien increases my depression, and sometimes gives me this weird out of body feeling.. Now that I think about it, it might be what is effecting my concentration at the office... Bottom line I would recommend this to someone for short term use, that has exhausted all other options. | F | 37 | 2 years | 6/22/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | sexual amnesia | I tried Ambien last year- 5mg, but it didn't work for me. This time, I am on 10mg. The first night, I slept incredibly well and woke up feeling great- except that I was naked and didn't recall going to bed that way. My very happy husband preceded to remind me about the crazy, uninhibited sex we had- I even asked him to call me by another name!! And I don't remember any of it! But, I feel like I had the first good night sleep in much too long of a time! So, here's to another good night sleep and maybe spicier sex life! | F | 37 | 1 days | 6/13/2008 | 5 | initial onset insomnia | Amnesia, only if I hadn't gotten at least 3 hours of sleep in the first hour of waking or so. Also, may not remember activities right before falling asleep, although I seemed to function cognitively fine. NOT a good idea to engage in sexual behaviors after taking Ambien, for obvious reasons. | Works quickly, and usually only take half a 10mg. tablet is sufficient, unless I am really anxious about having to get up early and I am clock watching, ect. It has been a godsend!!! | F | 37 | 10 years | 5/10/2004 | 5 | sleep problems | groggy in moring | M | 37 | 3 weeks | 10/14/2003 | 4 | insomnia | not many...sometimes headache, blurry vision, mental fog | For me, Ambien never failed to put me asleep ( I took half or a third of a 10 mg tablet - a full 10 mg tab at once was too much) I often woke up a few hours later and needed to take more. The main problem was that the quality of sleep was so-so. I never felt very rested. But I did sleep. | M | 37 | 1 years | 4/30/2007 | 4 | chronic insomnia | sleepwalking, memory loss, bad dreams | I started taking Ambien 4 years ago for my chronic insomnia. It works great, I am addicted, can't sleep without one. If I don't take one for 3 days, I don't sleep for 3 days! I worry about conversations that I don't remember having. My children think it is hilarious to ask me for money when I'm under the influence, they once got me for $100 for pizza and movies! Another time my friend told me that I was downstairs yelling something about crickets. What?? Oh and I have found food items in or near my bed without remembering how they got there. I really want to get off the medication but I know I will never fall asleep again. | F | 37 | 4 years | 1/24/2008 | 4 | night time anxiety | I always took RIGHT before I got in bed, and never had any real issues. If I read a little first, it would knock me out with my book on my face, and I would not remember some conversations with my husband. No sleep walking, driving, eating-- that I know of! BUT-- and this really wasn't so bad-- great for bedtime sex. Good, sometimes wild sex. Slept GREAT after! Husband didn't hate this either... But I wouldn't take it and get in bed with anyone you shouldn't be having sex with. | After taking it for an extended period, I did start to notice more foggy-headedness, forgetting, cognitive problems. Also, just a general *hung over* sort of feeling started to build up. I started to take only half at night, and this helped the hung over feeling, but not so much the cognitive issues. So I weaned myself off by taking half, then a quarter, then none. I still use it here and there if I need it, but my brain is thinking more clearly now that I don't take it every night. I think that is something to worry about! But a good sleep aid here and there. | 37 | 14 months 10MG 1X day | 5/8/2011 | 4 | long term insomnia | Short term memory lapses, loss of memory of events that occur after taking ambien. Loss of inhibition (sex with husband occasionally that is apparently awesome but sometimes not remembered), waking up and eating- this happens frequently. Usually things that I don't remember immediately will come to me later in the morning. I also watch my DVR shows in bed sometimes then watch them again during the day because I don't remember what the show was about. But, if taken properly and with some expectation that these things can happen you can prevent dangerous outcomes. Let your friends and family know not to pay attention to emails and facebook posts after 11, make sure you already have a yummy snack or leftovers convenient to grab so you don't cook or trash your kitchen etc. if you do that it helps with the anxiety of not being sure if you can trust yourself. | M | 37 | 2 years 10mg 1X day | 7/9/2010 | 4 | insomnia due to anxiety | the only side effect i have experienced is loss of short term memory (the last 2o min. or so before falling asleep). it comes back to me mostly if someone reminds of what i did or said though. | I love Ambien. If you know what it's like to not be able to fall alseep even when you at your sleepiest then you should love ambien. try not to take it every night and it works better. | M | 37 | 7 years | 8/18/2009 |