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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Insomnia | the only side effect is that it lose effectiveness with a coupple of weeks, so you have to look an alternative until ambien get out of your system and then back again on ambien | Perfect! It makes what is suppose to do, put you in sleep.. I'm 6'1, so i need to take 20 mg (i don't know why the manufacturerers don't consider to make the 20mng pill.. anywa, take it with empty stomache (at least 3-4 hours without meal before bed), put your headphones and lay down onece you take in bed, and it works, no side effect, I dont know why people give bad rates of ambien, is the best sleep medication avaliable, is not a benzodiazepine, so addiction is very low compare to ANY benzo.... | M | 32 | 2 years 10-20 1X day | 10/5/2010 Patient History | 5 | insomnia | nothing but sleep | There are a lot of negative comments here. And a lot of demands to pull this drug from the market, etc. But my experience has been so positive, I almost feel like this has saved my sanity. My insomnia became so bad that I was almost being pushed over the edge--horrible toughts at 4am, like "what's so wrong with me that I can't just sleep?!" I started down a path of heavy drinking to try to knock myself out, it was getting ugly. And my family doctor was reluctant to prescibe this drug. Finally found a doc who would, now I take one, go to bed and sleep. Life is good again!! Everyone's story is different, but used properly, this can be a lifesaver! | F | 32 | 5 years 10 mgs 1X day | 6/30/2010 | 5 | Sleep problems for a few days | No negative side effects, only improvements in my mood, anxiety level. | Ambien is the greatest creation man has come up with. I have been taking it for five years. Yes, five years, which is 250 or so times the recommended time period. I have never had insomnia, but I was having trouble sleeping for a few days and so I told my doctor. He gave me Ambien and I have to say it didn't knock me out, but just made me feel better. When I first started taking it I really enjoyed the euphoric and strange feelings. After taking it for about 1 month the strange feelings went away and the euphoric feelings calmed down to a nice feeling that just put me in a better mood, not severely altering me. I am now taking somewhere around 20 to 30mg a day at multiple times throughout the day, not just at night, sometimes in the morning. It has absolutely no sleepiness effects, just functions like the best antidepressant/anti-anxiety drug that ever existed. Ambien has improved my waking life dramatically, I am not as shy when taking it and I just feel 100 tim | M | 32 | 5 years | 1/11/2006 | 5 | insomnia | Getting up in the middle of the night to eat weird things. Some visual halucinations. Acting drunk and silly. | I have been taking 10mg ambien for about 2 years. I have had some pretty weird halucinations I thought my coat rack was mocking me one night one night I thought my carpet was bubbling up and one night I saw little rivers with little canoes in the wood grain on my kitchen counter. I don't remember these the next day but my family tells me about them (they will tease me about it the next day). I also sometimes will get up in the middle of the night to pig out and not remember it. I have found that if you take the ambien while you are already laying down it drasticaly reduces the halucinations and weird behavior. For me the benefits have outweighed the side effects by far!! Before I started taking ambien I was lucky to sleep every other night now I sleep everynight. I have not had any withdrawl symptoms if I don't take it every night. Maybee not a great idea if you live alone because of the potential for dangerous behavior, but for severe insomnia it is a lifesaver. Just make sure you are in bed when you take it. | F | 32 | 2 years | 4/24/2009 | 5 | sleep | none | M | 32 | 1 years | 11/21/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | Noticed some dizziness the first 2-3 days. Works very QUICKLY !! Seems to have a | I have been on Midnight shift in a very stressful job for about 6 years. After 2 years on the shift, I was still not sleeping well. This drug has been a MIRACLE for me. I would often toss and turn, with my mind racing...now I FINALLY REST !! Works best on an empty stomach, food (especially greasy food) seems to interfere with it. | F | 32 | 4 years | 8/12/2004 | 5 | chronic pain-insomnia | Sleep was great! But..don't remember everything I did after taking it. I also found that I would get hungry about 10-20mins after. The munchies are strong, and you don't remember ever eating any thing in the morning. | I have been on this medicine for 5 years. It still helps me. Just go to bed after right after taking it. I did have to go up on my dose to 20mg now. But this medicine really helps people like myself how are having difficulty getting and staying asleep. | F | 32 | 5 years | 3/11/2005 | 5 | Med. condition and anxiety | None | It's made my life easier. I can sleep, and therefore feel less anxious. No morning hang over. Wake up feeling refreshed and ready to go. Love this med. | F | 32 | 16 days | 10/15/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | Dizziness, hallucinations, strange behavior, and hunger | I am a shift rotator and use this drug to adapt to a new shift. It works better on an empty stomach. It should be taken while still in bed. I have stayed up instead of going right to bed and the following happened to me: I talked to a light switch for a while, trees grew in my living room, I called friends on the phone and dazzled them with nonsensical sentences, I ate 2 lbs. of turkey breast, I stared at a wall in my laundry room for god knows how long and talked to birds and elves, my head felt like an anvil, and i didnt remember I did all this crap untill certain things jogged my memory DAYS later. I am also a police officer and have seen this used as date rape. I have seen a woman who was on ambien drive a car over a construction worker, killing him, and had no idea what she had done until the next day. IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU TO! When taken properly this medication was a GOD SEND. I had GREAT sleep and woke up with no problems the next day feeling well rested. | M | 32 | 1 months | 7/30/2005 | 4 | can't sleep at night | extreme drowsiness high like feeling severe amnesia in some cases | Please get to sleep right after taking this. This drug will make you REALLY loopey as if you were high . It will cause extreme memory loss sometimes. It does lose its effectiveness over time. First time I took it I thought I saw little green men running around and thought people were in my house spying on me. Just be careful. It really works if you want to just get agood nights sleep. email me [email protected] if you have any questions. I know an online pharmacy with the best prices on ambien if you are interested. | F | 32 | 3 months | 6/16/2005 | 4 | Insomnia | I often have no recollection of things I did under the influence of Ambien. My daughter has told me I have done and said some pretty strange things after taking AMbien and I have no clue what she is talking about. I continue to take it though because it actually does help me to both fall asleep and stay asleep. | I am fully aware that 1 of the side effects of this drug is memory loss while under it's influence. I would like to know if this particular drug causes memory loss in general--like kill off your brain cells memory loss? I have been experiencing and noticing in teh last 5-6 months that my memory as a whole seems to just be radically changed. I pride myself or should I say used to pride myself on having a great memory. Lately though I have dropped in IQ instantly. I am only 32yrs old and I am an educated person so this sudden change is casuing me a great deal of concern. I woudl just liek to know if anyone else has experienced these same effects. | F | 32 | 10 months | 4/9/2009 | 4 | insomnia | giddiness, memory loss, wild sexual behavior, drunk feeling.the other ratings on this site really freaked me out...this drug is not something to be taken long term. wondering why my doc keeps prescribing it to me?? | I started taking this 19 months ago after the birth of my daughter. I now find I cant stay asleep unless I take it...I dont want to be dependent on this stuff. right now it is my 2nd day without it and I am taking herbs for my sleep issues. | F | 32 | 19 months | 7/24/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | Some small illussions at first especially when drinking prior to taking the pills. Othere than the obvious mirages, there could be drunk dialing, but that quickly came to an end. I would give anything to have those feelings anymore and the wonder of having to be embarassed for what you did. I would settle for being able to sleep the night full through. before last night, I had sleept 4 hours in 2 days as it takes 4 hours for Ambien to wear out.... I topped todays 20mg Ambien with a Trazadonee and a Temazepam. Hopefully, I will see sleep before work starts in 7 hours... | Ambien works so long as you take time off from it. I am thinking that Vallium would be a good substitute over a time as it will also affect the useage of my Ritalin during the days. | F | 32 | 6 months 10mg 2X day | 9/22/2010 | 3 | sleep disorder | For the last few months, I thought ambien was the best thing out there. My boyfriend kept warning me to stop taking it and I could not understand why. I found out that last night I acted like a complete fool and I had no idea...that I was awake! He said I acted as if in an emotionless state talking giberish that made no sense. He stated my eyes appeared wide awake and I was walking around my house as if I were awake but made no sense and looked blank. | It scares me to know that here I thought I have been sleeping every night but really, I was not, I was in a state of mind that I did not even know existed. I was taking 35mg, this is what my doctor prescribed to me. | F | 32 | 3 months | 6/12/2006 | 3 | insomnia | some drowsiness and sedation after about 30 minutes, grogginess for several hours the next day | I dearly wish I could say Ambien worked for me. I've had serious insomnia for the past year due to anxiety and depression after a divorce. I've tried numerous sleep aids, both prescription and OTC, and Ambien (not Ambien CR) seems to work the best for me. Unfortunately, that just means I can usually sleep about 4 - 5 hours instead of the 9 or so hours my body truly needs. An improvement over the 2 - 3 hours I was only getting a night for close to a year, but still not enough. I have found that 10mg Ambien along with 1 - 2 BioChem Tension RX Nighttime (OTC, made by Country Life) works a little better than the Ambien alone so I take that combo 2 - 3 times a week. | F | 32 | 1 years | 6/7/2009 | 2 | insomnia | I would not recommend this drug. When I was described this drug, I was not told by my doctor about amnesia or hallucinations. When I got home from the pharmacists, I took 10mg. to see if I could get some sleep in a late afternoon nap. I found I could not sleep and decided to go for a walk. At some point during my walk, the ambien must have started working because I began to feel very strange and started hallucinating. It is only in retrospect that I can barely remember what happened because it all seems like a dream, but I realize now it was not a dream at all. I walked past a bookstore and there was a big poodle tied up outside to a light post. I imagined it asking me to take a survey about my opinion of the war in Iraq. I actually had a conversation with a dog about the war in Iraq. The owner came out and hurried away with the dog, but I couldn't understand why at the time. I was so embarassed later on that I avoided that part of town for a month. | I do not recommend this drug. Better to use something else for a sleep problem that doesn't distort reality, like xanax or something | M | 32 | 1 days | 10/16/2005 | 2 | insomnia | very sleepy at the beginning but still wake up in the middle of the night | I take 10mg and it seemed to work but I guess it wears off fast and I wake up about 4 hours later and can't go back to sleep. Next time I will ask for the CR version | F | 32 | 2 weeks | 3/4/2009 | 1 | occasional insomnia | Without any memory of doing so, I rearranged the furniture in my living room (sofa, coffee table, etc..). I'm 5'2" and weigh 109 lbs; you'd think I'd remember something like that. On a separate occasion, also without recollection, I ordered a Dooney and Bourke purse online. When I received an email confirming my order, I called my credit card company thinking I was a victim of identity theft. After 9hrs of restful sleep, while driving to work I began to wonder whether or not I was awake. This naturally caused concern, which led to panic, then for the first time in my life, I had an anxiety attack. Sweat, rapid heartbeat, and a feeling of paralyzing terror. I pulled over and focused on taking deep breaths and debated whether or not to call 911. | With Ambien in my system I performed complex tasks with no memory of doing so. That's because I was ASLEEP when I rearranged furniture and shopped online. HOW IN THE F**K DID AMBIEN GET APPROVED BY THE FDA? | F | 32 | 3 weeks | 7/12/2008 | 1 | could not sleep - took only once | Took a trip to the emergency room the morning after taking it. Was hearing voices, pupils were dilated for hours and pulse was racing. I have never experienced anything like this before. Very scary. | I would never take this drug. | F | 32 | 1 days | 1/23/2008 | 1 | Insomnia | Can't sleep for more than 3 hours straight without waking up. Groggy the next day. Anger and suicidal thoughts are commonplace. Strange dreams. Overall this is the worst drug I have ever taken. | M | 32 | 3 days | 10/5/2008 |