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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | insomnia | None | takes way too long to work. on my third time taking it and could not get to slee at a decent time last night and just laid in bed. | F | 31 | 3 days | 10/27/2004 | 3 | insomnia related to bipolar | dizziness, amnesia, lightheadedness, confusion, loss of balance | it does help me sleep. when i go into a manic phase ican stay awake for 48 hrs or more, and i need to sleep. so this helps. but i feel like i am wading through molasses the rest of the day. i forget things, i am confused, i make no sense when i talk, i am dizzy, i cant walk in a straight line.... i am seeing my psychiatrist tomorrow and asking him to give me something else. before this i was on Ativan and it was worse. but it does help me sleep, i just am not happy witht eh side effects. | F | 31 | 2 weeks | 4/29/2009 | 2 | Delayed Sleep Phase | Memory loss, strange behavior, mild hallucinations, loss of inhibitions | Overall I thought this medication was working fine, so long as I immediately went to bed after taking it. Staying awake caused me to have the side effects I described. However, one night last week after taking my dose, I apparently woke up and drank half a bottle of rum. I also made orange juice, broke glasses and left them on the floor, and called and texted friends. I remember none of this. I only know it happened by the condition of my house and cell phone records. Scary Stuff! | F | 31 | 10 days | 11/6/2008 | 2 | insomnia | none | does not work for me, I like Sonata or Lunesta much better. | M | 31 | 2 days | 1/20/2006 | 2 | Insomnia | Nothing except for hangovers/grogginess in the mornings. | I've been taking Ambien CR. Despite being controlled release, it only works for about 4 hours. If I take it at 11:00pm and go to sleep shortly thereafter, I wake up at 3:00am on the dot. Half the time, I have trouble getting back to sleep, or getting back to sleep and staying asleep. For this reason alone, I think Ambien is not the right drug for me. I have zero problems with amnesia when taking Ambien, and I can remember vividly anything I did, read, listened to, thought about, etc., before going to sleep after taking it. It doesn't knock me out right away. It's taken me up to an hour or a bit longer before going to sleep after having taken it, but that is rare - it normally takes a half hour or so. I have noticed that I tend to have much more vivid and strange dreams when I take Ambien (not bad, just very strange). In the past I've rarely had vivid or involving dreams, but I swear Ambien has affected that. I would site that as a negative side-effect, since at times the dreams have be | M | 31 | 5 months | 12/10/2006 | 2 | Sleep | This medication is a hypnotic agent, meaning it induces a state of amnesia. I took Ambien for two years because I could not fall asleep at night. It did help me fall asleep. However I NEVER felt rested the next day. I just couldn't figure out why I was SO incredibly tired all the time because I always thought I got a restful night's sleep. HERE'S AMBIEN'S DIRTY SECRET: Because this med is a hypnotic, you "feel" like you got good sleep because your brain literally doesn't remember - IT INDUCES AMNESIA- You end up assuming you got good sleep because you FORGET in the AM that you didn't! I have stopped taking it after two years of nightly use and replaced with a Melatonin/5-HTP supplement for the past 3 days. I HAVE NEVER felt so rested! I can tell such a difference. Turns out I wasn't sleeping well at all- I just didn't remember in the morning. | F | 31 | 2 years | 1/23/2013 | 2 | Insomnia | Ambien certainly puts you to sleep. In my case, it gave me a terrible hangover. I seem to be in a minority of people that get this side effect. It makes me really cloudy and even depressed. I feel as if it works on the same pathway that gives you your liveliness, by dampening it. I also found that I built a psychological dependency on it. I would get some anxiety about not going to sleep without taking it. All in all, if you can avoid taking one of these classes of drugs, I'd highly recommend doing so. | M | 31 | 5 mg 1X day | 11/2/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | Vomiting, hallucinations, agitation, insomnia, dizziness, convulsions, tremors | I took it just once and I thought this night was a last in my life. My convulsions were so bad that even 30 mg of Valium didn't stop it. And after that for 2 weeks I couldn't sleep at all, maximum 1h a night. It was hell!!!!!!!!!! | F | 31 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 12/7/2014 | 1 | Insomnia | Texting people in the middle of the night. Sending emails and chating on Facebook. And not remembering anything the next day. | No serious side effects but it's a little scary to read some of these things. I never really thought about anything bad happening but I can totally see how that could be possible. I guess I will keep using it for now. Hopefully nothing bad will ever happen. P | F | 31 | 1.5 years 10mg 1X day | 3/26/2011 | 1 | chronic insomnia | i took this drug for a little over two years with no problems. then i hurt my back at work and my dr. put me on a couple of different pain meds and a muscle relaxer. that is where the good part ends. i started getting up and getting on facebook and saying things to people that i didn't even know. and until i saw what i had said the next day, i had no idea that i had even said them. hell at first i thought someone was playing a trick on me. so long story short; my wife threatened to leave me if i didn't stop taking it. it took me about four months to finally get off this stuff, but after reading some of the other posts on here, i'm glad i quit before something worse happened. and for all of you know it alls out there, it was the same dr. who prescribed all four meds to me. so i never thought mixing them would cause any problems. | works great for sleep but just be careful about what you mix it with. and based on the overall experience i had, i would not recommend this drug. it worked good for the first couple of years but the last six months or so were pure hell! | M | 31 | 2 years 10mg 1X day | 2/16/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | Please listen to my warning and do not take this medicine. I beg you to listen for your own safety. My doctor prescribed this for insomnia and told me it was very safe to take nightly. To make a long story short, I just returned from 60 days of inpatient rehab to get off the stuff. I did not take it to get high, but rather to sleep. After awhile, your body becomes addicted and YOU CAN NOT SLEEP WITHOUT IT. In addition, the stuff starts to harm your overall health in terrible ways. Do anything but do not take ambien. | PLEASE AVOID THIS MEDICATION | M | 31 | 4 years 10mg 1X day | 9/20/2010 | 1 | Work stress induced insomnia | I experienced mild visual problem, akin to hallucinations, the very time time I took it. Every time I took it made things in the room look fuzzy and strange, and if i saw motion like moving my hand there was a visual perception of "trails" behind the movement. I did not feel sleept so much as disoriented within 30 minutes of taking it, difficulty walking from the bathroom to the bed. I also began to have significant memory problems, after 2 weeks I couldn't remember things from work or where I parked my car or left my notes. I made the mistake of taking it after having 2 glasses of wine at a work dinner and experienced profound disorientation, confusion looking in the mirror as though it was not me in the mirror but another person my hotel room, and loss of equilibrium to the point where I felt in my hotel room and injured my wrist. I could not see properly at all or make sense of what I was seeing. It was a very scary experience and I can only compare it to LSD. I disliked t | While it did help me get to sleep right away it never kept me asleep. I would wake up after 3 hours on the button for the entire month I took it, and I had difficulty getting back to sleep. The memory gaps I began noticing after 2 weeks of nightly use contributed to the stress from my job that was the reason for my insomnia in the first place that lead me to take this drug. I will never take this again. I think it should not be recommended to people who need a sleep aid b/c of profound anxiety as this drug definitely cause more anxiety for me. | F | 31 | 30 days | 4/10/2006 | 1 | insomnia | Did things I never dreamed I would do & I'm a pretty conservative, church-going Christian! I tried to KILL myself while on this!!! NEVER something I would do. | Ambien definitely/seriously alters your mind. I wish doctors would take it themselves for a few days before writing a script. It definitely is a HYPNOTIC drug. It's like, whatever you are thinking about at the time you take it (consciously & subconsciously) you end up (that is, if you don't go to bed right away) DOING in excess and to an extreme. Like I always have struggled with keeping my house clean yet have always been a perfectionist and tried to keep it clean, well, when I took an Ambien and didn't go to bed, I would clean like a freak for a couple hours, and feel almost "high". That, of course, lured me into addiction and then it got way out of hand, after only a week or two, it gave me hard core depression. Let me know if you have any questions about it, I'd be glad to share my experience. | F | 31 | 2 years | 1/11/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | AMBIENOUTRAGE.COM My name is Devin. After sleep driving and crashing on Ambien, I was given a DUI. I've started an Ambien victims database. If you've been injured in any way by Ambien please contact me: 435-668-7050 or [email protected], or go to the website ambienoutrage.com. | M | 31 | 2 years | 11/18/2008 | 5 | insomnia/bipolar | -occasionally giddiness, giggling, mild "high" -infrequent (pleasant) hallucinations -If I didn't go to bed IMMEDIATELY, occasional half-awake/half-asleep phone calls, writing, room organization, etc. with next day amnesia for those events -some next day grogginess | Ambien and Lunesta are the ONLY medications that help me sleep. Ambien was a godsend for me, as I would go weeks sleeping only 2-3 hours per night. I call it the smack-down sleep medicine, as its effect can be like a sucker punch (not in a bad way-- just know that you might very suddenly fall asleep). As everyone else has said, TAKE THIS MEDICATION WHEN YOU ARE IN BED. Do not drive. Make sure you are in a safe environment. This has also worked well for relatives. However, make sure that any elderly relatives 1) are given HALF of a normal dose, and 2) are not alone and are safe (can increase chance of falls). I switched to Lunesta only because it supposedly preserves the natural structure of sleep, whereas Ambien alters this. Also, Lunesta seems to have less morning grogginess-- but a horrible aftertaste and none of the happy feelings. When I switched, I did not experience ANY withdrawal effects. | F | 30 | 3 years | 1/12/2008 | 5 | imsomnia | works very well but very addictive | careful | F | 30 | 3 years | 9/15/2008 | 5 | insomnia | As anyone, amnesia if taking out of bed. Tolerrance to this medicine build quickly. Expensive without insurance. | Good sleep aid. Actually I have some sleep disorders like "sleep paralyisis" and these as helped me a lot. Bad thing, tolerance. Company should make 20mg tab. I take 20 mg and lay on a bed watching a movie and a get a good sleep. | M | 30 | 5 years | 9/4/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | None really. I took the Ambien just as described. | Follow the directions that your doc gave you when giving this medication. | F | 30 | 2 months | 7/20/2008 | 5 | insomnia | none | worked great. fell right to sleep. | F | 30 | 3 days | 11/5/2004 | 5 | insomnia | F | 30 | 1.25 years | 10/17/2006 |