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 |
| 1 | Could not fall alseep | Waking up with food all over my bed multiple times. Laying there unable to sleep other times. Peaking up feeling hungover | Garbage. Benadryl does a better job. | F | 27 | 30 days 10mg 1X AN | 1/8/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | Depressed, unable to think clearly, physically weak. On top of that, didn't experience the joyful sleep that some people describe. | LOTS of trouble getting off of it. This drug is a danger. | M | 27 | 20 days | 5/23/2009 | 1 | Insomnia | Extremely poor quality sleep, it didn't really cause me to feel differently, good or bad. I've been more sedated from taking extra xanax. Next day, it made me nervous and I was very hyped up. My teeth would chatter, and I'd get those weird shakes that weren't from being cold. I also experienced really bad body aches that lasted for days. I think it also excaberated my insomnia and anxiety. I've been taking a lot of klonopin and xanax this week to combat these problems, with some success. I've also completely lost my appetite since taking it. | I am taking other medications (lamictal and lexapro), so it is possible that my experiences happened because of that. I have several friends that have taken ambien for a long time with no problems. I took it as directed (10 mg, when I was in bed), but I just didn't have success. | F | 27 | 3 days | 8/11/2007 | 1 | Insomnia secondary to anxiety | Memory Loss/Amnesia, Depression, Loss of Concentration(especially the next day), mood swings, headaches, backaches...Did I mention MEMORY LOSS!!! Because, I think that is bad enough! | I'm 27 & not supposed to have a memory of an elder person!I'm worried b/c I want to stop taking the med & the withdrawl symptoms.I used to have sharper memory/thinking skills,communicate better & concentrate a lot more. I don't want to feel the need to take this medication to sleep anymore. I want to be able to do & feel the way I was before. Yes, I'm not going to lie, at first is "fun" to feel a sense of "well-being" and "happiness" all around you, but TRUST ME that will soon turn into dependency. It will turn you into someone you weren't & never thought you could be. Stop giving this med such a great review, b/c even if you take it before going to bed, the side effects are still there and if you're not feeling them now, give a just a little longer & you'll see! Overeating, gainning weight, & feeling a increase in your sexual drive is not worth it. Now, I have to figure out how to get off this stupid medication! | F | 27 | 2 years | 12/29/2006 | 1 | Concentration, memory, and mood are very bad the next day- this makes Ambien a no go for me. | One time began hallucinating- next morning woke up in the bathtub with cold water spraying down on me and no recollection of how i got there. If a family member wasn't their to wake me up and help me into bed and get blankets and stuff, i don't know what would have happened. Took it again three years later and didn't have hallucinations. Whoever approved this drug works for both Ambien and the FDA, otherwise no way it would be legal. Scary stuff | M | 27 | 2 weeks 5-10mg 1X day | 12/12/2011 | 1 | sleep aid | I had slep walked in the middle of the night. Went to a grocery store & bought random things including alcohol. When i returned to the house i took another ambien and began to drink the alcohol. the whole time was talking about the people following me and were trying to kill me and my family. i ended up getting ahold of one of my firearms and shot the imaginary people. i dont have any recolection of any of this at all. I could have killed my 4 yr old neice, sister, and brother in law (because of this drug) who were just on the other side of the wall that i shot through. | that was the first time i had any side effect from the ambien. besides the one minor hilucinasion i had but was told by my dr. to continue with my medication. NOT WORTH THE RISK!!!!! (also if anyone knows a good defense lawyer please email me) | M | 27 | 10mg 1X day | 4/8/2011 | 5 | Insomnia | If I don't go to bed right away I don't remember conversations that I have with family before bed. definitely helps me sleep better and I feel great in the morning even if I don't get a full 8 hrs of sleep. | F | 26 | 1 years 10mg | 3/6/2012 | 5 | Sleep Terror Disorder | Outward visual hallucinations that become less as tolerance builds, seems to set up the dreaming part of brain and if still awake rarely causes grandoise hallucinations. | I have been taking ambien for awhile, and use it to keep excessive nightmares featuring the thoughts of everday allday schizo voices that have not managed to hack the visual cranial nerves or photo recepetors of the retina and have mainly stayed auditory. This drug works well to put "vocies" to sleep and become lethargic also in my own motion. Any attempts to sleep without it are mostly random, and the dumber part of the brain, or the brain used while sleeping can't seem to figure out that it is the same voices that bother the me all day, unless, and usually once weekly if no sleeping pills are taken it will just override the hacking attempts of voices during sleep cycle to regenerate and even cause a reverse effect where schizo is in a nightmare that I create for them. Still playing games with the bigboys in the larger scale dimension between organized bacteria and individual bacteria or cellular sized organisms of lazy atoms. Taking the ambien, which is a fine drug, does a fantastic job and does not seem to cause any reliance without it, besides the desire to sleep without nightmares, which was a preexisting condition to taking ambien, at least for myself. If they could make some zoli ambien that can be taken during the day, I would take it as I have noticed if I stay awake, schizo voices, seem to become lethargic and less chatty, and seem as though drunk and much less organized in their attacks on me. | M | 26 | 8 months 10mg 1X day | 12/27/2010 | 5 | insomnia | daytime grogginess | I love Ambien! It was a lifesaver! It knocks me out fast & usually keeps me asleep for 6-7 hours. I didn't have any bad side effects and would recommend this drug to anyone having insomnia. | F | 26 | 1 months 10 mg 1X day | 5/16/2010 | 5 | Insomnia | Groggy in the morning if I don't get at least 8 hours of sleep. | Almost every post has warned about going to bed immediately after taking this medication and they are all correct. After about a half hour I'm knocked out, and if someone wakes me I feel like gravity stems from my bed. I often feel as if I'm on a boat and when I move to change positions I grab tightly to the edge of the bed thinking the boat is going to tip. I haven't had any amnesia (at least I don't think so) and do not worry about walking around the house or going outside, etc. I only take it on weekends because I'm too afraid of being late for work. | F | 26 | 1 years | 2/14/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | Ambien is excellent for sleep--works pretty quick and let me sleep for 8 hours or more without a tired drugged feeling the next day. I was able to get up in the night and go right back to sleep with no problem. | Highly recommended for a good night's sleep, some short term memory loss if you take it and try and stay up but no serious effect. No side effects when discontinued. | F | 26 | 2 years | 3/18/2005 | 5 | insomnia after siblings death | Memory loss, no focus, tired in the morning. I took it as prescribed for years and it began to loose effectiveness. Had to start taking 2 and 3 at a time. I am on the 12.5 mg controlled release. I had no major side effets for the first 7 years of taking it but in the last year I have started having sleep sex. My husband thought I was just getting creative and more open and kinky, but I had no idea what was going on. It scared me. | I won't stop taking this medication, I think I will just space out the days I take it. I asked my doctor about the side effects that I am having and he said that they are normal for ambien users and if I didn't like them I could stop taking it and try some others things. I think I will be fine. It does it's job and I do sleep! Even if I am doing other things as well! | F | 26 | 8.5 years | 5/2/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | Side effects for me were: Calling people like drunk dialing, emailing, sexual encounters, and having lovey dovey feelings. | I called my mother whom I can't stand and havent spoken with for a year crying to her and then later having hardly any memory from doing it. So I called her the next morning and said I don't really remember calling you or what I said, but whatever i said to you disregard it cuz i was on Ambien. I also fooled around with my baby's dad brother. I would never do this sober. It made me even have feelings for him while I was taking this. It makes me alot nicer though. I also was emailing people and mis spelling alot of words. I also wrote in my journal and read it the next morning, and it made no sense at all. I find myself to like this Ambien drug very much, especially if you don't go to bed right away. I wake up feeling great! If you don't want to embarass yourself, unplug your phone and computer. | F | 26 | 2 weeks | 1/7/2009 | 5 | cant sleep more than 3 hrs | i had all the major side effects.. the first night i took 10 mg of ambien, the next morning i was told i had done things i couldnt remember. I still tried it just to see if it continued and I had the hallucinations,total memory loss of what happened the night before( i can recall how i felt but not what was happened), i felt like i was drunk or high, i was very relaxed and at ease, blurred vision, uncoordinated, and decreased inhibitions | i was very happy when i first started taking it because it was first time in long while i was able to have un-interupted sleep for more that 6 hours and i was finally rested... however after about 4 months of taking the pill, i noticed that the hallucinations had continued when i was awake and then i became paraniod and the memory loss worsened and i was actining not like myself and could not remember what happened within 20 minutes of taking the med. | F | 26 | 1 years | 1/30/2009 | 5 | Insomnia and RLS | Sleep walking, sleep eating, blackouts, seeing things | Just make sure you never take it while you are alone. It did overall help sleeping so it was worth it for me. | F | 26 | 3 months | 1/7/2008 | 4 | insomnia | It reacts slowly if I have eaten a large dinner. Slighty grogginess in the morning (30 minutes or so). | Some nights this does the trick and others not. My doctor has me combine Ambien and Trazodone and together I can usually sleep through the night. | F | 26 | 1.5 years | 2/10/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | Drunk feeling/memory loss/eating weird foods/masturbating more then usual/texting late at night | Ok so like this drug is great; however, it is so freakin addictive. Does it help me sleep? The answer is yes!! I just don't fancy the idea of having amnesia every night. I will lay in bed the minute I take it. Then BAM! All of a sudden I will feel so good and buzzed that I will get out of bed and do shit for like 2 hrs before I finally crash out. For instance; I would text my friends late at night. (Good thing they stay up too) Eat all kinds of weird food. Masturbate more then normal. Yeah you are probably thinking what's considered normal? Well I did it more then what I would consider normal. At least for a girl. I would try on tons of outfits so I would have new ideas what to wear to work the next day. Hmm what else....oh and if you think that's weird get this. I would blow off going out with my friends sometimes just so I can stay home and take my ambien early. Well that's a great life. (Sarcastic) I need to come off of it but the mere thought of it freaks me out. | F | 26 | 3 months | 5/10/2009 | 4 | I was injuried and could not sleep | A firest I thought the drug as great. I whould sleep for like 7 hours with no pnoblems. But then the effects seemed to ware off sooner and sooner. this causing me to take more on amore just to get a good night of sleep like everybody ralse aroung the this F*ck*mg palce! c:} | this is lot more adidictive drug usage then we wehought but we did have fun. I cant find my parents. F ptln for lifr | M | 26 | 1 years | 11/16/2009 | 3 | Insomnia due to shift work | SLEEP. Hazziness, memory loss, dependency, anxiety, dry eyes, sweats, stomach disturbances, aggression, drug idealation, headache, jitterness, mania, occassional euphoria, and sleep: walking, eating, emailing, talking. | In the begining it works great putting you to sleep with the prescribed dosages. Soon after though, you'll start taking more and more for less sleep. As the dosages increase, the withdrawal symptoms increase. You can feel your body start to crave the medication like any other addictive drug. I am lucky enough to say that no one has died due to me taking ambien, but I have embarrassed myself and worried my mother. (apparently I call her and obsess over dishwashers). In my opinion, this drug should be used to induce sleep when all other remedies are exhausted. Too many provider automatically turn to this med. All medications have unwanted side effects, and we shouldn't place all the blame pharmacutical companies, but they need to do a better job announcing the downsides. It is their responsibility to inform the consumer and the FDA job to demand it. FYI - when ambien first came out it was prescribed for no more 3-7 days. That was until lunesta came out with clinical trials up to 6 months with no adverse effects. Millions were then spent on advertisement proving ambien safe for long term use but without long term studies. More research has to be done. I've only been on it for a month. I'm in the process of stopping cold turkey and it's going well. I feel sorry for those who's lives were damaged more severly. Good luck | M | 26 | 30 days | 1/18/2010 | 3 | insomnia | Mental fog until noon the following day, night terrors when trying to discontinue, occasional chest pain, almost delusional feeling for 15 mins after taking | Definitely puts me to sleep and keeps me there. Very sobering withdrawal effects. Feels excellent until withdrawals around 5pm next day. Good to get through a week of imsomnia, but not a longterm solution at all. | M | 26 | 6 months | 10/30/2008 |