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 |
| 4 | Sleep problems | When I disregarded the instructions or took more than 1 a night, I would sleepwalk, have memory loss, eat excessively, and would often have strange dreams. | If taken properly (meaning, taking only 1 and going to sleep very soon after) it works very well. If you don't do this, you're going to experience the side effects. | M | 20 | 1 years 10 1X day | 9/15/2010 | 3 | Depression-induced insomia | Hallucinations if I didn't go to bed and fall asleep immediately after taking 2 pills. I thought all the books on my shelf were falling down and going to smother me. THe biggest problem was that I was unable to have orgasms consistently. It would take lots of work and then it was weird, lots of pre-ejaculate and very little semen and sperm, followed by an anticlimax. The sensitivity is so great it is almostg numbing | I did get twenty pages out of my book on ambien and they're some of the best stuff I've written in a while. I remember writing this, but only faintly, | M | 20 | 1 days | 9/17/2005 | 3 | Problems staying asleep | Ive been taking this drug on and off for about 8 months, everytime I take it I always find myself in lala land and I tend to pick up the phone and have crazy conversations and not remembering them the next day. But the sleep is awesome! I dont feel groggy the next day | Be carful! DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE, Driving under the drug really makes you do crazy things. | M | 20 | 8 months | 9/12/2006 | 3 | insomnia caused by lexapro | craving sugar and cigarettes after taking it; if taken too often, daytime anxiety/depression | Just a very, very strange drug. Deceptively powerful. The bad for me does not outweigh the good...yet. For falling asleep, nothing is better. However, it is strangely addictive and psychological dependence develops in a matter of days. If you're going to use it, use it very sparingly. If you have trouble falling asleep every night, try alternating it with something else. You do NOT want to get hooked on this drug. It is quite unlike anything I have ever used before. | M | 20 | 1 years | 4/10/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | Ambien did help me to catch up on some z’s, but the side effects were absolutely intolerable. Basically it makes you trip out: an overall sense of elation, mild visual hallucinations, and memory less. It also makes you stupid. In particular it made me believe I was having conversations with inanimate objects. It was as though the whole room itself were urging me on to contact everyone in my phone book. This inspired me to leave numerous incriminating Facebook comments on many an acquaintance’s Wall. | F | 20 | 1 years | 1/20/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | None really, except for increased appetite & increased nighttime anxiety. | I was not on this medicine for long. I forgot the doseage I was taking, but I would lie awake for hours and I would have thoughts running through my head and would not for the life of me be able to fall asleep. It definitely did not work. | F | 20 | 1 weeks | 1/31/2009 | 2 | Anxiety related insomnia | Felt heavy, it took about 20 minutes before I actually fell asleep, and I woke up about 5 hours later not able to move my arm because it had pins and needles so bad due to sleeping on it weird, which I would've woken up earlier if not on the medication. So now here I am...typing this comment, unable to go back to sleep 5 hours after taking it...worthless drug | Worthless drug | M | 20 | 1 days | 10/27/2007 | 2 | insomnia | the side effects included me driving to walmart in the middle of the night... buying tons stuff... and me thinking it was a dream...sleep driving happened to me quite a lot (so my roommates said) Scary stuff you shouldn't take it if your depressed.. It can make you paranoid and anxious... also you grow a tolerance to it... which means you have to increase the dosage... if you take one you're body is in a coma but your mind can still be going a mile a minute... I refuse to take any sleeping pills after my experiences.... BE CAREFUL | Make sure you talk to a family member or friend before taking it.... you can become addicted pretty easily... especially if you're younger (college years) | F | 20 | 1.5 years | 1/23/2008 | 2 | insomina | Severe Sleep Walking (including violent outbursts), still tired, groggy in the morning | I've been taking ambien for 2 weeks now. The first couple nights i woke up still tired and couldn't figure out why. My wife informed me it's because i was up all night. She's found me downstairs (all of this i do not remember doing) staring out the back door, watching TV, i've had sex and held conversations with her, I've said hurtful things to her, I swear at her a lot (which I never do), and my wife has now informed me last night i hit and threw my 70 lbs black lab across the room (which i never have and never would do, he's fine btw).. she said i kept swearing at her to make the dog stop barking.. which he wasn't it was some other dog.. I'm done with this drug.. it doesn't put me to sleep it just makes me lose my conscious state of mind and do wrong things.. it's been 2 weeks and I'm exhausted every moment of every day because i still haven't had a good nights sleep | M | 20 | 2 weeks 10mg 1X day | 11/1/2010 | 2 | Insomnia [recently diag. bipolar1] | High addiction factor; walking amnesia; general anger and non-congruent mood | It might work for a select few, but the reports are mounting high and this drug will likely be pulled sooner or later. It brought on mixed state [bipolar] episodes and ultimately resulted in hospitalization for sucide/psychosis. Many other [including personal accounts] of people having walking amnesia--- blacked out, but doing stuff [one person went driving]. Note: my time on the drug was on and off due to ill side effects. | M | 20 | 2 years | 1/26/2010 | 1 | insomnia | Even more difficulty sleeping than usual (I slept off and on for only 2.5 hrs). The ceiling and door frame was moving around. It felt like a combination of smoking weed and that feeling right before anesthesia knocks you out. | It was calming and I wouldn't have minded the weird visual stuff if I wasn't desperate to sleep. I now understand why one of my friends does it recreationally. I honestly thought she was making stuff up. | F | 20 | 2 days 5-10 mg 1X day | 6/3/2010 | 1 | Cannot Fall Asleep at Normal Hours | None | I took it last night because I normally can't fall asleep until about 4 in the morning.. Well I took it and it did nothing to me whatsoever. Did not make me drowsy, nothing wierd, still didn't fall asleep at all. Actually, I fell asleep around 5:30 this time which is later than I normally would have fallen asleep. | F | 20 | 1 days | 3/14/2009 | 1 | insomnia | horrific hallucinations, amnesia | very scary side effects to this drug, after one experience one time taking this drug, I will never take another sleeping pill | F | 20 | 1 days | 7/2/2007 | 5 | lack of sleep with night terrors | sometimes hung over from the night before as has as its harder to wake up... well its harder if u wake up clear and fresh too early and go back to sleep i sleep for ages. i now am a rbbid sleep eater.... i always have food by my bed bc im too lazy to get come some | as far as if it works--- it does as far as it feels "good"--- it does as far as it makes you feel high--- it doesn i definitely believe this sleeep aid is very benficial to those who have serious sleeping disorders i have serious sleeo problem associted with the life of drugs i chose to give up (1 year 5 months clean) anyways this stuff ruined my sleep... they tried serquel and trazodon,, didnt work... ambien--- ambien really works.,... and after so long of not being able to sleep bein able to get a nice full rest is spectacular | F | 19 | 4 months | 5/1/2006 | 5 | Insomia related to Prednisone | The usual, dizziness, loss of balance, double vision, and I wouldn't call them hallucinations like others, but more of a change of perception. I didn't have any side-effects in bad sense, except that I like this drug too much. I guess I'll just have to deal when I run out. | I love to write and stay up at least an hour before I go to bed. Sometimes I would wake up in the morning to find I had written the wildest things, includiding e-mails I normally would never have sent. Not good. I've been taking it over a month now and am pretty acclimated to the drug, but I still like it. Someone said they like to take it in the middle of the day...you have to have some problems to be taking something this powerful for a recreational purpose, at least during daylight. I can't imagine not being able to go to be after the main effects wear off. | M | 19 | 30 days | 9/2/2006 | 5 | Insomia | none | Knocks ya out! sleepy time! | M | 19 | 7 months | 11/30/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | I was talking to my boyfriend and told him that I saw people walking through walls, I don't remember any of the converstaion. Other than that, I've been able to go to sleep and stay asleep for 8 hours and feel better in the morning than I use to. | F | 19 | 2 weeks | 12/4/2009 | 5 | Ongoing insomnia | Amazing sleeping pills. I always fell asleep after about 15-30 minutes. and slept whole good night . | There are a few funny site effects. For me it was dizziness, feeling drugged, feeling slightly horny .. And different people and sounds were in my head like 30 minutes after taking weird feeling. | F | 19 | 4 months 10mg | 9/15/2016 | 4 | insomnia | hallucinations, increased appetite, insane amount of sexual stimulation | LOVE IT...ESPECIALLY WHEN TAKEN 15+ MG DURING THE DAY...with a little coffee and maybe 1 mg or 2 of alprazolam | M | 19 | 6 months | 11/27/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | well the first two months i been taking it, the drug worked wonders....then more recenly ill take it and it makes my mouth dry out and everything just starts to move real slow...i get full body shakes and confusion...also if i try to talk it is just mubbles...i also hallocinate that there are people watchin me...but all this last for about 15 mins then im fine... | IT puts me to sleep and thats all i care about | M | 19 | 5 months | 10/5/2009 |