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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | couldn't sleep | some memory loss from what happened during the night | F | 25 | 5 days | 2/17/2006 | 1 | unable to sleep | I finally figured out that the extreme, extreme pain in my hips and leg was due to ambien, not damage to my highly successful hip replacement. I was terrified and the pain eased immediately as soon as I stopped taking it. I believe that the pain started in my hips because they are the weakest points in my body. I took the pill and went to bed at once. But in two or three hours, I would awaken still drugged. I would eat and eat and eat. I would also wake up to find that I had made fifty successful bids on ebay. I stopped taking it and I no longer bid in the night and my bedding is not littered with crumbs, milk and cereal, a side of beef... I was eating a box of crackers in my sleep and had no recollection of doing so. The quanity of food that I ate was amazing. Thank God that I didn't decide to drive the car or even just take a walk in the dark or get on my tread mill. | Dangerous | F | 60 | 10 days | 2/20/2006 | 5 | insomnia | M | 40 | 3 years | 2/28/2006 | 2 | insomnia / sleep apnea | night eating and feeding same to my dog - night walking (outside) - phone calls - ordering a lot of stuff via internet -no REAL memory of this activity but would see the evidence,food all over my house - weight gain (me & dog)- being told of my trips, to my car,neighbors cars and walking down the street | I know that this drug helps many with no ill side effects. However I am doing my best to GET OFF IT. I would rather take daily naps and put up with comments about me not being able to stay awake for lunch, golf or what ever than to continue taking this drug and having all the strange "AMBIEN ADVENTURES" IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE!!! | F | 67 | 7 months | 3/3/2006 | 5 | Cannot fall asleep | I get very hungry shortly after taking the pill and then start eating everything I can get my hands on and I barely recall doing it. I have very vivid dreams and begun to snore very loudly. I sometimes have conversations and never recall having them. | This pill has worked wonders for me as long as you follow the directions. Get into bed shortly after and take it on an empty stomach. Since I have been on it for over 2 years I think it has lost it's effectiveness. I know longer fall asleep in 15 mins, it now takes over an hour or more. | M | 42 | 2 years | 3/4/2006 | 4 | insomnia, depression | Get in bed BEFORE taking it! Otherwise side effects included: memory loss/amnesia, stumbling/falling, uncontrolable appetite. Thankfully no hallucinations. | BE CAREFUL ON THIS STUFF! I usually have a high tolerance for meds, but on this pill I was only taking 1/4 of the dosage recomended due to strange side effects. If you postpone going to bed you will regret it...I had no recollection of having sex with my husband one night-just think of what you could do without knowing it. I am waiting for the first court case in which Ambien is used in DEFENSE OF ACCIDENTALLY MURDERING SOMEONE. It's not a drug to be playing around with! | F | 27 | 5 months | 3/4/2006 | 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 | 5 | insomnia caused by stress/traumas | holy hallucinating batman! I've only taken this twice, but that is the main side effect for me. I am laughing my ass off reading these comments as if I'm currently on the drug. they are all so accurate! within minutes the first night the table became a lizzard. but I'm a smart cookie and knew that meant it was time to get to bed. while in bed the walls were moving and the bed was floating as if I were in a boat. strange. but I slept very well. the second time I took this I went straight to bed but it took me several minutes to fall asleep. when it kicked in I ended up calling my boyfriend though I had just been on the phone with him. I told him that there were people in here all staring at me and angry-like. the water bottle was bending over to look at me. the laundry bags became people and the bed was shaking a lot. he said it sounded like I was on drugs. needless to say he is worried and does not want me to take this anymore. but I slept a solid 8 hours each time I took this and felt | I laughed so much over the "ambien date" comment a few reviews down. I can't say it made me "aroused" but the next day AFTER when I did not take ambien, I had very um "graphic" dreams and ended up waking up for fear of acting them out in my sleep. | F | 21 | 2 days | 3/5/2006 | 5 | insomnia | good | M | 16 | 2 months | 3/5/2006 | 5 | Insomnia & Fibromyalgia | Hallucinations, memory loss, irritability, Ambien addiction | I have another post in the dissatisfied section, but wanted to add that I have taken this as recommended. I actually take it once I'm in bed. I will fall asleep for a short while and then get up, either to do things I don't remember or hallucinate. My partner has observed this for years now, but neither of us connected it to the Ambien. The side effect info does not place enough emphasis on these side effects. My memory loss extends to my non-sleeping hours as well, I'm very forgetful now, which is frustrating, making more irritable than the Ambien already makes me. I take one 10mg tablet nightly. Fortunately, I don't go outside of the house and have never tried to get in the car. But I have prepared food using knives, all the while alseep and unaware. I also think this has made my IBS worse, as I have several nights a week when I wake-up fully in extreme pain, something that did not happen before I began taking ambien. | F | 49 | 7 years | 3/9/2006 | 1 | Insomnia from stress & fibromyalgia | Whoo Hoo - Hallucinations, memory loss and increasing irritability. | I've been taking Ambien every night since 1999. Sure I read the side effects from the package, but it wasn't emphasized as a major side effect, nor did my doctor mention them. I didn't realize that my unremembered noctural activities had anything to do with the Ambien. In the beginning, they were mainly phone conversations I had no recollection of having, finding an empty bottle of alcohol in the recycle bin (I'm not a drinker and this was a partial bottle at least 7-8 years old), partially cooked meals, food spilled in my bed, etc. These things began to happen more frequently. My partner often tried to direct me back to bed, but said I would get very agitated and angry. I wasn't sure I believed him. Then last year, while sharing a room with my sister and her family, I got up in the middle of the night, still sleeping, rummaged through my luggage, found some dried fruit, and proceeded to try to feed everyone. I had absolutely no memory of it. Now sometimes, there's a positive. | F | 49 | 7 years | 3/9/2006 | 1 | sleep | My brother commited susicide on this f*ing drug. He was only taking it for less then 7 days. He was never one to do that! He never cried out for help etc...less then a week on this he left this world in a stupor! He had told his wife the dreams he had on it were crazy. Last day alive his co-workers noted how dazed he looked. Now his wife and 2 children are alone!! His departure from this world was VERY dramatic and wholly unlike him!!! STAY away from this drug. any class actions on it please let me know. [email protected] | HORRIBLE!!! | M | 45 | 7 days | 3/9/2006 | 5 | Fibromyalgia/Insomnia | First let me say it's very unfair the way some people on this forum are calling others dumb and drug addicts. I've never abused drugs in my life. The side effects of Ambien, and there are loads, can happen even if you don't eat 1 to 2 hours before and lie down right away. If something. Anything keeps you awake. Say an itch or hive breakout which I've had. or an upset stomach and trip to bathroom... suddenly you're on a different plane with no inhibitions WHATSOEVER. It really is quite scary. I don't find the things I've done on Ambien FUN. And yes the court cases are on their way. I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. I live alone. I can't imagine what I might do or say to another person if they were there with me when this stuff hits. | It can work for a good night's sleep but there are definite dangers with it. I've often thought If I have a child I would definitely have to stop taking it because you simply don't know what you might do on it which includes ANYTHING imaginable. | F | 38 | 6 years | 3/10/2006 | 4 | Insomnia... inability to fall aslee | Whoa. Where do I start? This drug if taken before you are in bed (and sometimes after) left me inhibition FREE. Like being totally drunk. Making phone calls to a Father I haven't spoken to in years. DRIVING to ATLANTIC CITY! Leaving a love letter on the outside of a store for a clerk who worked inside. When you're on your Ambien Trip everything seems RIGHT! Also, pictures talk to you. Things move. My Data (from Star Trek) figurine was waving to me so I brought my Mom in to see. I freaked her out when I said 'don't worry Data would never hurt me!" I've never smoked pot or done any type of drug so this feeling is new to me. One time I decided I'd be better off bald and decided to cut all my hair off. Not sure what on Earth stopped me. And the wierdest part is... you don't remember any of this until something jogs the memory and then it all comes back in a rush. I've made plane reservations to Miami SEVERAL times and had to cancel. I've called my Brother who's 48 to sing him a lull | You must take it on an empty stomach and lie down but if by some chance you do not fall to sleep. Look out. To it's credit. I've been taking it for years and it still works Most of the Time. You must fall asleep right away though or anything could happen. | F | 38 | 6 years | 3/10/2006 | 5 | Well, when I take this drug I see other people and I think they are taking my food. I thought my bright pink room was "paradise", and my friend, whom is also taking this drug, thinks she's Chucky. She also thinks she's dancing with the famous singer, Beyonce. | This is some amazing stuff right here! | F | 52 | 10 months | 3/11/2006 | 5 | for fun | I dont even know where to begin! thinking i am beyonce, looking like chucky, drowning while washing my hair in the sink, talking to the wall, thinkning someone ate my chicken wings, thinking there were more people in the room, burning my hair on the stove, thinking my room was a cabin, wanting to be naked, talking to random people on the phone and computer, watching home alone, doing crazy shit!! thats the ambien experience and i love every minute of it even thought i black out and cant remember half the stuff i do. me and my friends are on it and we have a good ol' time! | Ambien is a god! | F | 18 | 10 days | 3/12/2006 | 1 | insomnia | paranoia, hallucinating, anxiety, fear | i took a pill and went and laid down in by bed, i never fell or feel asleep. i was nervous and half consious, and talking to faces suroundimg my head. i scared my mom so badly because she thought i was up at two in the morning on serious drugas or something. i hate this. i dnt see how any one cld want the side effects... i did not even feel rested at alllllll when i woke up, i was more insanely paranoid and tired from before i went to bed that night, after not sleeeping for two and a half weeks. | F | 15 | 15 days | 3/12/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | THIS DRUG SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY REMOVED FROM THE MARKET! IT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! I took 10 mg of zolpidem recently and tried to commit suicide by jumping out my window. I can completely understand and associate with what others have said on here. I experienced all these things people are saying: seeing imaginary people, obscene hallucinations, suicidal feelings, nausea, extremely bizarre behaviour, sleep-walking... all from one tablet! I have never tried to kill myself before and hope I never will again but I was CLOSE the other night. The only thing that saved me was the fact that I couldn't squeeze out my window. I was walking around my flat naked and muttering to the invisible people who were detaining me. It's now some days later and I'm still struggling to spell words and to concentrate. If you take this drug, YOU ARE RISKING YOUR LIFE! You have been warned. | How this drug is still on the market is beyond me. The company must have reports and realise that many people are having suicidal thoughts and experiencing other disturbing behaviour from standard doses of the drug. Sure, most people are fine with it but reading through this damning list of comments, it's clear that what happened to me was not some fluke effect. To those who have written on here that the people who are complaining are doing something wrong, how can you say this? I've read of at least one person who's taken their life having ingested this drug. This is serious stuff folks. I'm going to write to the company asking if they are aware of how many people have committed suicide having taken zolpidem. This is a disgrace in modern medicine. | M | 25 | 7 days | 3/12/2006 | 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 | 5 | Insomnia | Dizziness, hallucinations, inability to concentrate. | This is by far the most effective sleep medication on the market. I've personally suffered from varying degrees of insomnia since I was 13, and have taken every OTC med that is available. This works like a charm and I pay retail for it ($65 for 15 pills, which I generally take every night). I prefer to take it on an empty stomach because I find that its effects are dulled significantly by taking after eating. I find that on an empty stomach it takes 20 minutes to kick in, and then you really feel it. Try to walk, and it's almost like a drunken stagger; try to read and the words will start moving right off the page; try to focus on any other task, and you'll find it difficult. But remember, this is for SLEEPING, not recereation. The side effects are only bad if you neglect to pay attention to the purpose of this drug. Take it, get into bed, and go to sleep. Don't attempt any great feats, because the dizziness will literally make you sick. Do with it what is intended, and you'll never ha | F | 25 | 3 months | 3/15/2006 |