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 |
| 5 | Insomia | none | Knocks ya out! sleepy time! | M | 19 | 7 months | 11/30/2006 | 5 | insomnia | had night time "friends" I talked to.... Hallucinations and sense well being. | would recommend to anyone in for a good experience while getting to sleep! | F | 39 | 2 months | 12/3/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | None - this was the problem. I thought I could take it every night, just like taking Advil every day during my period and then simply stop with no issues. | Well, unbenownst to me, I got in a quiet sleeping situation and just stopped taking Ambien. I must have been an addict because I went through withdrawal HELL. Paxil withdrawal was a day in the park compared to this. I was actually jones-ing for Ambien. I was like Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line" when he is getting off speed. Would never take this crap again. I feel bad for people taking the CR - how do they taper off? At least you can taper off the regular version of Ambien which I would recommend. | F | 35 | 4 months | 12/4/2006 | 5 | insomnia due to anxiety | If I stay up after taking dose, and I do... I have asense of well being, able to just relax and mellow out before I get to the zombie state and then black out! I have eaten everytime I've taken it with nearly a box of poptarts gone the next am. I hate that part, since I'm trying to lose baby weight! I compromise by limiting my daytime food. I've heard this phenomonon is real in a great portion of patients. | don't want to be on it much longer, but have insomnia and without it, I don't sleep... I guess I will continue til I really see the bad outweighs good. (or I outweigh my fiancee)LOL | F | 30 | 2 months | 12/7/2006 | 5 | Tinnitus & chronic insomnia | If I stay up too long after taking it, I feel a bit loopy & euphoric - tend to not remember things I did/said before going to bed. Leg & foot cramps. | I've had trouble sleeping for years, and have used everything from sleepy-time tea, to melatonin, to Tylenol PM and everything in between (including biofeedback & self-imagery). A few years ago, I also developed tinnitus, which makes trying to fall asleep that much more difficult. Ambien has been a God-send for me. 90% of the time, I fall asleep within 20 minutes of going to bed. I've noticed no day-time memory loss or odd behavior, and I have been taking it for two years (not every single night, but probably 80-90% of the time). If; however, I take it and do not go right to bed, I feel a bit "high" and loopy, and I tend to forget things I do/say, but it's never anything bad or life-threatening. It has caused leg/foot cramps. Also, it works much better on an empty stomach. | F | 35 | 2 years | 12/7/2006 | 3 | Couldn't Sleep | Wow! I thought it was just me! For short term use, this stuff works GREAT! What I didn't realize is that you really need to take the dose and then go right to bed. It doesn't make you sleepy as much as it shuts your thinking process down. If I took one and stayed awake (waiting to get sleepy), I did the wierdest things. Apparently you get the munchies big time because I would wake up the next morning finding food all over the place, but no recollection of making anything. It was only the following morning after seeing an empty aluminum tray and a fork that I realized I made a three pound family-sized lasagna dinner. One morning I found a pot of boiling macaroni (thank God the house didn't burn down). One night I found myself at the Wendy's drive thru and no clue how I got there. I've awakend on my neighbor's couch watching a movie, and don't know whether I was invited or just walked over (I left before she woke up). I've called friends at two in the morning, only knowing so because the | WARNING! For short term use only | M | 46 | 6 years | 12/7/2006 | 2 | insomnia | memory loss, acting intoxicated, panic attacks, leg pain (neuropathy). | I used to sing praises about Ambien. I didn't mind the memory loss, until I had children- now I can't remember what happened during the night, and that can be dangerous.... especially when the drug causes you to acted in an intoxicated way. Then it caused me to start having panic attacks and pain in my legs, and it was scary. I had pins & needles and tingling sensations, pain, and panic- I actually thought I might die. Too scary, too dangerous. I quit taking it, and now have to treat the aftereffect of anxiety & panic attacks. I can't recommend this drug. | F | 26 | 6 months | 12/7/2006 | 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 | 1 | Can't sleep. Temporary depression. | I weight 100 lbs. and took 1/2 a pill last night, instead of the recommended whole pill. Within 20 minutes I could hardly stand up. Went to bed and heard knocking at the door which woke me up. There was no one there. Today I feel excessively tired and somewhat 'spaced out'. Not good. | F | 49 | 1 days | 12/12/2006 | 5 | insomnia, anxiety | no side effects. i don't understand any of the reported side effects because the proper way to take this medication is immediately before bed and then getting in and staying in bed. cooking and cleaning or even attempting to stay up after taking it is ridiculous. what do you expect? | i am on the 12.5mg CR version and it works great. | F | 22 | 2 months | 12/15/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | Vomiting after/during sex. First month or two had severe hallucinations, but they went away. Best sleep of my life on this medicine, and my husband loves the sex perv I become at times. | I am 6 months pregnant; OB and MD have both ok'ed use during pregnancy, (hope they are right). I have never had any amnesia occurring AFTER I went to sleep- all of my amnesia occurs between time I take pill and go to sleep, but never after waking up. | F | 25 | 1 years | 12/23/2006 | 4 | jet lag induced sleeplessness | Some times a bit groggy in the mornings. | It seems to work well. I think the controlled-release version might be a better option, but I only took that a couple of time as a physician's sample give-away. I only take the drug occaissionally, as needed, not daily. | M | 55 | 2 years | 12/24/2006 | 5 | | 12/25/2006 | 3 | insomnia | lack of focus during the day | only thing I know that really shuts down my system and allows me to sleep. Seems to get out of the system fast so that your not groggy in the am, just wondering if its this that is causing me to be forgettful, and have trouble focusing during the day | M | 45 | 7 months | 12/26/2006 | 5 | insomnia | none when going straight to bed | But if I stay up too long after taking it, I feel a loopy, euphoric and extremelly horny - tend to not remember things I did/said before going to bed. my husband is not a fan | F | 25 | 1 years | 12/27/2006 | 1 | poor quality sleep | It seem that most posters have a fairly positive experience with Ambien CR. Mine was the reverse: After two nights of taking Ambien (12.5mg), and getting a good 7 hours sleep, I slept less (woke up around 4am and couldn't get back to sleep). I was restless, irritable and felt sad for no apparent reason. During the day I was tired, had no appetite and soon developed frightening heart-pounding and chestpain. I didn't relate these feelings to the Ambien and my FP told me to continue with a lower dose (6.25mg). These feelings, he thought, were most likely anxiety, related to the low level of sleep. After a further week of poor sleep, nausea, heart palpitations, tremors and nervousness I was put on a heart monitor. All was ok, but the feelings were still there and I felt terrible - depressed, anxious, heart discomfort, nauseous/indigestion...plus less sleep than ever. Dr gave me low dose of clonazapan to help with the palpitations/anxiety. | Then I read the detailed prescription that comes with Ambien - was down in the smallprint was some of the side affects I was having so-called "serious side effects - discontinue use and call doctor"-type ones. I didnt bother, just tossed the Ambien. So, the first night after getting rid of these pills I started to feel better, took half a clonazapan to help relax me just before bedtime. Slept 7 hours solid, woke up to a different world. After several days of this I am feeling better, happier than ever. So, even if you are experiencing poor quality sleep, I would check carefully before deciding on Ambien. I had a seemingly rare, but very unpleasant reaction that took a while to figure out. I will settle for 5-6 hours of sleep a night (plus a 15-minute nap at lunchtime) just to feel my old happy self again. I have never before had any kind of anxiety/depression in my life and this was definitely medication-induced. So if Ambien is giving you any of these feelings (that yo | M | 46 | 10 days | 12/27/2006 | 1 | poor quality sleep | It seem that most posters have a fairly positive experience with Ambien CR. Mine was the reverse: After two nights of taking Ambien (12.5mg), and getting a good 7 hours sleep, I slept less (woke up around 4am and couldn't get back to sleep). I was restless, irritable and felt sad for no apparent reason. During the day I was tired, had no appetite and soon developed frightening heart-pounding and chestpain. I didn't relate these feelings to the Ambien and my FP told me to continue with a lower dose (6.25mg). These feelings, he thought, were most likely anxiety, related to the low level of sleep. After a further week of poor sleep, nausea, heart palpitations, tremors and nervousness I was put on a heart monitor. All was ok, but the feelings were still there and I felt terrible - depressed, anxious, heart discomfort, nauseous/indigestion...plus less sleep than ever. Dr gave me low dose of clonazapan to help with the palpitations/anxiety. Then I read the detailed prescription that comes w | So, even if you are experiencing poor quality sleep, I would check carefully before deciding on Ambien. I had a seemingly rare, but very unpleasant reaction that took a while to figure out. I will settle for 5-6 hours of sleep a night (plus a 15-minute nap at lunchtime) just to feel my old happy self again. I have never before had any kind of anxiety/depression in my life and this was definitely medication-induced. So if Ambien is giving you any of these feelings (that you didn't have before) I would suggest checking with your Dr to see if these might be side effects and all you need is is a little relaxant (half an hour before bedtime) to relieve any worries about getting off to sleep. Once your cycle is re-established these can be split on succesive nights until you need nothing but a warm comfortable bed. | M | 46 | 10 days | 12/27/2006 | 4 | anxiety related insomnia | I, too, have at times experienced a middle-of-the-night snack attack. Also, has caused some sort term memory loss. I've looked at a movie before going to bed and not remembered it the next day, and had conversations I've not recalled. | The BEST thing about this drug as a sleep aid is that when it wears off, it wears off. I don't feel any sense of hang-over, or difficulty getting out of bed the next morning. I take the 10 mg. I've tried the 5, to attempt to curb those episodes of memory-fog, but 5mg. does not work for me. | F | 51 | 6 months | 12/28/2006 | 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 | 5 | chronic insomnia since childhood | If I take it and don't go straight to bed, I get these odd visual hallucinations that make it hard to judge proportions. Shapes on the PC screen, for instance, begin to move around a bit. My balance is also off. It's not an unpleasurable feeling, as long as you don't have to work or deal wth the kids. | It's changed my life. I worry, though, that I take it when I should really be trying to establish better sleep patterns by more regular bed times and so forth. Beucase it's a pill it's too easy. But it is a great drug, very helpful. I also wonder if it has any effect on 1) sex drive and 2) memory during the day. | M | 48 | 2 years | 12/30/2006 |