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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Chronic Insomnia | Hunger, lack of concentration, severe addiction, abuse | 10 years ago I was hospitalized for depression. I had not slept well in years and was prescribed 5mg while in the hospital. My Dr prescribed 30 tablets, one month at a time for 3 months. I started seeing him every 3 months and was given a prescription for 30 and 2 refills for 7 years with reduced effectiveness over time. Switched to Trazadone for 2 months which made my skin crawl, made me dizzy, nauseus and it took a huge dose to keep me asleep, leaving me with a tremendous "hangover" effect.Dr put me back on Ambien. When I first started taking Ambien, a prescription for 30 was around $35. Over the years it sky-rocketed in price. With no medical insurance it became tough to pay for. My tolerance for Ambien grew and I slept less and less. When Ambien CR came out I switched to that. It was tough to get to sleep on CR but I slept longer. As you know if you take it, it cost close to $200 per month without insurance. Couldn't do that long so I went back to regular Ambien. I convin | M | 50 | 10 years | 11/20/2008 | 5 | sleep | none | M | 32 | 1 years | 11/21/2008 | 5 | insomnia | Memory loss for things that I have done after taking the medication, but before I go to bed. Sometimes I don't remember something I did at all, other times I remember it as though I was dreaming. Sometimes my boyfriend will tell me about things I've said to him, but I only very foggily recall it. I felt as though I had been in bed sleeping the whole time instead of doing things. After ambient kicks in, I feel like ordinary objects around me "come to life". Hard to explain. But things like the sink or the toothbrush seem to take on personas, and I can hear snip its of conversation in my head. Also sometimes it feels like there are other people in the room when there are not. And I am aware as it happens that these are just effects of the medication ant not really happening, but the funny things still pop in my head. If I am watching TV, as the med starts to kick in, the show I am watching seems to become garbled and hard to follow. Also, because my body gets so very tired, I | Yes, Ambien does have some potentially dangerous side effects. For certain people, this may not be a good drug to take. Everyone reacts differently. However, I that I can manage the side effects. For me, the drug works so well for sleep, that I am willing to live with the side effects. My boyfriend did have some concerns because of the things that he sees have happened on ambien that I don't remember. But I made it clear that this is the most wonderful thing in my life for sleeping, and I will continue to use it. Because I need to sleep. People who sleep fine do not understand how difficult and exhausting life can be. To manage, my boyfriend and I have come up with an agreement. I never take ambien when I am alone. I only take it after my boyfriend comes home from work at night. I always always tell him right after I've taken it, so he can make sure that I don't do anything dangerous. At a certain point when the drug has kicked in, he takes me to bed. And that's the end! I sleep. | F | 28 | 9 months | 11/25/2008 | 5 | insomnia | disclaimer../i took an ambien about an hour ago now and it kickin and feeling it tightfeel it kicking in so | disclaimer'i am on ambien right now i would say that i have some additional comments things i type are weird and not how i would usually spell them so beware things on the screen are moving...the letters, yeah, blocks and the web address is shrinking and stretching so i'm pretty chill now though i have a concerto stuck in my head...but usually when somethings stuck in ur head you can just kinda hear it its one person one tune.....with this its like GIGANITI symphony and....and...its beautiful!! but its time to get off of the computer. | F | 17 | 1 days | 11/28/2008 | 3 | couldnt stay asleep | no memory of anything as soon as i took it | i would send emails carry on conversations have sex with my husband. not remember any of it.my husband would ask me do you remember having sex last night? i would say we did. he was so upset.very scary | F | 36 | 4 months | 11/30/2008 | 3 | for insomnia | I fall asleep and then wake up after 2 or 3 hours, then I take an Ambien and sleep until 5 or 6 | F | 73 | 4 weeks | 12/4/2008 | 1 | insomnia | loss of memory | I had a few episodes with ambien and finally i've decided to quit taking it all together after a few embarrassing episodes. My boyfriend thought I was completely crazy. A few days ago I took my pill as normal. I became very aggressive, demanding sex and acting a like fool. I went in the front yard completely naked. Went back in the house and was throwing everything in sight... After an hour of this I finally feel asleep. This is completely out of character. The next morning I woke up like nothing happened. I had no memory of any of this. After he told me I was so embarrassed about my actions. On a different occasion I washed my white clothes with a red shirt and turned everything pink. I was so puzzled the next day not remembering a thing. I thought my boyfriend did it. Another time I got up in the middle of the night and cooked noodles and the next morning I went in the kitchen and the stove was still with black noodles in the pot. I could have burned the house down and slept through | F | 25 | 6 months | 12/4/2008 | 3 | insommia | sleep walking, sleep talking, memory lapses | Be careful when taking this medicine. Go right to bed right after taking this medicine. Make sure there is someone there to watch over you. I was found talking loudly to myself and walking around my house in the middle of the night the second time I had taking this medicine. The first time I took it I wasn t able to go to sleep. The third time I took it I don't remember having sex with my partner. I have not taken it again. I am afraid of what else I will unknowingly do since I have an 8 year old child. | F | 37 | 3 days | 12/6/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | I would say and do things i normally wouldn't- with no idea i had done them when i woke up the next morning. I would then only take the medicine right before i went to sleep and made sure my phone was off and away so i wouldnt pick it up and call/text someone. When I did begin to get tired i heard music in my head.. I knew no one else could hear it but it was beautiful, amazing music.. many times it was classical music but nothing I recognized. I felt like I was on some sort of shrooms. The feeling was comforting at night but it was scaring in the morning to not remember anything i had done an hour or so before falling asleep- much like a black out from alcohol- sometimes i could remember little parts of what i had done if someone reminded me.. Also, I was only able to sleep 5 or 6 hours at most and was then very tired duringthe afternoon. I don't take the medicine anymore instead I just make sure not to nap at all during the day and to a lot of mind stimulating things and stay actu | F | 19 | 3 months | 12/16/2008 | 4 | Insomnia caused by Chronic Pain | Occasional sleepwalking or sleepeating episodes and amnesia of the event (not remembering conversations the night before). | I take 5-10 mg of Ambien only maybe 2-3 times a month and alternate with Lunesta as needed. Yes, these are potent drugs and should be treated with respect. Take them while you are in bed. Not partying, or while staying up, you need to take the pill and go straight to bed. I would not always have the sleepwalking/sleepeating episodes, maybe only 3-4 times a year? I notice that the 10mg tends to cause more sleep walking and the 5mg has no side effects at all. Go straight to bed after taking. | F | 45 | 5 years | 12/20/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | Not recollecting some events shortly after taking medication. It is a medication to be taken once you are in bed and not with the idea of finishing everyday things you would normally do awake. To engage in such behaviors and expect anything other than an increased probability of a bad consequence is showing an irresponsibility that should negate ever taking similar medications. | It has been a great help. | M | 41 | 1 years | 12/21/2008 | 1 | severe multiple sleep disorders | Visual hallucinations that went on for hours and were so engrossing that it was impossible to fall asleep. For example, after I took Ambien, my pink telephone would come to life. It would start breathing and scuttling back and forth on my desk like a crab. My husband finally got fed up because not only were these nightly visions keeping me awake, but my Howard Cosell-esque reporting of them kept him awake too. | I don't recall exactly how long I took Ambien, but it seemed like at least two or three months. | F | 55 | | 12/25/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | Not remembering anything before going to bed. | I was on Ambien for 8 years. When I first started taking Ambien, I would fall asleep sitting at my computer. After awhile, this went away. I was able to go to bed, sleep and get up with no drowsy feeling. The Doctor took me off the Ambien and put me on Rozerem. Haven't had a good nights sleep since. | F | 57 | 8 years | 12/28/2008 | 1 | insomnia / inability to stay asleep | Thrashing all night, weeping all day after I take it. | I switched to Lunesta and it works much better. | F | 35 | 2 weeks | 12/30/2008 | 1 | insomnia | Can anyone tell me from experience or expert opinion that taking ambien for almost 6 years daily and sometimes more than I should can cause chronic neuropathic pain, tingling, numbness, ear pain and heaviness in the head, muscle aches and pains? I came off of ambien for several months and saw no change. If all this is due to long term use and abuse of this drug, about how long does it take to undue any potential nerve damage. Please advise if you have had any such experience. The doctors are baffled by my symptoms and do not know what is causing my problem. I get no relief from prescription or over the counter pain relievers. | I had no problem with this drug other than sleep eating and a good restful night's sleep until 3 years ago when I began to experience teeth pain and numbness, ear pain, burning mouth and lips. Then a year and a half ago, I began to experience tingling, numbness, burning sensations in my hands, arms, legs and feet and continued to take ambien unaware that it could be the cause of all my problems since I was seen by specialists from dentists, neurologists, ENT's, Internists, TMJ doctors and many more. So, be careful about using this drug and again, if someone out there who has had trouble with this drug from long term use, about how long does it take to repair the damage done? | F | 52 | 6 years | 1/1/2009 | 5 | Chronic insomnia | Definitely causes memory lapses. I have taken Ambient nightly for 5 years. Initially, I had complete amnesia of events that followed my nightly dose. Now, I have memory lapses, but can usually piece together conversations, etc. if something jogs my memory. I have often had the hallucinations others mention, such as conversations going on around me when I'm in a room alone, objects seeming to dance around...I usually take this an hour or so before bed, because it often takes that long to kick in. I've tried many sleep meds and Ambien is the most effective for my long-term use. I don't have any hang-over effects the next day. However, once a month or so (no rhyme or reason to the timing), it just doesn't seem to work with just the 10mg. dose, so I take another half or even whole pill. Great insomnia treatment for me. | F | 38 | 5 years | 1/2/2009 | 4 | sleep | sleep walking uninhibated | F | 49 | 4 years | 1/2/2009 | 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 | 2 | insomnia | tense muscles, squeezing pain between shoulder blades,leading to unbearable aching in arms, hands, shooting pain in feet, numbness, tingling, jaw pain, ear ache and nightmares. Two weeks ago told I may have pmr and put on prednisone. Suspected and stopped the Ambien and starting to feel better and less of the symptoms. | I am an active woman who exercises at a gym 3-4 times a week, works 25 hrs a week and loves life. I thought I needed to sleep 7-8 hrs a night to be active so I took this drug for a year or more. I noticed increasing neuro muscular pain, inablility to concentrate and anxiety. I also started to have some vivid dreams that were scary. | F | 60 | 2 years | 1/7/2009 | 1 | Insomnia | The side effects at first werent that bad. The first thing I realized is that I had to take the medication about 2-3 hours before bed and then just sit in bed with my eyes closed. It worked for about 1-2 weeks and then after that did nothing but keep me up all night long. The next side affect I experinced was visuals. Things crawling in my bathroom floor, the walls moving, etc. This made it even harder to go to sleep. After that the worst symptom I had was the feeling I might not wake up in the morning. My chest would feel very tight and hard to breath. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS TO ANYONE!!!! Valium works much better! | Now when I take it I dont go to bed until 3am. DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION IF YOU HAVE SEVERE SLEEPING PROBLEMS, SHORT FIX BUT MAKES SLEEPING HARDER. | F | 21 | 1 months | 1/7/2009 |