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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Difficulty staying asleep | 3D VISION. does anybody else experience this or only me? PLease tell me there are more of you out there, | M | 42 | 1 years 10MG 1X day | 5/30/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Not remembering anything I had done after taking it. Drove twice after taking it and "going to bed." God only knows what else I've done while on it. | Do not take this medicine. You will become addicted. | F | 26 | 4 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/3/2012 | 3 | Sleeping disorder | Some mild hallucination | M | 18 | 4 days 10 MG | 6/6/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Helped with sleeping, but caused major depression, fuzzy thoughts, inability to concentrate, suicidal thoughts, self injury | I had been having trouble sleeping for about a year. Drs found I had borderline apnea, not bad enough to get a cpap or do anything else. Dr prescribed ambien. Worked great for about a week, then the side effects started in. I had had chronic depression as a teenager, this was worse. I started planning my suicide, and started cutting myself, which I had not done in 20 years. I drove away my wife and several friends, and ruined my job by not doing pretty much anything useful for a month. Fortunately a friend with her own history of depression recognized what was going on, helped me to see it and got me off the meds. A few days later I was mostly back to normal, and set about repairing the relationships I damaged. Unfortunately it was too late to fix my job and I ended up being let go. I don't doubt that that friend saved my life. I was progressing so rapidly through the depression that I expect I would have taken my own life within the next few weeks. | M | 37 | 6 weeks 1X day | 6/6/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | I took this a few years ago and did not follow the warnings and had all the side effect that have been mentioned. Now I follow them exactly as prescribed and immediately get into bed. I may watch TV for 20 mins or so but them its off to sleep I go. My sleep has been fantastic !!! I have always had trouble sleeping waking every 90 mins or so, which lad to feeling very tired and out of sorts. Now I wake refreshed and ready to tackle the day! | Ambien is not right for every one, but if the doctor gives it to you, follow his/her guidance. Never take more than prescribed or drink alcohol with it. As soon as you take it go right to bed and relax and let the meds work. If you have a spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend or partner and tell them about the possible side effects so he/she can be there to support you! | F | 49 | 6 weeks 12.5 1X day | 6/12/2012 | 5 | Sleep aid | None | Has helped me sleep immensely. I have cardiac PVCs/PACs and Ambien helps me get to sleep. | M | 42 | 1.6 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/12/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | Having conversations with my husband that I have no memory of...but otherwise, this medicine has been a blessing as I have had life long insomnia. I take it only as prescribed and I do not leave my bed after taking it. | F | 39 | 3 years 10 MG | 6/13/2012 | 4 | Chronic insomnia | Sometimes a little bit groggy in the morning, or some light headaches, but usually I experience no side effects at all. | This drug has been a life-saver to me in many respects. My quality of life was really going downhill after more than a year of getting only 2-4 hours of sleep per night. My doctor prescribed Ambien, and my insomnia went away with the first pill. Took 5 mg/night for a few months, then cut back to 2.5, which I've been taking ever since. I only take 5 mg now if I'm having a really rough time falling asleep. The only downside to the drug (that others have talked about extensively), is that it's hard to get off it. I've been on it for five years, and just about every time I try to stop taking it, I have a rough night or two and end up getting right back on it. For me, it's mostly a psychological addiction. | M | 33 | 5 years 2.5 - 5 mg 1X day | 6/14/2012 | 1 | My mom couldnt sleep | falling, hallucinations, depression, screaming at night, hands shaking and eventually death. | Ambien killed my mom | F | 69 | 12 months 5 1X day | 6/16/2012 | 1 | To help sleep after surgery | Hallucinations, confusion | My mother was given Ambien in the hospital after hip surgery after falling in rehab after knee surgery. She is totally not here ....talking to walls, babbling, seeing things, talking to people not there, thinking she is standing and falling while laying in bed....and what is more is that she hasnt been able to sleep now for three days. I demanded to see all the meds she had been given and then the hospitalization doctor, case woker and nurse were all surprised to see she had been given Ambien! Surprised???? She has been out of it for two days now! This drug is bad! She has never had dementia or anything like this until she has had these surgeries and been put on all of these medications. Please watch for these side effects. | F | 82 | 2 days 1X day | 6/18/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | Blackouts | If taken correctly you will should go to bed and go to sleep. I know that if I take it and do not go to bed right away then after a certain point I will not remember anything. I have never taken it and drove. Once I am in bed I am in bed. If I drink before I take it then my black out periods are more frequent. But you just have to know this is the way it works. Other than staying up when I know I shouldnt and maybe not remembering everything from the night before is the only thing that has happened. But I know this is because of the ambien. Its something I accept. I do not recommend drinking with it though. You do much more crazy stuff. I am sure my partner enjoys the crazy sex he gets from time to time off of it I just wish I could remember some of it. But sometimes I am glad I can't. | F | 42 | 5 years 10mg 1X day | 6/21/2012 | 1 | to sleep | can't sleep, keeps me up for 24 plus hours. I need to sleep , not stay awake. This is my secound drug for sleeping and nothing is working. | F | 45 | 3 days 5mg 1X day | 7/2/2012 | 1 | post surgery sleep aid | depression, memory loss, erratic behavior, anxiety, fatigue, OCD behavior, apathy, irritability, paranoia | Anyone taking this should start tapering off now. I went cold turkey, a complete nightmare. 2 years of destroying everything I worked hard for!!! | M | 36 | 2 years 10 mg 1X day | 7/27/2012 | 1 | To fall asleep | Kept me up all night. | M | 1 days | 8/18/2012 | 1 | sleep disorder | this drug should be taken off the market. it is very dangerous. my x-husband commited suicide while taking this drug. his doctore called in 60 pills and between tuesday and friday he had take 19 because he couldnt go to sleep. people forget how many they take because of all the side effects. take this drug off the market. | M | 53 | 5 years 30 1X day | 8/26/2012 | 1 | for sleep | Couldn't sleep with out it ,doing things i didn't remember went 10 days with out sleep and a year later am bearly feeling a lil better .started sleeping on my own | F | 33 | 4 years 10 | 8/31/2012 | 5 | Insomnia | Hunger in the middle of the night (not sleep-eating, I knew what I was doing) and hallucinations if I didn't go to bed right away | I was having a pretty bad bout of insomnia and finally decided I needed to see the doctor about it. When I heard he was giving me Ambien, I freaked out. I had heard many scary things about it from other users. I was terrified to take it, but I figured not sleeping was worse, so I tried it. I slept so well that night. I didn't even remember drifting off. I felt so rested. I would notice that if I took it and stayed up doing anything, like reading, I would eventually start seeing things. One night the lights in my house looked like they were moving around and floating through the room, like orbs. It never scared me, though, because I knew it was the Ambien doing it and I was the one stupid enough to stay up after taking it when the label said to take it right when going to sleep. I also noticed that if I happened to wake up some nights, I'd get intense urges to eat anything crunchy, like cereals. But the sleep I got was so good. Eventually, the 10 MG I was taking started to poop out on me around the three month mark. My doctor did not want to increase my dosage any higher, so he just discontinued the Ambien altogether and put me on Lunesta, which was way more expensive. I was worried about stopping the Ambien cold turkey after three months and he said it shouldn't be a problem. I have been off the Ambien for going on three days now, and I have not experienced anything unpleasant. | M | 27 | 3 months 10 MG 1X day | 9/13/2012 | 4 | Insomnia | Severe lack of inhibition-out of character behaviour. Occasional hallucinations. Headaches and chronic memory loss and diminished cognitive functioning during the day. | I wish I had never taken this drug. Yes it was very effective for my insomnia. But now I have very bad anterograde amnesia. When I was on ambien I couldn't remember things I"d done the night before after taking it and I would do crazy things after taking it too. But this problem is far beyond that. I have SEVERE SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS. I can't form new memories and I have trouble recalling information that I *used* to know. Please let me know if you have also experienced this and whether the problem goes away. I am desperate for more information. | F | 4 years 10mg 1X day | 9/21/2012 | 5 | no rem sleep. rare sleep | Had cereal once that I didn't remember fixing myself but also hadn't eaten supper. This drug is the reason I actually sleep. I feel rested and happy. | F | 48 | 1 years 10 | 9/27/2012 | 1 | Lack of sleep | Memory loss, confusion, hallucinations, headache. Thought I was asleep, actually made multiple phone calls and ended up driving on freeway. Remember bits a pieces of night such as the feeling as though I wasn't behind wheel of my car but knew I was on the freeway. White lines were lifting up and going multiple directions, seeing double, vivid colors, dog moving on my ph picture and only GOD knows what else. I cry now every time I think about danger I put myself and others in. So now I have anxiety and panic when I sleep or take meds- which my doc gv me clonazepam- on Day 2. Ambien should be removed off market and def not prescribed to anyone! | F | 28 | 1 days 10mg | 10/7/2012 |