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 | insomnia | NONE | I took ambien for many years and it worked perfectly, just exactly as it should. I would get 8 hours of restful sleep, and wake up feeling great. Then about two years ago the doctors decided they would not prescribe it for me anymore. I haven't had a decent nights sleep since. | F | 60 | 8 years 10 mg | 8/14/2015 | 5 | Insomnia | Started taking after death of my father and had a 2 week old baby. I started having seizures due to stress of loss and lack of sleep. It was my saving grace. I was able to relax and sleep 8-9 hours with the best sleep of my life. I've gained weight due to extreme nighttime hunger which is a negative. | Unfortunately, I've been taking for 12 years and think I'm addicted. I'm working to get off the medication completely. | F | 44 | 10 days 10 MG | 9/4/2015 | 3 | To sleep | grogyin AM , memory not good , not sharp b awfuland alert. Forgetful | i recently , after all this time had a seiger on the morning bus. They said stress! Never haas anything like that before. And yes I have anxiety but never a seizure awful | F | 68 | 2 years 10mg | 9/17/2015 | 3 | chronic insomnia | hair changes/ hair loss, depression, memory loss, dependency, decreased muscle tone, slight weight gain/ water retention. | 29 yo female, taking ambien for chronic insomnia. My PCP claims that I experienced extreme side effects. I was not on any other Rx drugs other than ambien. Went through a variety of tests to determine there was no underlying reason for my hair loss and nothing out of the ordinary was detected. About 4 months after I stopped taking it, I lost weight and my hair started to grow back. I would NOT recommend this product. | F | 29 | 18 months 5-10mg 1X day | 10/9/2015 | 1 | insomnia | I was having suicidal tendencies, attempted 6 times in 2 years, cutting myself, and never recalling why I did it. I was in hospitals constantly because they thought I was mentally ill until a phsychiatrist told asked me if it only happened after I took Ambien and I realized it did! I stopped the medicine and have since stopped all of the other psych crap they had me on and I've been fine for almost 3 years! Never let your loved one take this,medicine! | F | 39 | 6 years 10mg | 10/21/2015 | 5 | chronic pain causing sleep deprivat | Ambien makes me sleepy and takes away a substantial amount of pain so that I can sleep, at least more than half of the night. | This medicine has changed the quality of my life. Before using it, after a car accident, I was in too much pain to sleep. Opioids interrupt sleep patterns and do not take away enough pain. Ambien takes some of the pain away, as well as making me sleepy. Ambien's effects seem to be a little like the effects of alcohol, such as lowered inhibitions. It takes a couple of years to adjust to that. Reading another user's review here helps to confirm that it does that. If a person is psychotic then their psychosis will increase. If a person is normal and happy, they get happier. No financial decisions should be made while in the adjustment phase of taking Ambien. I hope that the pharmaceutical companies will do further research on Ambien's ability to alleviate pain. | F | 53 | 5 years 10 mg 1X day | 10/30/2015 | 2 | Insomnia | Ambien certainly puts you to sleep. In my case, it gave me a terrible hangover. I seem to be in a minority of people that get this side effect. It makes me really cloudy and even depressed. I feel as if it works on the same pathway that gives you your liveliness, by dampening it. I also found that I built a psychological dependency on it. I would get some anxiety about not going to sleep without taking it. All in all, if you can avoid taking one of these classes of drugs, I'd highly recommend doing so. | M | 31 | 5 mg 1X day | 11/2/2015 | 2 | to stay asleep through the night . | My first night trying it woke up twice with nightmares. It's now 5am and I'm wide awake. | I've worked graveyard shift for 18 yrs. I was having difficulty staying a sleep and feeling rested when I woke up. Tonight was my first time trying the sleep med . I'm taking 5mg. Woke up twice from nightmares. And now I'm up at 5am wide awake. Was hoping this medicine would help me stay asleep and feel rest. Going to try it for a few more days but if the results are the same not going to continue taking. | F | 52 | 1 days 5mg | 11/17/2015 | 5 | Sleep problems due to nerve pain | None | Works great. Fall asleep within 10 minutes. No problems the next day. Cannot say the same for Linsey's. | F | 55 | 5 years 10 | 11/22/2015 | 5 | Severe pain wakes me up at night | None | We just started with a brand new PA fresh out of school. She said she would not do an RX for over 5mg and 30 days at my age (65). Quality of life is more important to me and has been to my other Dr's in other states. (We worked for the government). I have MS, Osteoporosis, Arthritis mid back, lower back, and spinal injuries, problems, from C-5 down. I have excruciating pain, and even break thru Ambien 10mg, but it is what it is. I've never had any of my more experienced Dr's say anything about my dose. They know what I'm going thru. At least I've been getting five hours of much needed sleep since starting this med. Any contraindication, that says its so dangerous? I've used it without any problems for a few years. Occasionally skipping it if I'm lucky. Thanks | 1 years 10 | 12/22/2015 | 2 | taking Ambien 5 milligrams | Still waking up periodically during the night when I do wake up seem to have worse anxiety that I've ever had like a panicky feeling nervous not sure not sure if it's a side effect from this medication not sure fit a side effects on this medication | F | 53 | 8 days 5 milligra | 1/3/2016 | 2 | taking Ambien 5 milligrams | Still waking up periodically during the night when I do wake up seem to have worse anxiety that I've ever had like a panicky feeling nervous not sure not sure if it's a side effect from this medication not sure fit a side effects on this medication | F | 53 | 8 days 5 milligra | 1/3/2016 | 1 | KILLED sister due to sleep driving | Cooking, making phone calls, online purchases, etc...with no memory of the event. Orders would arrive at her door and people would tell her about conversations they had with her. She was addressing these issues but sadly it ended with sleep driving on a familiar highway traveling North in the South bound lane hitting a car head on. Sleep driving is one of the side effects which is insane, I don't even take it but fear for my life now because of the drivers who do. I would bet the young woman my sister hit that is now disabled for life would agree this should be taken off the market. | F | 26 | 1 years | 1/25/2016 | 5 | insomnia | If taking more than 5 mg a headache the next day is the result. Some days a little dull feeling, but 100mg caffeine cancels that out beautifully.Have to stop some days to increase the number of sleeping hours, use .75 mg of lexotan 4 days and all is okay.Always feel that I have good memory. No alcohol use. Use generic Zolpidem white tablet fabricated in Danemark, good results. | If used Zolpidem(ambien) with care and intelligence results are splendid to alter psychophysiological insomnia. God send! | M | 70 | 8 years 5mg max. 1X day | 2/19/2016 | 2 | Insomnia | Temporary amnesia | I was on ambien for quite a while. At first it helped, but unfortunately I grew a tolerance to it and it stopped working altogether. Had to stop taking it because it was just a waste. | F | 39 | 6 years 10mg | 3/8/2016 | 4 | Insomnia | Tired, out of it, for a while the next day. But works! | First 2 years, took 1, broke in half and I was out for about 4 hours. As soon as it wore off, I woke up. I fell back to sleep pretty fast, but remembered waking up every time. Then for a year and a half I took half and waited 30-45 min.before other half. Worked fine.past 6 months im having to take another half and some times whole(2 total). Still works but very groggy the next day. Now im going back to taking 2 half pills together like when I first started. This time i'm sleep thru the night. Sooo. MY advise is to swich it up to what works for you and be ready to switch it again as needed. | M | 40 | 4 years 10 mg | 3/14/2016 | 5 | insomnia | I take ambien when I get into bed. Just before going to sleep. It has helped me fall asleep and stay asleep with no noted side effects. | F | 60 | 10 years 5mg | 3/22/2016 | 3 | Insomnia | If you start having painful jaw symptoms it could be your ambien. I had severe tmj until I got off the ambien. It made me clench my teeth together so strongly that some of my molars cracked. Lots of times I would get really bad headaches. | No more ambien. No more tmj. | F | 42 | 5 years 10 mg | 4/8/2016 | 5 | Insomnia | I was well rested & and would wake up happy and ready to exercise , now that I'm not on it , my sleep is not so great , hard time waking up & falling asleep . I miss it , but I won't take while my baby is little . I need to get up through the night. | Love it | F | 30 | 6 months | 4/26/2016 | 1 | sleep med | Only taken about 5mg before bed and wake up dizzy as hell.Really spinning for a good part of the day. Now my vision seems affected with blurriness I never had. | Don't recommend | M | 10 weeks | 7/27/2016 |