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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Insomnia | None until the last year, during which I've had almost nightly anxiety dreams (could be my life and not the Ambien). Very recently, I've had dizziness during the night if I turn over in bed, turn my head or get up. Again, this may not be the Ambien but something else. The dizziness stops after I've been up about fifteen minutes in the morning. | When I first started taking Ambien, it was a miracle! I took 5 mg at bedtime, fell asleep within 30 minutes, and woke up refreshed, just like the commercial says! After years of use, I typically have to take 10 mg to get to sleep. I still fall asleep quickly, but wake up all night. It takes me awhile to wake up in the morning. However, I haven't found anything else that works at all. | F | 54 | 6 years | 6/13/2005 | 1 | Insomnia | Extremely suicidal thoughts and feelings. | This is definitely the scariest medication I have ever taken. My doctor prescribed it for insomnia in around 1995. I took it once a month, and it definitely put me out of commission. I had to be already in my bed when taking it, because within 15 minutes, it was impossible to walk. I took it sporadically over the next five years, as needed. After moving and getting a new GP, the guy led me to believe that it was OK to use long-term and prescribed it to me like candy. I think he gave me a prescription for 1/day for 30 days and 5 refills. In reality, I didn't take it that much. I took it probably every other day, at one point, for three or four months. I did start taking it more often, but found it was very addictive. Also, I began to feel extremely restive and nervous. Then it was hard for me to be around people, I was so anxious. I'd never felt anything like that before. Soon I found I was having lots of suicidal thoughts and feelings and even planning how I might do myself in. My wife started to get really freaked out, and we wondered if it was Ambien. I flushed what I had left down the toilet, and immediately the suicidal stuff subsided and I began to feel like a normal and fairly happy human being again. I flushed what I had down the toilet (that was in 2001). Just recently, I second-guessed myself and wondered if it really was the Ambien. I haven't had it since 2001 until this year (2005). I took two or three spaced several days apart (my doc again gave me the 5-mo. refill :) ) and began again to have the nervous and depressed feelings I had experienced before. The doctor is freaked out about me having more than a half of a Percocet for my chronic back pain, but he prescribes this stuff like it's a panacea or something. Please don't take this stuff. I'd rather not sleep than go through this again. What actually prompted me to write this, though, was a neighbor. Three days ago I saw a life flight helicopter fly about 50 feet above my house and land near his. He had just blown his brains out. Interestingly, he had also been taking quite a bit of Ambien at the time. | M | 39 | 10 years | 6/13/2005 | 4 | can't sleep at night | extreme drowsiness high like feeling severe amnesia in some cases | Please get to sleep right after taking this. This drug will make you REALLY loopey as if you were high . It will cause extreme memory loss sometimes. It does lose its effectiveness over time. First time I took it I thought I saw little green men running around and thought people were in my house spying on me. Just be careful. It really works if you want to just get agood nights sleep. email me [email protected] if you have any questions. I know an online pharmacy with the best prices on ambien if you are interested. | F | 32 | 3 months | 6/16/2005 | 5 | trouble falling/staying asleep | If you don't take it and go to bed and stay there, you might do things you don't remember. Use it correctly and you get fairly good sleep. | Use it as directed, stay in bed, turn off tv. | F | 48 | 5 years | 6/17/2005 | 3 | sleep problems | None | M | 28 | 1 days | 6/19/2005 | 4 | Insomnia | Double vision sometimes, occasionally not making it to bed before falling asleep. I don't remember saying or doing things about 1/2 an hour before actually falling asleep. | I only seem to have double vision when watching TV or looking at lights. Overall I still like it a lot. I have only been able to sleep 2 hours at a time for the last 5 years, but 10 mg of Ambien gives me 7 solid hours, and I pop awake in the morning all rested! I'm careful to use it only 2 or 3 times a week, but that's 2 or 3 more nights of sleep than I was getting. | F | 30 | 3 months | 6/22/2005 | 5 | fun..iguess. | well..i took this with a soma..of which my friend gave me..and we went to a coffee shop. Immediately i started feeling so weird..like my life was a movie that i wasnt in..like i was watching everything go on but it wasnt real. My boyfriend told me i was being mean..but i have no memory of that. I was Hallucinating..BAD. I almost wrecked..alot..and..it made me see little midget like soilders running across the road. The road was also swiving and coming at me it seemed. The next day..i had to basically sit on my bed and try and remember what happened the night before and if it had really happened or not. Im serious..this drug freaked me out. | i dont think i will be taking it again..even though i slept good.. | F | 16 | 1 days | 6/23/2005 | 1 | insomnia due to back pain | I submitted my very negative rating on 7-18-05 and someone has removed it. It is very curious that on this website all of the favorable ratings are at the top and the most dissatisfied opinions are at the very bottom. How can you come up with an average satisfaction rating if you are removing the dissatisfied opinions from your website. This is very disturbing. I believe that Ambien is a very, very dangerous drug and I would like to know who is running this website. I feel that this drug almost killed me and I wanted to warn people. I am not some nut throwing around unsubstantiated bits of info. Why is my rating deleted and how many more have been deleted? | F | 8 months | 7/19/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | feeling completely out of it | It was a Godsend. | F | 22 | 3 months | 7/30/2005 | 4 | Insomnia | Dizziness, hallucinations, strange behavior, and hunger | I am a shift rotator and use this drug to adapt to a new shift. It works better on an empty stomach. It should be taken while still in bed. I have stayed up instead of going right to bed and the following happened to me: I talked to a light switch for a while, trees grew in my living room, I called friends on the phone and dazzled them with nonsensical sentences, I ate 2 lbs. of turkey breast, I stared at a wall in my laundry room for god knows how long and talked to birds and elves, my head felt like an anvil, and i didnt remember I did all this crap untill certain things jogged my memory DAYS later. I am also a police officer and have seen this used as date rape. I have seen a woman who was on ambien drive a car over a construction worker, killing him, and had no idea what she had done until the next day. IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU TO! When taken properly this medication was a GOD SEND. I had GREAT sleep and woke up with no problems the next day feeling well rested. | M | 32 | 1 months | 7/30/2005 | 1 | arthritis and | suicidal thoughts, inability to think clearly | At first this medication worked great- I took it for months every night without problems (except the amnesia if I didn't get to bed right away). After about 3 months, my life changed dramatically- my mood became very somber, I was tearfull all the time and began to think about suicide. I was groggy all day and couldn't concentrate or think clearly. One day I just had this idea that it could be the ambien, and as soon as I stopped taking it my suicidal thoughts went away. I was shocked but comforted to see other posts about this reaction. The tricky part about this effect is that it doesn't occur immediately, so it may be hard to figure out the cause is the ambien. I haven't told anyone in my life about these experiences, but I thought it was really important to get this out to others who might be in a similar situation. | F | 30 | 3 months | 8/7/2005 | 1 | Back pain, frequent urination | Amnesia, hallucinations, numbness & tingling in extremities, headaches, insomnia,panic attacks, blackouts, low oxygen intake contributing to low blood pressure contributing to blackouts, waking after a blackout not knowing what happened, grogginess the next day | Short term use 7-10 days may be okay but long term use I believe is extremely dangerous and maybe deadly. The link just hasn't been made yet. It will because too many people are having serious side effects from the long term usage of Ambien, Use Caution. Also, no problem stopping. | F | 35 | 9 months | 8/8/2005 | 4 | Fibromyalgia/ Insomnia | total loss of memory when on the drug | I take ambien almost every night becuase I often have chronic pain and it makes it difficult to sleep. I have read many comments about people stating that they have had hallucinations etc and yes this is true if you take it when youre not in bed!! Its not meant to be taken to stay awake on. | F | 25 | 1 years | 8/21/2005 | 5 | insomnia | a little | A miracle drug for me. I take it when I know I may have trouble sleeping through the night. Works 90% of the time without grogginess the next day. | F | 44 | 1 years | 8/22/2005 | 3 | Insomnia | If staying up: TOTAL amnesia. While under it's effect (even on ~15mg) my short term memory is so severely affected I can't function coherently or rationally. Also some strange but fun mental imagery (*NOT* the same as hallucinations). If sleeping: Very, very strange dreams, otherwise nothing. | The guy who said it was a dangerous drug and should be taken off the market wasn't too far off. It's great at what it does; I haven't found a better hypnotic; but if you resist sleep or are kept up for some reason, things can get very, very strange or in some cases, dangerous... and worst of all you won't remember a thing. Be careful with this drug. | M | 16 | 1 months | 8/22/2005 | 5 | depression/stress-induced insomnia | I suffered from absolutely no harmful side effects; the | Doctors expect their patients to follow directions. Ambien is meant to help you get back on track. That's why its suggested dosage period is only 7-10 days. You take it at the same time every night and establish a good sleep cycle. Then save the rest for the really bad nights. Everyone's body is different, so some people's bodies will react negatively, others positively. So some may find physical/psychological dependence, others may not. Take it as directed, not to stay awake through. I took this years ago (on and off for a few weeks at a time, only a couple nights a week), and the times my body did fight the sleep, the most I got out of it were hilarious e-mails to my best friends and making real sure that my mom noticed how pretty the stairs were. Like with any drug, just be smart about it. Ambien helped me get back on track, and I had no problems | F | 22 | | 8/23/2005 | 4 | insomnia | drugged behavior, incoherant. Take occasionally. Life long sleep problems. Ambien worked great. | good sleep, clear head and energetic in morning. Follow the advice here, take 1/2 dosage and immediately go to bed. Best if spouse home. | M | 41 | 2 months | 8/23/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | I've been taking Ambien for almost four weeks, every night; starting with 10mg. After one week, moved to 15mg (a night). Twice I've taken 20mg. It generally only creates a sleepy-dreamy euphoric state until I fall asleep, which generally takes about two hours after taking one (and a half) pills. On one occasion, I began to hallucinate and thought a house plant was talking to me and begging me to water/prune it. At least...I think it was a hallucination! | For about two weeks, my left hand (middle, ring, and pinky fingers) have been almost totally numb and tingly. After reading a similar statement on this page, I can only assume it is from the drug. | M | 31 | 25 days | 8/24/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | Memory loss (not only after taking the medication, but also during daily activities), built up tolerance after 6 months, inability to achieve orgasm, psychological addiction to drug, weight gain | Trying again (don't use quotation marks in post!) Even though I put a rating of 5, I actually rate this a 3. I don't think people should have to read through 100 5s before being able to read a lower rating. They should be listed as-posted. My doctor prescribed Ambien because I would go to bed and not be able to stop my mind from racing. I started with 5mg/night. Positive- it knocked me out within 20-30 minutes. I slept better than I ever have/no grogginess, even with an avg. of only 6 hours sleep/night. Negative- I would do things that I didn't remember the next day. Nothing too extreme, but I would have conversations with my husband that I couldn't remember, eat uncontrollably, trip over furniture, etc. I learned to go to bed immediately after taking - | F | 33 | 6 months | 8/26/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | Memory loss (not only after taking the medication, but also during daily activities), built up tolerance after 6 months, inability to achieve orgasm, psychological addiction to drug, weight gain | Even though I put a rating of | F | 33 | 6 months | 8/26/2005 |