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| 3 | insomnia | well... it works in a way. First it works like viagra.... | "honie... , I'll make it quick"... which ends up being a lie, (2nd side effect). But finally I fall asleep exhausted and happy... so.. alls well that ends well... even my wife sleeps better. | M | 42 | 5 days | 5/2/2007 | 3 | insomnia | A total truth serum. many things i did and behaviours got me into trouble. There are some things that belong in your head and they should not come out. this drug lets them escape and i was arrested. I have no control over dosage after i take 10 or 20 mg. I can not take it. I have had 2 bad reactions in 3 years | it works but if you have any bad thoughts ever you can not take this TRUTH DRUG | M | 49 | 3 years | 7/7/2007 | 3 | sleep problems | None | M | 28 | 1 days | 6/19/2005 | 3 | Trouble sleeping | I have had no side effects. I do not know what everyone is talking about. I would enjoy some side effects. I have swithced over to Lunesta and I have actually started having dreams again. I can't recall having a dream in a long time. | I would say that Ambien works but, do not seem very potent. I have taken 10mg each night for two years. If I do not take it one night I cannot fall asleep; which is why I started it in the first place. I still wake up maybe once but do fall back asleep. It seems to wear off after about 5 hours. Once I get past that point I might as well get up to start the day. | M | 36 | 2 years | 10/11/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | Took 5-10 mg every night or every other night for about 6 months I started getting very mentally weak and anxious the next day feeling like I was in a haze.I stopped about a week ago after getting some xanax from my mom to use until I got weaned from it. Ambien is for very short time use only.It is a good but nasty drug.It does have side effects.I feel MUCH better now,more functional during the day and the anxiety has subsided. I dont want any more of it.use with caution,and watch for mental confusion,anxiety and depression-OH yes depression too-I had some of that and I know it was from the ambien because I never had it before.USE WITH CAUTION only for a short time or every third or forth night if only really needed. | M | 51 | | 10/25/2008 | 3 | difficult falling to sleep | May have developed tolerance. Cannot sleep at all unless I take 10mg | M | 56 | 2 years | 12/19/2004 | 3 | Sleep Deprevation | Mild hallucinations, nothing else. | About 30 minutes into this while laying in bed I start noticing some odd cloud like formations floating around my room and they seem to be trying to communicate with me. I finally fell asleep after 1 hour and slept 4 hours straight but woke up feeling wide awake and had trouble getting back to sleep. Gonna try 5mg tonight before bed and if I wake up will take another 5mg. Don't take more than 10mg a day so this may solve problem. sorry to post so soon after one night but don't think your going crazy if you see things for awhile in bed ;) | M | 36 | 1 days | 4/9/2004 | 3 | Help with Sleep | I can't believe all the coments on this Drug. I think it's very weak and does very little for me. I wish it was as strong acting for my sleep problem as it seems to be for other people that posted on this board. As for memory loss. None what so ever. I could take Ambiem in the middle of the day and complete a full days work. I guess everyone reacts differently | M | 38 | 1 days | 1/13/2005 | 3 | trouble falling asleep | In low doses, it became usless after taking it long term. In high doses, it causes complete and total zombieism. You will be in a trance and awake and active in the wee hours in the midnight and morning stumbling around and breaking things, and wake up next morning and not remember a thing. It can be severly dangerous if you don't have someone to babysit you during these occurences. | It works, but not by making you tired, but by hypnotising you and putting you to sleep. Total psychodelic drug. Stronger in high doses then any drug out there. Very dangerous. | M | 29 | 3 years | 5/28/2007 | 3 | cant sleep more than 4 hours | none | i feel asleep with in a half hour but still woke up about 4 hours later, but eventually got back to sleep, i feel better already | M | 26 | 1 days | 1/20/2005 | 3 | never | I read all of your observations. Escecially about amnesia and memeory loss. My question is when you experienced the things that you did, did you have any thoughts about doing them when not under the influence of the drug? For instance something said or done to a spouse or a friend that you would not have said or done when in a cohera\ent state of mind> | I have a family member that is taking the drug, and experiencing these symptoms. I just want to know more about you experiences | M | 33 | 0 days | 5/25/2007 | 3 | insomnia | Mental fog until noon the following day, night terrors when trying to discontinue, occasional chest pain, almost delusional feeling for 15 mins after taking | Definitely puts me to sleep and keeps me there. Very sobering withdrawal effects. Feels excellent until withdrawals around 5pm next day. Good to get through a week of imsomnia, but not a longterm solution at all. | M | 26 | 6 months | 10/30/2008 | 3 | Stress, anxiety | Eating, and eating weird stuff. Did a litte deviant sexual stuff like hooking with some women that normally I would avoid like the plague. | One morning I got up and realized I had taken some ham, wrapped it around a piece of string cheese and fried it and ate it in the middle of the night. Definate amnesia episodes. I started taking walks with my ipod and was fond of dancing by myself at the intersection of major roads. Keep in mind I am a white, 43 year old dude who has no business dancing anywhere. I got to the point where I was looking forward to taking this stuff every night. Now I am 6 days into successfully not taking it. My goal is 10 days. Then maybe I can go another 10, and then get totally off this stuff. | M | 43 | 11 months | 10/30/2008 | 3 | Falling Asleep | I have 12.5mg cr but found it was too powerful for me. So I cut it in half. I don't take regularly--maybe once or twice weekly. Last night I woke up with a seizure type feeling over my entire body. I think the last time I took it was 2-3 nights ago. One time I took an entire 12.5 tablet instead of the 1/2, and made love to my wife. The next day I could only vaguely remember it and had to ask my wife to confirm that we actually did make love. | I suggest you use great caution in using this medication. Don't make a habit of it. It is very effective in getting me to sleep. | M | 47 | 180 days | 10/31/2007 | 3 | insomnia | Do not take this with alcohol. I woke up gasping for breath. I am in Mensa and at one point had trouble remembering how to spell: buy. Also, strange dreams. I would be concerned about the long term effects of such a drug; considering such use as reckless and risky. | M | 41 | 30 days | 11/30/2007 | 3 | Sleep aid | Tiredness the next day | Ambien works very well as a sleep aid, however, I felt tired the next day. I would probably take it again, but I don't like being tired during the day..it defeats the whole point of using a sleep aid to get a good night's sleep. | M | 40 | 60 days | 1/27/2008 | 3 | insomnia | severe headaches in the morning, dependence, rebound insomnia, suicidal ideations. | this drug became less and less effective, never sleeping more than 6 hours a night and often taking 1-2 hours to fall asleep. Feelings of depression and hopelessness increased. When not taking ambien had vivid dreams through out the night. | M | 54 | 14 months | 4/12/2008 | 3 | Chronic insomnia, 60 years | Have amnesia about what I do at night after I take it. So far I have not left the house or tried to drive the car but I do see things that I have done after I got up and I have no recollection of having done them. | Not too bad, all things considered. I can usually sleep with it but I'm usually always up during the night going into the hot tub, getting something to eat, or the like. I wish I didn't have to take it especially with the amnesia. I try each night to sleep without one but never make it. You do get more used to it and have to take more of it than is prescribed. I tried Lunesta and that wasn't bad but not as effective. I tried Rozerem and that was horrible. It kept me awake all night like it was a benzedrene. Have tried all the others: Melatonin, Valerian Root and two or three more that I can't remember now. Have avoided all the things that are supposed to cause it. Have done all the things that are supposed to help you sleep. Have read all the books & techniques. So, like it or not, I'll have to try to keep using it until something better comes along or my condition improves for some reas15on. Thanks for sites like this where we can help each other. | M | 72 | 15 years | 4/22/2008 | 3 | insomnia | headache | Ambien worked at putting me to sleep, but I couldn't stay asleep. I would wake up after about 3 hrs and stay up for 30 minutes to 1 hour after waking. I eventually became dependent because I could not sleep without a pill. I do not recommend because it didn't work at keeping me asleep, and I feel the risk of dependency is too high. Look into the Controlled Release version. | M | 27 | 2 months | 3/20/2008 | 3 | depression, anxiety, insomnia | about an hour after taking, felt ridiculously drunk, wandered around my room and hallways for a while, mezmerized by certain textures and colors. loss of sense of balance or any desire to be balanced | it doesnt really work for me, even if i am in bed when it starts to hit me, 3/10 times i get up and stumble around instead of fall asleep | M | 18 | 10 months | 3/7/2008 | 3 | insomnia | Memory loss, confusion, inability to make decisions, anxiety syndrome, and addiction. | I used Ambien CR for two months, everynight. I slept like a baby until I developed a tolerance to it. In the daytime I would feel very muddle-headed, not hung over, but feeling like I'd had a mild stroke. I had definite memory loss, and difficulty with concentration. After two months I developed an actual physical addiction to it. I would experience severe (and I mean severe) anxiety, elevated heart rate and b/p. Eventually I got off it using the anitidepressant Remeron. Remeron worked like a charm at first, but eventually that too stopped working. The best cure for insomnia I have ever used has been hemp. It's been used for thousands of years for depression and insomnia. Although it is unhealty to smoke any substance, pot (in my experience) been the most effective treatment for chronic insomnia. It never stops working. | M | 52 | 2 months | 3/25/2008 | 3 | insomnia | Taking Ambien CR. Memory loss. Irritable, very. Have been taking since Sept '06. Not working well now. For the last several months, I cannot fall asleep for a couple hours after taking pill. Switched last night to Lunesta 2mg. Not happy right now, didn't sleep but a couple hours last night, and my leftover Amb CR is staring me in the face, "TAKE ME!!" | If you mix regular Ambien with Tamazapam(a good size dose), you'll sleep well. Ambien puts you to sleep, Tam. will keep you asleep. But you're not going to get doctor to prescribe both. I had both for a month or so. It was good sleep, druggy feeling in the morning though, imagine that!! | M | 34 | 2 years | 4/24/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | Seizures | Don't start this medication if you haven't already. If you have, don't stop cold turkey. Taper off the medicine slowly. The amnesia is horrible. I do not remember last month at all. The first eighteen months, I remember, but I grew tolerant. I started taking two then later three pills. Then that stopped helping. Four pills every night screwed me up. | M | 35 | 2 years | 8/9/2008 | 3 | Trouble sleeping | Addiction | Well, they work, they put you to sleep. But they become addictive. Mostly they can not keep people asleep, they just help people start sleep initially. Luckily I was able to kick they cold turkey. I much better alternative is the Unisom sleep tabs, they work well and are not narcotic. | M | 30 | 6 months | 7/17/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | Disorientation-on more than one occasion: Walking into wall, unable to find doors, urinating not in the bathroom. | These pills will work with side effects. If you have not tried them yet, DO NOT TAKE THEM! | M | 47 | 3 years | 7/9/2008 | 3 | insomnia caused by lexapro | craving sugar and cigarettes after taking it; if taken too often, daytime anxiety/depression | Just a very, very strange drug. Deceptively powerful. The bad for me does not outweigh the good...yet. For falling asleep, nothing is better. However, it is strangely addictive and psychological dependence develops in a matter of days. If you're going to use it, use it very sparingly. If you have trouble falling asleep every night, try alternating it with something else. You do NOT want to get hooked on this drug. It is quite unlike anything I have ever used before. | M | 20 | 1 years | 4/10/2009 | 3 | Insomnia | Lightheadedness, slurred speach, memory loss. Groggy and headaches the next day. | It works, but it hits hard and hits quickly. I now only take it when i am ready for bed and under the covers. Have been found outside in my garden at 2am, have baked and left the kitchen a mess, been used sexually by my wife and not remembered any of it. I only take it once every 3 weeks or so, and that is more for the high than for helping me sleep. I welcome all stories and comments via e-mail. | M | 41 | 3 years | 9/1/2008 | 3 | Problems Sleeping | I tend to feel groggy and have difficulty waking up quickly. | I do think this drug is safe, as long as you do not need to get up quickly and are not woken up suddenly... it is regularly used by leaders and congressmen... ABC has a report on this here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Politics/story?id=4919842 | M | 65 | 1 years | 8/26/2008 | 3 | Insomnia--waking up at night | Initially, dizziness next morning. That went away. Lately (2 yrs now) I am getting severe headaches and blurred vision in left eye and on left side of head near my temples & ear lobe. Had an MRI and 2 opthamologists check me and they do not find anything other than dry eye as a possible cause. I wonder if the Ambien CR is causing them. I have not experienced the other effects some people claim (killing your cat, wild sex, nightwalking) and think these people must have serious psychologically repressed issues that are unrelated. I learned you do NOT mix Ambien with alcohol unless you want to wind up dead, like several people I knew. | Taking 10 MG per night. | M | 55 | 2 years | 8/27/2008 | 3 | insomnia | Constipation, aggressiveness, lots of digestive problems | I think this generic ZOLPIDEM, helps with insomnia in the short term. Logn term is terrible and now I am coming off of it. I have not taken it for th epast four nights and sleep is returning however totally laced with weird dreams. I will never use this drug again. | M | 64 | 9 months | 1/22/2010 | 3 | Insomnia | Midnight snacking, tendency to walk around and do odd things. However, this is because I wasn't using the drug as directed, increased dosage, and have a history of drug abuse. I developed a rash the very first day taking the drug, saw a Dr. about it day 3 and was told this could be a very bad sign, so I was taken off of it. | This drug works well if you use it exactly as intended. Take it when you plan to go to bed, not when you plan to watch tv for an hour before going to bed, or surf the web, etc. You'll end up driving to the convenience store, etc. If you have a history of drug abuse, I'd recommend Lunesta instead as this drug has potential for abuse. | M | 31 | 3 days | 6/14/2009 | 3 | Insomnia | Depression, anxiety, headache, hangover, dizziness during the day, Amnesia up until mid-day (don't remember anything before lunch). | Seemed to work okay for a while, but found that I was taking more at night without remembering -- and discovering that while I should have 15 left in the bottle, there are only four...hmmm. I feel so bad today that I think I'm done with this stuff. | M | 46 | 2 years | 8/26/2009 | 3 | sleep problems | Memory loss while drug was in my system; unusual behaviors. | Ambien really helps me sleep, but what I do while I am 'sleeping' scares me and my family so much I am afraid to take it. For example, my daughter says I woke her at 3AM and told her the house was on fire -- it wasn't, but she says she couldn't get me to believe her and I insisted she call 911. Another night, I found myself driving my car 10 miles from home at about 2AM in my robe and slippers, with no memory of getting in the car or driving. Most frightening of all, my wife says I hit her in the face when she refused to get up and make me a grilled cheese sandwich in the middle of the night. This drug is frightening! | M | 68 | 3 months | 8/31/2009 | 3 | insomia | groggy | M | 81 | 5 years | 10/1/2009 | 3 | anxiety related insomnia | None. This stuff is the bomb. Knocks you out like a ball bat and you wake up fresh and chipper like a squirrel. | I gave it a 3 because while Zolpidem is a great sleep drug, it has a nasty hook if you don't watch. At least for me, it did, despite the fact that I was trying to be pretty careful with it, only taking it 4 nights a week and only taking 5mg (as opposed to 10) at least part of the time. It isn't a benzo, but acts on the same receptors and has a short half life. When I tried to go to 5 mg every other night, I started getting tight chest anxiety and shortness of breath. So, now my psych is tapering me over time. My opinion is that it is very good stuff for very short term insomnia, but you have to be careful with it. Real careful. It has withdrawals (at least for me) that were like the shorter half life benzos and that's nasty stuff. | M | 57 | 7 months | 11/17/2009 | 3 | Insomina | Had to stop and no longer taking Ambien. I was getting depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts during the last 3 months when I was taking Ambien during work nights. | I believe the side effects are still lingering on, the cycles of depression are less regular. | M | 45 | 5 years | 10/20/2009 | 3 | Insomnia | Hallucinations | It helps me sleep, but I got a little freaked out the other night. I went to pee and I thought the shampoo bottle was trying to say something to me. I need the sleep, but I don't know if it's worth trying to have conversations with household items. Anyone remember Jimmy the Flute from an old 70's kid's show? That's what it looked like. | M | 41 | 30 days | 10/23/2009 | 3 | Insomnia due to shift work | SLEEP. Hazziness, memory loss, dependency, anxiety, dry eyes, sweats, stomach disturbances, aggression, drug idealation, headache, jitterness, mania, occassional euphoria, and sleep: walking, eating, emailing, talking. | In the begining it works great putting you to sleep with the prescribed dosages. Soon after though, you'll start taking more and more for less sleep. As the dosages increase, the withdrawal symptoms increase. You can feel your body start to crave the medication like any other addictive drug. I am lucky enough to say that no one has died due to me taking ambien, but I have embarrassed myself and worried my mother. (apparently I call her and obsess over dishwashers). In my opinion, this drug should be used to induce sleep when all other remedies are exhausted. Too many provider automatically turn to this med. All medications have unwanted side effects, and we shouldn't place all the blame pharmacutical companies, but they need to do a better job announcing the downsides. It is their responsibility to inform the consumer and the FDA job to demand it. FYI - when ambien first came out it was prescribed for no more 3-7 days. That was until lunesta came out with clinical trials up to 6 months with no adverse effects. Millions were then spent on advertisement proving ambien safe for long term use but without long term studies. More research has to be done. I've only been on it for a month. I'm in the process of stopping cold turkey and it's going well. I feel sorry for those who's lives were damaged more severly. Good luck | M | 26 | 30 days | 1/18/2010 | 3 | Lack of Sleep | I started taking Ambien because I had a hard time falling asleep. This drug will knock you out the first couple times you take it. I mean DO NOT plan on doing anything with in 1 minute of swallowing the pill! No lie! After I would take it, I would have deep deep conversations with my girlfriend just before falling to sleep. When I wake in the morning I couldn't remember ANYTHING I said. SCARY!!!! Also, it would only keep me sleeping for about 4 - 5 hrs, then I would wide awake! | I never thought I would ever be able to look into a closet and see EVERY shirt in the closet move up and down, until I took this drug. SCARY!!! | M | 33 | 7 days | 12/9/2009 | 3 | insomnia | Normally no side effects. However, the day before yesterday my daughter found me with a bloodied face and incoherent when she came home from school. | I often wake early (4:30-5:30 AM) but on Thursday I woke at 3:30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep. As I need to get up at 5:30 I didn't want to take anything but thought I would take a longer nap than usual. After delivering my wife to her job and my daughter to school I seem to have puttered around the house - I found an e-mail that I wrote at 11:40 AM that I otherwise had no recollection writing. I remembered taking half and Ambien (5mg of a 10mg tablet) and a vicodin (I have chronic pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis), setting my alarm for 1PM and going to bed to take a nap. It must have been right after my e-mail. Two days later I was able to remember waking up to the alarm and resetting it for my usual 5:30AM. But later that day all I could remember was taking a call from my daughter about the fact I was supposed to pick her up at 3PM and wasn't there. I vaguely remembered cleaning a wound on my face with q-tips and propolis. The next thing I remember is the horrified look on my daughter's face when I opened the door when she came home from school on the bus - about an hour after our phone conversation that I don't recall. I had a one inch gash across my chin - deep gash - and a swollen nose and was not making any sense. She asked me my name (I knew it) and what month it was - I was off by two months. What day of the week - I said Monday, it was Friday. She got the neighbor who took me to the hospital. Most of the day was a blank to me, with just vignettes here and there, ev | M | 67 | 2 years | 12/14/2009 | 3 | Insomnia due to stress | Muscle pain, dry eyes, dehydration, mild depression | Sure helped me sleep, to the point of being habit forming. Don't expect to sleep easily without it for a night or two after taking. After sustained use of ~5 mg/night noticed severely red eyes and dehydration throughout the day. Couple that with the coffee I would have to drink to clear my head and I was turning into a prune. Also experienced delayed muscle pain. Ambien seems to cause me to tighten up just enough that I would have various aches and pains for a few days after taking. It took me 1.5 years to tie the two together, but after numerous doctor and physical therapy visits I found that my chronic muscle pain ceased about 2 weeks after stopping Ambien. When combined with recreational drugs (pot, E) can lead to some very scary memory loss and impaired judgement episodes (then again, so can the drugs themselves). A great "silver bullet" for critical nights, but you will run the risk of dependancy. At least for me the side effects of prolonged use do NOT make it worth it. | M | 37 | 2 years | 12/14/2009 | 2 | Increase urgency and frequency of my urination in the morning. | It help my sleep quite well | M | 69 | 5 years | 12/9/2009 | 2 | insomnia | hallucinations,foggy the next day. | found myself standing in front of a bay window watching giant crows walking and talking to each other.I knew i was hallucinating,laughed at the bizarre scene and went back to sleep.first and last time i will use this drug. | M | 54 | 1 days | 11/3/2009 | 2 | Have problem to go to sleep | Bolemia. I gain so much during the last 24 months | I am using Circadin for few months and i sleep like a baby. never had so good sleep for many years. i have energy in the morning and i am starting to have motivation for sport and aerobic. | M | 56 | 2 years | 11/13/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | Anxiety, loss of appetite, mild depression. Symptoms less after being off ambien for a week but they have been occassionally recurring during the second-third week. | Began at 10 mg for 1 1/2 months. It would give about 4-5 hours of sleep. But I did not like the off-balance feeling and other sensations. I did not have lapses of memory or wandering but a gradual and then faster increase in anxiety for no reason. Then I began cutting back to 5 mg and then none every other day to wean off (I asked my pharmacist how to wean off ambien). Although I would never take ambien again (as another respondent said I would rather be sleepy than ever feel this way again), for some it might be useful for occassional insomnia - but one should be watchful for any adverse reactions. | M | 60 | 2 months | 9/1/2009 | 2 | insomnia | didn't sleep well | M | 47 | 1 days | 9/18/2009 | 2 | Insomnia related to GAD | Memory loss. Fatigue. | SHORT TERM MEMORY ERASER IN A TABLET!. Nuked my short term memory abilities. Kept me groggy and sleepy for a day after taking it. NO SIR, I DID NOT LIKE IT! | M | 41 | 45 days | 8/22/2008 | 2 | Insomia | Have been taking Ambien (10) off and on for two years. I took it daily for three months, then stopped cold-turkey because I couldn't function the next day. Unfortunately, I also could not sleep for more than an hour each night thereafter for the first couple of weeks. Then sleep increased to 3 - 4 hours each night. Doctor put me back on 3 months ago, and I'm back at not being able to function, no energy, no short term memory. Daily buzzy head. Constant fatigue. Almost no short term memory. After I get off of it this time, I think I'll stay off of it. I've repeated this cycle 3 times now. | The last time I went off of it, I found that taking one 25mg tablet of Benadryl (Diphenhydramine hydrochloride), and two 200mg tablets of Motrin (Ibuprofen) at bedtime did not help me sleep but it helped stop the buzzy head feeling. This stopped after the first week of "detox". After the first week going off of Ambien I did begin to establish a bit of a sleep pattern without the use of drugs. Unfortunately, insomnia has been with me for about 32 years, so I know once things "normalize" this time, I'll just be getting ready for another cycle. | M | 50 | 2 years | 5/28/2009 | 2 | bi polar anxiety | loss of memory bigtime,food tatsted horrible after taking it, hallucinations | This stuff is wicked. After the latest bout I am going back to see my p doc to tell her to find me something else. | M | 30 days | 4/17/2008 | 2 | insomnia | Symptoms included Occipidal Neuralgia like symptoms which is a pain in the base of the skull. Also included a lack of focus and memory issues which contributed to my ability to focus. | After aking Ambiem for approximately 3 years I have concluded it is a crutch. Now that I am free from this drug I am sleeping somuch better and sounder. | M | 54 | 3 years | 1/23/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | Hallucinations, horrible anxiety and depression, addiction, decreased ability to deal with infections, hangover, tired during the day. | I've got to say, this drug works. I was having terrible issues adjusting to a new sleep schedule about a year and a half ago when i started a new job. I used this to help me situate myself, however, i became addicted to it. Not to abuse the drug, but it became virtually impossible to sleep without it. I never took more than the recommended dose, but i rarely went without taking it. Over time, i noticed that during the day i was becoming very anxious and depressed, probably from withdrawl, and i started getting infections. Lung infections, skin, staph.... Don't use this drug if you have long term sleeping issues. Over that period of time it is hard to get off it, and will cause many more problems than it will fix. Now i take herbal supplements with meletonin and while they don't work nearly as well, they do work and help enough to get me to sleep. | M | 27 | 10 months | 3/5/2008 | 2 | Anxiety related insomnia | Felt heavy, it took about 20 minutes before I actually fell asleep, and I woke up about 5 hours later not able to move my arm because it had pins and needles so bad due to sleeping on it weird, which I would've woken up earlier if not on the medication. So now here I am...typing this comment, unable to go back to sleep 5 hours after taking it...worthless drug | Worthless drug | M | 20 | 1 days | 10/27/2007 | 2 | Bipolar, to insure sleep | None. | Took the 12. mg dosage. Only worked once out of 11 nights. | M | 61 | 11 days | 8/16/2007 | 2 | Insomnia | At first no side effects. Later on (month into it) I started noticing softer erections and a decrease in sex drive. I was taking 12.5 of the CR each night. Took me 2-3hours to fall a sleep after a while. Then I would only get 4-5 hours sleep after that. I got that kind of sleep when I wasn't taking it. So 2-3 days off it. My erections are back and strong, my sex drive is back full swing and making up for lost time. | I never thought that this was the cause of the ED symptoms. I had thought it was my blood pressure meds. Guess not. | M | 29 | 41 days | 4/13/2007 | 2 | Insomnia | SLEEP WALKING | This hypnotic works extremely well and quickly. I like it better than Lunesta however.... ...........I had a glass of wine and took an Ambien (I know, I know). Woke up at 1:30AM and edged the lawn with my miners head-lamp and then proceeded to order a $1,000 television for my buddy! Boy, was I surprised when that thing showed up! Seems I also got him a $250 remote control, too! Never have sleepwalked in my life and it's scarey to find out what you did. What if I had been driving?! So, I'm back to Lunesta. Only get 3/hrs per mg, but, at least, I stay in bed! BE CAREFUL WITH THIS MED! | M | 60 | 1 months | 8/23/2007 | 2 | Insomnia | Waking up after four to six hours, unable to get to sleep again. Most of the time it doesn't work for me at all. I take it and I still am wide awake hours later. Sometimes it works tho, and then it's nice. | Does not work most of the time, some people can get resistant to high dosages fast. | M | 24 | 4 weeks | 5/14/2007 | 2 | insomnia | HORRIBLE nightmares when combined w/ zoloft, (i.e. woke up crying every night) daytime drowsiness, | Not recommended, doesnt make you hallucinate like some people claim. | M | 15 | 1 weeks | 10/9/2002 | 2 | insomnia - waking at 4am | No side effects. No morning residual. | Fell asleep great with the drug. However, awoke at about 5am. The half life of the drug is too short for people who have trouble staying asleep. Taking Klonopin now. | M | 52 | 2 months | 9/25/2003 | 2 | unable to sleep | OH MY.... myself and a few of my friends discussed this and all had similar issues. BINGE eating... Making calls or emails and dont remember.. I made a video of myself and saw it the next day.. i could not believe it... in it i seemed normal, maybe a little drunk?.. and was pretending to do a cooking show.. folding american cheese with mustard squeezed in the middle and eating one after the other... then overflowed the sink, and cleaned it up... next am...had no memory of it... found camera in kitchen and rewound the tape.. i could not believe it was me. | LOTs of binge eating, feeling dizzy and "seasick" when going to the bathroom in the middle of the night... this is a dangerous drug. | M | 35 | 3 weeks | 1/15/2007 | 2 | unable to sleep | OH MY.... myself and a few of my friends discussed this and all had similar issues. BINGE eating... Making calls or emails and dont remember.. I made a video of myself and saw it the next day.. i could not believe it... in it i seemed normal, maybe a little drunk?.. and was pretending to do a cooking show.. folding american cheese with mustard squeezed in the middle and eating one after the other... then overflowed the sink, and cleaned it up... next am...had no memory of it... found camera in kitchen and rewound the tape.. i could not believe it was me. | LOTs of binge eating, feeling dizzy and "seasick" when going to the bathroom in the middle of the night... this is a dangerous drug. | M | 35 | 3 weeks | 1/15/2007 |