Patient Log of Experience Using AMBIEN
DRUG RATINGS REPORTS HISTORY FOR A PATIENT TAKING AMBIEN
| Key to ratings for AMBIEN: 5-Very Satisfied: this medicine cured me or helped me a great deal. 4-Satisfied: this medicine helped. 3-Somewhat Satisfied: this medicine helped somewhat. 2-Not Satisfied: this medicine did not work to my satisfaction. 1-Dissatisfied: I would not recommend taking this medicine. |
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| Rating | Reason | Side Effects | Comments | Sex | Age | Time Taken and Dosage | Date Added | |
| 1 | Insomnia | Sleepwalking if I consumed any alcohol at all before taking it even just two glasses of wine. Anxiety and depression, blurry vision, dry eyes, muscle aches, dizzy in the morning, lethargic, not wanting to get out of bed, feelings that life is worthless, agitation, instant anxiety upon waking up, started to work for only 2 hours so I would get up and take more to fall back asleep, unable to feel like my old happy self, makes me crave cigarettes even though I quit smoking years ago, found myself sitting like a zombie on the couch on beautiful days..... | As Charlie Sheen said, I think it is the Devil's aspirin. The longer I took it the less effective it was. I would wake up and find I'd taken 4 to 5 pills that night because every two hours I would wake up and take more. Scariest story for me was one night I went to dinner with a friend and had a few glasses of wine and I took probably 2 to 3 Ambien through the course of the night and at 5 AM I called a cab and went to an all night store in my pajamas and bought a pack of cigarettes at 5 AM. I remember doing it, but apparently I was in a hypnotic state. I know I was talking gibberish to the cabdriver because I remember him looking at me strangely. I am very grateful that I am so against drinking and driving, or driving on any kind of substance, that I did call a cab and did not get into my car. I got home put the pack of cigarettes on the coffee table and then suddenly snapped out of it and thought what the heck did I just do? That was too much for me. I stopped this evil drug last night. I know I'm in for some bad nights of sleep but this morning I did feel better mentally, but apparently it takes a few days to get out of your system. I woke up feeling dizzy and have that weird pinging feeling in my brain so I know it's not out of my system yet, hopefully by tomorrow morning it will be gone. The drug should be banned. I used to think it was the greatest thing on earth. Until it stopped working and then I would wake up and be scared at how many I taken to keep trying to go bac | F | 56 | 8 months 10mg 1X D | 5/30/2014 | |
| 1 | Insomnia | F | 56 | 8 months 10mg 1X D | 5/31/2014 | |||