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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Sleep problems associated with CPAP | Never had history of depression. Suddenly lapsed into severe depression, joint pain, other... 61 year old male. Depression started at ~59. | I never had issues with ambien driving, cooking dinners, etc. It always helped me sleep. I got to the point I could not sleep w/o it. Only recently researching depression did I discover the link between ambien and depression | M | 61 | 15 years 10mg 1X day | 2/28/2022 | 1 | Insomnia | Joint pain, depression, anxiety, less and less sleep, agitation | Initially it worked well and I only took 2.5 mg but as the years went by and I got my stressed out I started taking more and more | F | 70 | 6 years Up to 15 m 2X day | 7/22/2020 | 1 | Persistent insomnia | No sleep worse anxiety and depression | Bad stuff | F | 39 | 3 days 10mg | 4/5/2018 | 1 | insomnia due to MS | Sleep was disturbed by waking and vivid dreams. Day after side effects are horrible- dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, headache, severe depression. | I would rather not sleep than deal with the day after side effects. | F | 44 | 1 weeks 5mg | 2/20/2017 | 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 | Pain/insomnia | Had every side effects listed from loss of personal identity to risk taking. Put my career, marriage and life on the line with no awareness of the consequences. Nearly lost my life. Worsening of depression and suicidal thoughts. My Dr. did not monitor me at all. Just kept prescribing 30 days at a time. My wife recognized the darkness and demanded I weaned off. I threw out the remaining pills and detoxed alone with severe withdrawal. Life-threatening. A horrible drug. Will never recover the trust and respect I lost by my actions on this drug. | It should be off the market. | M | 61 | 2 months 10 mg. | 11/12/2014 | 2 | insomnia | Horrible dry mouth, lasting all day and night, nothing helped, not even water...Depression, after a month of taking it I developed rebound insomnia, felt out of it, memory loss, loss concentration, indigestion, acid reflux, stomach cramps. | M | 27 | 1 months 10 | 9/12/2014 | 1 | insomnia | Dizziness, vertigo, sadness, stumbling around. Horrible stuff...should be taken off the market! | M | 66 | 1 days 12.5 mg | 6/29/2014 | 1 | I have fibromyalgia and insomnia | Memory loss, anxiety, feeling more pain and more headaches. Depression, can't concentrate, feel like I am half asleep all the time. I had taken this before and did not seem to have any problems. It does help me sleep but now I feel terrible all the time. I am so afraid. I want to stop taking this but when I don't take it I can't sleep but a couple of hours at the most. I wish someone could help me. | I would not advise anyone to take this I take Ambien CR 12.5 MG and do not feel rested when I wake up. My cousin has taken regular Ambien for over 10 years now and doctor will not take him off of it. He says he has no problems with it. I am so afraid. I say run from this drug before it is too late. | F | 51 | 60 days 12.5 MG 1X day | 6/19/2014 | 1 | Help sleep with back pain. | Horrible depression and suicidal ideation. | Please beware of this drug. I've been taking this drug on and off for 4 years and because of a recent back surgery was put in pain killers. I decided to come off the pain killers and start using ambien to help me sleep through my chronic pain. I have never been depressed, but started to slowly sink into a dark hole. I would start crying at the drop of a hat. Mornings were the worst. It would start as soon as I woke up and I would get better as the day progressed. I have a beautiful family, young children, great job, great wife etc.. And had constant thoughts of suicide. I couldn't even get out of bed most days. I finally put it together and stopped taking the Ambien to see if that could be it. Anyways, it was!! Do a google search on Ambien and suicide. Scary stuff. Run from it. | M | 43 | 4 years .5 1X day | 2/27/2014 | 1 | insomnia | dental problems weight gain increased depression excessive fatigue | I took ambien for insomnia and became addicted, it nearly ruined my life. Like most people I would get up in the middle of the night and do random and weird things (mostly sleep eating), the difference is I would remember it the next day. While on it, I noticed that not only was I fatigued throughout the day and my depression worsened, but it destroyed my teeth. Never needing braces in my life, my teeth were straight and I was always told that I had a nice smile and then my teeth started chipping and crumbling; literally breaking apart and coming out in pieces while I was eating. I had to have two root canals and two crowns and one tooth extracted, another broke off at the gum line. I also had to go to a periodontist for root planing because I was at the beginning stages of gum disease. I had never had these problems in my life only when I was on ambien, now that I have been off it they have subsided, but a lot of damage has been done. I remember waking up in the morning having to take huge amounts of ibuprofen every few hours because my mouth and jaw were in excruciating pain from all the grinding I would do in my sleep. While I was on it, if I couldn't get it I would become extremely anxious and freak out, lashing out at people. I also gained an immense amount of weight due to the sleep eating, I remember getting up in the middle of the night and doing it unlike most people. For me it made me crave food and intensified the taste of it, it would make me seek out things that | F | 35 | 2 years 10 mg 1X day | 11/23/2013 | 1 | insomnia | next day grogginess, after taking a few days in a row developed intense depression and anxiety | took for 3 days a week for about 3 weeks. This drug is awful. I can't wait to feel like myself again. Stopping TONIGHT! | F | 25 | 5mg 1X day | 5/30/2013 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Insomnia | anxiety, depression, confusion. | I posted my rating in May and wanted to reiterate it again, I have chronic insomnia so I have cycled through every sleep aid. When I was on a cycle of ambien in May, I had discovered three days later that I took ten pills at once three nights prior and could not figure out why my anxiety was through the roof. Fortunately I was able to go into my local hospital for "detox" since I was so freaked out about it. You can go back and read the experience, it is from May. I know all drugs affect peopel differently so I will not preach. IMO, I feel that Ambien is the most toxic horrific drug I have ever had. I never really liked it and would use it for a 2 week cycle every 6 months or so. I started to put 2 and 2 together and realized how much it affected my anxiety and depression in general. I have a friend who is in detox now from ambien abuse. She was taking 4-5 a day. Needless to say I have not touched one since May and would never touch another one again. It is insidious. You may think you are ok and it doesn't affect you negatively but this drug changes you in ways you can not imagine. I am thankful that I never have to see this med ever again. For those who use it..beware..it may come with a heavy price down the road for you | M | 42 | 10mgs 1X day | 1/9/2012 | 2 | Insomnia - shift work and stress | Depression, fluctuating mood, anxiety | M | 28 | 3 days 10mg | 11/25/2011 | 2 | Insomnia | I was prescribed Ambien after I went to my doctor and asked for a sleeping aid because I had severe insomnia. I was only sleeping for an average of 4 to 5 hours of sleep at night before I started taking the Zolpidem 10mg (Ambien). I am a healthy young man with no previous history of mental health issues but once I started taking Ambien, I developed severe depression and anxiety. I went to college and obtained my bachelor's degree so I am an ambitious person who loves life. However, all that changed after I started taking Ambien. I had taken some samples before I started taking it for 4 months and only had hallucinations when I took it on and off over the span of a few months. I never experienced severe side effects when I was taking it once in a while. However, once I got a full prescription for a long period of time, I started to develop psychological problems. The first few weeks, I was sleeping 8 hours and felt refreshed in the morning and during the day. In the second month of taki | M | 25 | 4 months 10 1X day | 10/29/2011 | 3 | trouble falling asleep | day time memory loss, triggers depression if I use it too often | It is helpful for sleep issues, but is somewhat addictive | F | 53 | 3 years 10 MG 1X day | 9/21/2011 | 1 | chronic insomnia | Intense anxiety, depression, waking up too early. | I cycle through sleep meds for chronic insmonia along with periods where I don't take anything. This last cycle of ambien triggered my anxiety disorder to the nth degree. I ended up taking about 10 one night in an amnesiac state. I did not know this till three days later and I could not figure out why my anxiety/depression was out of control for three days. It was absolutely brutal and relentless. I discovered that I took the 10 pills three days into this intense anxiety. I was terrified but relieved that this was the reason. I checked into the hospital for 4 days for detox and monitoring. I am lucky I have good insurance. Once the ambien worked out of my system, the anxiety/depressive state dissipated greatly. I am 10 days off it and I will never take this poison again. This is how it affects me and I will never out myself in this position again. However, if it works for you than all is good, but as far as how it affects my chemistry, it is poisonous. Glad to be off it. | M | 41 | 4 weeks 10-15mgs 1X day | 5/25/2011 |
AMBIEN (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE): Zolpidem is used to treat a certain sleep problem (insomnia) in adults. If you have trouble falling asleep, it helps you fall asleep faster, so you can get a better night's rest. Zolpidem belongs to a class of drugs called sedative-hypnotics. It acts on your brain to produce a calming effect. This medication is usually limited to short treatment periods of 1 to 2 weeks or less. FDA Approval Date: 1992-12-16 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)