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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | sleep issue | I have lost my sense of alternes after taking for 9 years. then gradually get rid of in 2018 . now I have developed memory issue while only 53 years old . I can drive anymore and memory is terrible . no neurologist has any idea what to do while going for multiple MRIs in 4 years. now I have lost my job and really scared about my future since memory is not normal upto the level it used to be. | Never use this medication. | M | 52 | 9 years 10 1X day | 9/30/2022 | 2 | Mind racing | Memory loss, lethargic midday, night eating, driving, sexual activity | I desperately want off ambien! I started taking it after I gave birth to my son. My adrenaline was so spiked that I didn't sleep for 72hours when coming home from the hosptial. I was 26 and now 41. Never gone without it. My memory loss started several years ago to the point I blank on my words mid sentence. Ive blacked out and had a threesome with my husband after a night of drinking. Felt so much shame (divorced now but I look back and think about my ex husband, who is a Dr, knowing the side effects while drinking and allowing that to happen) About 4yrs into taking ambien, I drove to a 24hr grocery store and purchased milk. When I left my driveway, I backed into my neighbors sons car that was parked on the street. When arriving home, there was a knock on my door from the police. Thank god I wasn't arrested. Apparently, I played it off. None of this occurred to me until I found the receipt for the milk the following day and everything that occurred started coming back to me. (Memory). I'm addicted to this medicine and want more than anything to get off! My attempts to stop are unsuccessful as I will lay in bed until 3am, doze in and out a few minutes until my alarm goes off at 7am. I'm now at a place where I have no memory at night, even before I take it. It's like my brain is wired to shut off when the sun goes down. I'm only 41 and I donā̈́ | F | 41 | 15 years 10mg 1X day | 4/23/2022 | 3 | Trouble sleeping | Well I have driven on this drug and caused an accident. I took the pill and for got and drove | It's dangerous because it changes your idea of what responsible is while on your t | 51 | 10 years 12-24mg 1X day | 2/17/2022 | 4 | Chronic insomnia | Been taking Ambien for little over a year now and it has really helped me with my anxiety and insomnia issues. I get the munchies sometimes once it settles in my body but after that I go to sleep. Ive heard of the crazy stories people sleep eating and driving. I never dealt with any of those issues and the medication affects everyone different but once you take it you should lay down to give the drug time to settle in your body then you'll be off to dreamland!!! Overall good sleep aid!!! | F | 36 | 1 years 10mg 1X day | 11/30/2020 | 1 | New C Pap machine and couldn't get | Fell asleep in an instant while driving in the afternoon and ended up in the ditch alongside the road. I was not even sleepy. Scared me to death. Never took another Ambien! Dangerous stuff! | The silent killer as far as I am concerned. | F | 70 | 2 months don't know 1X day | 5/30/2018 | 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 | 2 | Insomnia | I had the usual problems as most people. Driving, buying things online, cooking, eating, sexual activity. I have been off this medication for over 5 years, and I STILL have the same episodes at night. I have several specialists looking into this. Believing that being on this drug for so many years may have changed my brain in some way. I still have conversations with my husband, eat, have sex, etc. and have absolutely NO memory of it in the morning. I thought it was helping me in the past, but it has effected me in a way that still causes me problems 5 years after my last pill. I don't know of anyone else experiencing this AFTER stopping the medication, and especially for this long afterward. If this medication altered my brain in someway, and this is how the rest of my life is going to be, they will be hearing from my attorney. | F | 40 | 10 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/12/2015 | 1 | Insomnia | I took 1 5 mg tablet had serilous reaction. Hallucinations rage anxiety sleep walking an driving etc... During this time I took 1200 mg of Vyanse. Didn't realize it for 48 hours. Word of advice if you are taking this for yen first time, lock up any other drugs on the house | F | 47 | 1 days 5mg | 5/3/2014 | 4 | Chronic insomnia | This is the only sleep aid that works for me however I've had many of the dangerous side effects as mention. I worked 11p-7a shift went home after a bath took ambien while in the sleepwalking phase I drove to the nail salon got a full set of nails upon waking up and noticing I drove myself while sleeping to the nail salon I reached into my pockets to find $50 worth of scratch off lottery tickets I'd purchased. I've made meal, had full blown conversations and did not realize until the next day when someone would recite something we talked about. The thing that happens a lot is I will take more of the medication while I'm in my sleeping phase and will not know that I did that until the next day. It's a good medication but it comes with a lot of dangerous side effects. Overall while in the sleep walking phase of ambien I've drove my car to the store, nail salon, cooked meals, had conversations and was sexually active while in the sleep but awake phase of ambien. | F | 41 | 4 years 12.5 1X day | 4/25/2014 | 1 | couldn't sleep | Awful ..scary ..was never told to hide the phone ..keys..car..whatever can do damage if you don't go to bed immediately..twice I apparently thought good idea to drive! But don't remember except when next thing I know someone trying to fix flat tire that I had no idea how got it..hate it and stopped all at once taking it..never again ..I Also prayed alot for help with withdrawal and was ok after 3 days.. | F | 50 | 3 months 10 | 11/24/2013 | 1 | chronic insomnia | While taking Ambiens, I slept walked, ate, cleaned, cooked, made bon-fires, seen a cat that wasn't there, took more ambiens in my sleep without knowing it and eventually, got in a car and was in an accident. I'm being charged for this. Lawyer makes it sound so hopeless. But I would never intentionally put others at harm by driving in that condition. I am thankful I didn't harm anything but the car. Glad I didn' t accidentally overdose. A very scary and upsetting situation. Cindy | F | 42 | 1 years 20mg | 9/11/2013 | 1 | Insomnia | Worked great at first! But then I would be getting up every 1 1/2 hr and take another one an not remember. Then all the crazy stuff started happening would get up and not remember eating, driving, sex, going to the neighbors. It's the scariest feeling not remembering that you did something. This drug should not be prescribed! I still can't sleep but I would rather it be that way then taking that crap!. | F | 35 | 5 months 1x day | 2/23/2013 | 1 | Lack of sleep | Memory loss, confusion, hallucinations, headache. Thought I was asleep, actually made multiple phone calls and ended up driving on freeway. Remember bits a pieces of night such as the feeling as though I wasn't behind wheel of my car but knew I was on the freeway. White lines were lifting up and going multiple directions, seeing double, vivid colors, dog moving on my ph picture and only GOD knows what else. I cry now every time I think about danger I put myself and others in. So now I have anxiety and panic when I sleep or take meds- which my doc gv me clonazepam- on Day 2. Ambien should be removed off market and def not prescribed to anyone! | F | 28 | 1 days 10mg | 10/7/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Not remembering anything I had done after taking it. Drove twice after taking it and "going to bed." God only knows what else I've done while on it. | Do not take this medicine. You will become addicted. | F | 26 | 4 years 10 MG 1X day | 6/3/2012 | 5 | insomnia | increase in sex drive . Hard time concentrating or focusing on anything. Foggy light headed. | Want sax after taking Ambien | F | 41 | 30 days 10 mg 1X day | 5/30/2012 | 4 | night time anxiety | I always took RIGHT before I got in bed, and never had any real issues. If I read a little first, it would knock me out with my book on my face, and I would not remember some conversations with my husband. No sleep walking, driving, eating-- that I know of! BUT-- and this really wasn't so bad-- great for bedtime sex. Good, sometimes wild sex. Slept GREAT after! Husband didn't hate this either... But I wouldn't take it and get in bed with anyone you shouldn't be having sex with. | After taking it for an extended period, I did start to notice more foggy-headedness, forgetting, cognitive problems. Also, just a general *hung over* sort of feeling started to build up. I started to take only half at night, and this helped the hung over feeling, but not so much the cognitive issues. So I weaned myself off by taking half, then a quarter, then none. I still use it here and there if I need it, but my brain is thinking more clearly now that I don't take it every night. I think that is something to worry about! But a good sleep aid here and there. | 37 | 14 months 10MG 1X day | 5/8/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | Sleep Driving | Last Wednesday I took one of my pills and fell asleep very quickly. The next thing I remember was being in the Sherriff's office arrested for a DUI. I was told what I had done the next day since I have NO memory of any of it. In my mind I don't think it happened. I literally cannot remember anything. That is a very uncomfortable feeling. I obviously woke up and got in my car and along the way drove down an embankment, tearing through a fence and getting stuck in a field. Had I went left instead of right I would have ended up in a deep slough. ( for some reason all of my windows were down during this and I drive a black car, I'm certain if I would have went in the water I would have sunk & drowned and no one would see it) Somehow I got out of the field. I then proceeded to continue on and drove through someone's yard striking and breaking a ceder tree. The police were called and they gave me a field sobriety test, didn't pass, was handcuffed and taken to jail and booked. I was wearing my pajamas and slippers. This has scared me to death and I threw away my one pill shy of a full prescription. I won't be taking this ever again and I am looking into filing a lawsuit for the maker of this medication. I've read far too many stories since this happened to me and even worse, DEATH. I would urge everyone to think long and hard before taking this medication. It could ultimately kill you and then you wouldn't have to worry about not sleeping anymore. DANGEROUS!!!!! | F | 48 | 8 years 5-10 mg 1X day | 4/7/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | Ambien started very innocently for me. I worked night shift and would often have trouble sleeping during the day. My doc prescribed me 10mg and for sure it worked. Slept great on it. Took it and no matter what, I slept. Great sleep. Woke up refreshed and no drug hangover. And then.......the weird stuff started. Id take my ambien and do all sorts of crazy stuff I didnt remember. But by then, if I didnt take it, I wouldnt sleep. Totally addicted. So I kept taking it and the episodes got worse. Ive read a lot of stories on here and know Ive experienced all the bad stuff on ambien. Cooking and eating crazy food, driving, going outside at night - woke up outside on the ground, sex, even found that I shot some guns out the window of my house. And then there is the depression and short term memory loss. | This is a wonder drug but I think it is way over prescribed. It is way too easy to get and way too easy to get hooked on. And it was difficult to get off of. If youve been on it for a while and get off of it, you simply will not sleep. Sleep deprivation is very hard on the human body and the urge to to keep taking the drug is some times overpowering, but can be the best move youve ever made. That stuff is no [email protected] | M | 39 | 5 years 10-20mg 1X day | 10/15/2010 | 1 | insomnia | memory loss, sleep driving, double vision | I was on this medication for about 4 weeks with no problems until week 5. I took one night after not using it for about a week. We had been out of town visiting family when I experienced the worst side effect ever! I had decided to take my 5 yr. old grandson to school so he could show me his classroom and introduce me to his teacher. Well, I remember leaving the hotel to go pick him up and my next memory is an officer asking if I was on any new medication that would make me drowsy. My grandson had been with me in the car and I had driven to the school and couldn't remember any of it. The officer called my husband at the hotel and had him pick me up. I was lucky it was a small town and I had a very understanding officer who didn't file any report. I could have been charged since there was evidence that I had hit something and there was scratches on my vehicle. I have no memory of most of the day. It scares the heck out of me to think of what could have happened! Don't let your doctor tell you that this medication can not cause these side effect! It is very scary that this drug is approved. | F | 49 | 4 weeks 10mg 1X day | 10/11/2010 | 2 | Insomnia | Have taken ambien on an off over 3 yrs. Due to no insurance and job and the high cost of ambien, I try to use Melatonin. Yrs ago I had a small glass of wine. An hour later I took an Ambien. Went to bed. Or so I thought. Ended up driving to my fiance's house and had butt sex with him. Something I find gross and nasty. Plus we did it outside. I do not remember anything. He told me I was really acting weird and saying stupid crap...screwed him and left. I have found huge piles of wrappers on my floor from food I clearly must have eaten in my sleep. Crumbs on my face and in my bed. I also called my dad who is in his 90s and asked him if he wanted to be in a rock band with me. I do not remember this. My mom yelled at me the next day. Had horrible bouts of depression during the day after taking it to the point of profuse despair unlike any other time. Not every day I took it but sometimes. Addicts be warned: it makes you trip | Ambien needs to give a free bedside seatbelt to keep it's consumers from getting up and doing things that could SERIOUSLY hurt someone. It has caused me to feel aggressive and incoherent. i do not drink much and have never been drunk but I assume this is how it would feel | F | 45 | 3 months 10 1X day | 10/4/2010 |
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)