AMBIEN Reviews (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE)

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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)

  

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 5  Insomnia Makes me feel drunkish, slightly euphoric and tired (thank God). First off I just want to say some of the stories you guys post here about your Ambien-induced shenanigans crack me up! Always makes for a good laugh. That said, people who say things like "This medication needs to be taken off the market" need to seriously check yourselves. Ambien is a GODSEND to people who suffer from chronic insomnia like I do. It really is. I've never done any sleep-driving or sleep-eating or any of these other alleged activities while taking it, and I've used Ambien for a decade now. If you're doing crazy stuff like that, perhaps you need to reduce your dosage! I cut my 10mg pills in quarters and it still works like a charm. Please don't ruin it for the rest of us who do just fine on this medication! M 31 10 years
5mg 2X day
12/22/2010
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 1  Neck Pain, Muscle Spasms, insomnia Doesn't work. Causes me to have anxiety, elevated heart rate, jumpiness, wired feeling, and certainly not tired. Benadryl works much better. In addition, Benadryl is a very good muscle relaxer. For me, Ambien = Bad Side Effects + Lousy Sleep. M 33 3 days
10 1X day
12/6/2010
 4  Insomnia I would wake up with a weird taste in my mouth and groggy. Sometime I was anxious. I was very forgetful during the day and sort of hazy. Everything seemed to move slower but I did feel over all past these side effects that I did get a good night sleep. You are supposed to take it and go straight to sleep. Lay down and close your eyes and you will fall into a deep sleep. I took it one time and walked around my neighborhood with my roommate who tried it and we tripped out. It was crazy! But if you take it correctly you will be fine. BTW, I break my 10's in half, also, I will take trazadone 10MG or 5mg one day and Ambien the next or every other day. You don't have to rely on it always. PS-Don't drink on it unless you want to trip out. Good luck and keep it cool! M 34 3 months
10Mg 1X day
11/29/2010
 4  insomnia very drowsy in the morning. Takes me at least 3 hours to wake up. I do not take drugs or drink alcohol. I take 50 mg seroqeul along with ambien to sleep at night. I can't take ambien alone anymore it doesn't seem to work all night like it used to. I am addicted to it and have tried to go cut down or wean myself off but I get rebound insomnia so have to take it. I take it every night. I have seen posts on here where some of you take it 3 times a week. How do you sleep the other 4 days out of the week. I want your secrets...LOL. F 40 9 months
10 mg 1X day
11/29/2010
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 5  Insomnia The only side effect I've experienced is a little bit of nausea and vomiting the next day. For me, Ambien has been a dream. So far anyways. I have a plethora of health problems, and insomnia kind of goes along with it all. I've tried everything. Klonipin worked the best, but it made me very groggy and act "drunk." Also the withdrawals were unbearable at times. I've just started taking the Ambien, and so far it has been amazing. I get sleepy within a half hour of taking it, and go to bed, and sleep for 8 hours. No getting up and doing strange things, I'm alert the next day, and feel refreshed. The only side effect I've had so far is a little bit of nausea and vomting and twice I had a slight anxiety in the morning. Other than that... it really helps me. F 27 7 days
10 MG 1X day
11/6/2010
 3  cant sleep no side effects in my case Nice results from this pill. Now i can sleep very well M 42 10 days
20mg 1X day
11/5/2010
 2  insomina Severe Sleep Walking (including violent outbursts), still tired, groggy in the morning I've been taking ambien for 2 weeks now. The first couple nights i woke up still tired and couldn't figure out why. My wife informed me it's because i was up all night. She's found me downstairs (all of this i do not remember doing) staring out the back door, watching TV, i've had sex and held conversations with her, I've said hurtful things to her, I swear at her a lot (which I never do), and my wife has now informed me last night i hit and threw my 70 lbs black lab across the room (which i never have and never would do, he's fine btw).. she said i kept swearing at her to make the dog stop barking.. which he wasn't it was some other dog.. I'm done with this drug.. it doesn't put me to sleep it just makes me lose my conscious state of mind and do wrong things.. it's been 2 weeks and I'm exhausted every moment of every day because i still haven't had a good nights sleep M 20 2 weeks
10mg 1X day
11/1/2010
 4  insomnia imaginary friends, burning my arm with a cigarette in my "sleep", daytime headaches, dizziness, forgetfullness, talking to myself, feeling like I'm in another world. I have taken EVERY sleep medication out there. Ambien in the ONLY drug that makes me fall asleep and stay asleep. One morning I woke up, and I had a burn on my right wrist. It almost looked like I accidentally tapped my arm on a hot oven. I didnt find anything that I cooked or ate though so I'm not sure if that was it. The next morning I woke up with 3 cigarette burns on my left wrist. Maybe I had an itch and used the cigarette to scratch it? I have no idea. I've learned if I take this medication and then go right to bed and read or watch TV...I wont talk to my imaginary friends. I havent woken up and eaten or cooked anything, havent tried to leave the house, and have not made strange phone calls. I do have vivid dreams and woke up this morning having one of those "falling out of your bed" dreams that scares the crap out of you. Other than that, this drug works for me better than Melatonin, Xanax, Tylenol PM's, Seroquel, Seconal, Lyrica, Valium, Gabapentin, Herbal Tea's..or anything else I have tried. F 28 2 weeks
10mg 1X day
10/30/2010
 5  insomnia grogginess upon awakening. I cut the pill into quarters, I take one quarter, wait 20 minutes then take the other quarter. Then I go to sleep. If I wake up after 3 hours I will take another quarter then hopefully I will go back to sleep. Haven't had any weird side affects except if I fall asleep without taking it I will have some weird dreams. I don't usually remember my dreams while taking ambien. It is hard to sleep without it though. I do recommend cutting the pill in order to try it out. Don't take the whole dose the first time you take it. Some people have a bad reaction. I haven't had one though. F 50 5 years
10 mg 1X day
10/23/2010
 4  insomnia, family tragedy uncoordinated i should lay down. F 51 1 months
5mg 1X day
10/21/2010
 1  insomnia severe sleepwalking episodes, hallucinations, no memory of events this drug should be banned as a date rape drug. I first took ambien in 1995 when my stupid doctor had a "bright idea" to go off of halcion (which was working perfectly. I'd wake up in the morning and my place was turned upside down and at first i didn't understand what happened. On the second night, it happened again, and there was a pan on the stove with the gas on when i woke up. I called the doctor and he said this is impossible, so i continued to take it. I was told that on that night, i went downstairs swearing up and down i saw burglars in my place, i have absolutely no memory of it. This side effect, at the time, was not even listed. I wrote to the fda about this, as it should be banned as a date rape drug. Do not take at any costs, I can tell you that if i murdered someone on ambien i would have absolutely no memory. I cannot believe they won't allow rohypnol but ambien is so easily available M 42 3 days
10mg 1X day
10/21/2010
 1  insomnia This drug should not be given to anyone in my opinion! I have no memory of the things I did while under the influence of this medication, however after a few nights of my husband telling me how i act, he decided to videotape me because i did not believe that i could do the things he was saying without any memory of them. I then saw myself on the tape reaching for things that were not there, talking to people like my great grandchildren who were not there and at one point actually try to strangle my husband! I was up all night in a trance i guess you could say. This is a very dangerous drug! I have a friend who takes this medication also and does not remember shaving off his eyebrows and only half of his sideburns and mustache, he actually tried to blame his wife for doing it to him while he was asleep! If you are not crazy before you take ambien you certainly will think you are after you do! F 64 2 weeks
1X day
10/20/2010
 1  sleep/ shift work weight gain, dry mouth, Rantings and Ravings, can't think during the work day, "short circuit" of the brain. My boyfriend suggested I try this sleeping pill since my shift changes every 4 months. I am totally hooked on it now. I take 10mg on the weekend and 5 mg week days, for a year. I have started experiencing a short circuit so to speak, of my brain, maybe 100 times a day I feel like I'm getting a split second of electricity. This started about 4 months ago. Yep. I procrastinate. Going to dr. tomorrow, actually to find out if it has done permanent damage. This is a horrible drug to get hooked on. What a shame it is so easily dispensed. F 55 1 years
10 and 5 m 1X day
10/19/2010
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 3  insomnia I experienced dizziness, amnesia and depression while on Ambien. Stopping it suddenly and without a gradual cut-back caused bad nightmares and hullucinations. I have an autoimmune disease which causes insomnia, so the only good thing I can say about Ambien is that it definately puts you to sleep, but watch out for the side effects, which can be many. For me, I would get dizzy if I took Ambien and then didn't go right to bed. It works fast, so you really need to go to bed right after taking it. I also would have conversations that I didn't remember having, and I became depressed. I decided to go off of Ambien after being on it for more than a year and found out quickly that you shouldn't stop taking it cold turkey. I spent a night hallucinating and having the worse nightmares ever. For most of the night, I didn't know what was real and what wasn't. The next day I was dizzy and cold and decided I couldn't live through another night like the one I had just had, so I decided to cut Ambien out gradually, which I've read you should do anyway. I started out on 10mg, and each week I've been cutting the dosage in half. This seems to be working out well and I'll be totally off of it in another week. I don't know what I'm going to do about sleeping, but using drugs like Ambien, especially long term, is not a wise idea. My side effects were mild compared to others who have posted on this site. Just beware if you're considering taking it. F 64 1.5 years
1X day
10/16/2010
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 2  incomnia resulting from tension,pai It knocks you out quickly BUT frequently wake up at 2 and unable to return to sleep. At least three times the past year, seemed to trigger a "drugged up" state resulting in inane conversation and subequent lack of memory about the conversation. This drug is now out in gerneric form. Have heard many horror stories from peole who have used it. M 53 1 years
10 mg 1X AN
10/15/2010
 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
 5  to sleep slow typing skills, lots or error, blurred vision, craved candy, sugar, and pretty horny agterwards F 25 30 days
10 mg 1X day
10/14/2010
 3  insomnia sleep, then built tolerance I want to say that this is a wonder drug if it is a short time as indicated. Death in the family or other big stressful event? Then by all means, go ahead. But under the care of a psychiatrist, I've been on it for 6 years. It has stopped working. I never took more than prescribed or abused it, I simply stopped sleeping. But if I don't take it every night I experience a withdrawal. I am sweaty, pukey, I shake and cry. Tomorrow I will fly to a good facility with a 30 detox and rehab program so that I can be rid of my need for a drug that doesn't work any longer. It's expensive and my husband is disgusted with me. I'm ashamed and sad. Please just do not take very long term. You may end up with what is basically a "habit" and it's not a good place to be. F 33 6 years
10 mg 1X day
10/13/2010
 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
 4  help falling and staying asleep sleep walking, eating, phoning, texting I have a love/hate relationship with this medication. I love how it never fails to put me to sleep, however, I hate that I now get up and do things while under it's influence. I have found food left on the counter, was made aware of e-mails and text that I've sent, and that I've even had sex with my boyfriend. All of which I didn't remember, and have been mortified and embarrassed. I still take Ambien because I'm so afraid of not sleeping F 54 4 years
10 1X day
10/9/2010

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