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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | insomnia | amnesia, complete memory black outs, other than that it works wonders and helps me sleep! | i have had full conversations and not remembered them while taking ambien. very powerful, but it works for insomnia. | F | 30 | 2 years | 9/22/2009 | 1 | insomnia | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. My husband took 20mg before bed. Then the nightmare began, at some point in the night. Sleepwalking. Drinking a fifth of gin (my husband almost never drinks). Taking more Ambien as well as finding my pain meds left over from my c-section. He also sent a total of 9 emails to female friends on Facebook, propositioning sex. 9 women! And, each email began with, "I know you are happily married, but would you ever consider having an affair / phone sex, etc. I was horrified, but based on the content of emails, it is clear he was totally out of it. | See above horrifying discription, but I ended up being unable to wake my husband at 6AM. Had to call 911 and he was taken to the hospital. He has absolutely no recollection of what happened. He almost died. Thank God he did not go up to visit my 7month old son who was sleeping upstairs. This is such a scary drug I can't tell you. It needs to be taken off of the market. | F | 39 | 30 days | 9/21/2009 | 2 | insomnia | didn't sleep well | M | 47 | 1 days | 9/18/2009 | 4 | insomnia condition of bi-polar | in dim lighting hallucinating floating objects around the room, loss of balance, hand eye coordination, increased inhibition | I thought it would be a great idea to apply for a credit card to buy a 1900 imac computer. upon waking up and seeing the receipt slip in my email, it took an embarrassing phone call to cancel the order | M | 27 | 1 years | 9/17/2009 | 5 | Insomnia fibromialgia | Ambien is great for helping me get 6 hours of sleep. Without it, I hardly sleep, am in pain all night and feel exhausted in the morning. Tylenol pm used to work for me unitl the pain in my legs and knees got so severe I couldn't stand going to bed. I take it most nights now and feel very dependant on it. I am not sure it is from the Ambien, but I am agitated and mildly depressed off and on. | I know I am dependent on it and would like to quit it to see if the agitation goes away. I hate being pissed off all the time. Maybe I am just a bitch :) But a rested bitch. Maybe I don't really want to know. | M | 57 | 2 years | 9/16/2009 | 5 | Insomnia | None, really, except becoming dependent. | I have arthritis and have had trouble sleeping for years. I take 1/2 to whole Ambien 10 mg around 4 nights a week. My only worry is becoming too dependent on it for a good night's sleep. I only sleep a fitful 1-2 hours a night without it. I have had severe adverse reactions to other drugs, but not this one. To those who can't tolerate ambien, trust your instincts and don't take it. | F | 48 | 3 years | 9/11/2009 | 4 | in oder to sleep at night | have tingling and numness in my legs hands and sometimes in face, which my be due to ambien, on not, due to arthritis in neck and lower spine | may have caused sleepwalking--I have had episodes since taking | M | 81 | 2 days | 9/9/2009 | 3 | sleep difficulties | I am writing to offer condolences to the woman who discovered she'd slept with her son's friend after taking Ambien with a glass of wine. My heart aches for you! You must accept your innocence even if others don't. At first I thought Ambien was a wonder drug. I had to sleep in an arctic field camp (with continuous summer daylight, heat and mosquitoes) sharing a weatherport with six other people, and between the Ambien and earplugs got the best two weeks of sleep ever. Then on vacation in Hawaii (where I slept on the Murphy bed in the living room because of my husband's snoring and my light sleeping) I took it one night after a glass of wine and walked down to the water. All I remember after being at the shoreline was waking up the next morning fully clothed in bed with my husband. Thank God I'd found the right unit, and was in bed with my own husband, but it could have all come down so differently and I wouldn't have known or remembered a thing. I have not taken Ambien since. | I was only taking Ambien on an as-needed basis when traveling or having a particularly difficult time sleeping. I don't think I ever finished one prescription's worth. | F | 53 | 3 weeks | 9/8/2009 | 1 | Chronic Insomnia | Didn't drive the car or shag the girlfriend's sister, but I have had some serious memory loss. Woke up in the floor a couple of times, and made a few phone calls in my sleep but that's about it. | I'm seriously considering quitting! I want to quit but when I tried, I couldn't sleep at all. And it made me really moody the next day. So I guess I'll still take it for now, but I really wish that I had never started taking this medicine. If you're reading this because you are thinking about taking it, DON'T DO IT! It's really scary to think that I'm addicted to this crap! | M | 32 | 2 years | 9/8/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | Regular waking, sleep walking and eating without memory of doing so. | Ambien worked wonderfully for me when I started taking it, but over time became less effective even with dosage increases. After a period where I had to take it almost daily for close to three months even 10mg wasn't enough to keep me asleep all night and I had to change medications. | F | 31 | 17 months | 9/7/2009 | 5 | Fibromyalgia & insomnia | I do get that blackout thing but I make sure to go to bed as soon as I take it. I watch tv or read until it knocks me out. My friends know if they call late I may not remember talking to them. I have been taking this every night for years & it has helped me so much. | This drug has made my life so much better & I have not found anything else that actually puts me to sleep. | F | 51 | 7 years | 9/3/2009 | 1 | Imsonia | I could fall asleep quickly, but in a few hours, wake up again. Sleep walking, sleep eating etc. | I will NEVER EVER take this drug again. I was going through a bad time with a relationship break up, losing my job, and having to find a new place to live. I couldn't sleep for all the stress so my doc gave me some ambien. The first couple of nights were good, I would still wake up but I'd go back to sleep. Then I started sleep walking... finding things in my room or in my kitchen when I would wake up. Then one night I went to bed and the next morning I woke up in the hospital. I had an interview to go to that morning, evidently (by counting the pills in the bottle) I had taken about four more ambien in the middle of the night, got up the next morning and DROVE MY CAR IN MY SLEEP and wrecked. I totalled my car, I missed my job interview. I was so out of it, in this unwordly haze, that I took the bus to my sister's house because I didn't have enought sense to call someone to come get me. This is a bad, bad drug. It should be banned. | F | 44 | 14 days | 9/3/2009 | 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 | 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 | 2 | Sleep Trouble | Severe stomach pain, drowsiness next day | Worked very well for sleep, but I couldn't continue due to stomach pain. | F | 35 | 1 months | 8/29/2009 | 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 | 1 | insomnia | To the person who wrote about their Mother who shot herself, yes she was very lucky, my husband was not. A very healthy, wonderful 43 year old man under some stress and had trouble sleeping. Physician prescribed Ambien under my protest (I had heard of some of the side effects, apparently not all). Every time he took the meds he acted different the next day. Somehat weird but I never put two and two together at that time. I was looking for sleep eating ect, the side effects that you heard of at that time. | The last time he took this drug, I found him the next morning. Ambien took my life away when it took my husband from me. I agree that not everyone has this type of reaction but just the few that have is way too many. I love and miss my husband everyday. Since then I have heard from many of the people I know about some really wierd and dangerous side effects that I did not know then. Please DO NOT take this drug or let anybody you know take it. After all it is not a sleeping pill, it is classified as a hypnotic. This is the beginning of the problem. When people lost their sense of smell due to a cold med, they yanked it from the market, why is Ambien sill out there? If is was not, myself and many people that knew my husband all agree that he would still be with us. Heartbreaking | M | 43 | 5 times | 8/25/2009 | 5 | insomnia | mild visual hallucinations and slight drunk-like effect about a half hour to an hour after administration. other than that, none. | works fantastically for me. the nice thing about ambien is that its half life is only a few hours. for people that struggle with calming their minds down at bedtime this is the perfect remedy. it knocks you out, being a hypnotic, and by the time the effects wear off you are already in deep sleep. some might find it effective to split a 10mg pill and take 5mg before bedtime and again during the middle of the night if you wake up. this would be useful for those that have trouble staying asleep.when you wake up the next morning there is little left in your system and you feel refreshed and well rested. as far as i can tell, there are no hangovers or cravings for this drug. and if there were cravings i'd imagine them to be miniscule in comparison to other drugs like the benzodiazepines. in my experience, a good way to reduce tolerance and make sure the same dose is effective day after day is to adopt a vigorous workout routine and include lots of physical activity in your daily regimen. this cycles the medicine and other chemicals out of your body through sweat and circulation and allows kind of a clean slate for administration of the drug again the following night. i notice that when i don't work out the dose takes a longer time to work and is not as powerful as when i've exercised that day. it has a lot do with metabolism. | M | 30 | 2 weeks | 8/20/2009 | 1 | Insomnia | Over the past 12 months, I have been depressed, suicidal thoughts, almost quit my 6-digit job, performing way below my capabilities, no interest in sex, eating everything in sight, dizziness, and passing out and hitting the floor. I didn't make the connection until watching an ambien commercial and really hearing the potential side affects. I am off of it and would encourage everyone to do the same. I think I am better off not sleeping. | M | 45 | 12 months | 8/19/2009 | 5 | Insomnia | No side effects. | I take 5 mg (sometimes 2.5 mg) just before I go to bed. I sleep for 6 to 7 hours and always feel normal in the morning. It's a very good drug for me. | M | 69 | 3 years | 8/18/2009 |