AMBIEN Reviews (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE)Average Rating: 3.1 (1450 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare AMBIEN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | sleep | sad days afterwards | F | 39 | 12 days | 9/26/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | none | used only two weeks so no problem with tolerance or addiction or withdrawal- great for a short term solution | F | 38 | 14 days | 9/20/2008 | 2 | Insomnia | AFRAID OF BECOMING ADDICTED, but not sure what else to do or take. Nausea the day after. Ah. I just want to sleep. | Started 10mgs of generic Ambien a few days ago, and feel nauseous the day after each time. I tried brand Ambien a few yrs ago and never had that effect - could it be the generic? The brand name seemed to put me to sleep better too. Most of all, after reading the posts, I am terrified about getting addicted. I have an addictive personality, used to abuse alcohol, drugs etc., so this makes me nervous. I was taking Seroquel for insomnia, but it stopped working, and made me eat at night. Melatonin used to work but insomnia's now too severe. My pdoc suggested abilify as an alternative - but that seems like an even weirder drug. HELP! | F | 24 | 3 days | 9/20/2008 | 2 | could not sleep | Memory loss, hair loss, receeding gums, acne on face, bowel problems, no sensation to urinate, ache in joints, hallucinations. | took on and off for about 5 yrs. at first great sleep 8 hrs, then less and less sleep 10mg. then all the side effects. | F | 47 | 5 years | 9/19/2008 | 5 | insomnia | horney as hell | i tried to pork everything. my neighbor (she was hot though), my coworkers, my brothers wife, my sister-in-law, my poor sister, my poor dog . . . it was just unbelievable. . . and the best part is that i could not remember all of it . . . just the good parts | M | 20 | 1 years | 9/17/2008 | 1 | Insomnia | Black outs, dizziness, muscle pain, muscle twitching, memory loss, brain zaps. | It worked great at first, but then after two months of taking, started blacking out and woke up with muscle pains that weren't there when i went to bed night before. I am weaning off now and feel twitching all over my body and can't get to sleep. Very scary med. | F | 40 | 2 months | 9/17/2008 | 5 | imsomnia | works very well but very addictive | careful | F | 30 | 3 years | 9/15/2008 | 4 | Insomnia due to anxiety | A little spacey, forgetful about 45 minutes after taking it. | This is a funny drug. It does a good job at helping me sleep at night with no hangover. However, if I don't go to bed immediately after taking it, I do things that I don't remember doing the next day. For instance last night, I don't remember washing my face before bed, getting into my pj's and having sex with my partner. That's a little scary! He said I seemed a little out of it and had no idea I had taken the Ambien. It does put you in a trance, so I highly recommend getting straight into bed after you take it. Otherwise, you may raid the refrigerator and not remember! Weird!! | F | 31 | 15 days | 9/15/2008 | 3 | insomnia | sleep walking, memory loss. | I didnt remember gettin up in the middle of the night to give my mom the dog's collar. Calling people, talking to people, drinking. I did go to sleep but not remembering the events that happened is scarier than not knowing what u did and who with. I'd rather have no sleep. At least I will have my dignity | F | 25 | 3 weeks | 9/13/2008 | 5 | Sleep and Anxiety | Grogginess in the morninging if I didn't get atleast 8 hours of sleep. | M | 21 | 3 weeks | 9/11/2008 | 4 | insomnia | It keeps you awake if you have had ANYTHING to drink any time even during the day. It gives a good quality sleep, but only lasts about 6 hours. | You have to use 'reverse engineering' to figure out what time to take this medication. Figure out what time you need to be up in the morning, then count backwards 6-7 hours, and take the pill at that time. Trust me, six hours is all you're gonna get, so don't take it at ten unless you want to be up at four in the morning...you'll be wide awake and feeling nicely rested though! It's too expensive I think. | F | 56 | 10 months | 9/11/2008 | 4 | insomnia | tintinutis, groggy in morning | worked well | F | 60 | 3 months | 9/9/2008 | 4 | sleepless nights | I just recently began taking ambien, maybe a week and last night apparently I woke up change my clothes and hid the car keys under my pillow and my husband said I was yelling at him and his buddy. I have no idea what happened. Im glad I found this website because after waking up in different clothes and searching for my car keys for about 30 mins today I am going to find another sleep aid maybe back to the OTC sleep help. | F | 42 | 1 weeks | 9/9/2008 | 4 | unable to sleep-anxiety | groggy in the morning... but I believe that it gave me severe tenitus ( ringing in the ears)... I have stopped taking it and I think the ringing is less... anyone else with this side effect? | In the past I have "sleeped walked and driven"... very scary stuff.. have to get 7 1/2 - 8 hrs. I did love the sleep part... it worked! | F | 56 | 6 months | 9/6/2008 | 1 | Could not sleep at night | Side effects became quite severe. My body is in constant motion all night long leaving me exhausted in the morning. I have woke up outside sitting on my deck in the middle of the night. I have been on the telephone ordering items off the television. I received 4 expensive books in the mail and was billed for it. I called the telephone number on the bill and explained that I did not order the books. They let me listen to a recorded message which, in fact, was my voice. It was very scary to listen to myself and to hear me giving out my credit card number. I wake up with food have eaten in my mouth unaware of what I am doing. I have sent out E-mails and spoke on the telephone without being aware of it. My husband and children say that it is very confusing to tell when I am really awake or when I am really asleep. They also say I become argumentative when they try to redirect me to bed. Just two nights ago I fell asleep in the bath tub with the water running. My husband did no | I would not recommend this drug to anyone. I will never take Ambien again. I did not take it for the first time last night. I am exhausted today and feel anxious. My body feels weak and I am dizzy. I do want you all to know that I did have three sleep studies and have been under the care of neurologists for over 15 years. Taking Ambien wasn't a flash decision. Please be very careful in deciding to take this drug. | F | 53 | 7 years | 9/6/2008 | 4 | insomnia from back/neck pain | Learned quickly to disable all methods of communication prior to taking it. Turn off the phone, hide the car keys, turn off the computer, lock the doors and put away my money and GO TO BED. I woke up in front of the TV one morning in my t-shirt and panties surrounded by Wal-Mart bags, my purse open and $300 gone. Did I just shop nearly nude? No. I had given my son money and a Christms list with no memory of having done this. I have had lengthy telephone conversations with no ideo what was said (probably loving-love everybody on this stuff). I have obligated myself to events I can't physically fulfill due to my chronic pain condition, but I felt good at the time I was called upon because I had just taken my ambien. I clean my house around 3 a.m. as it relieves my pain, but pain is much worse the next day. I just bought a bunch of dresses on E-Bay that aren't my size. TAKE THIS MED AND GO TO BED or better yet GO TO BED AND TAKE THIS MED. | The round lavendar pills worked really well for me, but then began to cause increased pain. There was another one that was a skinny white oblong pill that made me ill-very ill. I just tried the brand that has the 54-553 imprint on a round whtie pill and I am feeling nothing-no drowsiness & no crazy feeling.... well except feeling like I wasted my money and will be up all night. Don't take this during the daytime and don't drink with it either. Be responsible. I wish the CR wasn't so expensive because it worked better for sleep, but the kick of la la land leading to sleep wasn't there with the CR. Ambien does spice up the love life for women. | F | 40 | 3 years | 9/5/2008 | 5 | insomnia | As anyone, amnesia if taking out of bed. Tolerrance to this medicine build quickly. Expensive without insurance. | Good sleep aid. Actually I have some sleep disorders like "sleep paralyisis" and these as helped me a lot. Bad thing, tolerance. Company should make 20mg tab. I take 20 mg and lay on a bed watching a movie and a get a good sleep. | M | 30 | 5 years | 9/4/2008 | 3 | wanted a normal sleep schedule | the first few times i took it i fell asleep directly after. i found that i would wake up at the exact same time every night i took it, at 3 am, and i'd get a drink and go back to sleep. it worked decently when i used it for what it was meant for. | i heard such "great" things about how good ambien was if you took it and fought the urge to sleep and just stayed awake, so i tried it. i took it late at night while i was laying in my bed watching tv and talking to people online on my laptop. i had a few things laying on my bed, like a pair of pants and a hairbrush. WELL. after i took it, i was talking online and my laptop screen started changing. it was like i was staring through the screen into another world, where i was walking around the side of a mountain. i couldn't even see my instant messaging boxes because they kept moving and i was just so confused and trying to concentrate on the mountain. it hurt my eyes so bad that i just threw the computer on the floor. after that, i layed in bed and i started hearing voices (which was actually the tv) and i thought it was coming from the pants and hairbrush that were on my bed. i all of a sudden got this random idea that i was an egyptian queen and the pants and the hairbrush | F | 18 | 4 days | 9/4/2008 | 3 | Couldn't sleep, on Zoloft | It appears that, although I've only taken Ambien a few times, last night I opened the garage door (which I always check before going to bed because of bears) and MAY have driven, although I don't think so. I've been off a regular sleep schedule ever since we came back from Australia for 10 months. I never would have known about this except my husband asked me this morning if I opened the garage door. I said no. I didn't talk to my daughter until this evening and she said she HAD NOT opened the garage door (she's 24 so this was not a teenager trying to escape). I do remember dreaming (once I went to sleep) that I couldn't find my car...I thought it had been stolen. So, unless there was some kind of electrical problem (and then why not open the other garage door?) I was sleepwalking. This has scared the bejeezus out of me. Ambien DOES help me sleep but it takes a long time to take effect. As of tonight, NO MORE AMBIEN. If I'm asleep and driving a car (!!!) I am a danger | This is terrible to even ASSUME it happened! | F | 54 | 5 days | 9/2/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | Lightheadedness, slurred speach, memory loss. Groggy and headaches the next day. | It works, but it hits hard and hits quickly. I now only take it when i am ready for bed and under the covers. Have been found outside in my garden at 2am, have baked and left the kitchen a mess, been used sexually by my wife and not remembered any of it. I only take it once every 3 weeks or so, and that is more for the high than for helping me sleep. I welcome all stories and comments via e-mail. | M | 41 | 3 years | 9/1/2008 |