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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Insomnia | hallucinations, sleepwalking, headaches, vertigo, memory loss, confusion, sweating, nausea, fatigue, vision problems, weird sensations, heavy head, loss of balance. After 8 months of non-use, on top of the memory loss, I still get terrible headaches, eye twitching, and vertigo from time to time, which never happened before first taking Ambien. I only took the drug a total of 12 times over the course of 6 months, but I know I've been afflicted with permanent damage. | No amount of sleep is worth all the health problems this drug has created. Now I'm just waiting for the class action lawsuit, because from the little internet research I've done so far, I know there are many others out there like me who have horrible lingering effects from this dangerous drug. | F | 34 | 6 months | 4/3/2008 | 4 | Chronic insomnia | The onset of ambien started in about 10 minutes and hit hard. I could not walk straight and my vision was then blurry. After that, I would not remember things I did, like order and expensive watch, a laptop computer, a cell phone, etc. Even scarier, I had to go to a store to get smokes and was on ambien and crashed my car and didnt remember it in the morning. | The medicine will mess with your memory so be careful. | M | 30 | 7 years | 4/2/2008 | 1 | ...recreation... | Man, this stuff really messes you up. Don't take it. I got about 10 or 12 pills from a friend cuz he said they get you fucked up and i took 2 or 3 at about noon one saturday and then don't remember much of anything until about 9:00 that night. Turns out i took every last one of them (thats 10 or so pills--WAY TOO MUCH) while i was under. Think about that: I took a double, maybe triple dose (wish i could remember) and was so screwed up from it that i took pill after pill after pill. I bet if i'd had a whole bottle i'd have taken every last one. I literally have no recollection of putting any more pills in my mouth after the original 2 or 3, but the bag was empty when i looked the next day. Scared the hell out of me. This isn't a sleep medication, guys--its a hardcore drug. The "side effects" are ridiculous: I was seeing double, and i could not focus my eyes to save my life. It's a complete de-inhibitor--i remember doing awful things that i would never do if i were sober. Basic | M | 19 | 1 times | 4/2/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | a little groggy upon awakening when I first started using it, but that subsided after a few days. | Has been a lifesaver for me. Never could fall asleep due to husband snoring. Now I take 5 mg. and in about 30 minutes I'm asleep for 6 hours straight. It doesn't work if I eat food within 2 hours of taking. Lunesta gave me nightmares, and Rozeram didn't work at all. | F | 58 | 2 days | 3/26/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | None, just blessed sleep. | I asked for a sleep aid from my doctor because I would go to sleep, then wake up in 3 hours. Then my brain kicked in and I would be awake for 4 more hours. Then I would finally nod off and it would be time to get up. I was given the cr type and I was warned not to take it every night. While I now have to plan what nights I need to sleep well, it has been wonderful. Even if I do wake up, my mind doesn't go into overdrive and I go back to sleep without the previous anxiety and hour counting. I do not ever take it without being in bed ready to sleep. I have never driven or cooked or eaten under its influence, have had no weight gain. Dreams may be a bit more intense, and perhaps my libido is sparkier from time to time (a welcomed side effect!) Seeing the numerous comments regarding memory loss makes me wonder, but I haven't forgotten anything serious nor have I forgotten anything that I haven't later remembered, so i don't think that's an issue either. Even when I don't take it, I | F | 55 | 11 months | 3/25/2008 | 3 | insomnia | Memory loss, confusion, inability to make decisions, anxiety syndrome, and addiction. | I used Ambien CR for two months, everynight. I slept like a baby until I developed a tolerance to it. In the daytime I would feel very muddle-headed, not hung over, but feeling like I'd had a mild stroke. I had definite memory loss, and difficulty with concentration. After two months I developed an actual physical addiction to it. I would experience severe (and I mean severe) anxiety, elevated heart rate and b/p. Eventually I got off it using the anitidepressant Remeron. Remeron worked like a charm at first, but eventually that too stopped working. The best cure for insomnia I have ever used has been hemp. It's been used for thousands of years for depression and insomnia. Although it is unhealty to smoke any substance, pot (in my experience) been the most effective treatment for chronic insomnia. It never stops working. | M | 52 | 2 months | 3/25/2008 | 3 | sleeping poblems/shift work | Usually took it a half hour before bed. Big mistake. I have made food, and eaten very large amounts of it while on this drug. I have also made phone calls I dont remember to friends that dont make sense and to aquaintances (which is always embarrasing when i do finally remember) Orderd things online, ebay bids online, booked hotel room, that I had to cancel. Drove a couple of times to get cigrettes when I dont smoke. Thats all while on the drup. The next day I feel fine. No hangover...But I have been on it so long that I am having severe short term memory loss. It is starting to scare me. | Have been on it on and off (mostly on) for 4 years now. The short term memory loss is the scariest for me. The rest of the side effects I can deal with. Would like to try something different but I've gotten so used to this feeling before going to sleep, and I really like it so it would be really hard to stop. | F | 26 | 4 years | 3/24/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | Hunger! I have been taking for about a year and a half but the last 4-6 months I have been experiencing insatiable hunger, both right after taking and the day after taking. I have also gained, and been unable to loose quite a bit of weight from this. Also some mild hallucinations and eating late at night from hunger, stomach growling.....That said, now that I realize what is making me so hungry..I feel that I may be able to work with this in some way to find an alternative to eating all of the time and it is a load off my mind to be able to stop blaming myself for being so hungry all of the time and eating.... | But honestly, I have tried many other prescriptions for sleep both over the counter and prescribed by a doctor and by far this is the best for me. At 50 mg it puts me fast to sleep within 20 mins or so unless I am watching TV and staying awake on purpose...I am somewhat groggy the next day, but not terribly..at 25 mg it is harder to fall asleep and I sleep o.k. To me it is worth the side affects to get a decent nights sleep...Can't function at all without rest.... | F | 47 | 1 years | 3/22/2008 | 3 | Insomnia/anxiety | Partial amnesia, perception changes, clumsiness, bizarre thoughts, cravings. | When I take ambien I will immediately fall asleep for anywhere from 4-5 hours. However, once I wake up I absolutely cannot fall back asleep. The next day I experience mood swings, perception changes, clumsiness, and wierd thinking. One morning I also ate an entire jar of almond butter, which I remembered doing but would not normally do. | F | 29 | 2 weeks | 3/22/2008 | 1 | insomnia | visual and auditory hallucinations, confusion, acting drunk, sleepwalking | Two nights in a row I had been sleepwalking---don't know too much what I was doing, but found evidence of doing things in the house. Books and magazines moved around the house, apparently I tried to put on nail polish (painted 3 nails and then left brush on sink), the next morning found my pajama bottoms at the door of the bedroom, so I don't know what happened there. Besides sleepwalking I had hallucinations: wood paneling moving around like puzzle pieces, wooden sculpture of an eagle was moving (when I walked over to it and held it, I also felt it moving in my hand!), couch cushions moving, computer screen undulating (like a bubble blowing out toward me), out of the corner of my eye I saw someone sitting next to me on the couch and heard him talking to me, but when I turned toward him, he was gone. One night my husband was still up, and he said that I came in and kept talking but made no sense at all, and I appeared to be drunk. | F | 53 | 2 months | 3/22/2008 | 3 | insomnia | headache | Ambien worked at putting me to sleep, but I couldn't stay asleep. I would wake up after about 3 hrs and stay up for 30 minutes to 1 hour after waking. I eventually became dependent because I could not sleep without a pill. I do not recommend because it didn't work at keeping me asleep, and I feel the risk of dependency is too high. Look into the Controlled Release version. | M | 27 | 2 months | 3/20/2008 | 1 | insomnia | sleep driving/eating, having sex without remembering it, buying things online without memory of it until they showed up. | This drug is dangerous!!! After reading all the comments, at least I know I'm not the only one that had these crazy side effects. I would not recommend this medicine to anyone because the side effects are not worth it. | F | 37 | 1.5 years | 3/19/2008 | 4 | InSoMniA | Well...Hallucinating. Making VERY weird phone calls in the middle of the night singing songs to random people, telling the blunt truth(Told my friend he was ugly with short hair) hearing random voices, delusional thoughts such as little kids in my room, having sex | There is absolutley no side effects if you use as directed. The nights that I went right to bed, I didnt have these effects. Although sometimes, ill be laying there in bed after taking one pill and am not tired so i get up and then that is when all these effects happen | F | 21 | 365 days | 3/13/2008 | 5 | insomnia | I've gained 13 lbs by stuffing my face every night against my will, have incredible nasty sex (according to my happy husband), had deep conversations with the plants (they talked back) my ceiling fan had aliens jumping off the blades, faces have melted, emailed the most embarresing letters that i have to explain afterwards, tried to drive but my family stopped me, talked on the phone, and shopped on Ebay (and won to my horror) and to top it all off, I have very little memory of most of it but always have a good laugh about it. I did have a few very memorable "trips" where I saw demons and shadow people coming out of my computer tower, I kept telling myself it was the Ambien but still felt very scared. | I love the sleep I do get, I wouldn't trade it for anything else. Tried Lunesta and it was horrible because of the metallic taste in the mouth it leaves you with. If I could stop eating while under Ambien I would be extremely happy. | F | 36 | 8 years | 3/12/2008 | 2 | insomnia | eating in the middle of the night; partial amensia | It did work in putting me to sleep but not sure if the side effects are worth it. May want to use sonata but it doesn't keep me asleep as long. | F | 45 | 5 days | 3/9/2008 | 3 | depression, anxiety, insomnia | about an hour after taking, felt ridiculously drunk, wandered around my room and hallways for a while, mezmerized by certain textures and colors. loss of sense of balance or any desire to be balanced | it doesnt really work for me, even if i am in bed when it starts to hit me, 3/10 times i get up and stumble around instead of fall asleep | M | 18 | 10 months | 3/7/2008 | 4 | insomnia | increased sex drive, sleep walking, headache the next morning, calling people and not remembering what we talked about | This medicine has been a godsend as I have had chronic insomnia for about 15 years. It's been going great except when I woke up this morning, I had rug burns on my knees, a bloody nose, and my daughter had a different set of pyjamas on than she originally went to bed with. WTF? | F | 28 | 1 weeks | 3/6/2008 | 2 | Insomnia | Hallucinations, horrible anxiety and depression, addiction, decreased ability to deal with infections, hangover, tired during the day. | I've got to say, this drug works. I was having terrible issues adjusting to a new sleep schedule about a year and a half ago when i started a new job. I used this to help me situate myself, however, i became addicted to it. Not to abuse the drug, but it became virtually impossible to sleep without it. I never took more than the recommended dose, but i rarely went without taking it. Over time, i noticed that during the day i was becoming very anxious and depressed, probably from withdrawl, and i started getting infections. Lung infections, skin, staph.... Don't use this drug if you have long term sleeping issues. Over that period of time it is hard to get off it, and will cause many more problems than it will fix. Now i take herbal supplements with meletonin and while they don't work nearly as well, they do work and help enough to get me to sleep. | M | 27 | 10 months | 3/5/2008 | 5 | insomnia, jet-lag | none | I started taking this when I was traveling internationally 280 days of the year. It was great to get me on whatever time-zone I was in and adjust. It helped me sleep on 14-hour plane rides across the globe. Now that I only travel domestically, I have a prescription for 10mg and take a half of a half 4-5 times a week. (2-3mg) I am a happier person because I get solid sleep. It has to be said, that you need to be IN BED when you take the dose....be ready for sleep when the pill goes in your mouth. Lay down and let it do what it is supposed to do....the crazy side effects happen when you fight the drug or attempt anything other than sleep. | F | 34 | 3 years | 2/28/2008 | 3 | insomnia | apparent sexual arousal with severe amnesia | I fall asleep quickly with Ambien but have now found that 3 of the 6 nights I've taken it I have been extremely aroused and have NO memory of the events... good for my husband, bad that I dont remember. It is scary to wonder what else I might do. My husband and I are now discussing other possible things, like having to hide the car keys from me, etc? | F | 30 | 7 days | 2/25/2008 |