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 |
| 5 | Couldn't Sleep at Nights | Snack Monster, little memory loss. | Take everynight. Really helps me to knock out the anxiety/stress and helps me relax so i can sleep at nights. I'm really greatful for something that doesn't have bad side effects. I take 10mg, and some nights 15mg for those extremely hard nights. | F | 34 | 10 years | 2/24/2008 | 5 | insomnia | I had a jekel and hyde personality on Ambien. I had amneisa for three months, remembering on bits and parts during those months. It is highly addictive and I had to go to a treatment facility to recover from Ambien addiction. | F | 42 | 3 years | 2/23/2008 | 1 | insomnia | Out of 12 doses I took (over the course of a month), two resulted in severe hallucinations - the last time I took it I jumped in the hot tub for 10 minutes to "relax" before bed. The tub came alive and I was so amazed by it I apparently tried to stay under the water to investigate. My son had to climb in and pull me out. Eventually my son and wife had to literally carry/drag me to bed. I could not walk. Everything (e.g. living carpet, moving walls, breathing chair backs, etc) distracted me. I have never taken an illegal drug, but my experience sounded very much like descriptions I have heard of LSD use. | I would never take this drug again. Other experiences to date: Lunesta helped me sleep VERY well but apparently I had many hallucinations from it as well -- but memory loss so I relied on my wife to fill in the blanks. I quit it due to the memory loss (not even remembering going to bed). Switched to Rozerem. No side effects with Rozerem but they did not help be sleep at all. Switched to Ambien... What shall I try next? | M | 42 | 12 days | 2/21/2008 | 1 | Needed to sleep with sciatica | EXTREME heart palpitations with low heart rate, high blood pressure and constant nervousness. | Took a while to realize the Ambien was the culprit. I was near the end of my 30-day prescription and asked the pharmacist if slow heart rate/palpitations were common. She said she had heard of people being very sensitive to Ambien because it "slows" your central nervous system. After 4 or 5 days off the drug, I gradually became myself again. Coming up on two weeks and I feel great. | M | 40 | 30 days | 2/21/2008 | 3 | Anxiety related insomnia | amnesia | I took the drug after a few drinks during the evening and about 15 minutes before retiring for the night. I have had amnesia from the drug in the past, but last night (according to my husband) I fell in the bathroom, then walked out holding a tissue to my arm. Then I opened a prescription drug container, spilled it on the floor, crawled under my bedsheets and fell asleep. He got out of bed and picked up all of the pills (so our cats wouldn't get hold of them) but put them in a box by my bedside... not their container. I woke up this morning with scratches on my left arm and a bruised nose. I found a bloody tissue next to me in bed. The pills were where he had left them... in a box on my night table. I was (hell, I still am) confused and scared about what I had woken to because I have NO MEMORY of any of these events. There is no feeling more terrifying than harming yourself and having no recollection of it. I am aware that Ambien is not to be taken after consuming alcohol, and | F | 28 | 12 months | 2/19/2008 | 3 | yes | hallucinations | F | 40 | 8 months | 2/18/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | On Ambien CR 12.5 mg I sleep like a baby. No side effects-- no amnesia, no nightmares, no sleepwalking, no hallucinations, no hangover. | Doctors may prescribe Ambien with ease, but pharmacists are very apprehensible. Some behave as nervous about filling Ambien as they would filling an illegal drug. | F | 46 | 2 months | 2/17/2008 | 4 | insomnia, restless legs syndrome | feeling drunk, euphoria, falling down, getting up in the middle of the night and having sexual intercourse with my husband, in which I don't exactly remember but only half of anything that happened. Having conversations on the phone with people and don't remember nothing about it the next day. SHopping on the internet and ordering things and not remembering until the next day when something else "triggers" my memory. | This drug will help people fall asleep but it's scary to think that you are getting up in the middle of the night and calling people and shopping online and having sex with your spouse, only not to really remember any of it the next day unless something triggers your memory. To be honest, i am scared of this drug. | F | 36 | 1 years | 2/14/2008 | 1 | could not sleep | memory loss, not remembering waking up and doing things, realistic nightmares that I couldn't wake up from, sleepwalking, sleep eating, sleep-sex, waking up the next morning somewhere else in the house. Snoring loudly progressing to not being able to breath. | This is bad medicine. I thought it was great when I first started taking it but the side effects got progressively worse to the point of being dangerous. I would wake myself up snoring loudly but still dreaming! Not good. I felt like my throat was closing up. Switched to temazapam. works for me | F | 62 | 1 years | 2/13/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | None...this time, other than some interesting and vivid images right before drifting off. | I'd taken it a few years ago while also drinking alcohol. Then I would sleep walk, eat, fall down the stairs, have amnesia, etc. Now I'm taking it (because I quit drinking) and it works well. I think a lot of problems people have with this drug have to do with alcohol or other drugs. Alcohol in the blood turns to rocket fuel about 3:00 AM, which I'd say doesn't mix well with Ambien. Taken straight-up, Ambien seems okay. | M | 44 | 14 days | 2/11/2008 | 1 | not sleeping due to stress | grogginess, confusion, suicidal thoughts | I was going through a difficult divorce and my doctor put me on Ambien and Lexapro. The first week I completely stopped eating. I didn't take the Ambien every night, but when I did I would wake up at 4am crying and confused. After about 2 weeks I ended up in the emergency room when after one of my bouts of confusion and wanting to die, I tried to take a whole bottle. After quitting the Ambien, I haven't had the suicidal thoughts. It was like the Ambien magnified my depression. I was mildy depressed when I started the Ambien, but not suicidal. | F | 41 | 2 weeks | 2/11/2008 | 1 | Had not slept for 2 nights. | I took 15mg of Ambien as I had not slept the previous 2 nights due to a persistent cold. I awoke at 5:00am in a pool of blood, having opened up a 2 inch gash on the back of my head with no memory of what happened. My wife called 911 and I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. I spent the next 6 days in the hospital. | M | 64 | 1 days | 2/10/2008 | 1 | insomnia | anger, confusion, loss of memory, very emotional, it changed my personality and it is highly addictive. It took me over 5 months to sleep normally after stopping the drug. | Very very very very dangerous to take if you have to care for others in the middle of the night, such as children, or a sick spouse, or parent. This drug puts you in a coma so a person is INCAPACITATED and UNABLE to care for others for several hours after taking this dreadful medication. If you care for your loved ones, and you are needed in the middle of the night, do not take this dreadful medication. | F | 55 | 2 years | 2/10/2008 | 5 | sleep problems due to back pain | Possibly a little short-term memory loss, but very little. Groggy on waking if on more than 7.5mg. Fine if I keep the dose at that amount. | It has been exceedingly helpful with very few side effects. I take 7.5 mg. immediately before bed. Sleep well, and wake sometimes with pain--but can go back to sleep. Without Ambien, I can't do that and there is to much pain break-through. I also take a low dose of Percocet (5mg.) and 10 mg. of diazepam. This combination has made it possible to sleep well after four back surgeries. The surgeries were successful, but I knew that they would not totally eliminate pain--and night pain had been an ongoing problem. I don't always get eight hours--but six to six and a half is a lot better than what I got previous to Ambien. Is it addictive? I don't care. I have not had to increase the dose, and I sleep so much better--so maybe the ability to sleep is addictive. You need to take the minimum amount that is effective, take it immediately before bedtime, and not experiment with it. | F | 65 | 4 years | 2/9/2008 | 3 | insomnia | inability to have an orgasm. hangover with nausea, dizziness. | Benadryl works about the same or better. | F | 43 | | 2/9/2008 | 1 | Insomnia | I had an episode of "sleep-driving" the next morning after taking my regular dose of Ambien the night before. I drove and did things that I have no memory of and did drive irratically and could of harmed someone else or myself. I wound up in the hospital for 2 days while a full neurological work-up was performed and all tests thankfully came out negative. I will never take Ambien or any other sleep aid for fear of the same thing happening again. | F | 59 | 5 years | 2/9/2008 | 1 | insomnia | short term memory loss, lack of sleep | I was taking Ambien CR for 4 years. It has completely stopped working. Initially, I had the amnesia reaction, but now I have nothing. I will not increase the dose, because I am scared abou the side effects of taking 25 mg. I will switch back to Trazodone. This drug is not designed for long-term use. I would strongly advise people to reevaluate taking it, once it begans to wear off. You can tell when it wears off because you go from getting 8 hours of sleep/night to only getting about 4 hours. | F | 47 | 4 years | 2/8/2008 | 1 | My fiancee took it for insomnia. | She had serious memory lapses, episodes of hallucination, heard conversations that didn't take place, sent weird emails and made weird phone calls, got easily confused, and she seemed to have no attention span. We would agree on doing something and an hour later she would seemingly have no recollection of the conversation. She accused me (repeatedly) of leaving the house at night after she was asleep, having an affair with another woman (the specific woman differed), then returning and getting back in bed with her before she woke up. These episodes took place only on nights she took ambien. This led to her phoning total strangers and accusing them of being involved with me (as well as several professional acquaintances--to my embarrassment). Occasionally she would get violent for no apparent reason, to the point of breaking things she valued. These antics became worse over time. | At the time, it never occurred to me that her use of ambien may have been the culprit. I figured she was coming down with Altzheimer's and I broke off the relationship because of her crazy behavior. Only recently did my sister suggest that there may have been a pharmacological explanation for her outlandish behavior. Now it's quite possible that ambien wasn't the culprit. But in retrospect, she did take it quite frequently--more evenings than not--, and usually after a glass or two of wine (and she was a little lady, 116 lb). Anyway, I wish I'd considered a possible connection earlier, so as to at least try to rule it out. My advice: if you have a loved one using this product, and he or she begins to act weirdly, check out the possibility that it's the drug that is responsible. | F | 58 | 10 years | 2/5/2008 | 1 | insomnia | woke up with headaches, slow speech & word recall, increased anxiety, became very sensitive to stimuli (sound, light, smell), increased irritability & aggitation | Took ambien everynight for about 4-6 weeks, put me to sleep fast and I didn't seem to have any trouble waking, but noticed that my tolerance for lifes little annoyances was really decreasing. I was always telling my kids to be quiet, and they are not loud kids. Irritated by the phone ringing, didn't really want to leave the house to do errands. Realized it all started when I began taking ambien. I also had terrible achy joints and bones (fibromyalgia type pain). I did not have bad withdrawal symptoms. If you are sleeping but feel like you are loosing it during the day, take a close look at the ambien side effects. I took trazadone before ambien and I think it does just as good a job. | F | 34 | 6 weeks | 2/1/2008 | 1 | Couldn't sleep | Very bad nightmares. Sleepwalking in the middle of the night and eating whatever was in the fridge. | F | 37 | | 1/30/2008 |