AMBIEN Reviews (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE)

Average Rating: 3.1 (1450 Ratings)

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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/Anxiety before sleep Dizzy, tired feeling This has helped me get a good nights rest. A miracle for me. You have to be careful of not mixing this medication with alcohol or even antihistamines. It says clearly on the label "do not drink" From previous reviews, this is dangerous. Be responsible! F 27 1 years
11/13/2007
 5  insomnia/ anxiety None. Only is a little addictive Ambien is a Godsend pill who has helped me with terrible insomnia (I work at nights) and the best of all it calm my anxiety. Sometimes I use it recreationally when Im bored in front of the computer. The only bad thing about ambien (zolipdem) is that it create dependence, and with longer use, create tolerance. 10mg now doesnt work on me and I have some times to take 15mg (1 pill and a half) or even 20 mg to get sleep. FDA should consider release a 20mg pill of Zolpdem (Ambien) M 29 4 years
11/13/2007
 3  to obtain productive sleep. Everything but halucinagic did I have. I'm speaking of the info you get from their web site not just the info with the drug. Aches, pains, addition, irritability, sucidal, etc. I sleep but I was in a fog. Everyday I wanted to go home to sleep, that was an escape I guess that was part of the addition. It's not good to use for long term use. You then have to up the dose and you need more and more. F 52 5 years
11/12/2007
 1  insomnia I would only sleep for about 3 hours, have VERY vivid dreams but the thing that stopped me from taking it was one night I was apparently sleepwalking and destroyed my bedroom and my home office with NO memory of having been up and about. I think it's a dangerous drug. F 55 1 months
11/12/2007
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 5  Insomnia none I've been taking ambien for over 10 years. the instructions were to take it only for 7 days, but my doc said that it was ok for me to take it on a continual basis. when i first started taking it i did not need it for getting to sleep, i could do that on my own. i would take small peices of it after waking in the middle of the night to get back to sleep. about 5 years ago i suffered a cronic illness that made it difficult for me to even get to sleep. so i started taking ambien on a regular basis, every night. it has worked consistently all of these years. unlike others' experiences, it takes at least a half hour, sometimes an hour for it to work on me. i find almost no difference between ambien and ambien cr. if anything, the old time ambien, now available as a generic, works a bit better. a friend who's been on ambien was told by her doctor that it was found to be harmful and for her to stop using it. my doc says its fine for continual use. i do hear alot of negatives about its long te M 68 10 years
11/10/2007
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 1  pain at night disturbed sleep terrible headaches all the next day I experimented with all kinds of cures for my terrible headaches-after trial and error I relized the headaches were 100% Ambien-induced. Never again. I'd rather stay awake. 53 180 days
11/8/2007
 5  insomnia peaceful, wonderful sleep - HOWEVER, beware of the snack monster! I have woken up to discover crackers in my bed (I hate when that happens!) My years of laying awake while the rest of the world slept are over! Yes, the "sleep eating" can be a problem but you are aware while you're doing it so just have little talks with yourself before you take the Ambien and don't allow yourself to go there. I take the Ambien CR - I much prefer it to regular Ambien. F 59 3 years
11/4/2007
 3  Sleep disorder Sometimes this works sometimes it doesn't. F 24 3 months
11/3/2007
 5  Insomnia NONE! Made me feel a bit like I had taken a relaxer or anti-anxiety med. that made me look forward to taking it every night. very good side effect. no bad ones at all. except its very addictive. I love it. I was put on it and tried other things, lunesta, rozerem, otc meds, melatonin. nothing works as well as ambien. im on 10mg. i wake up every morning around 8am (im a college student and dont have class until noon) and I love it! I am rarely tired during the day. F 20 7 years
11/1/2007
 3  Falling Asleep I have 12.5mg cr but found it was too powerful for me. So I cut it in half. I don't take regularly--maybe once or twice weekly. Last night I woke up with a seizure type feeling over my entire body. I think the last time I took it was 2-3 nights ago. One time I took an entire 12.5 tablet instead of the 1/2, and made love to my wife. The next day I could only vaguely remember it and had to ask my wife to confirm that we actually did make love. I suggest you use great caution in using this medication. Don't make a habit of it. It is very effective in getting me to sleep. M 47 180 days
10/31/2007
 3  sleep deprivation If I do not go to sleep right after taking it. Then I end up Alice in Wonderland. or Wanderland. I think about sex, but like crazy sex, and am willing to drive for it. I have also made phone calls to my-ex boyfriend, confessing my under the influence of Ambien, lust for him. My libido just skyrockets and I am ready for sex with the shower curtain if I have too. So I just try and go to sleep. I do not drink with this drug because, who knows what I would be doing then. It does make me want to eat whatever's around. My Cocktiel starts to look like KFC. Take then strap yourself to you bed. Ambien generic works for sleep. I take Xanax sometimes. I actually prefer Xanax, but my doctors says that it will not work for me after awhile so I switch the Ambien. It's great for sex, except you can remember much-which is not good. I do not want to end up farm animals in my bed. F 39 1 months
10/30/2007
 3  insomnia memory loss, early waking. I have a love/hate relationship with this drug. Try to keep it down to 4mgs (less than half of a 10) twice a week -- I quickly build a tolerance and wake increasingly early. Generally, I get solid sleep in 20 minutes, then only get 5 1/2 to 6 hours, which isn't enough, but can't get back to sleep. My memory definitely suffers the next day. F 48 5 years
10/28/2007
 5  insomnia double vision, amnesia, sex not remembered, late night phone calls not remembered, walking crooked and banging into walls, waking up kids in middle of night to snuggle!! TAKE WHILE IN BED!!!!!!!!!! F 36 12 months
10/27/2007
 4  insomnia wild hallucinations, especially if alcohol is present in the system I've taken Ambien and Ambien CR a few dozen times, when I needed a solid night's sleep guaranteed for the next day, or when I've had trouble sleeping for more than three nights. It never leaves me feeling hung over - I usually feel fantastic the next day - but it does have a tendency to induce some pretty crazy hallucinations. I can usually tell the medicine has kicked in when the page I am reading starts to bounce and dance and ripple and all manners of crazy things on it's own. One note - NEVER mix with alcohol, I did that by mistake one night, only had one drink, two hours later took my ambien, had forgotten about the liquor... it was like getting hit by a bus, it was that fast, around five minutes from when I took it. M 24 20 times
10/27/2007
 2  Anxiety related insomnia Felt heavy, it took about 20 minutes before I actually fell asleep, and I woke up about 5 hours later not able to move my arm because it had pins and needles so bad due to sleeping on it weird, which I would've woken up earlier if not on the medication. So now here I am...typing this comment, unable to go back to sleep 5 hours after taking it...worthless drug Worthless drug M 20 1 days
10/27/2007
 1  Insomnia due to depression I quickly became addicted to ambien and now take 3 to 6 pills a night sometimes all at once sometimes I take 3 at 930 and then another 2 or 3 at abt 3 in the morning...not s goodthing makes you stupid and very anti social. you become unable to make decissions and loose the ability to talk to people. M 43 7 years
10/25/2007
 1  Sleeplessness Blackouts even with just 1-2 glasses of wine. Kids got a kick out of me saying things like..."I'm going fishing with the Governor"! Left hand "only" started to go numb (pins and needles),... kind of wierd, thought I was stroking out until I read some of the comments on this website. M 44 20 days
10/24/2007
 1   My husband is abusing his ambien he takes 5 or more in a day He is irrational, mean and violent. I do not know what to do. Help F
10/21/2007
 5  fibromyalgia/insomnia As many people have said, only take this medicine when getting into bed. I have built up tolerance to the side effects when taken at low doses of the regular generic kind. I am dependent on this stuff to sleep; it is reported not to have physical withdrawal (like other benzodiazepines) other than inability to sleep for three days. Fibromyalgia is considered, at least in part, a sleep disorder. Ambien helps me get to sleep and sleep like a log. All the physicians I have seen have encouraged continuation since other sleep aids caused worse side effects. It just about totally removes debilitating pain during this time. (Pain returns by following mid-morning). I added Vit D3 about six months ago and am noticing marked day-time improvement as well -- if I've had a sound night's sleep. F 55 7 years
10/19/2007
 5  insomnia none
10/17/2007

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