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 |
| 4 | DIFFICULTY SLEEPING | TOTAL AMNESIA, ODD BEHAVIOR, SEXUAL INHIBITION, SPEECH/SPELLING/TYPING TROUBLE | I FELL ASLEEP W/A LIT CIGARETTE AND BURNED OUR EXPENSIVE RUG, HAD UNUSUAL TYPES OF SEX W/MY HUSBAND AND HAD NO RECOLLECTION, BROKE GLASSES, MAKE STRANGE MISTAKES WITH WORDS(EVEN DURING THE DAY) ETC...AND ALL OF THIS HAPPENED IN MY FIRST WEEK OF TAKING IT! I GUESS IT'S OK AS LONG AS I DON'T LEAVE THE HOUSE! | F | 30 | 6 days | 7/15/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | I didnt know I was experiencing side effects untill i read them here - ermm - have a constant hum in my ears - nightmares beond what I though I was Possible - very,very real! | Im taking these to help me sleep after a long period of booze abuse (intense drinking for 2 months) - im glad i have taken hem while I bed - thats for sure ;-) - im getting 6+ hours solid sleep. Then i'm wide awake - nightmares are so bad that i wake up fresh - then back to sleep and more intense terrors. Think Doom3 without having a gun! | M | 31 | 3 days | 7/12/2007 | 4 | Insomnia since childhood | I've had conversations with my husband, sent emails, ordered things online and by phone, and eaten a whole box of crackers - all without any memory of it in the morning. If I don't go to bed and close my eyes shortly after taking it, I get mild hallucinations like the walls moving in waves. The amnesia effect is the most alarming, as I recently ordered a $500 set of self-help tapes by phone yet have no memory of it whatsoever. When the package arrived at my home I thought it was a prank. Had to explain to the company and send them back. I even made them play back the recording of the phone call where I ordered it. The call lasted 15 minutes, was definitely me - sounding wide awake - and I don't remember ever having said a word of it. That's scary stuff. | This is the only effective sleeping aid I've ever taken. Totally dependable, unlike several other popular prescription sleep aids which did not work at all for me. I get no "hangover" or tiredness the next day. In an emergency, it is possible for me to override the sleeping effect and stay totally awake all night, which I've had to do a couple of times, once when my cat was seriously injured and had to be taken to emergency, and once when my mom was taken to emergency, both of these incidents occurring just after I took Ambien. In those cases, there was no amnesia effect whatsoever because I was so intent on concentrating on what was going on, and I had to remain alert to provide information, so with deliberate effort it is possible to stay awake and alert after taking it. I would have given Ambien a 5 rating for being so effective, but I'm deducting one point due to the problem of occasionally doing things you don't remember and had no intention of doing. In my case, it's be | F | 57 | 4 years | 7/10/2007 | 1 | insomnia | panic and depersonalization | The depersonalization and anxiety/panic that I suffered after taking this drug were terrifying, and I didn't get the least bit drowsy. | F | 26 | 1 days | 7/10/2007 | 4 | insomnia | Mild side effects like lightheadness, lethargic the next morning, some confusion and sillyness. | Only had a bad reaction once; my wife found me wandering around the backyard at 2am, nude, eating oatmeal cookies. I know, it makes no sense to me either. Had no idea how or why i was out there. | M | 40 | 3 months | 7/9/2007 | 3 | insomnia | A total truth serum. many things i did and behaviours got me into trouble. There are some things that belong in your head and they should not come out. this drug lets them escape and i was arrested. I have no control over dosage after i take 10 or 20 mg. I can not take it. I have had 2 bad reactions in 3 years | it works but if you have any bad thoughts ever you can not take this TRUTH DRUG | M | 49 | 3 years | 7/7/2007 | 5 | Couldn't fall asleep | None | Works great if I take it on an empty stomach, and get right into bed. If you take it and try to keep yourself awake, you can override the pill and be up all night. | F | 57 | 1 years | 7/4/2007 | 3 | insomnia | Hallucinations, feeling of being high, and no memory of things I did the night before. | First I took it to help me fall asleep. After a couple of days I noticed that it made me feel really good, so I would take it just to feel the high that it gave me. I would had no memory of what I did the night before. Every night I did really weird things like send out strange emails, take weird pictures, and I fear that I did things that I still don't know about. I would also hallucinate. I would just spend a lot of time staring at things watching them move, like the wall or notes on sheet music. I was way too distracted to go to bed. It made me tired, but I didn't want to go to bed. I stopped taking it because I don't want to get involved with something like that. I think about it all the time and I have cravings for it, but I just don't think I need anymore problems. | F | 23 | 30 days | 7/3/2007 | 1 | sleep trouble while travelling | waking up completely disorientated, topsy turvy like feelings. Possible hallucinations after taking Ambien a few times while travelling. Sleep is very hard now that I'm back home and not taking it. | I will never take this medicine again. Do not take while travelling or you could ruin your life as well as your trip. Better to miss a little sleep. | F | 48 | 3 days | 7/3/2007 | 1 | insomnia | horrific hallucinations, amnesia | very scary side effects to this drug, after one experience one time taking this drug, I will never take another sleeping pill | F | 20 | 1 days | 7/2/2007 | 4 | insomnia | Blurred vision, slurred speach, groggy the following day, mild lightheadedness the following day. Memory loss. Have noticed bruises and cuts the following day. My wife says i walk into furniture without flinching. | The first 2 nights i was asleep within 20 minutes with some just some slurred speach and a little loopiness. The third night i was found wandering in the backyard, nude, eating oatmeal cookies. Take it maybe once or twice every other week. I will wake up in another room wearing different clothing than what i fell alseep in, or wearing nothing at all. It does work, but, it messes me up somewhat. Woke one morning in the backseat of my car. Lucky i can never find my keys. | M | 40 | | 6/30/2007 | 4 | Insomina | No memory of what I did the night before - hallucinations when I resisted going to sleep. Doing and saying things "out of the norm", impaired judgement (So I've been told). Great sex, but you won't remember that either - which can really tick off the spouse. I use it as needed, a few days at a time then quit. Just the knowledge of knowing its there if I really need it is a comfort and seems to curb any intentions I may have for long term use. | Avoid some of these problems by using it as directed, go to bed immediately after taking it and let your family know your taking it. All the "bad" issues I expereinced with Ambien were a result of trying to stay awake afterward. (Not fun for those that have to deal with you) | M | 47 | 7 years | 6/28/2007 | 3 | sleep | Odd behavior Dangerous Behavior | I would take Ambien and be lying in bed and part of me would think it was a great idea to get up and do things. It was funny at first then I realized it was dangerous !!!! Ambien works by slowing the brain down. problem is it doesn't slow it all down at once. So you can end up doing CRAZY stuff. This example scared me to death. I took it one night and I guess my husband woke me up by snoring. I got up and turned all the lights on in the room and set up a video camera to tape my husband snoring. All while in a zombie state. So the next day I decide to watch the tape to see if I can see if my eyes are open or not. I couldn't tell but WHAT I DID SEE was me crawl back in bed, open up the Ambien bottle and TAKE MORE PILLS !!! So I counted my pills. I had gotten 30 10mg pills 2 days earlier. So 2 pills should be gone. 7 were gone !!!! In 2 nights I had taken 70mg of pills. It is a miracle I am not dead. Just keep that in mind | F | 34 | | 6/25/2007 | 4 | sleep | I began taking Ambien years ago for sleep and I would have many strange hallucinations where the alarm clock and the bed side phone were fighting so my husband had to remove them from my view! I have shaved my private part on two different evenings while taking Ambien. This was always a shock in the morning! My food intake was incredible and I would not remember eating. I did like the sleep benefits and it was the only drug for sleep that actually helped me. I took Ambien the first time for over 3 years before I decide to go off. The last straw was when I told my husband one day that I thought I ran over a stop sign the day before. He checked my car and sure enough it showed evidence of hitting something. Later, I remembered where the stop sign was and we were able to confirm I had flattened a stop sign and I could have easily killed someone instead. Two months ago I asked my doctor for Ambien again because I was not getting enough sleep and waking up frequently. I am taking the generi | F | 47 | | 6/22/2007 | 3 | Insomnia | Binge eating, sleep walking, truth serum like effect (confessed what all the Christmas gifts were to my daughter)...its a hypnotic, someone can ask you anything and you have no power to resist telling all. It does help you sleep though, I've been most successful w/ambien when I take it WHILE IN BED, lights out, tv off - no distractions whatsoever...then its off to la la land, otherwise - watch out. | Woo hoo, what a ride. I see Ambien fairies all the time on this stuff...and I do the midnight binge pretty regularly - good Lord I can consume food on this. I've also redecorated the living room, walked the dog, called people and professed undying love...all without any recollection of it. Please please have a family member hide the car keys - you will appear normal and lucid to them when you want to do a 1 am Taco Bell run. | F | 40 | 1 years | 6/22/2007 | 5 | Problems Sleeping | None | I love this drug! Thank God for its invention. My doc RX'd it to me when I was having problems relaxing and falling asleep at night. I actually would get so anxious that I would clench my jaw and started getting TMJ! But the Ambien lets me relax so I can drift off into sleep - and then the next morning wake up refreshed. It has saved my life! | F | 36 | 2 years | 6/21/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | The first time I took one Ambien, I woke up in the morning with blood all over my face, as well as a trail of blood across the rug. I had evidently gotten up in the night and walked in my sleep. Fortunately the fall only bruised and bloodied my nose, so I was lucky. I had no memory of any of this happening. | A dangerous drug which should be banned. | F | 76 | 1 days | 6/20/2007 | 4 | insomnia | hullucinations | resisting after taking it is bad. go to sleep immediately. i watched shadows move across walls, retreat and crawl back. i giggled and talked nonsense. i watched the furniture reaarange itself. taking ambien and going to sleep immediately caused no problems whatsoever. | F | 20 | 2 months | 6/18/2007 | 1 | prescribed for insomnia | On the second day after taking Ambien, my hands, feet, and roof of my mouth began to feel like pins and needles. About six o'clock at night I experienced what seemed like hot flashes and extreme dizziness. Then on the evening of the third day, in addition to the "hot flashes" and the dizziness—the "pins and needles" were continuous, I thought I smelled something—perhaps the power connection to the computer—burning, but then the sharp acrid smell turned into one that was sickly sweet; it was unfamiliar and familiar at the same time; it also had "colors": silver, swimming-pool blue and lavender. These hideous episodes came about every two minutes and lasted for thirty seconds. Realizing that what I was smelling was in my head only, and adding "brain tumor" to "heart attack" and "stroke," I called the Kaiser Advice Nurse, who advised me to get to an emergency room. I pass over the next surreal hours (something b | I flushed the remaining pills down the toilet! | F | 74 | 4 days | 6/18/2007 | 3 | insomnia | confusion, doible vision, depth perception gone ie I hkept bangin in to walls that seemed much farther away than they were. | F | 28 | 2 days | 6/11/2007 |