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  sleep disorder no side effects for me i developed sleep disturbances after having my baby. he is now 6 months old and sleeps through the night but i have forgotten how to sleep and if i do fall asleep i could only stay asleep half an hour or so at a time. ambien has helped me so much i don't know where i'd be without it although i wish i didn't need it to sleep and i going to start hypnotherapy to try and come off it so i don't have to take it for the rest of my life. i currently take 12.5 mg a night and i sleep a solid night's sleep although it usually takes 1 hour to work. F 34 4 weeks
2/13/2007
 4  Insomnia Hallucinations if I do not go to bed right away, plus there has been alot of memory loss, harder to remember things,but it does give me a good nights sleep, I take the 10 mg every night, when I first started taking it I would go right to sleep no dreams, now the dreams have broken thru even thou I still sleep well and wake up feeling rested. F 51 6 days
2/12/2007
 4  Insomnia Hallucinations if I do not go to bed right away, plus there has been alot of memory loss, harder to remember things,but it does give me a good nights sleep, I take the 10 mg every night, when I first started taking it I would go right to sleep no dreams, now the dreams have broken thru even thou I still sleep well and wake up feeling rested. F 51 6 months
2/12/2007
 4  Insomnia Hallucinations if I do not go to bed right away, plus there has been alot of memory loss, harder to remember things,but it does give me a good nights sleep, I take the 10 mg every night, when I first started taking it I would go right to sleep no dreams, now the dreams have broken thru even thou I still sleep well and wake up feeling rested. F 51 6 months
2/12/2007
 4  chronic insomnia overeating, both when I wake up during the night and during the next day. I have gained 12 pounds in in the 4 months I have been taking Ambien. It helps me sleep, athough I usually wake up after about 4 hours. Other sleeping pills do not work for me, though. It's a difficult situation. F 58 4 months
2/11/2007
 5  Stress related insomnia Memory loss, falling asleep during card games (absolute truth), gained 20 pounds in two years (am ravenous if I don't go right to bed when I take it). It's expensive and my insurance doesn't cover any of it. F 46 3 years
2/8/2007
 5  Insomnia In the begginning, it was like a weird high...sometimes accompanied by dizziness but does not effect me like that unless I have a really empty stomach. I start off with the smallest amount I can get away with that will work (usually a 10mg tablet bit in half, so 5mg). If it doesnt work after about an hour I ake the remaining half. This usually works within an hour tops. I know there are lots of bad opinions about this stuff but I personally love it. If taken correctly and for the right reasons it works perfectly. No yucky hangover, no bad taste in the mouth (Lunesta), no premature waking (Restoril). AmbienCR did not seem to work for me, took longer to work and seemed more like Lunesta without the bad taste in the mouth. I agree with everyone that says take it as you are supposed to and then GO TO BED. Defintly works best on a slightly empty stomach. Its common sense people, you take too much and/or dont go right to bed, bad things could possibly happen...Its common sense!! F 38 2 years
2/6/2007
 4  insomnia hallucinations, a little memory loss, upset stomach i take it like i'm supposed to and i'm asleep within minutes. occasionally though, i will wake up an hour or two later and get mighty frisky with my husband and hallucinate during sex. it's quite funny to hear him tell me what i did or said, but at the same time it's disturbing, especially when i don't remember having sex at all. sometimes in the evening, i have a hard time reflecting on what i did that day, especially in the morning. and occassionally i wake up with an upset stomach. overall though, it works well. i used to dread going to bed because i knew i would lay awake for hours and wake up at least a dozen times during the night, but now, despite a few side effects, i look forward to taking my ambien and getting a good night's sleep. M 35 2 months
2/4/2007
 4  insomnia i forgot to check the female button!! (on the comment below) it says M, but i'm a F! F 35 2 months
2/4/2007
 5  insomnia F 38 4 years
1/31/2007
 5  Sleep disorder I hate to admit this, but I love Ambien. I sleep such a solid night's sleep, and I wake up feeling perfectly refreshed. However, I only take 2.5 mgs (split the 5mgs in half). I am a litte scared that I am suffering memory loss, or it could be all part of turning middle-aged. All these other comments scare me. I take Ambien every night and I'm so happy. My husband believes I am addicted and he's right. I am addicted. But the quality of my life, as well as how I am doing so much better in my job because I'm not tired, cannot be discounted. F 45 150 days
1/31/2007
 1  Had a baby couldnt sleep I took Ambien for over a year, I experienced Anger, Anxiety and couldnt handle stress or my kids. I never had any sleep problems, I took it in the hospital after I had a baby and became addicted. Not until I tried to get off the ambien did I realize that I was addicted to it and then I couldnt sleep with out it, what was weird was that I couldn't shut my mind off for about 36 hours after I stopped. I feel 100% calmer now. I assumed it was hormonal, but it wasn't. My mom experienced the same things. Ambien is good for occasional use but not for extended periods and it even says that in the pamphlet. F 36 19 months
1/31/2007
 5  Medical Speech problems and anxiety I have been taking this medication for 3 years now after having 7 operations for cancer of pancreas and now reoccurring pancreatitis which in turn has caused me sleep problems. I find that some nights it makes me do and say crazy things and other nights it doesnt so I take more to get that feeling. My partner has decided not to have conversations with me late at night cause dont remember what I have said next day and sometimes what I have done. My son thinks I a bit crazy but plays tricks on me so he can have a laugh. Think I suffer speech problems and anxiety from long term use. Does anybody else have these problems???? F 34 3 years
1/27/2007
 4  Insomnia I often say and do things that I don't remember. I will send text messages on my cell phone to my friends at wierd hours of the night. I often do house chores and will wake up the next day wondering how the kitchen got cleaned. It helps me sleep, but I have to go to bed right away otherwise I do those weird things. F 28 60 days
1/26/2007
 5  Insomnia Vivid dreams and amnesia I have taken Ambien for years, with good results, but in the past couple of years, the side effects have become a problem, namely the amnesia. The other night I had taken ambien, was sleeping, and a friend called me. We carried on a conversation about going to dinner the next night. She called me the next day to confirm our plans, and I remembered nothing about the conversation, much less that she had called. She said I sounded a bit tipsy! About a week ago, I made a "quick" call to a friend to tell her some news, and after a few minutes, I became (according to her) unintelligible, and apparently fell asleep. I woke up a couple of hours later, sitting up in bed with the phone in my lap. I think my age may contribute to the change in side effects, but it was kind of frightening that these things were happening, so I was so glad to see other people's comments about this drug. The bottom line for me is to not make any telephone calls after taking the drug. Live and learn F 61 5 years
1/25/2007
 4  Insomnia Slight drowsiness upon awakening if taken too close to wakeup alarm time This is good medicine if you need to get to sleep on occasion, but I would not recommend it for continued use as it may become a "gotta have it" thing. Also, I have found that after taking it, I can stay awake if without too much effort, but I would not recommend doing anything important (e.g., heavy equipment operation or driving) if one decides to not try to sleep after taking it, or anything that requires deep concentration. Of the few times I have stayed awake, there was only once when I had amnesia later about what I had done (which was to move up a couple of levels in Half Life PC game). Usually I wake up having felt I had a good night's sleep, no "hangover", and if something was had been worrying me to the point of losing sleep, the object of worry was no longer bothering me when I awoke. M 55 5 months
1/21/2007
 1  chronic insomnia i experienced no side affects at all, in fact this drug wouldent put me to sleep at all AMBIEN IS FOR VERY MINOR SLEEP PROBLEMS, I HAVE CHRONIC INSOMNIA AND AMBIEN DOSENT DO ANYTHING FOR ME AT ALL. THE DOCTOR HAS PUT ME ON OLANZAPINE, THAT HELPS ME SLEEP, EVEN THOUGH IT IS AN ANTIPHYCOTIC, SWEET DREAMS M 37 30 days
1/18/2007
 1  Grannys insomnia My granny took this drug and took control of my grandad everynight, she was fighting with him one minute and then trying to have sex with him the next and she dosent remember a thing My granny is 82 and my grandad is 89, this drug was hell for them both for the week my granny was on it, never again F 82 7 days
1/18/2007
 2  unable to sleep OH MY.... myself and a few of my friends discussed this and all had similar issues. BINGE eating... Making calls or emails and dont remember.. I made a video of myself and saw it the next day.. i could not believe it... in it i seemed normal, maybe a little drunk?.. and was pretending to do a cooking show.. folding american cheese with mustard squeezed in the middle and eating one after the other... then overflowed the sink, and cleaned it up... next am...had no memory of it... found camera in kitchen and rewound the tape.. i could not believe it was me. LOTs of binge eating, feeling dizzy and "seasick" when going to the bathroom in the middle of the night... this is a dangerous drug. M 35 3 weeks
1/15/2007
 2  unable to sleep OH MY.... myself and a few of my friends discussed this and all had similar issues. BINGE eating... Making calls or emails and dont remember.. I made a video of myself and saw it the next day.. i could not believe it... in it i seemed normal, maybe a little drunk?.. and was pretending to do a cooking show.. folding american cheese with mustard squeezed in the middle and eating one after the other... then overflowed the sink, and cleaned it up... next am...had no memory of it... found camera in kitchen and rewound the tape.. i could not believe it was me. LOTs of binge eating, feeling dizzy and "seasick" when going to the bathroom in the middle of the night... this is a dangerous drug. M 35 3 weeks
1/15/2007

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