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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | to sleep | hiccups, runny nose | I feel like I can't think strait so I have to go to bed immediately! | F | 21 | 2 months | 6/23/2006 | 5 | chronic insomnia chronic fatigue | Gastrointestinal system: Frequent: hiccup. Infrequent: constipation, dysphagia, flatulence, gastroenteritis. Rare: enteritis, eructation, esophagospasm, gastritis, hemorrhoids, intestinal obstruction, rectal hemorrhage, tooth caries. Hematologic and lymphatic system: Rare: anemia, hyperhemoglobinemia, leukopenia, lymphadenopathy, macrocytic anemia, purpura, thrombosis. Immunologic system: Rare: abscess, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, otitis externa, otitis media. Liver and biliary system: Infrequent: abnormal hepatic function, increased SGPT. Rare: bilirubinemia, increased SGOT. Metabolic and nutritional: Infrequent: hyperglycemia, thirst. Rare: gout, hypercholesteremia, hyperlipidemia, increased alkaline phosphatase, increased BUN, periorbital edema. Musculoskeletal system: Infrequent: arthritis. Rare: arthrosis, muscle weakness, sciatica, tendinitis. Reproductive system: Infrequent: menstrual disorder, vaginitis. Rare: breast fibroadenosis, breast neoplasm, br | Great hypnotic (sleep aid) that will create many odd side effects that DOCTORS seem to be unaware of when they evaluate you. READ READ READ, ladies and gentlemen. Will you be the rare person--or have you been the one who loved the good nights sleep and chalked the other physical ailments up to some other cause??? Stress disorders, maybe? AMBIEN is wonderful fun. Side effects started immediately and progressed to worse conditions over time. Slept well through most of it, though! Pros and cons to consider. | F | 35 | 1000 times | 6/22/2006 | 5 | insomnia sleep aid | Central and peripheral nervous system: Frequent: ataxia, confusion, euphoria, insomnia, vertigo. Infrequent: agitation, decreased cognition, detached, difficulty concentrating, dysarthria, emotional lability, hallucination, hypoesthesia, illusion, leg cramps, migraine, paresthesia, sleeping (after daytime dosing), speech disorder, stupor, tremor. Rare: abnormal gait, abnormal thinking, aggressive reaction, apathy, appetite increased, decreased libido, delusion, dementia, depersonalization, dysphasia, feeling strange, hypokinesia, hypotonia, hysteria, intoxicated feeling, manic reaction, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, neurosis, panic attacks, paresis, personality disorder, somnambulism, suicide attempts, tetany, yawning. | clinical pharmacology ambien and nerve nervous system disorder side effects Great sleeping pill to help you with the increasing problems that it is causing. [THINK ABOUT IT] | F | 35 | 1 months | 6/22/2006 | 5 | Insomnia due to nerve pain | Autonomic nervous system: Infrequent: increased sweating, pallor, postural hypotension, syncope. Rare: abnormal accommodation, altered saliva, flushing, glaucoma, hypotension, impotence, increased saliva, tenesmus. Body as a whole: Frequent: asthenia. Infrequent: edema, falling, fever, malaise, trauma. Rare: allergic reaction, allergy aggravated, abdominal body sensation, anaphylactic shock, face edema, hot flashes, increased ESR, pain, restless legs, rigors, tolerance increased, weight decrease. Cardiovascular system: Infrequent: cerebrovascular disorder, hypertension, tachycardia. Rare: angina pectoris, arrhythmia, arteritis, circulatory failure, extrasystoles, hypertension aggravated, myocardial infarction, phlebitis, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary edema, varicose veins, ventricular tachycardia. Central and peripheral nervous system: Frequent: ataxia, confusion, euphoria, insomnia, vertigo. Infrequent: agitation, decreased cognition, detached, difficulty concentrating, dy | AMBIEN causes the nerve pain, ear pain, face pan, neuralgia, shingles, posteurpetic neuralgia, herpes zoster, joint pain, malaise, read pharmacology!!!! Great sleep aid, but if you have any of the side effects or symptoms, discontinue use immediately! Doctors will tell you it is very safe and has hardly any side effects--and since they can't find cause for pain will imply your problems are stress related. AMBIEN Causes absolute dependency, physical changes, personality changes (read the clinical trials), extended blackout periods. Yes, fun hallucination can occur, great sleep, sex or marital aid, but IF SIDE EFFECTS ARE PRESENT, from this condition or related to any other, the discontinue use immediately!!! Love the sleep Ambien provides, but the health issues it has created for me are NOT WORTH IT. Good luck to all and sweet dreams. | F | 35 | 2 years | 6/22/2006 | 3 | Insomnia/Husband snores... | READ THE CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY. I love Ambien. It was helping me sleep. Unfortunately, I hit into the "rare side effects" category and my doctors never once caught on to the connection. Nerve pain, 7th and 5th cranial nerves actually, manifested as shingles (rare form), intense ear pain, face neuralgia, tooth problem. Surgeries, dental work, earaches, neck pain, headaches, eye pain... and none of the doctors caught it! Have taken antibiotics, antivirals, you name it--but was using the "Ambien pill" more and more to help me sleep through the intense pain (like trigeminal neuralgia). Off Ambien, stuck wide awake--crazy bad dreams are like withdrawl symptoms when I do fall asleep. Not sure of permanent damage... one side of face is still slightly swollen. | I know the side effects I have experienced are rare, and I never in a million years would have thought to connect the pain I have been having to this wonderful little pill that has been so relaxng, so refreshing, and so fun. Sex, absolutely, but only evidence is by soreness from enthusiasm (and fleeting memories like a dream state). I will miss it, but this has definately not been something to "play" with in my system. Happily seeking alternatives now. | F | 35 | 1 years | 6/22/2006 | 5 | insomnia | Side effects were hallucinating if I took a dose and didn't go to bed right away. I would wake up in the morning to find boxes of cookies completely gone, pints of icecream empty in the garbage, with no recollection. This hallucinating phase lasted about 6 months, then my body got acclimated to the drug. | I love ambien. It is a godsend. But, like others have said, you need to take it and get into bed right away. It's for sleeping, not for recreation. I need about 15 to 20 mg of ambien to get a good night's rest. Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and have to take another dose. But, I get great, deep, restful sleep with no hangover effect. Just hope my body doesn't get more and more aclimated to the drug so it won't totally loose it's effectiveness. My doctor has me on sonata right now (my first night) and it pales in comparison to ambien. I've taken over 20 mg of the stuff over 5 hrs ago and still wide away. I wish I had my ambien right now. I'll be calling the doctor to write me a prescription for ambien again tomorrow. Think I'll ask for the Ambien CR - the controlled release. | F | 34 | 2 years | 6/20/2006 | 4 | Insomnia due to anxiety | No major side effectes. | I am taking Ambien CR. After about 15 minutes I am extremely drowsy. I have no recolection of anything after about 30 minutes. My wife says I am out cold. I have been able to sleep for about 7 hours without getting up. My olny complaint is that at about 7 hours I can't get back to sleep. This is an improvement over awakening several times per night. | M | 55 | 10 days | 6/18/2006 | 5 | Cant sleep, racing mind, bad dreams | I must take it while in bed or I turn into a zombe. I sleepwalk, cook, talk on the phone, go outside the house and look in the mirrow and talk to myself and eat like a pig. I will cook and eat anything in sight. | I don't even know what I did until the next day when I piece the night before together like a detective. Looking in the sink and the garbage. It scares my wife more than me because we don't know what I'm going to do next. I do like taking it, but I am going to begin to ween off Ambien with her help. You need a despenser that only lets you have proper dosage per night or you might take more that the rec dose without even knowing it. Be careful while traveling also. Lock yourself in your room. Seriously!!! | M | 34 | 3 years | 6/15/2006 | 4 | Insombia | Weight gain of 30 pounds over the course of 1 year, eating in the middle of the night uncontrollably, short term memory diminished (virtually nonexistent I could not remember things someone told me 5 minutes after having a conversation, no memory after taking the drug at night, fits of cleaning after taking drug, great sex (you will do things you normally would not) The memory problems and weight gain are what made me stop the meds. I switched to lunesta which helped me get off the ambient but gave me worse side effects. Now I am off both (thank god) | My doctor gave me an open ended script for this med. I took it every night for about a year. The sever memory problems did not start until after 6 months of use. I used to chew it up to make it work faster because I started reacting slower to it. The slower reaction time left me in bed for half an hour waiting for this stuff to work and sometimes I would get bored and get up and start cleaning or eating or having sex(under the influence) …..This drug WILL make you sleep like a baby (I slept better than I ever have in my life on this stuff) and having sex on it is great if you can remember it in the morning. Unfortunately in the end it made me mood and depressed without any shorter memory and a bad temper. | F | 30 | 1 years | 6/13/2006 | 3 | sleep disorder | For the last few months, I thought ambien was the best thing out there. My boyfriend kept warning me to stop taking it and I could not understand why. I found out that last night I acted like a complete fool and I had no idea...that I was awake! He said I acted as if in an emotionless state talking giberish that made no sense. He stated my eyes appeared wide awake and I was walking around my house as if I were awake but made no sense and looked blank. | It scares me to know that here I thought I have been sleeping every night but really, I was not, I was in a state of mind that I did not even know existed. I was taking 35mg, this is what my doctor prescribed to me. | F | 32 | 3 months | 6/12/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | Halucinations, very scary, stopped taking it all together after two nights. I took the recommended dosage, 10 mg. | I was prescribed this drug even though I suffered from depression, shame on my doctor, since this drug is not meant for people who suffer from depression or psycotic disorders. This is a very bad sleeping aid. | F | 23 | 2 days | 6/12/2006 | 4 | Insomnia/anxiety | Ummm... lets just say that I haven't used drugs recreationally since college (>10years ago), and the first time I took this (10mg) I thought someone had slipped me acid or E. I had eaten just an hour before and had hard time sleeping, although must admit that halucinations of the room morphing and the bed flying around (whle I was on it) was entertaining... and a bit disturbing. Since then, I have taken it only 5 more times in last month or so and it seems to be a consistent side effect, but I don't really mind the mini-trip that seems to last about an hour before I fall asleep. | Asside from the side effects immediately following taking it, the overall functionality is great! I wake up feeling like a million bucks... (can't say this about the illicit stuff I took as a youngster). I wouldn't recomend this, however, to anyone who can't keep a relatively cool/level head while halucinating, that could be dangerous. | M | 31 | 30 days | 6/8/2006 | 2 | Abnormal Sleep Patterns | Nervousness, Twitchiness, Fever, Chills, Panick Attacks, Thoughts of Suicide, Thought Loops, Hallucinations, Amnesia. | I always assume that people exaggerate when they list side effects and experiences with drugs, but I assure you I am not. I was ok while I was on the medication, maybe more irritable and angry, but the first night after not taking Ambien, I was a complete and utter wreck. I have never had such strong thoughts of wanting to commit suicide in my life. The side effects from dealing with the dependence of this medication are very uncomfortable. Also, every night I took the drug, I would hallucinate before I fell asleep. I had grand euphoric emotions and all my problems would be solved in my head. Eventually I grew tolerant to the medication and would wake up hallucinating. One night in particular, I got out of bed and spoke to a friend on the phone. The next day I spoke to that friend and had no recollection of the night before. Dangerous drug in my opinion. Only use this if you have moderate to severe insomnia. | M | 23 | 17 days | 6/8/2006 | 5 | M | 30 | 10 days | 6/5/2006 | 5 | Can't fall asleep or stay asleep | None whatsoever but little groggy in morning if I don't get a minimum 7 hours sleep. | Best night sleep I have had since my 20's! Most natural sleep I have had in over 20 years. | F | 53 | 3 years | 6/1/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | None at all. | I take Ambien 1-2 nights a week and it helps me to fall asleep and sleep straight through 4-6 hours which is something I haven't been able to do since childhood. This medication has really helped me. | M | 46 | 2 years | 6/1/2006 | 5 | Can't fall alseep | After about 5-10 min, i start to notice that my vision gets blurry and i can see things far away doubled. i have double vision on things that are far away. sometimes i just fee kinda drowsey and my vision gets blurred when i walk aroung. but mostly, i wake up and i dont remember a thing. like i wont remember writing this cuz im on ambein rightnow. | Works great as a sleeping-aide, but has its addictive proproties i dont take them every single night, just when i feel i neeed it. other then that, have fun! email me if anyone wants to discuss their feelings on ambien and share stories,,,,, have fun! | F | 18 | 9 months | 6/1/2006 | 5 | Depression, insomnia | After about 5-10 min, i start to notice that my vision gets blurry and i can see things far away doubled. i have double vision on things that are far away. sometimes i just fee kinda drowsey and my vision gets blurred when i walk aroung. but mostly, i wake up and i dont remember a thing. like i wont remember writing this cuz im on ambein rightnow. | Works great as a sleeping-aide, but has its addictive proproties i dont take them every single night, just when i feel i neeed it. other then that, have fun! email me if anyone wants to discuss their feelings on ambien and share stories,,,,, have fun! | F | 18 | 9 months | 6/1/2006 | 5 | Insomnia. | No side effects. | DO NOT DRIVE AT ALL WHILE TAKING AMBIEN! TAKE AMBIEN AFTER YOU GO TO BED! | F | 45 | 3 years | 6/1/2006 | 2 | insomnia (trouble staying asleep) | rebound insomnia | I've never had a probem FALLING asleep, only STAYING asleep longer than 3 hours. The first night I took Ambien CR 12.5 mg I slept 7 hrs straight (a success), but I noticed the next night (before taking a pill) I was really wired--lots of nervous energy--DEFINITELY coud not have fallen asleep on my own. I took it again and was able to sleep relatively well. Took it for a total of 5 nights with progressively lessening benefit and then tried to go without. OMG! First night it took me 5 hrs trying to sleep, and then I only slept 2.5 measley hours--way worse than BEFORE I tried Ambien. Second night w/out meds was a little better--slept 5 hrs straight. Third night no meds got a total of 7 hrs (in 3 segments). Still feel a little of that nervous, toe-tapping energy. Won't ever take Ambien again. Helen Houston, TX | F | 50 | 5 days | 6/1/2006 |