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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | racing mind | Vivid dreams that have not been the most pleasent to wake up to. knuckles had nastly warts all over them, gangbangers were chasing me I was trying to run away from some man...why can't they be fun dreams? | It is a godsend now, but I only have one left. I am in the mist of working full time and planning a wedding, therfore it helps forget the stress of the day and pass out. I hope my schedule can get back to regular. I don't want to have to search out for some more. | F | 34 | 9 days | 1/13/2006 | 5 | Sleep problems for a few days | No negative side effects, only improvements in my mood, anxiety level. | Ambien is the greatest creation man has come up with. I have been taking it for five years. Yes, five years, which is 250 or so times the recommended time period. I have never had insomnia, but I was having trouble sleeping for a few days and so I told my doctor. He gave me Ambien and I have to say it didn't knock me out, but just made me feel better. When I first started taking it I really enjoyed the euphoric and strange feelings. After taking it for about 1 month the strange feelings went away and the euphoric feelings calmed down to a nice feeling that just put me in a better mood, not severely altering me. I am now taking somewhere around 20 to 30mg a day at multiple times throughout the day, not just at night, sometimes in the morning. It has absolutely no sleepiness effects, just functions like the best antidepressant/anti-anxiety drug that ever existed. Ambien has improved my waking life dramatically, I am not as shy when taking it and I just feel 100 tim | M | 32 | 5 years | 1/11/2006 | 1 | insomnia | Did things I never dreamed I would do & I'm a pretty conservative, church-going Christian! I tried to KILL myself while on this!!! NEVER something I would do. | Ambien definitely/seriously alters your mind. I wish doctors would take it themselves for a few days before writing a script. It definitely is a HYPNOTIC drug. It's like, whatever you are thinking about at the time you take it (consciously & subconsciously) you end up (that is, if you don't go to bed right away) DOING in excess and to an extreme. Like I always have struggled with keeping my house clean yet have always been a perfectionist and tried to keep it clean, well, when I took an Ambien and didn't go to bed, I would clean like a freak for a couple hours, and feel almost "high". That, of course, lured me into addiction and then it got way out of hand, after only a week or two, it gave me hard core depression. Let me know if you have any questions about it, I'd be glad to share my experience. | F | 31 | 2 years | 1/11/2006 | 2 | insomnia | no side effects; no effects of any kind at 10 mg and 20 mg. | Does not help to reduce insomnia even at 20 mg (2 tablets) before bedtime. Will try 30 mg - if that does not help, will discontinue or ask my physician for a different medication. | M | 70 | 90 days | 1/9/2006 | 1 | Insomnia/fibromyalgia | AMNESIA! Mania | It should only be prescribed for very short periods of time! And the words "MAY CAUSE AMNESIA" should be boldly printed on the label. I started on this medicine soon after it came on the market. At first it was a "Godsend"! But by the end it was a disaster! I was fine when I first started taking this medicine. But as time went on I needed higher doses to sleep. Then, it got to the point that I felt that I needed it to "wake up" as well Yes, that's counterintuitive, but it definitely has addictive properties. I felt that it helped my fibro pain during the day. So I started taking one tablet in the morning. However, what no one told me about was the amnesia!! At It would take a couple of hours to kick in, so I'd find myself getting up and going online and buying stuff. But not remembering it the next day! At the very end -- two years into taking the drug -- I had a two month episode that I was later told by a psychologist was a manic episode. | F | 44 | 2 years | 1/6/2006 | 5 | Bipolar 2 / insomnia / hypomania | 10 - 15mg of Ambien ( called stilnox in Australia ) gives me no side effects at all. Its only when I also take 100mg of Seroquel as well that I get a little memory loss. | I take 10 - 15 mg of Ambien every night and have for the last 8 months (along with 100mg of seroquel and 2,500mg of epilim to treat bipolar and insomnia) If I only take the Ambien with my Epilim I find that I only get a maximum of 5 hours sleep and then BANG - I am wide awake exactly 5 hours after taking it add seroquel into the mix and I can get up to 9 hours sleep! many of you seem to have had increase effects on your libido, if anything its been the opposite for me. | M | 33 | 8 months | 1/5/2006 | 5 | Occasional difficulty sleeping | None that I can think of. | I work nights on a rotating basis, and as you may imagine, it does tend to make a sleeping schedule impossible to follow. I may take ambien once or twice a week to help when switching my sleep schedules. I have had absolutely no problems with this medication, however, I followed the instructions, i.e., used occasionally, made sure that I had 8 hours to sleep, no alcohol, etc. | M | 43 | 6 months | 1/4/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | Very effective, and in 10 years I never had to increase above 10 mg. By comparison, Sonata and Lunesta are sugar pills. | I stopped only when learning of Ambien's chemical relation to Valium and the diazapine drugs. I'm wondering if this may account for my daytime depressive fatigue. | M | 60 | 10 years | 1/4/2006 | 4 | Depression/Insomnia/Stress | Usually I take this right before bed and LAY in bed. I fall asleep right away. But the times where I wait for it to kick in, and I am awake on the computer, I remember nothing the next day. I had sex with my boyfriend and had no recollection whatsoever. We watched a movie, I had no idea. It's almost scary. | If you're using it to get to sleep then lay in bed right when you take it. | F | 19 | 90 days | 1/2/2006 | 5 | To help sleep | I take it a few minutes before bed and sleep very well. Take it on and off for few years....mostly off. | I'm a litte confused as to all these other posts. The people who are taking it seem to be either really dumb, or drug addicts. This is a pill you take to help you sleep...not so you can do things you never would do, basically "rape" your wife, etc. Stop being immuture morans and take it right before going to sleep. You are the reasons people complain about this drug! It makes me sick to read how everyone is not folling the directions correctly. | F | 31 | | 12/26/2005 | 3 | Sleep patterns were thrown off | I hallucinated, but fell alseep after | I took this drug when I was younger, and it made me hallucinate pretty strongly. My parents were suprised when I had a very similiar reaction to it, since I have grown so much since then. My father got very scared, and he stayed with me until i fell asleep. I don't really remember anything from within 15 minutes or taking ambien to when I fell asleep, but my dad said that I was reaching out with my hands and mumbling pretty incoherently. Hearing that, and not remembering anything, made me stop taking the medicine after 2 nights. Scary experience for me... | F | 19 | 2 days | 12/26/2005 | 4 | Insomnia | Geometric dreams; balance problems when I have to get up to go to the bathroom. | Reduced effictiveness over time. | M | 70 | 5 years | 12/20/2005 | 5 | Help sleep good. | My wife also takes it and she experiences the side effects, which I would classify as bonuses for me. She was given a prescription for Ambien after having her third child. It helped somewhat when she took 1 to 1 1/2 on an empty stomach. Well one night when she took two, when I got into bed with her, I thought I was with someone else. She was very horny, very nasty, and extremely hot. She did things she normally doesn't care to do. She then began asking about all the people in the room. Well, I thought it was humerous, so I told her they were here to watch, and did she want to give them a show. She said she did, but she wanted other partners also. Trust me--not normal. So we both did some fantasizing, and we had an incredible experience, about which unfortunately, she remembered nothing in the morning. | I still get good sleep with ambien, but we still, about once a month, or more if she's trying to bribe me or reward me, we'll have an "ambien" date. It's different, and we enjoy it. But I can see how this could be used as a date-rape drug. I can do pretty much whatever I want to with her on ambien. And she thoroughly enjoys it as well. | M | 43 | 3 days | 12/13/2005 | 4 | Insomnia | None | It is sad that such an informative web site is turning into a spam chat room with nonsense. Like some other intelligent people have said, take as directed, if you do not need it, don't take it. It seems like people feel like they HAVE to take a pill every night. If you don't, then don't. I have used it for many years, insomnia, chronic pain issues, etc. Some of us would like to know what other people are experiencing, not reading nonsense from people who sit at the computer and find web sites to infiltrate for this twisted pleasure. My experience with ambien is a good one, it does what it is supposed to do provided it is used correctly. If used correctly, you will sleep-enough said | M | 39 | 7 years | 12/13/2005 | 4 | Insomnia | 30 minutes after taking it, I become very social and start posting on websites, calling people etc. Then somehow I make it to bed after an hour or two. You are in a altered state of conciousness while the drug is in effect. Any memory while on the drug will be lost in your mind. Doesn't make me tired at all, just somehow makes falling asleep easy. | Only works for me if I take about 40mg. I have taken up to 60mg, but found it to be just as effective as 40mg. I'm on the drug for 2 weeks, off for two weeks. | M | 27 | 3 years | 12/10/2005 | 3 | Insomnia | For the past month I have been taking ativan-anti-anxiety drug, then I started zoloft( got very sick from it, was out of work all week) now I am taking ambien( half a pill 5mg) and I can sort of sleep thru the night but feel nervous in the morning. | I have had such problems sleeping and thought that ativan would help but I found out that it can cause insomnia. I am tapering off of ativan( only half of the pill) and I am taking half an ambien(5mg) at night. I do wake up about every 4 hours. I am afraid to take a whole ambien because I am still on ativan. Has anyone every taken what I have taken with the ambien, please let me know.. | F | 31 | 3 days | 12/10/2005 | 1 | Insomnia | VERY DANGEROUS DRUG WHEN TAKEN LONGER THAN 7-10 DAYS!!!! SHOULD BE PULLED FROM THE MARKET. ALTHOUGH NOT CLASSIFIED AS SUCH, IT WORKS JUST LIKE A "BENZO" DRUG (VALIUM, KLONOPIN,ETC.) AND IS VERY ADDICTIVE!!!! | I used this drug off and on for 2 years. When I finally stopped cold-turkey using Ambien I could barely sleep at all for over 2 months. I had other horrible withdrawl symptoms which among them were: the shakes, moaning, horrible anxiety, depression and constant ear-ringing. I could barely leave my house for several months. While I took the drug I was a whole different person-very mean and angry. Sonata and Lunesta work in a similar way. Please think twice before using Ambien. There are many natural alternatives to prescription sleep meds. (Although they won't work well until Ambien is totally out of your system which can take MANY months). Hospital emergency rooms see many Ambien-addicted people. It is being sold as a street drug and people are crushing and snorting it. The only positive thing I can say about Ambien is that it must have done something to rev up my metabolism because I lost and kept off 20 pounds easily when using it. | F | 40 | 2 years | 12/6/2005 | 4 | insomnia due to meds/back pain | Immediate tiredness and loss of memory if I didn't go to sleep right away. when i combined it with wellbutrin (to quit smoking) it added to depression and memory loss during daytime. without taking wellbutrin, it worked fine | definately helped me sleep. i never had a problem sleeping before but am now on percoset and kadian for back problems, which kept me awake at night (along with the back pain). the doc started me with one 10mg a night, but i was waking up at 3am. the doc then said to take one 10mg at night and another 10mg at 3am (20mg in all) and it seemed to work fine. I never felt groggy in the morning and got my 8 hours of sleep. my insurance company would not pay for a refill (limit of 60 10mgs in 90 days) so i stopped taking it and there was no withdrawl symptoms besides back to not sleeping very well. I then started taking ambien cr 12.5 mg. and it was great. no immediate loss of memory and i sleep all night. | M | 46 | 90 days | 12/3/2005 | 1 | incomnia | Amnesia, daytime drowsiness, dizziness, back pain, decreased mental alertness, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, lethargy, light-headedness, speech difficulties, vertigo, decreased sex drive, constipation, daytime sleeping,, irregular heartbeat, mental deterioration, thinking abnormalities | Most of the posts here talk about the memory loss and hallucinations people experience immediately after taking Ambien. I want to alert people to the long-term effects I've experienced. I've taken Ambien every night for 5 years. Started out with 5 mg, then went up to 10 mg, now back to 5 mg. For several years I've noticed deteriorating cognitive skills - memory loss, attention deficit, concentration, mental alertness, processing information. This has concerned me, but I have continued to take Ambien because it does put me to sleep. For the last 2 months I have experienced light-headedness and fogginess on an almost constant basis. It makes it very difficult to function day-to-day. I've had a number of tests done because I thought it was ear-related. Not so. Doctors now believe it is Ambien abuse, and are alarmed to hear that I've taken it for so long. Now I've started to cut way back, and hopefully can rid myself of this drug completely, but it sounds like most people have experienced | M | 53 | 5 years | 12/1/2005 | 3 | I started taking Ambien while I was deployed in Iraq to help with my insomnia. At first it was great and I'm worried now that it keeps me in this sleepy sort of state throughtout the next day. I am withdrawn from everything and I always feel so tired. It is almost having this reverse sort of effect on me now... | F | 23 | 1 years | 11/26/2005 |