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 feeling completely out of it It was a Godsend. F 22 3 months
7/30/2005
 4  Insomnia Dizziness, hallucinations, strange behavior, and hunger I am a shift rotator and use this drug to adapt to a new shift. It works better on an empty stomach. It should be taken while still in bed. I have stayed up instead of going right to bed and the following happened to me: I talked to a light switch for a while, trees grew in my living room, I called friends on the phone and dazzled them with nonsensical sentences, I ate 2 lbs. of turkey breast, I stared at a wall in my laundry room for god knows how long and talked to birds and elves, my head felt like an anvil, and i didnt remember I did all this crap untill certain things jogged my memory DAYS later. I am also a police officer and have seen this used as date rape. I have seen a woman who was on ambien drive a car over a construction worker, killing him, and had no idea what she had done until the next day. IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU TO! When taken properly this medication was a GOD SEND. I had GREAT sleep and woke up with no problems the next day feeling well rested. M 32 1 months
7/30/2005
 1  insomnia due to back pain I submitted my very negative rating on 7-18-05 and someone has removed it. It is very curious that on this website all of the favorable ratings are at the top and the most dissatisfied opinions are at the very bottom. How can you come up with an average satisfaction rating if you are removing the dissatisfied opinions from your website. This is very disturbing. I believe that Ambien is a very, very dangerous drug and I would like to know who is running this website. I feel that this drug almost killed me and I wanted to warn people. I am not some nut throwing around unsubstantiated bits of info. Why is my rating deleted and how many more have been deleted? F 8 months
7/19/2005
 5  fun..iguess. well..i took this with a soma..of which my friend gave me..and we went to a coffee shop. Immediately i started feeling so weird..like my life was a movie that i wasnt in..like i was watching everything go on but it wasnt real. My boyfriend told me i was being mean..but i have no memory of that. I was Hallucinating..BAD. I almost wrecked..alot..and..it made me see little midget like soilders running across the road. The road was also swiving and coming at me it seemed. The next day..i had to basically sit on my bed and try and remember what happened the night before and if it had really happened or not. Im serious..this drug freaked me out. i dont think i will be taking it again..even though i slept good.. F 16 1 days
6/23/2005
 4  Insomnia Double vision sometimes, occasionally not making it to bed before falling asleep. I don't remember saying or doing things about 1/2 an hour before actually falling asleep. I only seem to have double vision when watching TV or looking at lights. Overall I still like it a lot. I have only been able to sleep 2 hours at a time for the last 5 years, but 10 mg of Ambien gives me 7 solid hours, and I pop awake in the morning all rested! I'm careful to use it only 2 or 3 times a week, but that's 2 or 3 more nights of sleep than I was getting. F 30 3 months
6/22/2005
 3  sleep problems None M 28 1 days
6/19/2005
 5  trouble falling/staying asleep If you don't take it and go to bed and stay there, you might do things you don't remember. Use it correctly and you get fairly good sleep. Use it as directed, stay in bed, turn off tv. F 48 5 years
6/17/2005
 4  can't sleep at night extreme drowsiness high like feeling severe amnesia in some cases Please get to sleep right after taking this. This drug will make you REALLY loopey as if you were high . It will cause extreme memory loss sometimes. It does lose its effectiveness over time. First time I took it I thought I saw little green men running around and thought people were in my house spying on me. Just be careful. It really works if you want to just get agood nights sleep. email me [email protected] if you have any questions. I know an online pharmacy with the best prices on ambien if you are interested. F 32 3 months
6/16/2005
 4  Insomnia None until the last year, during which I've had almost nightly anxiety dreams (could be my life and not the Ambien). Very recently, I've had dizziness during the night if I turn over in bed, turn my head or get up. Again, this may not be the Ambien but something else. The dizziness stops after I've been up about fifteen minutes in the morning. When I first started taking Ambien, it was a miracle! I took 5 mg at bedtime, fell asleep within 30 minutes, and woke up refreshed, just like the commercial says! After years of use, I typically have to take 10 mg to get to sleep. I still fall asleep quickly, but wake up all night. It takes me awhile to wake up in the morning. However, I haven't found anything else that works at all. F 54 6 years
6/13/2005
 1  Insomnia Extremely suicidal thoughts and feelings. This is definitely the scariest medication I have ever taken. My doctor prescribed it for insomnia in around 1995. I took it once a month, and it definitely put me out of commission. I had to be already in my bed when taking it, because within 15 minutes, it was impossible to walk. I took it sporadically over the next five years, as needed. After moving and getting a new GP, the guy led me to believe that it was OK to use long-term and prescribed it to me like candy. I think he gave me a prescription for 1/day for 30 days and 5 refills. In reality, I didn't take it that much. I took it probably every other day, at one point, for three or four months. I did start taking it more often, but found it was very addictive. Also, I began to feel extremely restive and nervous. Then it was hard for me to be around people, I was so anxious. I'd never felt anything like that before. Soon I found I was having lots of suicidal thoughts and feelings and even planning how I might do myself in. My wife started to get really freaked out, and we wondered if it was Ambien. I flushed what I had left down the toilet, and immediately the suicidal stuff subsided and I began to feel like a normal and fairly happy human being again. I flushed what I had down the toilet (that was in 2001). Just recently, I second-guessed myself and wondered if it really was the Ambien. I haven't had it since 2001 until this year (2005). I took two or three spaced several days apart (my doc again gave me the 5-mo. refill :) ) and began again to have the nervous and depressed feelings I had experienced before. The doctor is freaked out about me having more than a half of a Percocet for my chronic back pain, but he prescribes this stuff like it's a panacea or something. Please don't take this stuff. I'd rather not sleep than go through this again. What actually prompted me to write this, though, was a neighbor. Three days ago I saw a life flight helicopter fly about 50 feet above my house and land near his. He had just blown his brains out. Interestingly, he had also been taking quite a bit of Ambien at the time. M 39 10 years
6/13/2005
 4  insomnia caused by hot flashes Ambien is a very effective sleeping pill if used for that and only that purpose. When I took my very first Ambien I experienced horrible, frightening hallucinations. I took a 10 mg. pill which my doctor prescribed. After researching and consulting with my doctor about the drug, I cut back to 5 mg. or less and the hallucinations and other frightening symptoms were gone. I went to sleep, woke up and that was that. Since that time (one year ago), I can now take up to 10 mg. per night without too many negative side effects. I'd say the one most disturbing ongoing side effect, though, is the memory loss that results while I am taking the pill. The next day I have little recall of anything I might have said or done while taking this pill. If you are taking other central nervous system depressant drugs such as pain medications or tranquilizers, then Ambien may not be what you need. It will sometimes compound the negative F 50 1 years
6/10/2005
 5  Insomnia Seems to not be working as well now as when I first started. M 61 6 months
5/28/2005
 3  i take welbutrin, it keeps me awake keep in a safe place! go strait to bed, stay in bed! don't try to fight it or you will act like a fool. you will sleep like a baby. I wouldn't take it if i was responsible for children that wake at night. F 47
5/27/2005
 5  Severe Insomnia Works very quickly. If I don't stay in bed after I take it I wander around talking to my husband and eating things, and I don't remember either. My husband worries about how weird I get. I watch TV in bed and I think that keeps me in that twilight zone of half asleep and half awake and exacerbates the amnesia. But if I really put my mind to it, after I take the pill, I will stay in bed and sleep, and it's the best sleep ever. I have to think about staying in bed, and not making a fool of myself as I take the pill, and as it begins to work, and then I stay in bed and everythings fine. F 58 2 months
5/24/2005
 2  insomnia hallucinations, memory loss, horrible horrible nightmares( to horrible to describe), day after dizziness, felt like I was in a fog or dream, upsett tummy, thirsty....and this was with taking the smaller recommended doseage. Heavy induced sleep..which was great the first three or four nights, but after that, the sleep was not satisfying, felt drugged and tired the next day. Midday could hardly stay awake. Ambien scared the daylights out of me, I was in a fog like state the entire time I took it (2 weeks)...but didn't realize for the drug alters your mind, wasnt until the second week, about an hour before bedtime when I normally would have taken one..that my mind sort of cleared...the F 56 14 days
5/22/2005
 5  Insomnia, early wakening Hallucinations if I try to stay awake after taking it, no drowsiness the next day Truly a saviour. The only sleep med I have found that doesn't completely knock me on my ass... I don't feel tired the next day. Things get a little weird if I try to resist sleep, so I wouldn't bother. Works very quickly if you don't have anything in your stomach. I'm a little worried about the addiction potential, so I don't take it all the time... but it has really improved the quality of my life. F 22 2 years
5/21/2005
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 5  terrible insomnia I had no memory of anything I did after taking it. I called friends, had sex with my husband, etc and had NO recollection of any of it! I sleep like a baby when I take it though and so now I take it and go straight to bed. I do think it could be dangerous. Like a date rape drug. My husband says I'll do pretty much anything after taking it and don't remember anything the next day. Scary. F 39 15 times
5/16/2005
 5  Narcolepsy/help sleep through night Only time I notice anything is if I try to stay awake after I take it.. That is when the eye crossing, hallucinating, walking like I am drunk effects come in.. But I go straight to bed... I never feel droggy in the mornings, I actually usually feel better after I take it.. F 28 4 months
5/9/2005
 5  to sleep 100% COMPLETE AMNESIA. AMBIEN CAUSES COMPLETE BLACKOUTS AND STRANGE BEHAVOIR. One remains functoning like they are awake but they are in a complete altered 'hypnotic' state. Sleeping pills are hynotics, not sleep aids. AMBIEN NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET. DANGER DANGER DANGER. AMBIEN IS A DANGEROUS DRUG. THIS DRUG SHOULD BE PULLED OFF THE MARKET. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. IT IS DANGEROUS. One operates as if they are functioning but they are really asleep in an altered state. It causes peculiar and bizarre behavoir. If you value yourself or someone elses life, do not take this drug. It is also used as a date rape drug. VERY DANGEROUS. Read about the woman who shot her mother on halcion, a similar sleep aid. She had no recollection of the event. IT IS VERY, VERY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. F
4/30/2005
 1  to sleep 100% COMPLETE AMNESIA. AMBIEN CAUSES COMPLETE BLACKOUTS AND STRANGE BEHAVOIR. One remains functoning like they are awake but they are in a complete altered 'hypnotic' state. Sleeping pills are hynotics, not sleep aids. AMBIEN IS A DANGEROUS DRUG. THIS DRUG SHOULD BE PULLED OFF THE MARKET. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. IT IS DANGEROUS. One operates as if they are functioning but they are really asleep in an altered state. It causes peculiar and bizarre behavoir. If you value yourself or someone elses life, do not take this drug. It is also used as a date rape drug. VERY DANGEROUS. Read about the woman who shot her mother on halcion, a similar sleep aid. She had no recollection of the event. IT IS VERY, VERY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. F
4/30/2005

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