AMBIEN Reviews (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE)Average Rating: 3.1 (1453 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare AMBIEN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 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 | 1 | sleep problems | I took Ambien off and on for five years, mostly on. I developed joint pain, muscle ache, hives, horrible itching in general, some daily grogginess (I didn't feel focused), clumsiness (fell a few times) and then I had two urinary tract infections within three months and hadn't had any in decades. I chalked up a lot of these symptoms to allergies and my age - I'm 63. But, finally I got smart and googled into | In the beginning Ambien allowed me to sleep 8 hrs. - unheard of for me. Then it began to shorten, I would get 5-6 hrs. at the end. I Would never recommend this pill to anyone. | F | 63 | 5 years | 4/26/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | Same as most others, don't remember saying or doing some things if I don't go right to bed. | Should be taken on an empty stomach (something I have never been told or advised)to work porperly. Recommend going straight to bed within 20-30 minutes, or you can be an endless source of family entertainment. If I don't take it, can usually be awake until 2 to 4 am. Never feel groggy in the morning after taking it. As a diabetic, this little pill is a god send, especially if I am feeling foot pain due to my diabetes. If I wake in the middle of the night, I can go right back to sleep, something I couldn't do before. Never felt addicted to it, can go off of it for days and not feel as if I need one. | M | 44 | 1.5 years | 4/25/2005 | 5 | Fibromyalgia, migraines, arthritis, | Ambien works great if you take it as prescribed. Yes you need to take it and go right to bed it is fast acting and if you stay awake you can get hurt it is a halucinagic. I went through a bad time and I would take 4 10mg to start off with then by the next day all 60 would be gone. I would do the weirdest and scariest things, cooking and forgetting the food was burning on the stove, burning holes all in my bed, P.J.'s, and skin. I would imagine crazy things, talk crazy, fight with my Dad and actually clawed him with my nails. My parents said I acted like a drunk in a black-out. After I would take me 2 to 4 and stay awake I would spend the whole day or night being insane and would continue taking the pills till they were all gone. I have even gotten in my car and drove it a couple of times and caused a wreck. I got to like the feeling of not feeling anything that I spent all my money and used all my credit cards to buy the Ambien. I even forged prescriptions and was arrested and was put on probation. It is not a medication to play around with and it is not fun to sit and have a imaginary friend, see things move or in double vision. The high you get might be like WOW at first but in that state you have no idea what you are going to do, like take the whole bottle, burn down the house or get in your car and kill yourself or someone else. So please take it right at the moment you are going to bed, it has worked as fast as 5 minutes so just put your drink by your bed, your 1 or 2 pills and take them right before you turn off your light. If taken right and you get at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep you will wake up refreshed with no hangover. Also you don't have withdrawls like you would from Valium. Ambien is short acting, it does not stay in your system long, in fact it was originally made for elderly people and was found to be a wonderful sleeping pill. So you don't get any physical withdrawls the only effect you will have to endure is not being able to sleep. The Ambien has been what is making your brain think go to sleep. but without it your brain will have to adjust and it will take time for your natural chemisty to go back to normal. If you have been on it for a long time and you want off or your doctor wants you off of it ask if you can be tapered down so it is not such a shock to your brain. I am sorry I screwed up so bad and abused it, I do hope that my story will keep people from trying to stay awake on it and see what the high is like. The high is not worth it when you wake up in a cell and have no idea where you are and thought you were home in bed. | Ambien is a wonderful sleep medication for people who suffer from insomnia. It is even great for someone who has stress in their life and every once in awhile they need something to let them relax, sleep and wake up ready for a new day. I no longer abuse Ambien it has been many many years since I did that. I do take Ambien every night, I have had many surgeries and I deal with severe pain on a daily basis so Ambien lets my body and my mind relax, sleep, dream and not have to worry or feel pain. It is the best sleeping medication on the market and it can be used long term if you take it right. Doctors are told that you can only take it for about a week and not long term, but I have been taking 20mg everyday for 9 years now and a lot of the women in my chronic pain group also take Ambien everyday and are doing wonderfully on it. I just wish the doctors could see how much it does for our lives and not make it so hard to get. Anyway good luck to all of you, sweet dreams, and please don't make the same mistakes I made. HUGS to all my insomniacs!! | F | 39 | 9 years | 4/21/2005 | 2 | chronic insomnia | groggy and tired the next day because I didn't get a good nights sleep | Ambien only kept me asleep for 2 hrs. with the 10 mg dose. | F | 44 | 35 days | 4/15/2005 | 5 | Sleeping problems | None that I have noticed. | I wake up alert and feeling rested. I have appreciated having this medication. My internal clock will wake me up every hour, on the hour, and my doctor recommended this-and it has worked extremely well for me! | F | 58 | 24 months | 4/8/2005 | 5 | Choppy sleep irregular sleep | While on Ambien, I sleep like a sack of hammers. If I get at least 6 hours of sleep (unusual for me prior to Ambien) I have no problems getting up or functioning the following day. I feel GREAT and well-rested. It's been a very good experience. NO side effects while ON Ambien. | Go to bed IMMEDIATELY after taking Ambien. It is a MUST. You are incapacitated within 25 minutes. TRUST ME. When I am OFF Ambien, for the first few days, I have WILD | M | 39 | 90 days | 3/24/2005 | 5 | messed up sleep patterns | None while ON the drug. | When I am OFF Ambien, for the first few days, I have WILD | M | 39 | 90 days | 3/24/2005 | 5 | Insomnia | Ambien is excellent for sleep--works pretty quick and let me sleep for 8 hours or more without a tired drugged feeling the next day. I was able to get up in the night and go right back to sleep with no problem. | Highly recommended for a good night's sleep, some short term memory loss if you take it and try and stay up but no serious effect. No side effects when discontinued. | F | 26 | 2 years | 3/18/2005 | 4 | insomnia | Difficulty waking, grogginess the next day. | Boy this stuff really knocks you out! It's great, but not good for taking after tossing and turning for hours because it takes so long to wear off. Begins to lose effect if you take it more than several days in a row. | F | 33 | 1 years | 3/18/2005 | 4 | couldn't sleep | Because I was worried that I would get addicted to Ambien, I decided I would only take ambien 2 days in a row once every month. It used to work like a miracle but now I see some strange side effects. I am afraid to speak to anyone after I take it because I cannot trust myself to say coherent or normal things. I have freaked many of people out with delusional conversation and woken up to find out from people that live with me all the strange and alarming things I said the night before. I also get angry and irritated really easily when I take this and don't go to bed right away and continue to talk to people. It sometimes makes me nauseous too if stay awake and don't go to bed right away. all in all, it works well to get me to sleep but the journey to get there is sometimes frightening | F | 25 | 3 years | 3/14/2005 | 1 | insomnia | 10mg doesn't do anything, 20mg and it feels like I've taken a benedryl tab. | You really have to have an empty stomach for this medicine to have any effect. | M | 18 | 4 days | 3/13/2005 | 5 | chronic pain-insomnia | Sleep was great! But..don't remember everything I did after taking it. I also found that I would get hungry about 10-20mins after. The munchies are strong, and you don't remember ever eating any thing in the morning. | I have been on this medicine for 5 years. It still helps me. Just go to bed after right after taking it. I did have to go up on my dose to 20mg now. But this medicine really helps people like myself how are having difficulty getting and staying asleep. | F | 32 | 5 years | 3/11/2005 | 4 | sleeplessess due to recoverying fro | slept beautifilly on 20mg p/n | short term memory loss | F | 39 | 30 days | 2/26/2005 | 5 | travel/jet lag | dependency (not sure if the dependency is physical or psychological) | Awesome sleep...8+ hours, feeling refreshed in the morning. I was taking it as a flight attendant to combat jetlag. It's really a weird drug. If you lie down, you will fall asleep immediately. If you stay up, you get really high and it is actually an aphrodesiac. You want to get your groove on!!!! | F | 29 | 3 years | 2/23/2005 | 5 | Insomnia - Post Migraine | None | Highly effective, I almost feel as if I'm pushed down into bed, when I lay down. I have been using 5-10mg 2-3 times a week for 4-5 years. Superior to Sonata & Halcion. Doesn't seem to lose effectiveness. | M | 20 | 5 years | 2/23/2005 | 3 | insomina | none | I have tried many and ambien is the most powerful for getting me to sleep. Each time I have taken it, whether it has been 11pm or 2AM, I fall asleep very quickly and sleep solidly for 5.5 hours, then I awake feeling pretty aroused but still feeling like I need more sleep. I wish it would make me stay asleep for 8 hours, but it is definitely better than any other option for really bad nights! I usually take it only once, have taken it never more than 3 times in a row, and always as a last resort. | F | 30 | | 2/19/2005 |