AMBIEN Reviews (ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE)Average Rating: 3.1 (1450 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare AMBIEN with similar:
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RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR AMBIEN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
5 | paxil caused very shallow sleeping | none | ads say should be only taken 7 - 10 days but doctor figures I will need it for as long as I am on Paxil, insurance pays for it and it does the trick | M | 31 | 4 months | 5/11/2004 | 4 | shoulder pain w/ sleeplessness | none while taking it. Bad nightmares and could not sleep at all when I stopped taking it. | Slept really well, no drowsiness the next day. No problem until I stopped taking it. | F | 38 | 10 days | 5/11/2004 | 5 | initial onset insomnia | Amnesia, only if I hadn't gotten at least 3 hours of sleep in the first hour of waking or so. Also, may not remember activities right before falling asleep, although I seemed to function cognitively fine. NOT a good idea to engage in sexual behaviors after taking Ambien, for obvious reasons. | Works quickly, and usually only take half a 10mg. tablet is sufficient, unless I am really anxious about having to get up early and I am clock watching, ect. It has been a godsend!!! | F | 37 | 10 years | 5/10/2004 | 5 | delayed sleep-onset insomnia | Next-day nausea, headache, diarrhea if taken too late at night. Hallucinations and paranoia initially, passes after a couple of times of taking it. | FABULOUS for delayed-sleep-onset insomnia. It can put me to sleep no matter how anxious I am. Works great if you have 8 hours to sleep after taking it. Forgiving even if you have a bit of alcohol with it. Initially causes paranoia and hallucinations, so be prepared. That passes after you're used to it. I recommend 5mg rather than 10mg. | F | 35 | 7 years | 5/9/2004 | 5 | Insomnia due to Wellbutrin | No side effects | It works great. Sometimes I only take half a pill. No grogginess in morning at all. I only use as needed though as I've heard it is habit forming. | M | 36 | 2 months | 4/12/2004 | 3 | Sleep Deprevation | Mild hallucinations, nothing else. | About 30 minutes into this while laying in bed I start noticing some odd cloud like formations floating around my room and they seem to be trying to communicate with me. I finally fell asleep after 1 hour and slept 4 hours straight but woke up feeling wide awake and had trouble getting back to sleep. Gonna try 5mg tonight before bed and if I wake up will take another 5mg. Don't take more than 10mg a day so this may solve problem. sorry to post so soon after one night but don't think your going crazy if you see things for awhile in bed ;) | M | 36 | 1 days | 4/9/2004 | 4 | SLEEP | F | 33 | | 3/31/2004 | 5 | insomnia | forgetfulness | M | 40 | 90 days | 3/3/2004 | 4 | insomnia | Addictive, in that sleeping is even more difficult when the drug is not taken. Vivid, frightening nightmares when medication is stopped. If I don't sleep within 30 minutes after taking Ambien, I (reportedly) function normally, but have no memory of anything I say or do while it's in my system. | M | 51 | 2 years | 2/6/2004 | 5 | waking in the middle of the night | memory loss right before sleeping, I have to take it right when i go to sleep or i do stuff I can't remember... | i finally sleep threw the night which is nice, i have very vivid dreams | F | 34 | 1 months | 12/13/2003 | 5 | sleep problems | when awakened by loud noises once and got up, I was extremely dizzy, disoriented, laughed almost uncontrollably, and hallucinated (bedspread and rugs appeared to be levitating). | now I take only 1/2, and take it very sporadically, only when absolutely necessary. Never more than 4 nights in a row. | F | 53 | 5 months | 12/12/2003 | 3 | Insomnia | None | It does help me get to sleep, but the sleep is only good for about 4 hours and I'm awake again. Taking a plain Tylenol along with the Ambien will usually get me an extra hour or two of sleep. 6 hours sleep via the above is about the best I've been able to do since 1994. Every now and then I go into a two hour cycle: sleep two hours, awake two hours, sleep two hours, awake ... that's when I resort to the Ambien and if necessary the Ambien/plain Tylenol combination for a couple of nights. Taking Ambien every night for slightly better than two weeks didn't produce any better results, just the 4 hours, so I only take it on occasion now as mentioned above. | F | 61 | 44 times | 11/30/2003 | 5 | | 10/26/2003 | 5 | sleep problems | groggy in moring | M | 37 | 3 weeks | 10/14/2003 | 5 | to get to sleep | dizziness | I know of people who have taken this drug and became completely disorrented fell over and injured themselves. I don't take a full 10 mg. I usualy bite off a quarter pill and I fall right to sleep. No drugged feelinging the morning. I am probably addicted to it because I don't sleep as well as without. I have been on and off of it over the last two years. The only time I have ever taken a full 10mg Tab was prescibed after sugery. 1 Quatrter tab works perfectly and leaves me 4 times the medidation prescribed | M | 56 | 2 years | 10/1/2003 | 2 | insomnia - waking at 4am | No side effects. No morning residual. | Fell asleep great with the drug. However, awoke at about 5am. The half life of the drug is too short for people who have trouble staying asleep. Taking Klonopin now. | M | 52 | 2 months | 9/25/2003 | 4 | Insomnia | F | 48 | | 9/24/2003 | 5 | insomnia | M | 49 | 6 months | 9/4/2003 | 5 | Couldn't get to sleep or stay aslee | none | I use it 3-4 nights a week | M | 56 | 2 years | 8/3/2003 | 5 | insomnia | none | great drug, no hangover, not addictive | F | 27 | 6 months | 6/2/2003 |