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I am sure people have heard the stories of people doing things in their sleep while on Ambien. I didn't believe some of the stories I heard..but it's all true. There have been many nights I have randomly called some of my friends just to talk to them or texted them at 11:30 at night. My husband has told me that I have also done a few weird things, like going through my nightstand, sitting up in bed and talking to him, but the exciting story I have has to do with my husband. I had sex with him one night for two hours!! I remember bits and pieces, like it was dream, but I don't remember all the details and how it lasted. He had no clue I trully was asleep doing this. I do have history as a child walking and talking in my sleep, and also as an adult, but not as frequent. Now when I take Ambien, my husband always asks if I am taking my crazy pill. I haven't had sex again, but continue to talk in my sleep.
I woke up the next morning to over 50 bruise on my legs and a sore stomach. After freaking out I noticed that 3 more full sheets of dry wall and been put on the wall and 10 sheets moved to a new location. I am 5'2 and a 150 pounds, how could I move that much weight and not be a wake? One thing amazing, I even new to know to level the sheets and wedge them off of the floor. What is going on when you take this medicine. I have also been told that I binge eat, talk on the phone, buy items online and clean after I take my night time pill!
I started having sex w/my boyfriend after having taken an Ambien. At first, it was normal, but after awhile, I became aware of the presence of other men in the room. It was as if they were riding his back while he was making love with me. Like they wanted to be a part of the energy -- sort of just hanging on and watching. It wasn't scary, just kind of other-worldly.
Another time, he told me that I had started to get frisky with him, then abruptly turned my back to him, said I'm going to sleep now, patted his winkie and said you're on your own! And then I was out like a light. Weird!
Well, the first night I felt like my apartment was rolling along top the ocean, I could see swells animate on the floor. I stood up to change the thermostat and could barely walk. I remember returning to my bed and falling asleep immediately. The next day, I did not have any hangover. That first night's experience occurred only once. I took Ambien virtually every night for a year afterward. The only side effect upon taking Ambien was double vision, but I was so relaxed it didn't scare me. Every time double vision occurred, I just closed my book and fell asleep. My sister had to stop taking Ambien. She would sleep eat, act like an intoxicated person would behave at a wild party, etc... A couple of her friends claimed they saw her sleep walking around the college campus in the middle of the night. She admits not having any memory of it. I've also heard of people having seizures after stopping 'cold turkey'. Any one considering stopping Ambien should keep this in mind and discuss this with their doctor before running this risk.
My father in law sleep binge eats. I once walked in on him while getting a bottle, we had a big conversation. Next morning the kitchen was trashed, an entire cake was gone, as well as boxes of ceral. He asked what happened. I said, well, you were in here eating the cake when I got the baby a bottle. All he could say was please tell me i had on clothes (which he did).
Hi, I have been taking Ambien for a few weeks. On two occassions my bf said we had sex and it was great. Only it seems to me that we had not had sex in days. In fact, I can't recall a moment of the sexual escapade! I'm happy I can trust my bf or else who knows what he could or would have done to me. Cheers to all, be careful who you take Ambien around! Lock your doors and set your alarms!
I've been on Ambien for a while now - (I miss the old white pill where you could break it in half). I noticed sometimes it didn't work - like a placebo. I discovered that you shouldn't eat a few hours before bed time, and that seems to fix it. Sometimes an activator (cheese and crackers) can help it set in faster. When this happens however, the effects seem to be a little more dramatic. The walls and roof actually begin to roll and I can't tell which way is up. I close my eyes and drift off. That's all I remember. Apparently, after about 30 mins, I'll get up and drive, or engage in some conversation completely reasonable - appearing completely lucid and without question of my true mental status. I'll work in the office and not know till the morning that the task has already been done - well! As nice as this is, it worries me that I would endanger someone else, so I have someone hide the keys to the truck. I guess my life's an Open Book to anyone who wants info after I've taken ambien, all they gotta do is ask!
I have had problems sleeping for several years, and I have been off and on Ambien since it came out in the 90s. I have been known to sleep eat, sleep talk, online shop, sex, etc, while on Ambien. Of course, I had little or no memory of it the next day. One night about 1 1/2 years ago, is the craziest story I have about Ambien. I woke up one morning with smooth, hairless arms and the word BATH written in tape in my bathtub. My fiance (now my husband) said I apparently shaved my arms while taking a bath and then decorated my bathtub with the word BATH in it after I had taken my Ambien. I would never shave my arms in waking life and can't imagine why I would want to even on Ambien, but apparently Ambien makes me do weird things. At least I didn't write the word BATH in permanent marker or something, or I would've really been in trouble with the landlord. At least I could just peel the tape off, but still, this proves that while taking Ambien, I'm capable of doing incredibly stupid things. My advice to anyone who needs this medicine for sleep is this: when you take it, make SURE you are lying down in bed ready to go to sleep. If you take it and then continue to get ready for bed, you will most likely start doing crazy stuff. As long as I don't get out of bed after taking it, I'm fine and I just sleep all night with no problems. My husband makes sure I stay in bed after taking it and he watches out for me. It also helps to have someone trustworthy to keep your Ambiens for you, so you don't take it, forget you took it, and then take more (I've done this, too).
ok so the first night i took ambien i was with a friend. it was stupid cuz we weren't really taking it to go to sleep but just for the funny feeling it gives you. well we couldnt feel anything so we took two more and headed out the door to take a drive. the only thing i remember was driving on the bike path a little ways out of town. the next time i took it i had a few stuffed animals in my room and i would freak out on my boyfriend for inviting all these people to my house for a party...then i started to calm down and began singing a song about a chocolate chip potato over and over. my boyfriend and i do tend to have sex more when im taking this, and i am also very social when i take it. it is a fun sensation but dont be a retard like me and take advantage of it!
I started taking Ambien for severe insomnia. It worked great for awhile (or so I thought.) The first incident I had, I woke up the next morning to find that I had filled my humidifier up with coffee. Didn't think much of it and kinda laughed it off. Another night I guess I had cleaned and organized my closet. It was amazing how clean and neatly arranged everything was but I have absolutely no memory of it. The same night I got out my christmas decorations and began decorating my balcony with x-mas lights. The only thing I can recall was thinking wow those are really pretty lights. The next day I discovered that I had just plugged in a strand of lights and threw them over the side of the railing. The last and final straw on Ambien was late last year. I had gotten off work on a Friday night and came home and got ready for bed..and thought I went to bed. I guess I was up all night making phone calls, and everyone said I sounded fine on the phone. I can't remember anything for that whole weekend. I apparently kept taking the drug over the next two days. I ordered pizza, called some more people during the day, and rearranged my furniture that whole Saturday and can't remember a second of it. That Saturday in the middle of the night I called my mom at 4am and then again at 5am. On Sunday, I made place settings for 3 people and kept calling my mom and asking where the heck she was. Apparently I thought she was coming over. That Sunday night I called my mom again asking where in the bleep did my dad hide my cigs. I guess I couldn't find them. I tried scraping the ice off my car window so I could go to the store and get some. I then locked myself out of my apartment. I can kind of remember standing outside in the freezing cold buzzing everyone in my apartment building to let me in. I have no idea how long I stood out there. The next thing i remember was that Monday at noon my sister called me freaking out and worried. After I finally came out of my Ambien haze I went out to my car to make sure I didn't drive. It was in the same spot, my purse was inside dumped all around, and I tried to scrape my window with my library card. I tried to recap the weekend but there is only bits and pieces that I remember. I still don't know if I went down to my neighbors apartment to yell at them for there loud music. It feels like a dream and I don't know if it's real. I took almost 20 Ambiens that weekend with no memory of doing so. Needless to say I could of easily killed myself that weekend and I flushed the rest of the pills and will NEVER again take them. SCARY
My boyfriend has Aspergers (mild Autism & extremely shy, nor can he sleep at nite. The following morning after he takes an Ambien he is re-animated into a normal, fast moving, talkative out-going assertive indvl.It kinda works on him like an anti- depressant . Be careful with these, pills. With me the next day I awaken at 8am and then fall out for another 7-8 hours sorta like a General anesthesia feeling hang-over. Be afraid be very afraid...
I have had sleep issues for years and was prescribed Ambien after a few other sleeping pills failed. About 30 minutes after I take it, I start to feel like the bed is floating on the ocean or going over waves. That is usually the last thing I remember. My husband says that first I start to see trees and soldiers in the room. The other night he says we had sex. I have no memory of it at all. He says that I am usually crazy for about an hour and he has to make me lie down in bed for me to go to sleep. It is the only sleeping pill that has helped me, but I would never take it unless someone was hear to watch me and make sure I didn't hurt myself or something.
I have been taking Ambien for well over a year for severe Insomnia. I too have experienced weird happennings. The other morning I woke up to use the rest room and noticed the nail polish remover on the counter. I normally put that away when I use it. Then I looked down at my nails and voila! I had bright orange nails! And I did a damn good job! This isn't the first time I've done this while on Ambien. I have woken up several times to lots of crazy colors. And I always do a wonderful job. I will also do homework assignments and find all this highlighting and notes in my books but I don't remember what the heck I read! I will also arrange junk drawers or clean my room. I have sent text messages and had hour long chats and have no memory of them.Another interesting thing is I will find my bedroom toys lying on the floor next to my bed in the morning. Apparently, I had a good time...with myself!I have also got preoccupied with my facial hair trimmer I use to shape my eyebrows. Well I now have no nasal hair left in my nose! Entirely crazy! I'm lucky I still have my eyebrows!!! I write in my journal frequently and then the next day I'm like who wrote this??? I definitely recommend not taking Ambien until you are IN bed and turn off the TV AND PHONE! I don't know what to do because I cannot go to sleep without it.
I had only started taking this drug recently for insomnia. I had no idea that it had any side effect other than some memory loss after you take it, and of course beautiful sleep. Aparently though, shortly after I have taken it I start writing, some of the writing's are very weird and disconnected, a little sci-fi and just weird. But the sex part is the weirdest. He said that I was pretending one night to be a preachers wife teaching him how to pleaseure his soon-to-be wife and then after that story I pretended to be the sister of his soon-to-be wife, who was telling him all kinds of freaky things including I'd be open for a 3some with him and my sister. The next night I pretedned to be some kind of massuse, and he won't tell me the rest of what I said/did because it was too sexually charged, and he was at work. He doesn't beleive me when I tell him, I don't remember ANYTHING. So I looked up a search and found this site, I'm REALLY glad to know I'm not the only one.
I have taken Ambien occasionally since the 90's to swap shift work but never regularly and never noted any side affects other than sleep, actually loved having a pill to put me to sleep from time to time. Due to work stress a few months ago I began taking it almost every night and had bad dreams where I was angry, using language I don't use and physically fighting people at work and I assumed it was due to stress. However that all changed last weekend when I lost my Saturday. That Sunday when I woke up my knee hurt and my nose felt like I had been punched and I have no idea why unless I fell down the stairs or worse. Days later I remember small pieces of the day but after about 2 pm nothing until the next afternoon when my son asked me why I had not gone to church that morning and I told him because it is Saturday and I actually argued with him until I looked at the calendar. I had emailed and called some people during this time who are very important to me and apparently became abusive and am still trying to correct these problems but I will live with lack of sleep before I take this stuff again.
I was forcibly removed from Lufton Airport in England because I had taken two Ambien while sitting at the gate waiting to board. I had just made an early morning connecting flight and was pleased that I was going to be able to sleep well on the long flight back to the States. I recall taking the two tablets (unaware of how potent this dosage is) and then the next thing I remember is seeing the gate agent with four legs, vines crawling up my arms, and a loud confrontation about how I was damn sure as all hell going to get on that plane...the sign over a door saying BAA (British Airport Authority) was the next thing I remember and then I was LITERALLY strong armed out the airport where I slept on a bench for the next 8 hours. I recall waking up and seeing different types of people and thinking Oh...these people are going to Africa...Oh, these people are going to Asia..etc..etc.. About 7pm that night I got it together, grabbed a cab to a hotel, and had to profoundly apologize the next day to British Airways in order to be let on the next flight. I like Ambien but you really have to be strapped in bed and stay there!
I got a prescription for ambien in college. It was my final semester before graduation in May and my wedding in July, and I was seriously stressing. The first night I took it, I was sitting in bed with my laptop IMing with a friend. I don't remember the conversation, but the IM log shows that I told him, My words to you are black letters stitched on a white silk sheet. I stitch, I type, I stitch. I also IMd two more of my friends, and several of the people I work with on an online game, wild rantings about raspberry coke.
I then tried to organize my closet but wound up falling over into the laundry basket, unable to stand up. My fiancee had to rescue me and put me to bed. We were lying in bed and the breeze began to ruffle the curtains, and I clearly remember seeing wagon wheels rolling across the ceiling. I sat up and screamed, roll out the chuckwagons! and then insisted my fiancee drive to Sonic to buy me a cherry limeade. He refused and I settled for some orange juice from the kitchen. Not wanting me to fall down again, he went to get it for me -- I was completely passed out by the time he got back from the kitchen.
I was prescribed zolpidem for insomnia a while back, i didn't know how long it would take to work so the first time i took it two hours before i went to bed. i felt funny, couldn't stand up for long, and when i went to bed i started hallucinating crazy stuff like horses made of gravel, birds with spatula beaks and jumping daisies! the next night i took it at the right time but i still thought that there was a snake in the window. these weren't scary though just bizarre. a couple of times i was just fine on it but then another time i looked out of my window and though that the tree outside was made of dragons, and i lay there for ages trying to work out if the dragons were having sex! however, it did help me sleep but i soon came off them because i didn't really want to enjoy those experiences too much and become reliant on them!
I've never had a zombie experience, but I am pretty sure i am having severe doulbe vision right now after having taken it last night. I've only used it two nights, so I hope this problem goes away soon. The drive into work this morning almost seemed like I was drunk.
I'm a 16 year old female with many chronic conditions. One of these is insomnia. Because I experience chronic pain at night, I have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and getting a good night sleep. After trying many different medications, a new doctor sugested Ambien for me. Excited, I immediately began my new treatment for horrible sleeping habits. I had numerous episodes that I can't remember. One episode was quite interesting. According to my mom, I was sitting up in my bed with my two dogs at my feet, and I had continued to throw Cracker Jack's at my dogs until the entire box was empty. I was also told that I was eating, singing, dancing, crying, and calling people all while under the influence of this medication. However, there was an episode that I thankfully cannot remember. I had taken my Ambien and laid down, turned on my tv, and was relaxing. I was told by my family that I ended up coming out of my room in a dazed stare, crying my eyes out. I apparently sat in my dads lap for 3 hours, crying hysterically, begging him not to hate me and saying things such as, I'm so sorry. I never meant to hurt you. I love you so much Daddy. My family obviously didn't sleep well that night... but apparently I did. I woke up the next morning to a huge cut on my left calf, and saw my hunting knife laying open on the ground with blood all over it, and a towel that was laying near by. The cut was about 6 inches long and half an inch deep.
Ambien was a TERRIFYING drug for me. Lay right down when you take it, or you might do something crazier than I did.
Taking ambien and staying awake is not hard for me, but when I do I can see what seems very strange. Watching beings come out of my mirror or jump into other people, seeing shadow figures and other life forms, trees twisting and moving, things that are im sure im not suppose to see. other people or beings I have seen some times appear to be surprised or shocked that I am paying attention or following them. Tall skinny shadow figures with no real features follow me at times too just follow and watch, always keep a distance of a few feet. I am afraid that these things are actually here and that i just cant see them at times, then I just shrug it off. Thought I was posessed by spirits, saw demons and things, other people have told me that I actually became someone else for a while, talking in an accent and using words I dont ever use and not remembering any of that but then ill seem to become concious again in a new position or room with the person talking to me and they tell me about all the wierd things I said. Talking about energy fields and wierd stuff, tracing things in the air, talking to people and things that are not there.
I originally started taking Ambien because I could not sleep but now realize the underlying cause was restless sydrome. The RLS is a great and demanding urge to move your legs that you can not ignore. I have been on the Ambien for a year and on Mirapex for the legs about half of that time. The Mirapex takes approximately 2-3 hours to kick in so I began leaving it at the office. On many occasions I would forget to take it. The effect was so bad that I would get up and drive to the office and return. Sometimes this was with the ambien and some times not. I did notice my driving was sort of in a fog and erratic. Also noticed during the day while driving I would have lapses in my memory while driving not know how long I had been out of it and sleep driving. NOW COMES THE LAST TIME. Staying out of town I had forgotten the mirapex. I took the Ambien hoping that sleep would get me through the night. This is what took place as told to me by a person that was with me. I got out of bed, dressed, and drove to waffle house at midnight. came back and had not eaten. The next I was told was that I had gone out int he hall to walk off the RLS and locked myself out of the room while they were sleeping. and NO, I did not have any clothes on. Apparently someone gave me a towel and the desk gave me a new pass key. I woke my room mate up and we dressed and went out for breakfast at 4 am. My driving was so fast and eratic I had to give up the keys. Ate and had a normal conversation. BAck to the room. Back to bed. By 530 I was back up, dressed, got luggage and checked out by myself. the next I Knew I was feeling the car impact something. I had crossed 3 lanes of traffic, jumped the curb, took out a power pole, ran over a 4 x 4 post sign, and through some bushes and landed up against a house. the car was totalled from the firewall forward. The police said if I had been driving something smaller than my Grand CHerokee that the outcome may had been totally different. I walked away with bruised arms and ribs. NOPE, did not have a seat belt on. WHAT I REMEMBERED
I originally started taking Ambien because I could not sleep but now realize the underlying cause was restless leg syndrome. The RLS is a great and demanding urge to move your legs that you can not ignore. I have been on the Ambien for a year and on Mirapex for the legs about half of that time. The Mirapex takes approximately 2-3 hours to kick in so I began leaving it at the office. On many occasions I would forget to take it. The effect was so bad that I would get up and drive to the office and return. Sometimes this was with the ambien and some times not. I did notice my driving was sort of in a fog and erratic. Also noticed during the day while driving I would have lapses in my memory while driving not knowing how long I had been out of it and sleep driving. NOW COMES THE LAST TIME. Staying out of town I had forgotten the mirapex. I took the Ambien hoping that sleep would get me through the night. This is what took place as told to me by a person that was with me. I got out of bed, dressed, and drove to waffle house at midnight. came back and had not eaten. It was suggested that I run a hot bath and soak. Did that but left the water running and went back to bed. The next I was told was that I had gone out into the hall to walk off the RLS and locked myself out of the room while they were sleeping. and NO, I did not have any clothes on. Apparently someone gave me a towel and the desk gave me a new pass key. I woke my room mate up and we dressed and went out for breakfast at 4 am. My driving was so fast and erratic I had to give up the keys. Ate and had a normal conversation. Back to the room. Back to bed. By 530 I was back up, dressed, got luggage and checked out by myself. the next I knew I was feeling the car impact something. I had crossed 3 lanes of traffic, jumped the curb, took out a power pole, ran over a 4 x 4 post sign, and through some bushes and landed up against a house. the car was totaled from the firewall forward. The police said if I had been driving something smaller than my Grand Cherokee that the outcome may had been totally different. I walked away with bruised arms and ribs. NOPE, did not have a seat belt on. WHAT I REMEMBERED running over a curb first time out for something to eat in the hall naked with people yelling at me. no clue how I got there. laying over the car console feeling the impacts. The police asking a couple of questions. How did they possibly think I was not under the influence of something. Are you that normal to others??? the EMS guys checking me over. and that is it until over an hour later. I never have filled in the holes in my memory. WHAT I DO NOT REMEMBER leaving the hotel or returning taking a bath after I had left the tub running and went back to sleep. going to sleep waking and going into the hall without any clothes on. returning to the room. leaving with another with clothes and driving to another all night diner, eating and carrying on a conversation returning to the hotel as a passenger leaving and checking out of the hotel driving to the site of the accident getting out of the car after the accident what took place between the accident and the tow truck returning me to the hotel. getting a ride back to the hotel and waiting for a ride from there
I could have been killed or worse killed someone else. If anyone would like to share they can contact me at flicker_49@yahoo.com
I like to write fictional stories. Often, I'll sit up late at night with MS Word and write. I am currently writing a long story about someone hiking the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mtn, GA to Katahdin ME. My character is up in VA right now.
Most of my writing is kind of mundane, but sometimes I get a bit creative. That is, until I take Ambien (the regular one, not the CR). I usually take one 10mg pill once in 3 nights. That seems to work best for me.
About 1/2 to 1 hour after having taken the Ambien, my writing will start to get a lot more creative. I usually don't know exactly what I'm writing until the next morning when I open the Word document and start reading it. Funny that I always manage to save it before quitting.
In this particular story, my Ambien mind has created all sorts of time/space portals, where I can travel great distances on Earth, or to other planets (including Pandora, where I have met Neytiri several times). Sometimes the story will be mixed up between fantasy and actual events that I recall.
I have also found myself doing other things on my computer. In one of the games I like to play, I'll find a new scenario saved, which I have no recollection of playing.
I have never sleep-walked or done anything else while on Ambien. I was astounded to read about the guy who put up drywall one night. That is really weird.
I also dictate into a voice recorder at night, trying to record my dreams. When I have taken Ambien, I get some very strange recordings that I do not recall having made.
I only wish that I could be as creative under normal conditions as I am while taking Ambien. I think it proves that there is a hidden personality within all of us, and taking drugs like Ambien can cause them to come to the surface. I feel bad for people who get into real trouble while taking Ambien. I have read some horror stories about people getting arrested for DUI or other offenses, and waking to find themselves in jail. I should be happy that all I do is write. It's very interesting, and maybe it will help me actually become a writer someday.
I took zolpidem one evening a couple of hours before my normal bedtime. All I can recall is going to the bathroom to brush my teeth and thinking about a work related item while I was brushing. After a period of time my wife wondered where I was and came hunting for me. She heard me singing and laughing behind the bathroom door and came in to see what was happening. Since I dont normally sing and especially dont sing and laugh privately she knew something was strange and sent me to bed. I have no recollection of when the stuff hit me or what or why I was singing. In the morning I thought (and hoping) it was dream recalling only the part of her being angry about me not helping put the kids to bed.
My story isn't as crazy as some of the previous posters, but I have learned pretty much to go right to bed after taking an Ambien. I had taken one and then remembered I needed to order a birthday gift for a friend. I got onto the Nordstrom website and started browsing. The friend I was shopping for is in her mid-thirties, and in the past I've generally gotten her some nice earrings or other kind of jewelry. The next morning I checked my email, and had two order confirmations from Nordstrom. I had placed two separate orders for a pink scarf with a black Scottie dog print all over it. It's not the kind of thing I would order for anyone I know, and certainly not for anyone over the age of 10. It was a little embarrassing having to call Nordstrom to cancel the orders.
My first night on Ambien consisted of me first calling my best friend who was on vacation 500 miles away and telling them to lower their voice because they were upsetting the meeting going on in my room, I also requested that she come to my house and help me pick the bugs off of my ceiling. After that, aparentlly I told my sister that their was a road in my tv and that I was going to take the one less traveled (all while pointing to the microwave).
Uh so I have anxiety related sleep issues, since my doctor won't prescribe me anything that actually relieves the anxiety (like ativan, Xanax XR, ect.) she wrote me a script for zolpidem...wtf I walked around my house to pink Floyd full blast listening to comfortably numb eating a whole loaf of bread. Then one night I made the novice mistake of taking it with my other meds downstairs....it takes me about 15 minutes to brush my teeth, shower, and hop in bed...well I laid down in bed and hopped on my iPad to check something quick that turned into about 4 hours of staying up, having weird conversations with friends over facebook, posting retarded crap on forums. If you take it GO TO BED WITHIN 30 SECONDS. Oh and stay the heck away from facebook...try not to take it with benadryl either unless you like your ceiling turning into a glowing green moving rug made of zebra skin...holy crap...Everytime I take it at night I have to wake up the next morning and check my phone for weird txts, outgoing calls and check facebook for anything I may have posted. I don't like this drug at all...if I can get some alprazolam off someone I do since I sleep like a dream on that.
I have done a lot of odd things on Ambien. Here are my most recent. I hadn't slept well for the last few nights, so I decide to take two. I woke up the next morning and my back porch was painted BRIGHT purple. I live in and apartment complex, it wasn't mine to paint. All I remember was thinking how it was so dull my porch is and this paint I had was a really pretty shade of purple. More recent, my ex and I are in the middle of custody combat. His sitter recently dated a friend/co-worker of mine, but are now broken up. My friend decide to call me late at night ask a few questions about her. I remember answering the phone but nothing I said afterwards. Considering I was annoyed by an earlier meeting with my ex and his sister, I'm sure I was happy to give out information and didn't sugar coat anything. By my ex reaction the next day, it must have been bad. This does nothing for me for the custody battle.
I will always love my Ambien
I took three zolpidem(forgetting each time i had taken one already) and thought i had fallen asleep. I hardly remember this but My pillows were actually little colorful elves and they pushed me off my bed, and a little man in a black cape stole my phone. From what my dad told me the next morning, i had almost fallen down the stairs, and i told him i really needed to brush my teeth but ended up throwing the tooth brush on the ground. Oh and i was naked the whole time. But i wake up in the morning and my rooms a mess, my phones gone, and theres a christmas tree on my floor. DONT take ambien.
I have been a terrible sleeper for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure why, or even when the sleep troubles began, but they've certainly been around for a WHILE-- and I'm still dealing with them today.
I'm 21 now and I started taking Ambien when I was about 15. The first couple of weeks that I took it, I didn't notice a thing out of the ordinary. I think this was due to the fact that I would take it directly before I shut off the lights and attempted to fall asleep. One night, however, I decided to watch some T.V. Apparently, I had turned the T.V. off, gone to sleep for about twenty minutes, and then gone out in the living room to watch T.V. with my Mom. I don't remember this, but my mother had told me about it afterward.
The first time I, myself, noticed anything strage was when I was lying on my bed with my two feet on the wall. I was looking at the different shapes the paint (or plaster. . .) were making on the wall and that was when I noticed a tiger, not in color but in shape. It would come out of its little cave and wave at me and then go back inside. It did this repeatedly until I was rolling around on my bed laughing.
Another night, I remember my Mom coming in and catching me just sitting on the edge of my bed, staring at the black T.V. screen. She asked me what I was doing and I said, I'm watching the people. They're behind me, in the corner, and on my knees. She giggled a little bit and put me to bed.
There were other nights when I woke up and found watermelon on the carpet and in on the bathroom floor; or when my friend and I dressed up in all black, packed out airsoft guns in our pockets and walked around the streets looking for other night crawlers, only to end up shooting our friends in the stomach; or when that same friend and I decided we wanted to make fresh smoothies, so we got dressed and started to walk to the nearest Safeway and ended up taking a ride with two RANDOM asian men to some deserted racing area and then playing pool with them until we finally had them drop us off a block away from her house.
So yeah. . . don't take it any more.
Reading these posts really freak me out! I have been taking ambien since diagnosed ideopathic-hypersomnia, apnea, narcolepsy..I thought it was strange the doctor would put me on medication to help me sleep since sleeping didn't seem to be what my problem was at all! But after my sleep study showed my crazy talking, night terrors, tossing and turning, apnea and apparantly I wake hundreds of times during the night too (with no memory). It made sense I should take this medication at night and sleep solid therefore reducing my symptoms during the day. I still take adderall for the narcolepsy so as I don't fall asleep during my daily activities but I do find myself generally feeling better all around. When I first started taking the ambien I noticed a strange, euphoric feeling lasting about 15 minutes or so before it was nighty night time for me! After a few weeks I noticed I could take it and not fall asleep for 2-3 hours but I never took more than the dosage so I would be forced to deal with the weird happenings still I eventually passed out. I would text, facebook, mildly hallucinate, and even have sex with my boyfriend with no memory the next day. I have heard of people driving and even a murder investigation involving a potential ambian dose, but never just staying awake around the house doing funny, weird things. I will definately be talking to my doctor, as should any one of you that have concerns about the affects this drug has on you. Thankyou all for sharing your stories, you could save lives so continue to share! Best wishes everyone, C.
I have been insomniac for about 6 years. The only thing that works for me is Ambien/Zolpidem and I've never driven on it, sleepwalked (other than drowsily going to the restroom when nature called); maybe the worst thing was seeing some jars on my countertop moving when I was lying in bed. It could have been a trick of the light for all I know, as I was dozing off. It used to work really well for me, but lately wears off after about 3 hours. I find that my body has to be tired in order for it to work longer. I never drink and take sleep medication; that would be stupid. Nor do I indulge in any kind of illegal intoxicant. I don't even smoke. Everyone is different and has different chemistry; what works for one person might not work for another. I've tried Restoril (temazepam), Lunesta and even Sinequan (doxepin) (which my neurologist advised me was an old sleeping medication, but it's actually a tricyclic antidepressant & I specifically told him that I don't want to take anything that will alter how my mind works; I know the source of my stress and how to combat it; I don't want to take things that will do things to my mind. I did try it and it made me feel like I was on a roller coaster. I also tried Trazodone once; that stuff made me feel like my heart was racing. I have to take other medication for physical problems that were not of my making, but I haven't done anything crazy while taking Ambien. It does work a little better if I eat a few crackers after taking it, but I've never gone out and driven around or saw other people in the room or even engaged in sexual activity while on it. Nor have I eaten everything in sight. I know that there are other people like myself who don't experience strange things while on it. Why do we only hear horror stories about it? Why don't the people who it helps come forward? Every medication has its good and bad side. Yet no one wants to say anything good; I guess it's more interesting to read horror stories than read testimonials of helpfulness.
I haven't personally taken Ambien before but my wife does fairly regularly. One of the few times she tried to stay awake after taking it she got up off the couch and grabbed a cherry cheesecake out of the fridge and had a little snack. A few minutes later I noticed she had stirred the entire thing up. She looked at me and in a very concerned voice asked me if it was pretty. I told her that it was and asked that she put it away because I was honestly concerned that she was going to try to paint the walls or herself. She tried to get up and fell into the wall. I decided she and I would sleep on the couches that night.
We've had sex a few times after she took it as well but nothing strange happened other than the fact that she REALLY enjoyed it.
When my husband and I started dating we would sit up all night and chat online. I used to take Ambien frequently and I remember being on the computer with him and thinking that he and I were sitting on a park bench talking to each other. We lived two hours away from each other so of course we weren't really, but it seemed so real at the time. After we were married, I remember sitting in bed after taking Ambien and telling him that I could see my thoughts floating around in the air and if I wanted to think about one of them I would just pluck it out of the air and smush it into my head. He told me I could never take Ambien again.
I have never had an ambien high, but I do know I sleepwalk on ambien. If I stay up after taking the pill I find all kinds of clues I have been up eating and partying the next day.
Food is left out of the fridge, crackers and things are left on the counter out of the wrappers, and the brandy is out of the cupboard with the lid off and some left in the bottom of a glass somewhere in the kitchen or in the den near the TV.
Seems I am partying watching television until I crash on the couch, but never anything sexual even if I do wake up.
Be careful ambien is a sleeping pill and could stop you breathing if you take too much. My take on the ambien sex thing is that most of what you see is just stories. Even if they were true, this reaction to ambien probably extremely rare.
Personally, I would just stick with alcohol. It is safer and works great for lowering the inhibitions. Forget the promise of the ultimate sex pill. Ambien is just another sleeping pill and dangerous to boot. If you sleep walk and take more ambien you could overdose.
For me I will stick with alcohol in moderation. Do too much and you effect performance, but a little is just right. Imagine the sordid stories we could all tell if we were discussing alcohol.
I've taken Ambien 10 mg for several months. If I don't fall asleep right away after taking it, I find myself being hyper-productive. I once created a craft for my class and did it so impeccably that it was hard to reproduce in the actual class setting. I order on-line, talk on FB and some phone conversations have been quite explicit, revealing feelings and information I would not have normally done.
My husband tells me I have conducted business meetings while on Ambien. He says I hold entire conversations and deliver great presentations. I have no recollection of this the next day.
Occasionally, I do binge eat, but I think that is more because I get so relaxed on the drug that I want comfort food to go with it.
I woke up this morning tomy computer open and a bunch of letters that didn't make any sense at all as my status. I looked around the room wondering who had been on my Facebook and come to see that I had been writing some pretty unkind ugly stuff to a guy I really liked! Something about me being a big deal and do you know who I am and that I got game. Yikes! Not cool. On top of my eratic FB postins there were quite a few texts and phone calls to that same person, also none of which were kind ro made sense. I noticed a carton of eaten Ben and Jerry's, a protien smoothie and a half eaten plate of nachos on the floor. I got up to see who had been making food and realized that no one was home but me. I called my brother to see if he had been in my room and he informed me that I had made waffles and smoothies around 4 am. He said my dad had heard the noise and came up yelling at me that I was burning up the motor on the blender because I was running it without having actually attached the pitcher to the blender. My response was I'm sorry! and continued about my business making evveryone smoothies. I woke up to organized drawers and a load of wet laundry in the dryer. I had totally cleaned out the lint trap added a fabric softener but failed to to press start. I used up 6 bananas and half of my container of whey protien for the drinks. Lol...thank goodness the guy I FB'd had is incredibly cool. I dunno if I'd forgive me! Utterly mortifying.
Used wisely, Ambien in wonderful. It saved me from the depths of alchoholism. I've worked graveyard shift for 20yrs, and have had to drink myself to sleep every morning with huge amounts of Vodka,..I'm talking at least three cups of 80proof vodka a day for over 25 years. My health and mental condition were an ongoing trainwreck that had me fantasizing about suicide the way most sober guys fantasize about attractive females. I'd drag myself to work like a dead dog, clock in (if I could remember my password), spend 8 hours in a nightmarish hell hangover of faking I was a human being as opposed to the ambulatory rotten corpse I really was. There's not enough space here to list every health disaster I suffered, or the times I'd just sit there on the sofa with a 9mm pistol stuck in my mouth telling God to F off. Finally my HMO doctor suggested Ambien for my shift work insomnia,..and the last two years have been booze free and wonderful. I never thought I'd be back into mountain climbing and kayaking, like I was before the bottle. Now I can read great books again, and gone is the pain from my swollen liver. I thought that pain was a permanent part of my identity. And I thought all-day hangovers at work were just the hell on earth I deserved. Ambien, I've taken it for 2yrs,..the 10mg pill,..if this is addiction, bring it on, I love it. I will Never increase that dosage, given the wisdom of my drunken debacle decades. Funny, I haven't had all the side effects you guys are having,..once the detox from booze was over (horrible nightmare) I have been given a second chance at life. Actually I feel like a kid again, like I've just turned 21 and want to try everything.
I have tried Ambien a few different times, but was only recently put on this to help me sleep. Years ago who i used to use it for a good time it was an amazing enhancer to pretty much anything. Only problem was i used to wake up knowing Nothing of what happened. The one time i do remember was when i took at least 8, 5mg tab(some oral,some in lines). After about an hour i decided that they were not doing anything and took my car for a 45min drive to buy beer in a snow storm. I had no idea where i was driving too but it was sure as hell the best drive i have ever had. So i get to the store stand in front of the cooler for about 25 min trying to decide what was the best choice. Next thing i know im in the car again and im now stuck in a snow bank. So i get out with bare hands and start to dig out the car. Next thing i remeber was some guy trying to tow me out when i hear a loud bang the rope being used snapped. Some how i ended up getting out and was back on my way, and before i knew it i was sitting at my house in the car and all the beer was gone. I woke up the next morning and only until i found the receipt did i believe it actually happened. I honestly thought that everything was a dream until that point. That was the last time i ever took it. well Until now that is, I now take it 20mg at bed time given by the dr and have No side effects at all. I have only been using it for 2 weeks but so far so good. Only complaint i have is the next day it tends to make me feel really sad inside. I do wake feeling Great in the AM though.
I was prescribed Ambien to help me sleep while I was going through Kolonipin withdrawls. My story still makes me sick. I came home one afternoon after meeting my fiance for lunch. I was feeling pretty bad from the withdrawls that I took two Ambien to calm down and nap. This was at about 3:00pm. The last thing I remember (from the night I ruined my life) was sitting outside with a glass of wine talking to my mom on the phone. (this was about 4:00pm) The rest of my story his been told to me from others around me that night. As I blacked out the next 12 hours of my life. My fiance came home at 6:00pm to find me making dinner of omlettes and fried frech fries, bacon burning and the house full of smoke. He said that at 8:30 he took the kids into the bedroom because I was super crazy. I then took my car and left the house. (I NEVER drink and drive) Nobody knows where I was for 2 hours. I showed up at a friends house at 10:30 and she said I asked her to go out. (The rest of the story I got from her) Make note: I don't go out...EVER!! I am always home with my family. Anyway, she said we walked to a bar down the street. She said I made all kinds of crazy phone calls and couldn't remember things that she had told me just seconds before. It is now 4:00 in the morning and I have my first little flashback memory of that night. I am on the ground outside. I can't see who is behind me. I can feel him though...and I hurts. I ask myself is this really happing? I am saying STOP!! GET OFF!!! YOU ARE HURTING ME!! and that is it...that is the only memeory I have from that night. Maybe about 3-5 seconds. I go to the police. They ask me his name, what he looked like, what he drove? All I can say is I don't remember. My fiance calls my friend from that night to ask her how this happened. She tells him she took my car and left me with this guy. Apperently, I had be making out with him at the bar. (something I would never do in a million years) But I guess I did....cheated on the father of my children the man I have been with for ten years. I ruined everything and have no memory of any of it. Well, except the sodomy...which makes me ill everyday. Please girls don't take this stuff. If you can't remember anything....he gets away with it.
For those who believe we are making this up. sorry but it's true. The shadow figures in our bedroom watching us at least trying to have sex when we are on it is the most that has reoccured. My boyfriend even said the last time there were 2 couples having sex in our room and one figure sitting by the door just watching. About 6 months ago we were having sex on ambiem and i went into this other world and was, or at least thought i was having a conversation with this girl, not a figure, in a tunnel. no idea who she was. guess i was dreaming. it's weird that alot of the stories are related to sex. why is that. people watching, really! I once looked at my boyfriend of 6 months who lived with me and asked him who he was. he told me and i was likereally? I had no idea he lived with me and didn't believe me. the thing is though, alot of stories on here people don't remember. I remember looking at him dead in the eyes in complete light having no clue who he was and why he was in my apt. all these stories are kinda starting to freak me out. confirms im not crazy though.
I know, raped is a ugly word, but it is what we jokingly call it. She was tired of my odd behavior on ambien and wanted to have sex. I was out on ambien one night so she just climbed on and did it. I have no knowlege of it except that she was able to show me a couple cell phone pictures the next morning. Ambien is a dangerous drug. I have all kinds of stories (told to me by my girlfriend) of me doing all kinds of odd things like yelling, doing things that make no sense and even eating all kinds of things in all kinds of amounts. They should make this med much more difficult to get. I am not trying to downplay what rape is, just pointing out that anyone on this med really has no ability to give consent to anything they do...with or without clothes.
I began Ambien about four months ago to help with insomnia and erratic sleep patterns from my severe depression. While I now take it exactly as prescribed, for the first month or two I abused it whenever I had it and usually ran out two weeks before my monthly refill. During those two months I convinced myself, partially through the use of Ambien, that I felt more for a man I was seeing than I truly did feel. I had sex with him, but only on Ambien. I've heard some call it a truth serum, but for myself, I notice that I get an idea and I think it's the greatest idea ever and the execution cannot be delayed. Like rearranging my entire living room in the middle of the night and pinning one of my skirts up on the wall as decoration. Or emailing ex-boyfriends. Or smoking cigarettes inside my house. I've finally stopped abusing my Ambien to forget and make the days go by faster, but occasionally I will have strange experiences. Like the other night. I took my Ambien like I normally do--after I'm in bed and have read a book for 10-15 minutes. I continue reading until the sentences start to wiggle around in chunks...and then I know it's time to go to bed. Well, this night I randomly got up and started drawing in my sketchbook. I realized that I was being ridiculous and needed to sleep, not draw, and laid back down. Then something in my apartment fell and made a loud crash. Ambien convinced me that someone was trying to break in, and I got up and hid all my money in my wallet somewhere so the intruder couldn't get it. Well, I successfully hid my money from the intruder, and myself, because I still haven't found it and I've torn my entire apartment apart several times. However bizarre the side-effects can be, I'm still glad I'm on Ambien, and it's changed my life for the better. I can function during the day now because I actually fall asleep before 3 or 4am, and I've established good sleeping habits. Just like any drug, it can be abused, but used correctly, it can greatly improve quality of life.
I once dated a girl who was a RN for a trauma emergency room. She worked graveyard shift and often relied on alcohol and ambien to aide her for sleep. One night, after several drinks at dinner, we stayed up to watch a movie. She opened a bottle of wine, popped an ambien and settled into the couch. About an hour into the movie, I notice she isn't really paying attention and catch her glancing around the room with a look of concern on her face. I ask her what's wrong and she replies, nothing. She is 3/4 through the bottle of wine and pops another ambien. About twenty minutes later, she leans into me and whispers in my ear, are we the only ones here? I loof at her like, wtf? and tell her, yes. There's no one else here besides my dog. She says ok and then tries to concentrate on the movie. Twenty minutes later, she again asks, are you sure there's no one else here? I look at her a bit annoyed and said, what makes you think someone is here other than us? She doesn't answer and I think, great I'm dating a crazy person. She finishes the bottle of wine and proceeds to open another and I try to stop her but its too late. She pours another glass (spilled half of it) and is stumbling around. I am fully annoyed now and cart her off to bed (where she spilled the remainder of her wine on my sheets). She is drifting off to sleep and I am wide awake. I head to the kitchen, pour a glass of wine for myself and notice her ambien on the counter. I take one, down my drink, and went to let my dog out in the backyard. After about ten to fifteen minutes, I opened my backdoor and notice there are some people in my neighbors backyard. Its 5am. I kind of panicked and yelled for my dog to get inside. I go to my room and tell my gf there are people breaking into my neighbors backyard shed. I am about to pick up the phone to call 911 when I glance at the chair in my room and notice a lady in my chair with a baby in her arms cradling it as if she rocking the baby to sleep. (She was wearing a hospital gown). I freakin' flipped out and shook my gf violently saying. There's someone in my room! She replied, I know. And there's someone in the corner playing the guitar. I turned around and sure enough, I saw someone in the corner playing the guitar. I started pacing my house, trying to make sense of it all. After about thirty minutes of pacing, I went back into my room and tried to just sleep it off. The next day, I was in a stupor from the events that took place. I remebered everything crystal clear, but the gf didn't remember a thing. I googled ambien and the side effects and found out the nature of this drug. But, after thinking about all of this and witnessing some other instances where my gf is on ambien, I often wonder does this drug make you see people that aren't there or does it make you see people that are there (ghosts perhaps). That house that these events took place in did have a bunch of weird things that went on in there before and after that night. We also once stayed at haunted hotel where I was able to capture a photo of an apparition and she is looking right at when no one else was aware of it (she was on ambien at that time). I guess I am the one sounding crazy now...
Last night after taking ambien i was on the computer a while. I checked my bank balance and found out i was overdrawn and had a transaction that depleted it. the negative -600 was really upsetting. so of course I facebook an ex boyfriend from 20 years ago and tell him i need a sugar daddy. i am married by the way with 2 small children. i go on to ask him what he can offer me as a sugar daddy. can he give me money? yes, so embarrassing. the next morning i deleted all my messages because i am too embarrassed to read them. i send him a link to a site that explains ambien blackouts with embarrassing stories and say sorry. from now on i take the pill and turn out the lights!!
I have been using Ambien for (3 years) now for insomnia. I tried everything and Ambien was the only thing that worked and didnt make me feel extremely groggy the next day. At first, it worked great. I would take the pill and no matter what or where, I was taken to the ground and asleep within 20 minutes. Two years ago, I would take the Ambien and not remember having sex or saying certain things or speaking to people on the phone...complete amnesia. My husband didnt have this effect when he took ambien in the past in fact, ambien didnt do anything for him, so he doesn't understand. Currently, it doesn't work as great for me and I end up taking 1 1/2 or 2 which my Dr says wont do anything but I feel it does. I find myself waking up several times a night and eating. I especially eat sweets and cereals. I also will sleep walk out to the living room and watch TV although I wont remember what I watched the next day. I also will text people or email and make more sexual innuendos towards them, I do not remember the next day and suffer embarrassment as I dont want everyone to know I take ambien and its hard for people to believe this med does these things. In the past, I have left my home while being on Ambien and not remembered how I even got home or where I drove to. Taking Ambien and being in an argument with someone should be avoided at all costs as you arent really you during this time! Also dont take this med if you are really depressed or suicidal at the moment! You shouldn't take ambien unless you are going right to bed and you should explain to your partner (if you have one) that this drug has these side effects and they should be aware!I feel like the medication can make people gain weight as you eat without being aware of it..there have been times I have awoken with food or crumbs in my mouth and even drool stains on my pillow from chocolate I've eaten etc. I also have taken food to bed with me and it has gotten the whole bed a mess. I feel that this medication can really put people in scary situations where they APPEAR that they are awake and mentally aware but they are in fact in a dream like state from the medication.
I am an RN of 7 years....which makes no difference, as this drug differentiates none between educated and non educated, black or white, young or old, male or female. Mine is the same as everyone elses here in so many ways. I suffer from chronic back pain from several disc herniations, and restless leg syndrome. I let myself run out of medication for both. After a short clinic day I came home around 9 am and about 10 was ready for a nap as I did not sleep the night before. Knowing that my back pain and RLS is at its worst when I try to sleep I took a 10mg ambien. Have been on them PRN for a year or so. After an hour or two I had yet to sleep well. Taking another 1/2 tab is the last thing I really remember until almost 24 hrs later. I woke....or sleepwoke....and took by our calculations 4 to 6 more 10 mg ambiens. I remember zero. I began calling and texting my wife at work with random strange broken messages.....I love you....x...goodbye,There are men here trying to get me and they are vomiting all over the house....stuff like that. She returned home at 10pm to a nightmare sight. I had destroyed our bedroom and bathroom. I had cooked food and scattered it in the bedroom, poured talc powder in piles in the bathroom, and had bowel movements in almost every floor in three rooms. I flushed plastic walmart bags down the toilet and overflowed it. She tried hard to calm me down and get me to bed and try to sleep it off. After a few minutes I was up looking for her as she was trying to hide.....hoping I'd go back to bed. I kept hunting her down and standing in the door way naked ( im VERY modest). Fianlly around 4 am she decided to take me to the ER not knowing what else to do. In the ER I tried to leave, pull out my IV and urinary catheter. I deficated in a corner of the room and continued to stay naked. Something about ambien make people allergiic to clothes. After going to the ER and all screens coming back clean they had no idea what had happend so a judge comitted me. Taken to a mental health ward where I came down, I had to try and explain to doctors and other nurses that this was not on purpose but started out as a simple nap and ended up as 4 of the worst days in my life and I was not suicidal or off my rocker. Hard to do when I had also cut my arm and chest with a pair of mustache scissors at sometime. I was lucky that my wife decided to do what she did. I did'nt drive to mickey d's and crush the life out of someones beautiful child with my car while eating 50 McNuggetts. If you take ambien........control it or let someone else control it for you. Better yet even....stop taking it. Give a natural herbal sleep aid a chance. There are some out there that work. I will not take it again.
I was prescribed ambien for my insomnia issues. I took it every night and I got stoed. People thought I was drunk. I started stealing, and ringing doorbell bumming for coggarettes on my block at 3:00am wheen there was a thunderstorm and we were under a tornado warning. I didn't care, I was brave and I have the courage. I used to have fun on it. I used to make out with guys and not remember. Once my cousins came in from out of state and I don't recall anything of that night. Once I slept through my Mommy ringing my doorbell that she rang 200 times aand I didn't answer, she thought I was in a coma or dead, my next door neighbor had the tools to break mmy door down, I was lucky I was in a deep sleep. I used to make prank calls on that stuff. I finally learned my lesson, because G-d kn ows what can happen next, rather be safe than sorry..................
My husband was deployed overseas, and my friend had asked if her son can stay in our guest room while he went to college, I said sure why not this way I am not along. Long story short I couldn't sleep and my kids were driving me nuts. My parents took the kids for the night it was only Thursday. I went home, got take out and took a 10mg Ambien. I remember nothing after that besides watching TV. I woke up with my friends son (Fro)in my bed, both of us naked. I was going nuts. When I finally calmed down he told me what I've done. After Fro came back from class he said I made him dinner, then I went and took a shower, came back in a robe and told him to have sex with me. Then we both took a shower got all dressed up to go to the club. He said I was dancing and touching all of his friends. He said I was begging all of then to have sex with me, I gave one guy a blow job in the bathroom, 2 guys took turns having sex with me in the car. On the way home I had sex with 2 different guys in the backseat of the minivan while Fro drove. We stopped off at the 7-eleven and instead of paying the guy for the beers I blew him too and got more condoms. he said I asked one of his friends to stay with us for the rest of the night to record what we were about to do. Apparently I got my wedding dress out and we had a pretend wedding and a honeymoon. I feeel so disgusted. I didn't believe him until he showed me the pic's. STAY AWAY FROM THIS MED... I only took it once
I've been taking ambien for about 3 years. for insomnia, as my doctor prescribed. About 8 weeks ago I took a 10mg tab &laid down, Iremember taking at least 1 more. I awoke to my dog (a huskey) screeching in the back yard. I ran outside to a blood smeared yard & a barely breathing dog. I can remember calling my vet, driving to his office a couple miles away. He told me to leave the dog & he would call me as soon as he knew anything. I get his call next morning@work, dog ok, chocolate poisoning. Retrieve dog take to neighbor&return to work. Get off work neighbor tells me another neighbor's young kids had fed her a big bakers chocolate bar. I remember the kids faces as they told me&mother explaining her husband would make it right when he got back to town. He wrote me a check I remember depositing in the bank. The suprise is it never happened&my vet,neighbors,&even some family members think I'm nuts.Could this halucination have been ambien induced??
I've taken ambien for about 6 years on and off, both Cr and non Cr. When I first started taking it I would instantly fall asleep and be unable to move. After taking it for a while I started staying awake longer or waking up after falling asleep and doing/saying crazy things. I would email, call, text, write messages on facebook, have full conversations with roommates or friends face to face where I seemed completely lucid, if someone I was dating was over id have sex (they always said it was amazing and I loved it, but I always woke up with a weird feeling... something about not having control over your own body freaks me out beyond belief). Most of the negative things happened when I took the Cr version, or if id take one dose then forget id taken it and take more... that happened frequently. Recently I've taken it and woken up to my apartment being extremely clean (all of the dishes done, laundry folded, things placed neatly out for the next day, things organized meticulously (like everything on my bathroom sink lined up perfectly and alphabetized). I've woken up with my nails painted different colors or trimmed and not remembering it. Most recently I posted a status on facebook that made sense, but it was just strange, that I didn't remember. So mainly a few quirky things have happened lately but nothing serious. For me, its the high controlled release dose that makes me hallucinate badly and make lots of bad choices. I would advise having a babysitter for the first few times you take it or if you know you sleepwalk on it. I needed a boyfriend to stay over because for a certain period of time I was making grilled cheese sandwiches every night (and leaving them on the counter but eating everything else in the kitchen) and one night I left the stove on until my roommate came down in the morning and turned it off. If my boyfriend was around he would just put me to bed and not let me eat/cook/damn near burn my house down lol. Having someone around to watch you is so worth even a tiny amount of sleep when you have insomnia though. Ambien may cause me to do some crazy things sometimes, but its the only thing that puts me to sleep that isn't a narcotic or a benzo that have a very high risk of addiction.
I used zolpidem. The next morning my wife asked me if I enjoyed masturbating in the middle of the night. She said she woke up to me going to town, watched me cum, ... then without saying a word, I rolled over and went to sleep. I have no memory of this whatsoever! That scares me a bit.
I Have taken Ambien for about five years after struggling with insomnia from PTSD...It got worse after i returned from war and struggled with two full time jobs and a full time college schedule. At first I would only take one about every three days just to get sleep during the week. I would be sitting at my desk doing my homework and start chatting online with random people, as well as slurring my words when i talked to my bf,, he would walk me to me bed and put me in it but i would have no recollection of any of it. after graduating I began taking on more responsibilities as my children all very active and always running from one event to the next along with a very stressfull job. (now im a single parent) I began taking it nightly to get to sleep because i would stay up all night and have to go to work ( for an excutive office) with dark circles and feeling manic from lack of sleep. About that time i began dating a guy i had known for many years through the military but had never shared any of my personal information with any one. I apparently shared my entire life story with him and this only hieghtened his attraction to me.. we would have amazing sex...but i had no memory of it ( only he would tell me it was amazing) my bottom hurt almost every day , thats when i realized we were engaging in anal sex ( something I never EVER do) and he loved it. But i remembered nothing. We soon ened that relationship but remained friends. I bought a house and took on a higher position and my oldest child graduated from high school beginning her college years. being stressed at the thought of empty nesting i doubled up on my ambien to go to sleep. I soon noticed my facebook status had crazy updates and i would blog long deep life experiences online .. text message my friends and not remember it.. I still take ambien but i make sure i dont have my facebook open and have my bf now monitor my activities, We have sex and ill remember bits and pieces of it but as long as im controled i do okay... NOW where I thought i had it all worked out and would be able to sleep well and be concerned about hurting myself or anyone I learned how to order things on line or buy off infermercials. I spent over five grand in one night and do not have any recollection of it!! I could have bit the bullet right there.. but now I finally after five years got it under control i do have to take a mg of xanax when i take my ambien.. i never drink when i take any of my meds and I have let all my friends no to call me if they see strange status on my fb so i can delete it!! I cant sleep with out my ambien and my bf is not a big fan of my meds...But i simply need it to keep out the bad dreams and get some rest even if it is induced sleep and not restfull sleep.. stay alert do your research and let the people who love you and you trust know your taking it and how you do on it in case they need to step in to keep you from doing some wierd stuff or spend all your money...
Well, it was about 1am , I took an ambien. I looked out my back yard and it was raked . Apparently sometime between 2am and 3am i raked my yard. I did a great job too . Good ole ambien. Sometimes I'll take an ambien and stay up the whole night deep-cleaning my house.
I relay to most of the experiences repeatedly named here.The sex, the purging, the closet cleaning, the crazy stories writing, the funny posts and calls, the sudden interest in everybody... My main problem comes the day after, when I realize that I finished more than a packet during the night. Yesterday, I took 14 * 10mg, without noticing. If a have more than a packet (7 pills), I'll take it as well. Someone offered me to build a new company, I accepted on Ambien. As I do keep taking Ambien everynight, I basically create the company on Ambien, after my working day. When I have a clear minded moment, I think about that company and wonder if I really want that; but i'm too far in the process now. And it's just so much fun to do so on Ambien!
I'm prescribed vyvanse for ADHD, and even when I take it early in the morning, I still have trouble sleeping. My doctor gave me some samples of ambien to try out and see if it would help. He warned me to go immediately to bed when I took it.
The first time I took a single 10mg pill, I went straight to bed, but got a phone call. As I talked on the phone I noticed my ceiling start to move. After a minute, the ceiling wasn't just moving, it had come to life. The patterns turned into giant beetle legs and worms squirming around over each other. At this point I start to freak out (still on the phone mind you) and get out of bed until I get a grip and can force myself to go to sleep.
That night was traumatizing and it was a long time before I could work myself up to trying it again. The second night was just as bad. I went straight to bed but couldn't really sleep. I closed my eyes for a minute, but still couldn't sleep. When I opened my eyes, the large tapestry on my wall came to life. It transformed into a giant bat flying around my room. After flying for a minute, the bat noticed me and lunged at my face in an attempt to kill me. When it was just inches away from my face, the tapestry, in the blink of an eye (almost like a cut-action scene from paranormal activity), plastered itself back against the wall. The designs on the tapestry then turned into a dolphin swimming in circles on the tapestry.
That really freaked me out by itself, then once I finally managed to get to sleep that night, I ended up having the most vivid, terrifying dreams of demons and evil.
I've been too scared to try it since.
I'm on active duty in the United States Navy. I'm in a helocopter squadren where we have two work shifts of 10 hours or more and sometimes these shifts change with a few hours notice. This had been going on for about a month where I would be on day shift for three or for days and then suddenly be switched to nights and so on. Of course this caused terrible sleep problems and decided to ask medical for some help. They prescribed me Ambien and warned me that there can be serious side affects if not taken correctly. Most of the time I get double vision and know that its time to turn off the light but one night was a little different. I had taken 10mg on an empty stomach and layed down to get ready for sleep. I remember looking up optical illusions on my phone and had been scrolling through a page of about sixty illusions ( I only made it to the fourth one) when someone started talking to me sortof trying to get my attention with random facts. Well this other voice began to debate him and basiclly call his bluff and this all degraded into a huge argument in my head with me as the mediator trying to get them to settle down becuase they could be waking up other people in the barracks! I think about 45 min of this went by when suddenly a person was standing in the middle of my room. He looked fimiluar at first but i thought it odd and akward for him to just stare at me. After awhile Itold him outloud that I could see you its kind of wierding me out. I then had a moment of clarity relizing that the person was me dressed in the clothes i had been wearing earlier and that nobody had been in my room or in my head. Just the pills and a 2 hours wasted. This stuff is wierd and sometimes uncontrolable! Use with caution.
Took an ambien and went to sleep. the next morning my girlfriend wouldnt talk to me. i asked why and she told me that i had called her the night before listing the names of all her friends that i thought were much hotter than her! lol
I have been taking zolpidem for insomnia for over a year. My psychiatrist prescribed them so that I would be able to get adequate sleep in order to aid in the treatment of my depression.
Prescribed for insomnia, Ambien/zolpidem can be very effective and being in the Hypnotic class can cause amnesia and hallucinations, obviously as you have read on this site. There are rules that go along with taking this medication and you absolutely must abide by them which include but are limited to my personal experiences as listed below.
Do not take this medication until you are in bed. Have a glass of water by the bed, take the pill and lie down! Do not get online and type, or do anything else with your computer. In fact, do not go anywhere near your computer. Do not have your cell phone anywhere nearby. Do not decide to make a quick call before the medicine kicks in. Do not text. Do not pop one, then think you have time to run to the kitchen to grab a snack or brush your teeth. Do not cook. Do not engage in any conversation. Do not keep chocolate anywhere near your bedroom or you may wake to find chocolate all over your mouth and pillow, and a pile of wrappers on the floor. You may be informed in the morning that you held bizarre conversations while roaming around the bedroom aimlessly. Or sat on the edge of the bed staring at nothing for over an hour.
Important: If you can, have someone else hide the bottle of medication as you may awaken in your sleep, think you can't sleep (though you ARE sleeping) and/or forget that you have already taken one or two, and take more.
If you are fortunate, you'll take the prescribed dosage, remain in bed staring at a picture of your children (if you have them) on your nightstand and watch as they start to sway and move independently of each other within the photo, hazily think to yourself, wow, that's wild then drift off into a deep, comatose sleep.
Do not take Ambien in bed unless you are absolutely sure you aren't going to be intimate with your significant other, because chances are, you will not remember it. If you do, it will only be a brief, vague flash. It may not even seem as real as a dream and certainly not much fun if you can't recall what happened. As far as you know, you could have swung from the chandeliers naked which reminds me.... Do NOT stand in front of the bathroom window completely naked while about 4-5 college guys renting a room in the apartment building next to your house are outside looking up and enjoying the view. If you do happen to remember anything at all, you will barely remember your husband turning you around and turning you away from the window. You will be escorted to bed and the next morning, be informed of what had transpired. But is that all that really happened in that window, and for how long? These are the lessons I have learned, Grasshoppa. Heed my warning and learn from me and surely the other brave souls who have contributed their intriguingly interesting, occasionally hilarious and sometimes undoubtedly dangerous experiences.
Yes, I am the woman who stood in the window. The guys did move out, thank goodness and as far as I know, the new tenants haven't witnessed anything as exciting and surely as memorable as that incident. Note: as far as I know.
It's time for bed. Be grateful that I chose to contribute to this site prior to taking my Ambien.
Good luck!
I have been prescribed Ambien , and have been taking it for about a year, the only one time I realized something may be going on after I take it, is one night my brother called me to chat, I had taken the Ambien and went and took a bath, when he called I was in the tub... I had my husband tell him I would call him back...thats the last thing I remember about the night. The next day I called my brother and said I was sorry I hadnt called him back the night before,,, and it was really quiet on the other end... He said, you DID call me back and we had a 40 minute conversation. I have no recollection of anything after my bath...I wonder if this is just the tip of the ice burg, and there are other things I do and no one realizes I am asleep...
So my boyfriend takes ambien for his insomnia. I had never experienced anything like it. Most of the time he just passed out. On one particular occasion he took it but then we stayed up talking in bed. All of a sudden he turned into this animated sex fiend. He is usually pretty reserved. All of a sudden he was very sexually aggressive and talked about what he wanted to do to me. Even though I was somewhat startled, have to admit seeing this side of him was a major turn on. If it had been someone I hadn't trusted or been with for years, I must admit it would have been frightening. He also started saying crazy things. We had the most crazy sex we've ever had. It was passionate and fun! But it was also like I was having sex with someone I didn't know. When I told him about it the next day and how fun it was, he literally had no idea what happened. He was clueless. We always laugh about it. He's done that on a couple occassions. Both times it was a lot of fun for me. He's also sent me texts and emails while on ambien and they are so bizarre I can always tell. Anyhow, I think it's a pretty wild thing this Ambien.
I have three small children who use a lot of my energy throughtout the day, and somedays when I have taken this and not gone straight to bed, have ended up catching up completely on my laundry, dishes, mealplanning, vaccuuming, dusting, scrubbing, and organizing, and lawn mowing. I love that aspect of it, because I have no recollection of it and i still feel rested the next morning (I suppose sleepwalking/cleaning still causes good rest), though one day I did trim my hair, giving myself bangs for the first time in a decade) and go strawberry blonde (natural brunette). Thankfully, my husband loved the new look, but I was surprised by it the next morning. It is very unpredictable and should never be mixed with alcohol I have found out. Causes dangerous depressive moodswings sometimes, and I was recently, trying to get my friends to feel my husbands third testicle (he was not happy about that) when I mixed ambien with champagne. I had cramps one day and tried to get him to cut out my ovaries with a paula dean paring knife. That was a small alcoholic drink mixed with ambien. Use carefully and no drinking on it!
Ok so I can't find anything like this but I am sure I am not the only one who has done something this strange while on Ambien. The other morning I went to throw some clean clothes in the dryer to get wrinkles out of for work and opened the dryer (front opener) to a horrible urine smell and a puddle of pee. My boyfriend was out of town and took our dog with him so there is no other explanationm (besides aliens peeing in my dryer) other than I sleep walked to the dryer, opened it up and somehow sat halfway in it and urinated (I am female by the way). I am having a hard time getting the smell out of the dryer and am completely dumbfounded by what happened!!!
I was taking Ambien and was on a rotating shift at work. My neighbor decided to mow around noon. I called her voicemail and left a not so nice recording that was threatening. My neighbor is a very sweet, grandmother who would not hurt a fly. I felt terrible and was very embarrassed. To this day she barely will look my way.
I have been taking Ambien for about 4 years, every night. I never thought it would go on that long. I have many odds stories. Initially they were almost amusing. Waking up in the morning, and seeing food containers on the counter, I had no recollection consuming. I even passed out during sex.
It started to change about 2 years in. My girlfriend would tell me how much my demeanor would change as the drug came on. Almost a bit angry. I feel asleep bathtubs on several occasions. About a week ago, she told me I was saying nonsensical things. However, when she recanted them, I recognized them as pieces of how I was feeling about our relationship. Things I wasn't quite ready to reveal. Scary.
Tonight though, I think I hit rock bottom. I woke up and felt a cold spot in the far corner of my king size bed. I thought it was just that. However, it was REALLY cold... and damp. My best guess is I woke up, and thought I made it to the bathroom, and never made it out of my bedroom. I got out of bed and began looking for sites on how to clean urine from mattresses. I think it's finally time to quit it.
I have unresolved chronic pain and ambien was the first drug that allowed me to put together several hours of uninterrupted sleep. I think the time has come to ween myself off.
The first time I took Ambien I laid down and went to sleep without any problems. Very uneventful.
The second time I took it luckily my mom and sister were here because I decided to stay up until I felt sleepy. I was on the computer and then all of a sudden the letters started popping out of the computer monitor. My sister who was on the couch opposite me said I was staring at the computer with my mouth open drooling for like three minutes without blinking. lol
She said I then looked up at her and waved while saying, Hey Emily, then I nodded my head back against the sofa. She ran upstairs to get my mom because she was so scared and while she was up there all of these people showed up in our living room and dining room. They were talking and I just sat there looking at everybody. I wasn't scared or anything I was just curious as to how they got in the house and how there could be so many people in such a small space hehe.
My mom and sister came downstairs to take me up to my room I tripped a couple of times up the steps (couldn't walk straight to save my life) and I remember a man helping me up the last few steps. When I got in bed I was thinking who in the world was that man helping me up the stairs? lol
I only took Ambien because I suffer from TMD and will only take it again if I'm in severe pain and if I am able to lay down immediately afterwards.
I find it to be so wrong this drug is even legal...look above my story and everyone has their own experience as to how they had sex without knowing it, or doing all sorts of craziness. Thats some intense stuff. My stories much different though. I started having problems with insomnia early into my teens, and when I was 15 I took ambien for the first time. It worked great for a little while. Even though I didnt have a perscription for it at that time, a family member let me use it temporarily to see if it worked. I thought the drug was great back then. That same family member still takes it, still acts wierd and embarressing withough remembering a thing. I tried it only a few times when I was that young, then got my own perscription for it when I was 19. At that time in my life I was becoming a little depressed from a few things in my life that just werent going right. Ive only had one or two times where I didnt remember something that I did while on it. If I would have had more forgotten times like alot of you mentioned I wouldnt have ever taken it again. Long story short, I had an addiction problem with the stuff. I slowly made my bedtime earlier, then increased the amount I was taking. (obviously Im very smart) Then one day I thought to myself what the hell, why not take it in the daytime? so thats where it got crazy! In two weeks time I had taken what we calculated to be 107 of them in two weeks time. I would take 4 in the morning, and then 4 more when the first 4 worn off. (repeat next day) I would do everything I normally would, and I would never seem weird to the people I was around, because my tolerance was up there at that point. It really controlled me for a bit, and scares me to think how many more people this drug is messing up. -Before all that I never really had a drug addiction, ambien for some reason just brought it out in me. If I could make it happen, I would end the career of that horrible drug. Reading all the stories above alot have alot hallucinations and amnesia in common, so you may as well just go out and get some LSD and GHB while your at it. Please DONT take it people. Its not good, it makes you look very foolish to those around you.
I took an Ambien on a really long plane ride to get some sleep (never took one before). I did sleep but woke up feeling strange and then sick to my stomach. I staggered to the restroom but passed out while waiting for a restroom to open up. Never again!
This is gonna be a long post. I have chronic insomnia. I'm 18, and I've been taking ambien on occasion since I was 15. I take 12.5mg... if I'm desperate, I take about 20mg. I take it once or twice a week, only when absolutely necessary. Alright guys, time for some funny stories.
The first time I took it, I thought there were miniature zebras and tigers in my bed. I crawled around under my covers, thinking I was exploring Africa.
I've painted my nails, written essays, and meticulously cleaned my room... I usually don't remember any of it the next day. When I do remember, it always comes to me hours later through flashbacks.
I've woken up with my vibrator on the floor, and weird porn on my laptop. I remember nothing, but I guess I had fun that night.
One time, I woke up with a pile of ashes on my desk... Apparently I decided to burn something.
I've called people, texted people, and posted rather personal things on facebook.
I've written pages and pages in my journal. My writing is barely legible. My entries are usually about the walls melting, my pillow trying to eat me, and other weird hallucinations.
Once, my sister had to stop me from making pancakes in the nude. I don't remember any of it.
One time, I called my friend crying because I thought my ceiling fan was the face of Satan.
My worst experience was when I accidentally overdosed. I took one pill, and tried to sleep. The ambien kicked in, and I was still awake. I don't know what was going through my mind, but I decided to take two more pills. (I don't remember taking more pills. I found out the next morning when I counted them.) I thought there were train tracks in my room, and an Indian lady in my bed. There were trees sprouting from my ceiling, and I heard men talking. I looked at my hand, and my fingers were deformed. And then Avatar Aang was sitting on my bed, trying to calm me down. I felt like crap the next morning.
I continue to take it, but only out of desperation. My advice is: Be extremely careful. Hide your car keys, phone, sharp objects, lighters, and ALL PILLS. If possible, have someone you trust with you.
My moments of Ambien insanity, absolute pure, straight up craziness. Although I have chosen to only include the humorous side of my experience (AKA TRIPS) There are also horrifying moments of discovering incomprehensible completely off the wall text messages that have damaged relationships. I am not condoning the use and have since thrown my prescription out for good!
*I disappeared into my bathroom for about 45 minutes when I finally came out, I immediately walked into my living room where I proceeded to announce to my Mom and kids that I had plucked out my eyelashes I woke up the next morning with pencil thin uneven EYEBROWS!
*Looking at a doll sitting upon my hard drive I said out loud Is that my Son Kyle? No..... that's just the switch on my time machine
*I sat down in front of my computer and announced that This is my seat for the evening I don't care if that tall guy stands up, I don't care what all of those people are doing this is my seat! I'm not giving it up (while closing my eyes)
*Upon seeing light streaming through my bedroom window I was terrified and kept asking my Daughter What IS that and do you SEE that? as I pointed to the area where the light was shining in. Its the abominable snowman! Look hes right there! It's the fucking abominable snowman! I'm getting out of here! My Daughter~ Mom shut up and go to sleep
*I got up in the middle of the night because I was craving ice cream. I sat on the couch and proceeded to eat an entire carton of Breyers (with one finger and my eyes closed)
*I was sleeping in the same room as my kids I pointed to the doorway and shouted Look at the ghost! Omg... It's real! it's a little girl ghost too Scared, My Son covered his head with the blanket I got up left the room when I returned I was holding a lit candle while singing Kumbaya at the top of my lungs...
*I filled a bowl with macaroni salad then proceeded to pour tons of Mayo, mustard, ketchup and cheese all over it until it was watery like soup. I then heated it up in the microwave and ate it with a knife!
I was under the impression that this was my miracle sleeping aid little did I know that I was experiencing extreme hallucinations and random acts of stand up comedy while sleep walking. Please use with caution..
I've been on Ambien for chronic insomnia for over a year and had no problems with it until recently. The first problem was when I called my son during the night just to ask him if I had called him. A couple of weeks later I got out of bed and went to the freezer and got out 3 whoopie pies, giving one to my brother, one to my son, and ate the other one. Then I went back to bed. The next day I went to the get the whoopie pies out of the freezer and was surprized that they were gone! Another night I decided to rearrange my bedroom while on Ambien, and moved a 6 1/2 foot tall bookcase across the room and arranged all the books alphabetically by author. I am a 62 year old woman and have doubts that I could move the bookcase awake! Then I woke up one morning to discover I had given myself a trim in an area I don't usually trim. Another night I cut my hair. The list goes on. I would love to get off Ambien, but if I don't take it I don't sleep and can't function the next day.
I have taken ambien 5mg for months and since I would awaken to not be able to get back to sleep my dr. upped the dosage to 10mg. While taken 10mg I have waken up much more and instead of seeming dazed as my husband recalls before on the 5mg he said I was full alert and holding full conversations. I had make up sex with him after an argument and cant recall even making up. I have made food, texted friends, posted on facebook and even cared for the kids as a normal everyday thing I do. I thought I was in bed sleeping the entire time. This continued the conversations the sex the eating and finally after 2 months my husband started feeling like it was a 1 way street him having what should be moments for us both and no knowledge on my part. I became angry we had sex but I wasnt remembering so I felt it wasnt satisfying on my part so we would find a way so I caould remember but it became more agitating that now there was no night sex in bed. He started getting angry and 1 thing led to another. We were constantly fighting. Then one night I sent a mesage to someone how i had a crush ans wanted to know if that would of went anywhere. He knew I took ambien nightly and one night said he showed up here and I ended up havig sex with him in the bathroom. I told him my husband wouldnt mind and that I loved him and all would work out in the end. I dont remember anything as for months with my husband. Now my husband and I are angry disconnected even put kids through a break up and I dont know if it or didnt happen as stated. That person became possessive which makes me think they thought I was me or maybe they took advantage or maybe made all this up. I dont know and dont know if I want to. I just know it has wrecked my family. Ambien should be marked with better warnings and smaller mg along with only a short usage period cause the withdrawl is a nightmare of shakes sweats chills no sleep hallucinations and need to fina a way to just have 1 more. Bad drug.
About three hours after taking 10mg of Ambien, I ended up emailing someone on Craigslist looking for sex. Luckily, I had the sense enough to make a fake email account. The next morning I woke up and I remembered what I had done, but I thought it was a dream. I then saw the history on my computer and it hit me that it wasn't a dream, I had actually done it! Needless to say, I was a little embarrassed.
I was on Ambien 10mg for quite some time, for a while I thought it was the answer to my prayers. I was sleeping so good and waking up feeling great in the mornings. I could not believe all the stories that people were trying to tell me. Then it happened, I went to bed one night with my pajamas on and woke up the nex moring with no clothes on at all!!! Confused I asked my husband why was I undressed and his response was why do you think you are undressed? Don't you remember last night? And I said. No, what happened last night...He said we had sex last night. I was really upset, not at the fact that i had sex with my husband of 14 years but the fact that I could not remember having sex with my husband....I stopped taking the medication that day and called the dr. And now take other medication. I may not sleep as well with this medication, but at least I know who I am and what I am doing. I could not live like that....what if I would have done something more serious??? This is a BAD DRUG and should be removed from the market!!!
I've been taking Ambien nightly for 4 months and about once a week I wake up with cuts and bruises (usually on my arms). I know that I cut myself a few times with the scalpel I had laying on my night stand (not normal behavior for me, but when I saw the cuts the next morning I vaguely remembered doing it the night before while I waited for the medicine to kick in). I've also broken a rib in my sleep but I don't know how that happened. And I have to check my phone in the morning to see who I texted the previous night and what I said. I've had several full length conversations (my friends are very patient) that made little sense when they were reread. Ambien is crazy! But it's worth the trouble if you hide your phone and sharp objects. Often it seems like the things that happen immediately after you take the pill--until you fall asleep--are from a dream, but you are in fact doing them.
DriVING OMG!! AND MORE!!! I woke up one morning to find my nightgown in the sink, I asked my boyfriend why it was there? He looking angry, said you don't remember?? I said what the hell you talking about? He said, I came out of the bedroom demanded an ice cream cone, went in his wallet and proceeded to checkers. I have no, absolutely no memory of the entire night. I remember going to sleep and waking up in the morning fresh as a daisy. I do not remember driving anywhere...I was also on the front lawn with just underwear on at midnight and laid in the grass after screaming at my boyfriend, needless to say he left me there and I then came in a short time after. I got in my car the next day to have parts of my wallet all over the floor. This was once instance. Another time I drove on to someones lawn, over those damn concrete triangle thingies, hit a garbarge can and made it home with a shredded tire. My boyfriends ex-wife pulled up and jumped out asking if I was o.k. Apparently her daughter seen me from a school bus and got scared and called her mommy. How embarrassing, I have no idea what I said, but left it up to my boyfriend to handle. I think that same day, I hit a parked truck in my very own street that was on the side of the road (he shouldn't have been there anyways) I remember a woman saying, hey thats my brothers truck and he came out and said don't worry about it, it's an old truck lol....good thing, how would I have explained that one?? Also, I unfortunately have hit other vehicles I am told, minor of course but still, this stuff is scary. Also that night I had a chocolate icecream (why chocolate, I don't know-I hate chocolate) my man told me I zoomed down the street and passed our house, almost hit a car, they had to move, backed up and almost hit the support beam for our carport. I asked him the next day why my car was backed in. It seems funny now, but I couldn't live with myself if I hurt anyone because of taking too many of these, which I have. Recently, I must have changed my bottle and replaced it with my diabetes medicine on my dresser, so needless to say when I woke up at 3 am and wondering why my ambien wasn't working, I took more, apparently my sugar dropped so slow I woke up sweating to death. I accused my man of changing or taking my bottle. He found an empty excedrin bottle behind my dresser with a few pills in it. Where the rest went I have no idea? I assume if I took them all I would be dead. I still take them, but as directed and my keys get hidden and so does the bottle..Please be careful if you take this medicine.
Ambien literally makes me feel like a different person. I work rotating shifts and was having trouble with constantly changing my sleep schedule. When my doctor prescribed Ambien, I initially only took is 1-2x a week and didn't think much of it, I just fell asleep. However, I soon discovered that staying awake with the Ambien on board gave me a wonderful feeling of euphoria. It put me in the best mood ever and it made me want to clean, reconnect with friends, plan new life goals, feel very unusually sensual etc. I even completed grad school applications while taking it. I certainly sent some bizarre, brazen text messages and posted some weird stuff on facebook. I had a Match.com subscription around the time I started it, and would wink/e-mail like crazy. I'm usually a fairly shy, reserved person.
It is such a strange drug because it is sedating yet energizing. I think the fact that I was battling depression exacerbated my Ambien use, as I would find myself looking forward to coming home at night and taking it because it was the best feeling I would have all day. Of course, I started needing to take more than the recommended dose to feel the same effects.
The lowest point was when I started taking partial doses during the day because it seemed to stablize my mood and made me feel more social. I took a half a pill before attending a friend's wedding where I knew I'd see a lot of old friends from college. I felt like I was making such interesting conversation and I was truly enjoying myself, but soon after the combining that with the open bar, things went south. I woke up in my bed at home still in my dress and shoes. Apparently I had talked to my boyfriend and mother that night, saying some very strange things...and a few of my friends e-mailed me the next week asking if I was OK, that I seemed depressed, not myself. I was so embarassed and to this day I won't let anyone tell me exactly what I did or said because I don't even want to know the details. I am lucky I didn't permanantly ruin a friendship over that.
Anyways, I am trying to stop it all together and just work through the insomnia. It's tough, as it is truly a miracle drug when it comes to sleeping. No hangover effect like other meds I have tried. Yet, I do not want to be a drug addict and I can honestly say I have become addicted to that stuff....it is just a matter of time before I do irreperable damage if I continue to take it. I think it is a pretty dangerous medication.
It's not like our life is peachy as pie as of yet. But, with all the 'experiences' in my life I feel thankful for having the open mind I have. Not as open as some yet open enough to realise that your 'friend' is the one to blame. She did some digging on the Internet after she stopped taking ambien. Found her 'friend's' adult friend finder account and was horrified to find out he was in TVs, TSs, gay and bi men. Hes into crossdressing and bondage, etc. So it brings me to the conclusion that dice he's a complete freak and hiding in his closet 'not for long (said with a sinister grim and evil laughter trailing behind)'. That he knew what would happen if he came over an hour before I got home from my second sift job. She would be complacent and submissive and he could well you get the idea. For days after she told me he denied it and threatened both of us with empty cowardice threats. And finally when he knew he would never take the drug again and he 'lost' his chance to twist her around and steal her from me. He then proceeded to text me ,after I texted him I'd have him arrested for trespassing of he ever set foot on my property again, some details and asked me how his 'swimmers' taste. Then txtd contact me again and I'll have you arrested for harassment. I refrained knowing his immature texting was an acknowledgement of my warning for trespassing giving me evidence for the authorities to proceed with arresting him right out. He later learned we had found out his dirty little secrets because he couldn't recall his password for his fruity fun site. Called us with more empty threats. I then proceeded to inform him that night his 15 minutes of sexual assault was null and void of swimmers because she had ambien sex with me right after for about 3-4 hours, and about 6 climaxes later when she used my face like a simian machine. There was no way any trace of him was left for 'sampling' if I had known that night I would have made her go to the ER for a rape kit. And had him arrested the next day. He did basically admit to sexual contact with he'd days later. So if she feels like pressing charges I'm right behind her every step of the way. Think this story is bizarre? If I told you all who he was to us before this happened the you'd really be scratching yours heads mumbling WTF. Finally the best/worst part about all this is he thinks he's done nothing wrong to her. He thought she changed his password and he had the audacity to ask her wtf did I do you. Wifey I love you and I know you did these things because of this horrible drug so you need to stop making apologies to me it messes with me and I lose focus on what's really goin on here. The only perso that needs to feel remorse is him. Hes just lucky we have two beautiful children together because I would've ended him is not for that.
I as well take this drug to fall asleep, and just notice this morning I did laundry. In the morning when I woke up I told my husband Thank You! and he asked For what? I told him for putting everything away. He laughed and said that was all you... I'm still surprised about this cause I don't even remember this cause of this drug I'm even surprised I didn't fall of the staires..wow
I am so glad to have found this site.
I thought I was the only one in the world who senses the presence of other beings in the room after trying to stay up after taking an Ambien.
I don't actually see anyone, but I do feel a presence, either behind or beside me. They don't speak to me and I don't speak to them. They aren't scary - if anything, they actually feel like they're there to protect me. This also occurs at about the same time that my decorative bed pillows, which I put on the floor at bedtime, appear to start breathing and undulating. Normally, this would totally freak me out, but I know it's an effect of the Ambien and that it actually means, Lights out NOW, lady! A previous poster makes a good point, though - are we seeing/sensing people who aren't there or are they always there and the Ambien has just removed our normal filters? This does not happen at all if I take it and then just lie down and wait for it to work.
A few rules I've set for myself after a couple of unfortunate accidents:
1. Always get a snack, use the restroom, check the door locks, turn off lights, set alarms, shut down computer and put it away BEFORE taking the Ambien.
2. Absolutely no electronic gadgets of any kind after pill is taken. If I still feel the need to occupy myself until the Ambien kicks in, I'm allowed my t.v. remote and/or a paper book ONLY. The worst that can happen is that I'll drop the book and the light will be on all night.
3. Under no circumstances is any food or liquid allowed in the bed after taking the pill except the bottle of water I use to wash it down. And I have to drink that quickly as I've woken up wearing it more times than I like to remember.
One thing I have noticed is that in my case, adrenaline does have the ability to trump the effects of Ambien if something out of the ordinary happens. Case in point:
I took an Ambien at 3:00 a.m. at a friend's house. Everyone else was asleep. As I was washing it down, the most enormous black spider I've ever seen just showed up in her kitchen. With or without Ambien, I HATE spiders. I knew several things: 1. I could not go to sleep and just let this beast roam the house freely, as it would most likely end up in bed with someone, probably me. 2. I had about 4.8 minutes left before the house started to breathe and undulate, at which point I would be hurled to the floor next to said spider and be completely at its mercy. 3. It was too big to smash; it would make a mess. 4. I didn't know where their bug spray was.
I tore her house apart looking for something to dispose of it with. My 4.8 minutes of lucidity came and went as the spider circled her dining room table and started advancing on me. Finally, I gathered up an armload of magazines and started throwing them at it one by one until one of them finally landed on top of it. But I could still hear it scratching underneath trying to get out. So I threw another large book on top of it. Crisis averted, but that was all I could handle. So I left it there and wrote a note for friend's husband to please take care of it in the morning. Drew several large arrows on a few more pieces of paper and lined them up across the floor with the last one pointing at the black hairy legs protruding from underneath the People magazine and a biography of JFK.
I went to bed, but I did NOT sleep. I laid there all night staring at the ceiling for fear that I hadn't completely done the job and the damn thing was now just really pissed off and coming to get me as soon as I dozed off. I remember thinking that maybe the spider was actually an Ambien hallucination - but if so, it was a lot more real than some vague, shadowy presence. And I remembered it all perfectly the next morning when I asked my friend's husband about it. He confirmed that it was, indeed, there and that it was indeed a big one.
Good to know that there are some circumstance under which the effects of this drug can be minimized or in some cases, over-ridden completely.
Moral of the story:
My mother, who is 86 years old, had been taking Ambien for about a year, by a doctor's prescription, for insomnia. I must say that this drug is very dangerous. My mother is 5Foot 1, and about 130 pounds, amazingly she disarayed every piece of furniture around her bedroom during an Ambien episode, then tore down the curtains to a bank of four windows, opened the last one, stepped or crawled out onto a trelis with about three feet of clearence and fell about 10 feet onto an upright propane tank, If she had missed the trelis and crawled sraight out, she would have certainly suffered a fatal fall. As it is she has fractured three lumbar vertebrae. I'm glad I'm a light sleeper, she was crying out for about 20 minutes at 2 in the morning, WITHOUT REMEMBERING ANYTHING ABOUT WHERE OR WHY SHE WAS OUTSIDE. This is a rural area, if I'd not dicided to stay over that evening, I wonder what the outcome would be a no one would have heard her. MY MOTHER HAS NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO SLEEPWALK, throughout her entire life, until today. I do not have tdrouble sleeping, but for those who do; beware of Ambien! This drug should be outlawed!
I've been taking Ambien daily for about 6 months. I take it as prescribed. I still have crazy stories but the benefits are so worth it. I get really depressed and sick when I've gone a few days without sleeping and since I've been taking the Ambien I've felt great. I've had sex numerous times with my fiancee without remembering all of the details. It doesn't bother me! I think it's great! I'm tired and feel rested the next morning and had a good night. I tell him all kinds of crazy stuff I wouldn't normally tell him but we just laugh about it. The only terrible thing is that ONE TIME I had a dream that someone was trying to kill me and that dream turned into a hallucination. I recognized that it was a hallucination so just woke my fiancee up to help me get through it. I take it only when Im at home, when I have NOT been drinking, don't have people over, and plan on going right to bed. I never drive or anything like that on it and it has been great for me. As long as you take it as prescribed and use some common sense, it works great for most people. Obviously, with any drug, it's not going to be good for some people.
I have several Ambien stories, but I will only share three. Well, three and a half, since I can't remember the other half of the story.
1. I took my ambien (the usual 10 mg) before bedtime, which is in the morning, after work. Now I can't find my vibrator. It has vanished. Seriously. I am mortified that my little nephew might find it somewher while visiting or it will turn up at my neighbors' house. And it's not a tiny little thing. It's a respectable size.. Umm.. personal massager as Amazon advertised it.
The second story. Or whatever it is. This is what I found on my computer when I turned it on.
Decided to take some ambien for sleep to see how it works. Initially on empty stomach i took one 10mg tab a half of one. it started getting interesting, but mellowed out in a very short time. started out with the nice buzz, but quickly dissipated. I was left borderline sober. The whole point of this project was to hallucinate, talk with some smart people, see preety things. Sadly, that did not happen. So i'm going to try again. the only reason this might not work is that my stomach is full of indian food and nutella. i don't think those are working particularly helpful when taking ambienl now i am sitting by the computer screen and try to make sense of it all;/
overall, this is quite disappointing. I doubt that doing moore thatn i'd already done going t increase my reacton orput the keebler elves on my knees;
Maybe i will give this another try.
The third story happened approximately a month ago. As usual, I got home from work, showered, got my food ready and only then took Ambien, so that I could take it, quickly eat and go to bed. By quickly eat I mean quickl as in 5 min or less, since Ambien usually starts working for me in approximately 10 minutes.
The next thing I remember was trying to drive in my lane while swirving all over the place. Then I remember stopping at a red light and some other driver pounding on my window and asking if I was drunk. He seemed very upset. I just waved him off and drove on. Then I remember signing up for Blockbuster something. At Blockbuster. I actually rented a movie and now apparently can exchange it for any other movie in the store as many times as I want to. What a deal! But I digress. I do not remember driving home.
When I woke up and tried to process all of that, I was terrified. I am amazed nothing truly awful happened, only by the grace of God I am alive, did not kill anyone else, and do not have a DUI on my record. This is NOT a medication to be taken lightly. I have been on it for at least a year now. It just kicked my butt. Please evaluate risk vs benefit with any med, especially Ambien.
I've suffered with chronic insomnia since childhood, as well as chronic pain in recent years. A month ago my doctor prescribed Ambien and it worked great! However, this past week I noticed some strange happenings. Figured it's just middle aged, menopausal events But last night took the cake, literally I woke to find I had baked a chocolate cake! And found that I had looked up the recipe on my cellphone browser. My hand to God, I have NO MEMORY of any of this. Then,I came to work and was met by quizzical faces. My boss said she had called me last night, asking that I bring my laptop in for a meeting today. I swear I thought every one was playing a prank on me! So, here I am at work carrying a chocolate cake, that I don't remember making, instead of my laptop that I was told to bring in, during a phone conversation that I have no memory of! If this wasn't so frightening, I'm sure it would be funny. Thank God I don't have a car/ drive because I am sure at some point a tragedy would occur. As of now, I'M SCARED STRAIGHT, NO MOE
when i was in junior high, my mom gave me an ambien. It did put me to sleep, later on my mom woke me up for some reason and when she woke me up .... I started laughing so hard (crying laughing), then i looked at her, and her skin was fading green and yellow. I then looked around my room (no bullsiht) all my posters were flying around the room really fast. Then i looked up at my ceiling fan and on top of it was the blue wizard from mario's bowsers castle, he then looked down on me and waived. after all that i fell asleep. That was the most craziest trip ive had on ambien. this is no exaggeration i promise.
I have been taking Zolpidem for over a week now. I have woken my husband 3 times so far and have had anal sex. I don't remember doing it, and have never done it while awake in 20 years of marrige. I didn't believe that I asked for it, and I got very mad at him for taking advantage. Last night I agreed to let him set up the video camera to prove it. Sure enough, I awoke and begged him to do it to me again while over the pillows. Be careful while taking this drug. I am glad I was never anywhere else but home while taking it. No telling with who I would be having sex with. But I feel very refreshed in the morning. So for now I guess my husband will reap the rewards so i can get a good nights sleep. Needless to say he is very happy.
my sister has been an ambien addict for around 6 yrs now. she's lost her car, home, jobs and family. most recently she decided to take 2 ambien at 4 in the afternoon. she says that's the last thing she remembers. the first thing she can remember after that is 24 hrs later being told, it's ok, you've been helicoptered to hershey medical. you have 2 broken legs (one beyond repair) and have 7 missing teeth, you have a broken wrist and contusions all over your body. you were traveling approx. 90mph when you struck a building in the middle of the day, no one else (thank god) was injured. her life is forever changed. pharm. companies know what this drug does. they don't care. they just want you addicted and giving them the money. i'm afraid if she ever does it again, she won't make it. we should be able to take legal action.
I have been taking ambien for at least 10 years. I had a cooking episode which totally knocked my husband for a loop. He was furious and negative and spoke about it in such a negative way, I always became totally embarrassed by his reaction to how disgusting I looked. I was so dependent on the pill. I needed that peace I felt as I fell asleep. Unfortunately, I did gain weight. Not obese, 20 pounds more than i should carry. I gained because I ate after I took pill. No control. My husband was so difficult, so taunting......has anyone ever dealt with this problem husbandwithout giving up pill. Please share. I need help.
My husband does not believe my ambien and zolpidem stories. I have gained 20 pounds. He thinks I look gross. He is really mad at me and my insomnia problem. No compassion or ability to handle my problem. Thinks I am crazy, lying and is disgusted. I can handle this but does anyone share this problem with me. How does one handle an inadequate partner. Divorce......looking for kinder advice. thank you. I love being able to sleep.
Ambien has heightened my appetite to the point of gaining weight and losing control. This happens if I take pill before getting into bed. I knew it was the pill, but did not wish to give up the sleep. I have gained weight. At least 20 pounds. Is there a sleeping pill that will not induce eating, just sleeping. No one believes me. Help.
One night I took an Ambien and lay down to sleep but was awake for hours in a weird drunken state. In the morning I checked my text messages. Apparantly around five in the morning I sent around a series of text messages insisting that my friends take me out canoeing immediately and if they did I would give them all a million dollars. Wtf
I take zolpidem now for 1 week. I did not do anything wierd i dont remember nor did i do any sexual stuff..
I take the 10 mg of zolpidem and after about 30 mins i fall asleep. exactly as its meant to since i have trouble falling asleep.
I began using ambien to sleep after a series of auto accidents that had brought on neck pain and inhibited my sleep. It really does put me to sleep quickly, but I don't always stay put under the blankets and on my pillow. So, a few times, strange things have happened. Sex with the ex-husband was one of the good reasons why I should have gone RIGHT to SLEEP after taking it! It is weird not to remember what happened. Felt like it was a date rape drug. But, the worse thing i did on ambien was to perform surgery on myself. Not a good idea! There just happened to be a razor blade on my nightstand and I grabbed it right up and wondered what I should do with it. I decided to cut off a mole that was bugging me. I remember starting to cut it off and not feeling much pain, then it started bleeding so much that I could not tell if I was cutting the right area or not. I gave up on that one and went to another one. I cut it off very esaily. I was pretty bloody by then. I think I cut off about six or more moles in all. Why it didn't hurt, I don't know. I woke up to a pool of blood in my bed and bandages all over me. Took a couple of days for one to stop bleeding. I removed the razor blade by the way. I would hate to get that idea in my ambisurgeon state of mind again! My friend ask if I was goning to send the moles off to the lab to be tested. At a place called Moles are Us down in my basement.
My husband is been taking Zolpidem for about a month and yesterday he told me when he went to the restromm he was paralyzed and unable to talk ....but the same day he took the fan and throw it to the wall because acording to him I was lawghing because he did not remember where he left his keys ...I was scarred ! And now after reading all this I will call his doctor tomorrow first thing in the morning ! Can he turn into somebody that can hurt me ? Should I tell my children ( We live by ourselves , kids sre all married ) . HELP !He is 70 years old .......
Oh no you're not crazy man! But your post hear now, after having just read many, all those before yours, just FREAKED ME THE FUCK OUT!~ Because that's too similar to some of my own expieriences which I've been trying to figure out and understand! OH MY GOD! One of which just happened to me tonight, am having a hard-time correlating why mine is similar to yours though, right now at the moment. So perhaps I will get back to this later as - this last experience just happened with me tonight just a little while ago too. And so that's what brought me here to do this search on this stuff and how I ended up here. I've got some more postulations to think about more too, but I'll be back. For now I will say I believe from my own expericences (and now further more after seeing yours here too) that Ambien has the potential to put us in contact with other dimensional beings / entities.
~ HOLY SHEITE MUSLIM!! !,,!
Have been having it here to use but rarely do as I like to have a couple drinks and refuse to mix the two. However, some health scares have made me depend on Ambien most nights now. I'll eat early, take it about 30 minutes before I want to go to bed, and as soon as feel it kick it - straight to bed.
I experience things like most. The walls and sheets seem to appear a different texture. After sleeping a bit, I'll still wake up and usually feel someone in the room with me - or hear odd things like something's on the floor, etc. But the great think is, I'm such a light sleeper to begin with, I can half wakeup and realize exactly what's going on and am not scared the least! Live alone so I know there's no one else here, just some visitors to play the Ambien freak game!!
I started taking Ambien my sophomore year of college. Now almost done with college, i have seen and done it all. Most stories above i have done, can relate too, or top. The hallucinations of other people in the room, driving to the grocery store and by (3) 1 gallon tubs of mint chocolate chip ice cream, mumbling phone calls to friends, crazy worded texts, and even sending my ex-girlfriend a youtube video of here comes santa clause over facebook and telling her it reminded me of her. It got to the point that my three other roommates would video tape me on their cell phones and show me that i really have used a jump rope in the kitchen and i have played x-box on a tv that was not even on. I love reading all the stories that everyone posts. The two things i have a problem with are 1. ambien sex. For girls on ambien, im sure you can take it, start to black out and mumble to your boyfriend you're horny and he takes you to pound town when you are passed out, but since you were blacked out and your boyfriend doesn't want to sound like a total douche for raping you, he explains an elaborate story of how you were amazing in bed. For guys on the other hand, we take it, begin to black out, and it's game over. I HIGHLY doubt any guy out there has been aware enough to keep it up long enough to bang. I've tried, and failed. Guys on ambien claiming to be amazing in bed = complete myth. 2. I hate when people have just ONE bad experience on ambien and then they go on a rampage about how evil ambien is and how it should be removed from the market a.s.a.p. Just because you're an idiot and can't handle your shit when you're on ambien doesn't mean you have to ruin the good times for everyone. Anyway, i hope you enjoyed my rant, and i hope people can relate to my thoughts and experiences.
It is the week before finals of my senior year in college and I have been having problems sleeping and with stress, so my doctor prescribed me a 2 week supply of Ambien. I followed the directions and was sitting up in bed with a bottle of water next to my bed and took the pill, turned out the light and shut my eyes. This was at around 10:30pm (I remember looking at the clock). I was excited and relieved to finally get some sleep. Now, my uncle was going to take me to lunch at 11 am the next day (like he does every Friday) and I didn't have class until 2 pm so I thought I wouldn't be groggy for the next days events. I woke up to a knock at my door (my uncle calls my cellphone when he is on his way to my apartment before lunch each week). He comes into my apartment with a puzzled look on his face. He was worried because I did not answer my phone. He said when he pulled up to the apartment building he saw a cell phone and a pair of shoes outside of the building. I got dressed quickly and noticed that I had 4 or 5 bruises and my elbows and knees were scraped up (rug burned), I also couldn't find my glasses (I always put them on my nightstand). I told him I was on a new sleep med and he seemed to be concerned but not too worried. After we went to lunch and when I got back to my apartment I wanted to find my glasses so I could get to class. I searched the living room and noticed that a side table in my living room was knocked over and on the coffee table there were saltine crackers stacked up in 3 neat piles. I went to throw them in the trash bin in the kitchen and what I saw next terrified me! I saw that there were crackers all over the floor and my stove top was covered in a mix of thick sludgy mess that was hard and crusty. On the other counter there were two empty cans of campbells soup (oyster stew and beef mushroom) an empty can of green beans, an opened Ramen noodles package (just opened not used) and a whole empty package of shredded cheese. I looked at the coil burners and melted to the burners was what looked like plastic and a mix of sludge (it smelled horrid). The pot used for this culinary delight was in the sink and was covered in the slop. I looked in the trash bin (still wanting to find my glasses) and found a tupperwear container with a melted bottom (now the plastic on the burner coil made sense). Thank goodness I turned the stove off. I opened the fridge and I found a bag of rice in my refrigerator and a broken soup bowl and a bag of frozen (not anymore) peas. There was a lot of this mix of food on/down in the stove but not enough for the amount that must have been used. Where did it go? The sink had the drain cover on and no food was in the sink or trash bin so... I must have eaten some of it. (I didn't have any food on me but my night clothes were covered in food. My bedroom and bathroom were untouched and nothing was out of place except for a half drunk can of coke by the bed (I didn't have any coke in the apartment). Still looking for my glasses, I thought I must have lost them outside (I didn't remember going outside) or by the bed (I cold have worn them and they fell off). No glasses anywhere! Thank God, I still have my old pair. I don't remember anything but taking the pill and going to sleep and waking up to this strange scene. I must have gotten out of bed and wanted to and did cook (and eaten some of it), gone outside for some unknown reason (It was below freezing that night) I obviously dropped my cell phone and took off my shoes and got back inside. However, I also hurt myself because I am bruised up and have scrapes on my knees and forhead. I don't know where the can of coke came from? I called my doctor and told her my story, she said it is a rare side effect. I am scared to take anymore because I feel like I could have seriously hurt myself. I feel embarrased and guilty because I have no memory of what I did last night. I also had a big mess to clean up. I live alone so I didn't have a baby sitter to make sure I was safe. If I take Ambien again, I will do it when I am with a friend of family member.
Hey Ambien people be warned. I started taking 10mg At night for insomnia. No horror story yet! however over the years I developed a tolerance to it and was eventually taking 10mg plus 12.5mg CR plus a 2mg Dormonoct/xanax at bed time and at 2-3pm when I woke up. I decided enough was enough and I was going to cold turkey off all the meds in a rehab. It was like opening the door and falling into hell. I suffered the most horrific withdrawals for 17days but the worst was the rebound insomnia - I never slept for 1minute of those 17days eventually I was in such a state that I was transferred to a psychiatric hospital for 3weeks. That was 3weeks ago and I am back on the evil monster taking only 20mg when I go to bed. I have asked my doctor to help me wean slowly off this monster and I am terrified coz with every night I sleep I know the tolerance is building again and at some time I am going to have to face the rebound insomnia again.
If my wife has an empty stomach and takes a whole ambien then is up for more than 10-15 minutes she goes into this sort of delirium. Sometimes it's calm; sometimes manic. One night I went to pick up my son from marching band and it was probably 10:45 when we got home. As we walked up the sidewalk to the front door I notice my wife was standing inside next to the door with her face pressed against the glass and staring outward. When we walked in I said what are you doing?!! She mumbled something about the bushes talking to her. At which point I knew she must have taken an ambien. I carried her upstairs while she was going on about little chinese men and trees and flowers moving all around with bright colors, etc. Next morning she couldn't remember any of it. I just thank God she didn't open the door and walk out. Another night she was running back and forth from the bed to the bathroom. She would come running, flop on the bed and yell Dave try this, come on do it, it feels really weird, come on do this with me! Of course she remembered none of it.
I've been taking Ambien for 3 months to help insomnia. I am now able to get a full night's sleep, for the first time since -- ever. I am 53, and even as a child I had fitful sleep. I don't like the idea of depending on a pill to sleep, but the insomnia was destroying me physically, mentally, and ruining my work. Sleeping now is good. My main complaint is that it begins to make me feel strange after about 20 minutes...angles and distances of objects in room begin to change and move around. Furniture will seem to get up, trade places with other pieces, assume various attitudes, have whispered conversations. They observe me. My own limbs and fingers seem to grow longer and shorter, as the room throbs in waves in and out. I try to type, and the keyboad looks like it's made of crudely cut stones, letters depicted by heiroglyphs. My emotions are droopy, sort of swirly around in my head. If I don't get to bed soon, I could stay up late with little memory of this strange scene!
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