Your experience with AMBIEN?!
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There has been some bad press lately about Ambien. People sleepwalking, sleepdriving, sleepeating, having amnesia. What has been your experience with the drug? Any weirdness?
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I took Ambien for a few weeks and did not do very well on it at all. It took me forever to fall asleep with it and I had such vivid dreams. I would wake up in the mornings feeling like I had been hit by a truck. My doctor took me off of it and prescribed Restoril for me instead. I have been taking it as needed for the past couple of years and have had wonderful results with it. I always fall right to sleep and get a good, peaceful night's rest and wake up feeling refreshed.
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I have retrograde amnesia every night that I take ambien. I also have grogginess the next day. It works great short term.but then the problems start.
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Ambien was OK for me--the first couple nights were odd. Also, a roommate once woke me up to do something--I still remembered it, but it was weird. Apparently some people abuse Ambien and some of these problems might be related to abuse or long-term, high-dose use (ex: most people take 10mgs a night for like a week.a friend of mine takes 20mgs/night and has for a little over a year.that could be problematic)
The thing is tho.Ambien is really overpriced, especially this new "Ambien CR," which doesn't work much better than normal Ambien (they just brought it to market b/c Ambien is going to be available in generic pretty soon). So..you might be better off if you can get on an older drug, like Restoril (Temazepam).
My husband had been on it about a month, got up one morn had a wreck, flipped his truck,(wasn;t hurt) didn't know me or our son, an doesn't remeber the wreck, his memory came back about 4 hours later in a hospital bed.
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