Group: insomnia

Category: Behavior

Description:
Insomnia is a common sleep problem that can affect your quality of life. People with insomnia have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. They may wake up during the night or wake up too early the next morning. This is a place to share your experiences, advice and tips for getting better sleep!.

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Ambien- your experience with it

  • regular

    10/13/2009

    mystiqkal says:

    At first when i started taking ambien, i slept through the night fine. I was talking 5mg a night. after a while i figured out that i wasnt sleeping entirely through the night and so i started taking 10mg. well, here's the old part. when i take a whole 10mg pill, i have NO memory of what happened the night before. I could be reading a book and when i wake up the next day, have no idea i had read that far into the book. I have also had my husband tell me that i've have full on conversations with him, AWAKE...but i have no memory of it.

    I read an article of a story of a man that took two ambiens and ended up driving to his ex gf's house, having sex with her and ten having no memory of it the next day.

    has anyone expereinced this odd side effect?

  • regular

    10/13/2009

    sandra says:

    I just took my first Ambien for travel. I was worried about the jetlag and having to work in another country, so I took one my first night in Singapore. I didn't notice any strange side effects like this, but maybe that is because I only took one.

  • regular

    10/13/2009

    CVD1 says:

    I tried it once, but I did not feel anything. Not even feeling sleepy. I do not know why.

  • newbie

    10/13/2009

    Greg says:

    be very careful with excessive sleep medication. My sister increased her dosages because they weren't effective on her anymore. One day, our neighbor found her at the end of the street in her PJs, she was sleep walking and didn't know it! She didn't stop the pills and we cough her sleep walking several more times in the house before she realized how dangerous it was that she can possibly end up outside, while sleeping and walking around.

  • regular

    10/13/2009

    CVD1 says:

    I think that Greg is probably right. Sleeping aids could be addictive and may require increasing doses. I have heard many warnings about consequences of abusing sleeping aids as well as anti-depressants. They could be dangerous and even lethal in some cases.

  • regular

    10/13/2009

    gary08 says:

    I've heard good things about Ambien from friends. I've tried Xanax for adjusting between time zones, and it's worked fine.

  • newbie

    10/20/2009

    BikersPurpleRose says:

    2 weeks , I am a basket case, never did sleep. I wanted to but my mind just wouldn't obey, like be quiet! I am just one of those when it comes to medes, that is chemically imbalanced, you never know what your gonna get when I try something.

    What works the best and that would be about 8 nights a month on a good month would be Rozarum (msp?) and as I have anxiety I take morning and night clonepan low dose. On a normal routine I do pretty well. It is known to be non-adictive.

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