Anyone ever take Ambien?

[buddym]

Wife took for about two weeks and made her out of it in the morning. She told the Dr no thanks and decided to try to rough it out. he finally had her take alphrazolam 2.5 grams and this seemed to calm her down with no hanf=gover.

 

[SportsFan818]

see thats the thing, i never get real worried. the only thing i worry about is what the hell is going on with me. i had problems about a year ago that took about 5-6 months to go away where i was just dizzy and couldnt even sit. all i could do was lay around, not cause i wanted to but cause i couldnt do anything else. i sometimes get an ear ache every few weeks in my left ear only where it feels cold like wind is blowing in it, only i am inside.

 

[texansfan]

I've taken it and made the mistake of "waiting to get sleepy." I ended up playing poker online for God knows how long and losing about $400.

If you take it lie down and fall asleep.

 

[HarryCaray]

right, i take xanax when i get a severe attack, otherwise I try and control it...any fuuny/weird/scary thoughts i have, i blame on anxiety and "try" to control myself, which is fucking hard to do

Pretty much sums it up.

 

[1cheater]

Us to take them, loved them, no side affects for me at all. No "hangovers" at all. I slept like a baby.

 

[SportsFan818]

Im gonna take the pill, its only 5mg. Although i should wait til saturday after having a losing day then id definitely not give a damn lol. after more thinking i guess the doctor wouldnt prescribe it if he thought it would harm me

 

[djking]

get a pill cutter and see what 2.5 does to ya

 

[1cheater]

get a pill cutter and see what 2.5 does to ya

I agree, snap one in half for the first couple uses.

 

[blackbox]

I have been to several great DRS.- all of who have recommended the current specialist I have been seeing the past 5 years. I have severe panic attacks and extreme anxiety issues. I take what the DR. PRESCRIBES- XANAX and PAXIL-the generic forms. Under no circumstance should you self medicate! Do not withhold information from your DR.-BE 100% truthful-he can only do the best possible treatment with accurate and honest information. Good luck-get well-and be able to look in the mirrior having known you are telling all to your DR.

 

[coconutman]

Why can't you fall asleep?

Did you try proper nutrition and excercise?

Melatonin and other herbal tablets might do the job.

 

[SportsFan818]

Why can't you fall asleep?

Did you try proper nutrition and excercise?

Melatonin and other herbal tablets might do the job.

no clue why i cant sleep. workout on a regular basis and am very active and stuff.

 

[Kornholio]

I've been taking 10mg every night for like 7 months. I don't remember a lot of what I do while on the drug and sometimes it makes me out of mind.. Often I wake up in the morning trying to remember what I did the night before. I've read a lot of posts on here I don't remember posting. I once ate a 7 dollar bag of skittles (52oz I think) in one sitting and didn't know it until I got up in the morning and the bag was empty.

First time I took it it was 5mg and did not work. Every since I've taken the 10mg.

It works like a dream for putting you to sleep and that is why I still take it every night..

Here is my first experience with the drug fwiw. Kind of a crazy drug, I fully expect it to be banned one day because of the side effects.
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I took a 10 mg. And yes I was hallucinating. The walls were coming at me. Wood trim around the fireplace was bending and it looked like it was about 6" from my face even though it was more like 10ft...then I couldn't figure out what it even was. Then I looked at a couple placemats on a shelf and they were spinning. Stuff like that. Everything I looked at was doing some crazy shit including the computer. Then I posted in this thread as coherently as I could and went to bed.

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[Kornholio]

Here is the thread I posted asking about it before I took it.

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=565732

 

[SportsFan818]

Kornholio my doc told me to take it and then go IMMEDIATELY to bed. So I am going to pop a 5 mg pill in my mouth and hop in the sac with the t.v. on for a little, then ill shut it off....wish me luck! if i do not post tomorrow a.m. i am probably dead

 

[Kornholio]

It's a good drug. I always stay up til it takes effect. Anywhere from 1 minute to 1/2hr. Waiting in bed would suck. You'll get used to how long you can stay up once you get used to it. Good luck, hope the 5 mg works for you, didn't for me.

 

[hippieki11er]

I once ate a 7 dollar bag of skittles (52oz I think) in one sitting and didn't know it until I got up in the morning and the bag was empty.

Wow, talk about major insulin spike. The best time for sugary carbs is immediately PWO (post work out), as the uptake of amino acids is critical at that time. Seeing that this happened right before bed though, most of those calories were stored as fat in adipose tissue.

 

[Kornholio]

ah, I' skinny. i Got the gene where you can eat 4x the amount you need and stil stay skinny. that's me.

 

[barman]

I've taken it and made the mistake of "waiting to get sleepy." I ended up playing poker online for God knows how long and losing about $400.

If you take it lie down and fall asleep.

Sounds like me, though in my experience it was a night where I made over 400 posts to the Rx

okay...maybe not that many

Been using ambien in 2.5 to 5mg doses a few times a week for past year and a half

For six months prior to that I had access to the Ambien CR which is controlled release in 12mg

I found those to frankly be too strong and though I never lost money online (I never online casino) I honestly did open Rx and/or my Sent email box and found messages I did not remember writing.

Switched to the 10mg regulars but still found them a bit much.

I've acquired enough experience with them that I rarely have any "brownouts" mentally on front end, but I routinely have a challenge pulling myself up out of sleep eight hours later.

Same with SheBar. So now we cut the 10mg in half and she uses 5mg while I most often cut my half again and either use a 1/4 or maybe do the two quarters over about an hour.

Any use of Ambien with alcohol in your system will increase the strength of the effects, so by all means be very careful.

 

[barman]

I agree, snap one in half for the first couple uses.

Ayuh...a good steak knife or even a sharp pair of thin blade scissors can serve to make a nice cut as the 10mg have a groove right down the middle.

 

[barman]

I've been taking 10mg every night for like 7 months. I don't remember a lot of what I do while on the drug and sometimes it makes me out of mind.. Often I wake up in the morning trying to remember what I did the night before. I've read a lot of posts on here I don't remember posting. I once ate a 7 dollar bag of skittles (52oz I think) in one sitting and didn't know it until I got up in the morning and the bag was empty. <table class="tborder" id="post5198919" width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="thead" style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(253, 222, 130); border-width: 1px 0px 1px 1px; font-weight: normal;">
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Heh...when I saw this thread my first thought was, "I wonder if Kornholio ever got to sleep..."


okay...but seriously, the responses you describe strongly suggest you are unwittingly overdosing if you are repeatedly finding yourself with blackout periods from the night before.

Consider doing some breakdown so that you're only using 7.5