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Avatar f tn Ambien keeps you awake? Unusual. Maybe one of the meds is making you hypomanic and/or stimulating you? I had that problem on Prozac. I'd go to bed and wake up full of energy at 4AM and wanted to jog around the block - I did several times.
Avatar n tn I need help badly as I have had a roaring pressing in my ears for 2 weeks and ent and md said tinnitus. They gave little hope to ease symptoms. This keeps me awake and have to take ambien to fall asleep. I have been on remeron and ambien for about 6 years, however, my therapist states that I am free to stop the meds. I hear this roaring all day long and it is worse at night. I have profound hearing nerve loss but have never experience anything like this before.
Avatar f tn I have found that taking it before bed seems to keep me awake sooooo, I take it around 5 a.m. and then go back to sleep until seven....sleep like a baby. The Melatonin recommendation is a good one too.
10515800 tn?1419227034 And ambient is a sleeping pill that is prescribed, not over the counter drug. She gave me a really high dose to. I've taken benedryl and Tylenol before and passed out from being so tired. I'm wide awake and just paranoid and it's creeping me out.
7791645 tn?1394292401 They are mild but are constant and annoying .
Avatar f tn Hello mom and welcome. Heroin and ambien are both central nervous system depressants. Taken together it is very dangerous as they both depress the respiratory and central nervous system. How old is your son? Does he live with you? How long has he been Abusing drugs for?
1394601 tn?1328032308 t have a chance to discuss it with her. It is pain that keeps me awake. If she can address that and not prescribe Ambien, we will be happy little campers. If not, doctor shopping!!! Frankly, I do know what I need and have little if any trust in the medical profession. Either they can explain why to my satisfaction or I am out of there.
774059 tn?1235681948 Hello, and congrats on 4 days..............I have taken ambien b4 and from what I remeber it kept me awake. The mistake I made was taking to much and i ended up sleep walking,blacking out,and eating allot............I think ambien works for some people and for others it does not. Talk to your doctor.
Avatar f tn On the Topix site's ambien thread I kept reading about scripts for 5, 10 12MG, but never 20. I've been on the thread in regards to Ambien for months. It's huge. It started in 2006. Thousands of postings from lost souls trying to quit, posting in the wee hours, awake, unable to get to sleep. But there are also many posters like you happypill. There are millions more people who need the sleep and rest they get from Ambien. My mom was one of them.
501205 tn?1227345442 You have to take it and go directly to bed. It will give you amnesia if you try and stay awake on it. It works well for me, but you have to take it as directed.
Avatar m tn I'm no doctor, so I definitely can't give you any medical information on Ambien, but I can relay my personal experience with it. I've been on Ambien (currently 10mg) for SEVERAL years now (5 or more). I have many chronic pain conditions, including fibroymalgia. One of the major symptoms of fibro is insomnia - which I definitely suffer from!
Avatar f tn I am currently taking Klonopin for anxiety, it does not make feel sleepy or anything at .50 mg at 1.00 mg. it keeps me wide awake, quite the opposite for everyone else. I am going to see a new psychiatrist this coming week but he was not very helpful during my firs visit, so this is my second visit I want to ask him to show me ease out the insomnia rebound. It is so hard as I do not have a lot of faith in him as he did not even give me an emergency phone no.
Avatar m tn m a recovering addict, I will always be an addict. Ambien is poison to me and I can never take another one, ever. There is no graduation ceremony, no cap and gown; staying clean is a life long work in progress, one day at at time. Keep in touch zootal.
Avatar n tn ambien ccan cause black outs..expecially when mixed with alcohol...it is a sleeping med so if u take it and stay awake..
Avatar f tn Klonopin (.5 mg) taken at 8:00am caused me to be wide awake at one in the morning and without taking xanax and 5mg of ambien would not have been able to sleep at all. This happened with my first two doses so I stopped taking it. As this was prescribed for insomnia, my question is, should this have happened or does it take a week or two for it to start helping me sleep??
Avatar f tn He took the ambien around 8. Then the heroin around 10. If something bad was gonna happen, you'd think it would have already? He's laying on his side sleeping, actually snoring.
Avatar m tn today gave me a prescription for temazepam 15mg as an alternative to ambien. He said it should give me a few more hours of sleep. Ambien right now is good for about 5 hours of dead-to-the-world sleep, followed by a few hours of in-and-out sleep. Not very satisfying. Besides, I've taken it longer than I really wanted to. I'm not sure if temazepam is better, the same, or if I'm going from the frying pan into the fire, so to speak. Any information/comments would be appreciated.
Avatar n tn I have been taking ambien for almost 2 years on and off the doc keeps giving it to me cause I cant sleep I am seeing a specialist soon to try and figure out why Im not sleeping I think it is a pituitary issue. I can only go so many days without sleeping then I have to take something. I asked about the weight gain cause I heard it slows down your metabolism.
Avatar f tn i get sleep around 3 or 4 am. but she keeps me up with all her kicking. and she hardly does it in the day time. its like she knows i need sleep but wants to play with me and i can't I'm too tired. i know how you feel momma i hope he lets you get some kinda sleep. i sleep a lot during the day time if she won't let me sleep.
Avatar n tn Ambien (zolpiedem) helped me. It works quickly, doesn't give a morning hangover and is pretty cheap as it's available as a generic. I haven't tried the Ambien CR (time released, non-generic). Only thing about ambien is that, for me, I wake up after about 6 hours. But those 6 hours are pretty solid sleep.
Avatar n tn i've never been able to take just 10 mg. of ambien at night to sleep. my mom takes the same dose and has for years and she can still fall asleep with the one pill. i am taking upwards of 30 mg. at night and want to go down to 10 mg. to help me sleep. see my mom gets loopy and i have ot put her to bed because she can barely keep her eyes open and she mumbles her sleep all normal things. while taking ambien. but for me this doesn't happen.
Avatar f tn Guys. I cut back a 1/4 of 10mg last night and it worked!!!!! Went to bed at 9pm Hubby woke me up at 10, Didn't act like I was awake and went back to sleep!!!! Woke up at 2 and took a tyl pm went back to sleep and slept till 6:30am !!! I feel great mentally!. Feet still hurt.but I can handle it with God's help and sleep. I pray everyone has a beautiful day and God Bless.
Avatar f tn I never take more than one pill a night n it seems to give me at least a few hours. Without it i prolly wont ever sleep. Im so nervous for my baby. Ambien in prescribed regulary from what i hear during pregnancy. But the last few doctors ive been to tell me they dont do it and try to avoid all meds while pregnant. Im going to make an appt with sum1 who can help with this situation... keep u updated!!
Avatar m tn If I do drift off, my mind catches the act of falling asleep, and wakes me up, over and over. Ambien allows me to sleep for several hours, but it is low quality sleep ~8 hours feels like ~3. Once I wake up after a few hours the process repeats until I take more Ambien. I'm trying to get back to normalcy without going on anti-depressants again (especially without insurance), and I think a few days without ambien will help.
763205 tn?1234422576 Sounds like amnesia from the Ambien to me bt. It can happen. While I was on Ambien, I had it big time and my family would later recount stories of what I'd done or said. I didn't remember squat. I'm glad you are all right. You need to see the prescribing doctor and tell him/her this is happening to you. You also need to stop the med. in my opinion, but you can't really do this cold turkey without a rebound insomnia.
Avatar m tn A couple of years ago I was on Ambien 10mg for just 9 months and it took me 4 months to taper off of it. I did the taper after going through mild Hydrocodone withdrawal which I had been on for a back injury. But I never had a interaction from taking both at the same time. When you wrote "I decided to reduce the ambien to 5 mg due to the interaction" I'm not sure what interaction you mean?
1201433 tn?1328997637 I am taking ambien also it dont help me much either if ig to bed at 9 or 10 i am awake a2 or 3 that is ist this morning woke up at 2 have not been back to sleep days are same cant sleep in week 12
Avatar f tn m sure someone will chime in that does.