I took ambien one night (let me preface this with the fact that I’m still taking it, regardless) and I ‘blacked out’. I ‘woke up’ at 3 am, let myself out the front door, locked it behind me from the inside, and went running down the street. (It was 25 degrees outside.) I was in very skimpy pj’s and woke up, mid-stride, running down the middle of a VERY busy road. I was terrified, and raced back to my house. I tried to get in, only to discover the door was locked, so I tried to break in my window. My fiancee thought I was still in the bed, heard someone trying to break in, and nearly shot me with a .45, because he thought I was a burglar.
Needless to say, taking it scares the hell out of me, but there’s nothing else out there that works (that docs readily write rx’s for, and I’m a nurse…) short of benzos, that they usually won’t give you indefinately…
So. Be careful. You could get run over. Or, you could have the best nights sleep ever. It’s really a gamble.
-Holly
