I “think” I took about 20 10mgs tablets a few nights ago, which I cannot believe, but the missing pills say otherwise. We even thought my Great Dane had eaten them! No suicide issues, but it’s not something new to me because I’ve got a history of depression. And, admittedly, I do like a good buzz.
I’ve always struggled to sleep, and I’ve taken some form of sleep medication of 20 years. Anecdotally, I smoked a lot of pot as a kid to help with sleeping problems and obviously for other childish reasons. I also take a low dose of Adderall, and this exacerbates the sleeping problem. While prescribed for ADHD, the Adderall is used for enhancing cognitive ability, so my dosage fluctuates. It’s not something I can eliminate.
Long story short, I’m feeling very sluggish, for lack of better adjectives. It’s been several days since the “super” dose, and I’m taking it nightly as prescribed. In fact, I’m thinking of lower it to 10 mgs. It just works so damn well. But it’s seriously slowing my cognitive abilities; said another way, I’ve serious “brain fog.”
Obviously, no one is qualified to give a medical opinion, but I’d like to hear personal opinions. Should I flush this down the toilet? Take it as prescribed? Or lower the dose? I cannot deal with the brain fog; it’s really causing an issue with being “as sharp as possible.” Yet the lack of sleep equally screws me up… I feel caught in the cyclical catch-22. Advice welcome!
Most of you people frighten me. I just flushed my Ambien down the commode, today. I’ve been taking it for almost a year. When I started taking it, I would not go right to bed. I would walk to my bedroom, bouncing off the walls, running into appliances, etc. Had slurred speech, like every other drunk. My family and I thought it was funny. Here’s mom and grandma, 56 yrs old, drunk. Hilarious. NOT!! The last couple weeks, I have had a room full of people in my bedroom, at night. One lady sits on my bed beside me. My mother and grandmother have both passed on, but I’m not sure who this lady is. I feel a closeness to her, but I can’t make out her face. It has really started to bother me, then I make phone calls to my daughter, in the middle of the night and get her worried. I got on here today and read some of these stories. Oh my. Never again will I take another Ambien. If Advil PM doesn’t do it, too bad. I feel that this is as bad as alcohol. I don’t drink, and I feel that if I continued taking this medication, I would be committing a sin. I do not want to be responsible for terrible things happening to me or an innocent victim. It’s not the drug’s responsibility, or the doctor’s. We are all responsible for what we do. If we’re under the influence, we did it to ourselves. Good luck to you all. There is an answer to our problems. His name is Jesus.
If you took 20 pills you would be dead now. An overdose would interfere with your heart and stop it. Your dog too. Try L-tryptophan. It is over the counter. Completely safe and best of all it works to help you sleep. I used it for years.
When you flush pills, the medicine goes into the waste water, which eventually gets cleaned up and winds up as our water supply. I don’t think meds all fliter out of the water supply. So it’s best to NOT FLUSH your unwanted meds. Some towns or pharmacies have programs in place for medicine disposal. Give it to them to dispose of, please. Do not just throw it away either.