Ambien can be a powerful, effective, and useful tool for sleeping. It can also be extremely dangerous. Read more about ambien here.
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wonder if i will die after drinking & taking way 2 many ambien
I am contemplating taking 30 or perhaps 60 10mg of ambien if I can get another refill in a month or so. I am recently divorced, my mother just passed away and my ex wife convinced my 12 year old son, and through him the police, that I abused him by pulling his ear and grabbing his collar after he lied [again] about his homework. It was the first time I ever disciplined him in this manner. I never even spanked him before. I face six years in prison and am now being denied access to both him and my other daughter who is 15 months old. I have a prior domestic battery that I plead to rather than fight and now it looks like I am losing everything.
I have taken ambien 10mg for several years. One day after I didn’t get the required 8 hours of sleep that you need when you take one of them, I almost hit a car head on and it didn’t even scare me. I tried sleeping without them and couldn’t do it so I cut the pill in half and only take 5 mg a night and it works great for me. It helps me get to sleep and I easily sleep from 10:00 to 5 and I don’t have that hung over, groggy feeling and my memory is back to normal. Hope this suggestion is helpful to someone.
Ted, the comments that you made shows you don’t understand why people do these types of things. Many suicide attempts or successions do think about the people they leave behind. You tell me that if someone very, very close to you were in agonizing pain 24/7 365 days a year for many years that you would love watching them suffer just as long as they live just for you. Now put yourself in those people’s shoes. You can hardly walk because of the pain so you use a cane, crutches or a walker to get around. Sitting or even laying in bed or chair hurts and sometimes bad enough you start crying. Then you have an episode that is the mother of all episodes that you vomit and have a bowl movement all over yourself. Your spouse, significant other has to clean up after you because you can barely move and need help. You sleep in separate bedrooms because of the moaning and screaming in pain when you move. So you sleep away from everyone because you don’t want to keep them awake, since they need the sleep to go to work. Your family is possibly going to be put out on the street because you can’t work anymore and you are a two income family so you can pay bills and purchase food. Lets not forget the conversations being had behind your back about the suffering the family is being put through because of your pain, and you get to hear it on occasion because they forget you are in the other room or just an ear shot away. It goes on and on and this just started four years ago and you have a lifetime of this left. These people do think about others and the hell YOU are putting them through, forget your suffering because there are three being put through HELL and you are only one. This is only ONE GOOD REASON for attempting or succeeding suicide.
I don’t for sorry for you because you are one of the many people that get to live a normal life one without constant pain. You also don’t have to be in physical pain to have a reason for the attempts or successful attempt. Some people have something wrong with the wiring in their brain. It’s like a computer, if you get a virus or a boost of voltage the PC will start to freeze up then slowly move but move the wrong way. You don’t have to feel sorry for anyone, but please keep those comments to your self it does no good to anyone. Someday I hope you understand why this behavior goes on.
I just got out of rehab and talked to many people there who would take Ambien and drive to the store etc. and wake up the next morning and find huge dents in their cars. Also a guy in rehab drove his car off a cliff two times and crashed into a Fed Ex truck and a car while on Ambien and OxyContin.
Before I went to rehab I was taking up to 12 Ambien a night with alcohol and also over a dozen benzodiazepines, like xanax, during the day. I was so addicted to sleeping pills I could not imagine sleeping without them and have been using them for 10 years.
I’m so happy that I can finally sleep without sleeping pills and am off prescription drugs for the first time in ten years. It was well worth $40,000 for rehab! Prescription drugs (including Ambien) led to many problems for me such as failed relationships, near death, seizures, an eating disorder, crashing a car, legal problems and wasting much of my time taking pills, getting pills, etc.
Ambien is very addictive and I want to warn everyone about the dangers of this drug.
did u have any other prob after drinking with these drugs?
cuz they say kill u or coma?
To those who would use this medicine or another means to end your life: You are pathetic, self-centered and selfish individuals. People like you never think about the ones you leave behind to clean up and deal with your messes. Suck it up, learn to stand on your own two feet and stop feeling sorry for yourself. People like you make me sick.
Editor’s Note: Tedd, you should understand that most of the people making comments like this are having serious emotional problems that they don’t have a lot of control over. Perhaps you should search your soul for greater compassion.
I’ve taken Ambien for nearly 3 months now and a week or so ago I started having episodes of sleepwalking. I was waking up with cuts and bruises on my shins and sore spots elsewhere on my body. One night my wife heard me banging around downstairs and looked out the window to find me standing outside beside the car with keys in hand. She managed to get me back inside and back to bed, but I had no memory of the incident or of the conversation that took place between us. Thank God she caught me before I hurt myself or someone else. After reporting this and several similar incidents to my doctor, he changed my prescription to restaril. We’ll see how that goes.
I have a terrible case of insomnia — it is horrible. When I don’t take a sleep aid, I lay down barely fall asleep, I am barely unconscious. I put the sleep timer on the TV, I awake at the “sound” of the TV turning off. I’m in and out of sleep all night. It is the worst feeling in the work to wake up more tired then when you went to bed. I started taking Ambien CR 12.5 mg and it works pretty well, probably too well. I scared my boyfriend to death one night while we were on vacation — the fire alarm went off in the hotel room, the rest of the hotel. The hotel had to be evacuated. I slept through the entire thing on Ambien CR. He had to carry me out of the hotel. I am a pretty thin girl, and really think it is just too much drug for my system, I get terrible “hangovers” the next day from Ambien CR too. So, I’m damned if I do, damned if I don’t. Anyway, wondering if anyone has tried the Ambien CR 6.25 mg dose? From what I’ve read that dosage is only used in the elderly. Curious if anyone has taken both dosages and what they think.
Sometimes death is the only thing you feel will stop the pain I see john side as I am also very depressed due to a woman in my life. I have taken 3 ambein so far an thing are going in and out of focus. I doubt its enough to kill me but it should atleast take my mind off the girl that ripped my heart out by cheating on me.
Ambien is a very good drug when taken in the prescribed dosage. Yes it does have risk…however the benefits greatly out wiegh the risk…I do not feel that I would be making it through Medical School if I did not take it.
oops i mean last 3 years sorry!
I’ve take 5 ambien over the last 3 years, is this something I should be worrked about?
Holy Shit, I came across this page looking up a safe dosage of Ambien, cuz i wanna get high but i really, really dont wanna die or anything, so just wanna keep it safe. Hey John, Joyce, I understand this message isn`t goung to make any difference but please, please don`t harm urselvs. Find someone to talk to. Each Other, Me, whatever. god, don`t kill urselves.
my dearset john,
I am so there with you consciensely
but please help me to help you stay alive and maybe you can do the same for me my e-mail is joy6666@aol.com please e-mail me if your still alive PLEASE !!!
I am an addict and alcoholic. I am over 35 yrs old. It sounds like a lot of you are pretty young, younger than I. If I could tell you this and you could REALLY understand and take it to heart…you might have a chance. Any drug taken to get a ‘high’ is deadly. Ambien is especially dangerous. I have been abusing it on and off since it first came out. I’m sure you know by now, Ambien numbs the part of your brain and you lose all…I mean ALL inhibitions. It doesn’t sound like most of you are taking the doses I have taken, than God! When I do get it, I usually get 30 – 10 mg pills and I take them throughout the period of one day, the next day I get one of the two refills and take another 30 that day, and then the last 30 over the 3rd day. I have no idea how I have survived, other than a very high tolerance. I have done some crazy things while on ambien that has brought me to my knees and to tears. I’ve gone to jail for driving while on Ambien. I don’t think I even understood what was going on nor did i care until it wore off in jail. I have almost hit my mother while she tried to keep me from doing some pretty crazy things. One time I was trying to let an elephant in my bathroom window and had the window wide open in the cold of winter. She came in the living room late at night b/cuz the tv was LOUD as HELL and I told her I couldn’t b/cuz of ‘them’, the people in the room with me said they couldn’t hear the tv…there was noone there. I had another episode last night. I have a family and it scares me to think of what might happen one of these times. Last night, took all 30 and ended up going to a restaurant and going table to table and telling my life story to people! Yea, IDIOT or addict. Sad, pathetic. Then, left with a guy’s wife who was much younger than I and we went looking for more drugs. We went to a bar and I KNOW I was asking LOUDLY if anyone had something. We were asked to leave. We left with 3 young guys in my car, me driving. Stupid. I am blessed I did not get pulled over or killed someone or died from overdose. I guess we were on our way to have sex with guys we didn’t know! I remember catching my senses and ended up going home to my ‘family’. I’m afraid to give too much away. Paranoid, I suppose. If you have depression, ambien will make that worse. If you mix it with the wrong meds, you can die. Funny thing, one day I might only take 6 and for some reason my heart will stop. YOURS MIGHT TOO! Go to a meeting you younger people. You have a chance to live a GOOD and PEACEFUL and HAPPY life. Don’t fall into this trap of addiction that I have. It ruins any happiness or hope for a good life. I prayed tonight for God to help me not pick up my refill. I pray you STOP taking this drug, it kills, it makes you do things like I’ve told you. And, thats not even the worst. My Mom and I were on a road trip and I was in the back seat eating my cigs!!!! Then, I was trying to jump out of the car and she had to pull over and talk me into laying down..lasting maybe a minute. Asking people at gas stations for drugs in FRONT of my poor Mother. She’s been thru this so much with me, I feel so bad for her. Anyway, this is the first time I’ve let all this out, about the ambien. I have been apart of AA on and off for almost 20 years now. It’s not so cute when you’re out of control at my age. PLEASE, I ask you from the bottom of my heart to stop this ambien or any substance abuse. It only gets worse and I mean more WORSE THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE.
Peace and love to all.
my friend just took 18 10mg ambien and i don’t know what to do for her
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Not sure how I landed here. I have chronic persistent insomnia, and only seem to find peace, releif, peace and that ever relusive sleep when taking original recipe ambien.
Increasingly, as I’ve gotten deeper and deeper in to the world of persistent insomnia, I’ve found that 10mg of regular ambien doesn’t touch me. AT ALL.
20mg gave me a handful of interesting experiences followed by pretty solid sleep.
However, to get the original buzz, the full hypnotic effect of seeing carpets and carpet drapes sway and move and seem like they are somehow alive, I need 30mg of my ambien. Is this dangerous?
John…reconsider taking your life. When is your girlfriends birthday? I hope there is enough time for you to find someone to listen to you and to help you out.
As I sit here typing this comment i have already taken my ambien about 45 minutes ago. If I do not lay down right after taking it i am bacically wide awake , or so i think….
I wont remember typing this post. If my mom is unfortunate enough to get one of my Ambien call similar to “DRUNK DIALING” I will not remember what i said but she says its always somethig “SOOO IMPORTANT”” , now, once i do stop trying to type which im sure im making a few mistake the screen is kinda blurry, I will go outside smoke a ciggarette. Then I will crawl in bed slepp till about 2:30 or 3 and zig zag into my kitchen and eat anything that i can find. Now, this I dont remember either but my husband has seen it, and when he doesnt catch me getting out of bed he finds the evidence in the morning such as cookie crumbs, dropped candy, and Krispie Kremes washed in the sink…yep washed in the sink. How can something knock you out so hard, but if i dont lay down i’m sitting here doing this, but will have no memory of it?? Anybody else, or am i the only one who can semi-focus on ambien
I’m tired of life. I wish I were dead. I’m thinking about taking pills to do the job so I’m researching how much it would take to do the job. I need to be thorough so I don’t survive this. Life is just too painful anymore. I’ve got some serious mental disorders and I have so much trouble controlling my emotions and it takes so much energy to keep from flipping out and it’s nothing but a burden on my life. I’m tired of fighting just to stay in control. I’ve been on so many different meds over the years but it never helps. I’m finally ready to give up. I’m waiting till my girlfriends birthday so she feels the same hurt she caused me. She’ll go through life remembering her birthday as the day I ended my life
x I’m esxtremely fucked up riht now. from this. i’m seeing in 199% doubl vision. hahahha
I used to get monthly ’scripts for zolpidem to counteract the sleeplessness associated with being on an SSRI for a few years. I had already used xanax to counter the anxiety portion and i eventually started abusing that. Either way, the anxiety went away after a while so I quit using the xanax, but months later the insomnia started so I got the zolpidem. Point being: I have a history of overdoing it.
Well, zolpidem definatly tickled the same euphoria receptors that xanax, klonopin, etc did and I found myself easily staying awake on the stuff. And yes, I got high on it for sure.
I eventually got a script for Ambien CR while at the same time I still had several refills on the zolpidem. Since they where both active scripts and of different “formulations” I could take 30 doses in 10 to 15 days, then get the other formulation filled without my insurance or the Walgreens computer freaking out, filling in an every-other-one fashion.
I remember one time I took an entire month’s worth in a week! I went to the pharm for a refill after that week and the tech looked at me and said, “Sir, exactly how many of these do you take each night?”
“Um…what’s that?”, I asked, as if I didn’t know exactly what they had said. I knew they had me there!
“We can’t sell this to you sir, you filled last week.”
The withdrawal from that week was horrendous! I had the dizziness and brain shocks so bad I was pretty much useless. My psych prescribed me a valium (very small amount) taper, but first said incredulously, “You took 6 ambien a night for 5 days, that worries me.” I don’t remember getting any more ambien from him after that. Trazodone turned out to be a safer alternative.
Some days I would wake up to find as many as 9 pills gone and try to figure out how I would be able to have enough to last me until refill time.
I usually went for walks. One vague memory I have is being utterly lost about a block from my house one summer night. I remember squinting up at the street sign with the orange street lamp halo behind it and thinking, “Now, where am I?”
I consider myself lucky, and don’t take the fact that I’m still alive for granted. I never had bad hang overs, always woke up at a descent time, never missed work. But if I had gotten in my car one of those nights I have no doubt I’d either be in prison for manslaughter or dead myself.
My name is Arjun Chhabra.
Arjun Chhabra loves his life.
Arjun Chhabra does not do things like that.
Arjun Chhabra does not have any ambien.
If Arjun Chhabra tried to kill himself he would probably take more then that.
Arjun Chhabra did not approve of this message.
Arjun Chhabra signing out.
I hope you are not serious. Ive been there before and i know the feeling of helplessness but there is always hope..
“its always darkest before the dawn”..African proverb
At the moment i am swallowing 70mg of ambien CR. I am tired of my life.
I took Ambien for a while when I was 17. I purposely overdosed one day to reach the euphoric feeling I had been feeling more of when I took my normal dose at night. For 12 hours my parents had to take care of me because I went out of my mind, had little balance, and was very demanding. I blacked out for almost all of it and only remember a few odd things that I did. I felt good during my overdose, but realizing what I had done and what had happened over the next few days was one of the scariest experiences of my life.
Do you know of any long lasting effects this drug could have on me, especially since I read that it shouldn’t be given to people under the age of 18 (I’m also very small)? If anyone knows and could e-mail me, I’d appreciate it.
Thanks
I am very serious. I have 100 2mg. klonipin, 60 10mg ambien, 120 200 mg tegretol, 30 lame paxil.
Please someone tell me. Will this kill me or am I gonna be stuck in an ER barfing charcoal?