Someone have me 5 Ambien once claiming they were pain pills. This was like 25 years ago. First 2 didn’t work (weren’t getting me high) so I took them all. According to my roommates I did some seriously crazy shit. I didn’t remember shit for like 3 days but I was having full on conversations with Jesus (an American flag hanging in our living room we all wrote dumb shit on at parties), I drew all over my bedroom wall with a sharpie (thought it was the flag I guess) took apart our dryer for reasons unknown, all our weed was in a collander in the sink… There was more but the point is don’t take 5 Ambien, even if you thought it was oxy or something. Don’t take 5 of anything ever really.
Same thing happened a few months later but with roofies.
*trying to figure out the last panel in the meme*
“Computer, enhance.”
I had to take sleep pills years ago, and after taking them I couldn’t sleep still so I took them again and went dark instantly and had the most strange dreams I ever had, one of them was calling my girlfriend to tell her thar we were not really working and that we should broke up. Woke up fully dressed and bathed on my job washing some dishes. I went out, called my girlfriend, but her mother said that she didn’t wanted to pass to the phone, because that was never a dream and I actually broke with her.
Ambien. Ambien happened.
Fucking Ambien. I tried it for a week to help with my insomnia and it did not work at all. I would get a little sleepy for about 5 minutes then I was loopy as hell and very active/hyper. At about the 10-15 minute mark my memory would crap out so all the best stories I can’t even recall just what people told me the next day. Things like laying down on a skateboard and scooting around with my hands, sobbing about the small villagers in the bed that we’re going to lose their culture if the blankets got disrupted, searching the house for the blacksmith and winding up talking to my frog about his sword making. Wild stuff. I threw out the rest of the bottle after a few days because if it wasn’t helping me sleep and I couldn’t remember the high what even is the point
Yes but not often. I actually have patients request it a LOT but I rarely see it prescribed. If the patient has been on it for a while, they’ll at the very least need to taper off of it to prevent seizures iirc, but honestly even then I see most doctors preferring benzos over ambien which is wild because benzos are nasty shit (if you need 'em you need 'em, but you do not want to need them)!
Ambien works almost exactly like benzos, it’s no less nasty. Benzos at least tend to be more predictable than Ambien
general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who’s having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn’t comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien
what. the. fuck.
The only rationale I can think of is that trazodone has a small risk of causing mania if you’re sensitive to it since technically it’s serotonergic but what the actual fuck. Ambien is waaay more dangerous!
You don’t hear horror stories about it anymore. Who was it that almost drove off a cliff? Jack Nicholson?
I had a friend whose mom was prescribed Ambien. I think it was the first time I’d ever heard of it. She said she kept having experiences like waking up in bed with empty bags of flour and jars of mayonnaise, so she stopped taking it.
My ex GF had a roommate who was taking this stuff and apparently frequently woke up with empty bags of McDonald’s or Taco Bell on the bed, meaning he’d literally sleepwalk to his car, go to the drive thru, order, drive back, and eat, all without remembering any of it the next day. No idea how this stuff is even legal, it’s a miracle he never ended up in a car accident.
My mother actually died in a car wreck last week. We’re almost certain it was ambien related. Luckily there was no other people or vehicles involved.