Posted by don_bristol on August 30, 2003, at 17:49:47
My girlfriend usually takes 7.5 mg Zopiclone (US: Imovane, UK: Zimovane) to sleep but she forget to bring her meds when she was staying with me so I gave her 10 mg Zolpidem (US: Ambien, UK: Stilnoct.
Wow. After about 15 to 30 minutes she was hallucinating. She saw many things in the room had started moving and very strongly that there was someone watching. Really weird. She fell asleep and that was it. On other nights when she re-tired Zolpidem it happened again.
I got no side effect so it wasn't a bad batch causing this.
How common is this? I know that the official side-effects do mention hallucination but I thought it was one of those utterly rare side effects which might not even be caused by the med but more likely to be a co-incidence which occurred in the clinical trial. You know the sort of thing I mean.
On anothe rnight she tried a third med from the same class of drugs. This one was Zaleplon 10 mg (US: ?, UK: Sonata). The hallucinations were less pronounced but were starting to occur when she fell asleep.
How many other people here have heard of this or have experienced it?
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