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Re: ambien and dreams » Jai Narayan

Posted by LynneDa on March 9, 2004, at 11:13:12

In reply to ambien and dreams, posted by Jai Narayan on March 9, 2004, at 8:35:43

Hi! I've been on Lex for about 4 months and have had bad insomnia (became worse when I upped to 20mg). Doctor prescribed 5mg of Ambien. You are right about not remembering what you did 30 minutes to an hour after taking it and before sleeping. My dreams were very strange, unreal, sometimes scary but mostly just bizarre.

I took it for 8 days and had 2 days of horrible withdrawal - no sleep, totally wired, feeling unreal all day, just weird. I've never done any other benzos or hallucinogenics so don't have anything to compare it to, but I will definitely not take anything like it again.

BUT - it did get me through my insomnia. It's been about 2 weeks since I went off the Ambien and I am sleeping a bit better (with just Melatonin) and not waking up in the middle of the night totally wired for 2 hours like I was!

Good luck to you!
~ Lynne
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I didn't have nightmares, but before falling asleep, I would hallucinate. I would also do things (email, have conversations) and have absoltutely no recollection of it in the morning. Once, I woke up with big bruises all over and had no idea where they came from. Ambien can be some pretty scary stuff!
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> > > Since sleep and meds has come up here is a question. Has anyone else out there experienced nightmares on Ambien? I would fall asleep alright, but then it was like Stephen King lived in my head all night!!
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> *Wow, that sounds scary. how many milligrams are you both taking?
> I am using 5mg. I use it when I wake up after falling asleep for a few hours. I seem to have the nightmares (see my nightmare posted on writing babble) before I take the Ambien.
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> I have heard of people mixing Ambien and drinking and then having experiences that they find out the following day what they did. Most of the stories were pretty unusual and somewhat scary.
> I have never had that happen.
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