Posted by pulse on June 25, 2006, at 4:06:29
In reply to Strange ambien experience last night, posted by gardenergirl on June 22, 2006, at 0:19:06
gg, these ambien experiences are fairly common, although i've never had one. that may very well be only because i chose to stop ambien after 1 rx and (maybe) 1 refill.
search here & find more on this doing or saying stupid things (understatement), as can end up with serious, even life-threatening, consequences. more on hallucinations, too. i think one ambien thread wasn't that long ago.
a previous poster's right: this most usually occurs only when you stay up after ambien & not in bed to have it knock you out.
one example of many i've heard that were also true; repeating it for you -
my dad, while in intensive care, after carotid artery surgery:
chewed out nurses, yanked all his 'wires'/ 'hook-ups' out multiple times; ran around with - no pants on!!! (gown) - but not caring if posterior was showing to all. demanded doc release him then and there, and did finally acheived this, after his wife was begged to come back in to control him, as all nurses had failed. she also failed, so asked me to call him. (intensive care was so desperate they allowed us to use cell phone inside the unit! - 1st time they'd broken rule). i spoke to him briefly but firmly before he hung up on me in his mid-sentence, still screaming nothing wrong wih him, he WAS leaving the hospital for good. i.e., no step down room, no one would stop him. had already gone on 1st in lifetime hunger- strike in protest - call him gandhi!
my dad does have npd, but he has always been VERY passive - as are so many of the cerebral variety.
while this is said to happen more easily in the elderly, no age group is immune. i believe you're one for whom ambien works better than for most, but it IS something to consider.
pulse
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