My First Ambien

BlueCowgirl,. I love Ambien!  If I take it, I do sleep like a baby and feel refreshed.  I am careful not to take it that often, as I am pretty sure it is highly addictive.  However, there are times (since my diagnosis 3 years ago) that I have a hard time falling asleep.  If I have had a few of those nights in a row, I take an ambien. 

I think you will feel great tomorrow morning.

oh, yeah, ambien cr is great, I've been on it since diagnosed, and am feeling I should get off it, but it is delightfully habit forming.You do sleep like a baby and wake up feeling like a new woman. I have never driven my car, leapt off a cruise ship or cooked a three course meal in the middle of the night. I don't even wake up to pee. Not sleeping in days can interefere with your healing.

I take it every once in a while--no problems here.  I think i changed my car's oil in the middle of the night once....:P  just kidding! 

It was my neighbor's car.

..and I have conversations with inanimate objects all the time...and get paid for it, lol.  I'm a puppeteer and have lotsa little "friends".  I tried to claim them as dependents on my taxes but my tax guy said no way  So I sent Guido, the Italian Muppet, over to uh, straighten him out.

I am also a fan of Ambien, I only take 1/2 and the next morning, I am a new person.  No scary stories other than the time I ran out....   I use it once, occasionally twice, per week.  Enjoy your rest.

You should be asleep by now - shut out the lights and technology and you will drift off quickly.  Good night Blue Cowgirl.  As it happens, my nickname is Cowgirl.

I am not stage three, hope you don't mine me butting in. I have never had problems with Ambien. However go to bed right after you take it because it does give you the munchies. I do get a good sleep when I take it,

I love Ambien. I take it so often that I asked for a lower dose (6.25...usually they give you 10 mg), and that still works well for me. No missing underwear stories here (I don't know if that is a good or bad thing ).

BlueCowgirl- late in posting, but just wanted to say I'm glad you had a great rest!  I'm with the others that take Ambien regularly and have never had issues (I wish I could wake up and find my bathroom sparkling from an unconscious midnight ramble but no luck). And like Weesa said, getting good rest is so important for us so it's good that this gave you some much needed relief.  

Ah, you have been seduced by the Ambien siren, the somnolent, addictive lure of the little white pill.

No longer do you have to wonder if you will sleep tonight and if so for how long...

I am so tantalized by the airplane story--did the sister ever find her underwear, aprilgirl1--you can pm me if you don't want to hijack this thread--but I want to know more, there's got to be more. Could be the beginning of my new novel.

I didnt want to tell my horror story when you first posted because you had already taken it.

While I was in the hospital they gave me a 10mg ambien I vaguely remember walking down the hall into the nurses station and raiding there fridge. thought it was a dream but in the desk next to my bed was yogurt, tacos and other stuff.(I wonder where the nurses were) Also remmeber talking to all the machines in my room as if they were people and told my husband I was going sking with some cute guys. I was imbarresed at first to tell the nurse and she said oh you are the one who took our food. She said people see little greeen men while taking these. So she gave me a 5mg said she would watch me to make sure i was going to be ok, and I was. 

If anyone is having strange dreams then cut your pill in half, it will make a difference. Also I have somina if i wait longer than 40 minutes to an hour to take it, but if  i go to sleep within that time frame I sleep well.

April- I laughed outloud on the underwear story LOL!

no scary stories here....with Ambien I can manage to get if I'm lucky a solid 4 hours sleep!! I trade off between the regular 10mg and the 12.5 CR

aprilgirl,  too funny.

Do you all remember when all the dirt came out on Tiger Woods?  He was using ambien and it was mentioned several times, I don't remember details, but something strange.