My First Ambien

30 more minutes till my Ambien. Wondering if the Ambien Walrus will make an appearance. Maybe he can give me some real insightful words of wisdom  (and NO, telling me to drive to Walmart is not one of them!)  LOL

Give it another 10 mintes here.   Tucked into bed here on my laptop. I do have some chips next to me so that I dont have to get up out of bed.

Awwww - what to take?  Percocet and Lorazepam or Percocet and Ambien?

dang Jancie.....I didnt know you can take percocet and ambien together!

I need to shoot the damn Walrus!  Where's he to help me cook???

my boys (13 and 15), have come to realize a great time to ask for things is right before I go to sleep (they don't realize why) but know I often say yes to things I would not normally agree to do.  DH also knows I am more receptive after ambien.  What a miracle drug, and now I know I might be able to speak another language.

My husband took a picture of me last night.....in bed......computer in my lap......hands at the keyboard and passed out!  Nice guy isn't he?

I have found the Ambien CR works well for me but not the generic. And I hate when doctors tell you generics are the same because they are NOT!

Okay this is slightly off topic but do any of you have to pee while you're sleeping and you dream you are peeing and wake yourself up because you have actually starting peeing while you are asleep? I'm embarrassed to think this only happens to me.

I am a new poster but have been lurking for several weeks. I love my Ambien. When I was diagnosed 11 months ago, the first thing my husband asked the doctor for was a sleeping pill. I
have taken it ever since. When I started rads in the summer, I added Ativan at night as well. I weaned off the Ambien about 3 weeks ago, but still take the Ativan. I would not hesitate to go back to the Ambien if needed. All the docs agreed that sleep was more important. I was concerned about getting "addicted" but everyone assured me that was NOT a problem.  

chiluver, you are NOT alone. I had trouble with that "dream" twice, after I finished chemo/rads. I was just mortified! I also would wake and barely make it to the toilet. It got so bad I went to the doctor to see about medication for overactive bladder or something. He sent me to a gynecologist who would not give me meds but gave me a diet to try for 10 days, plus the infamous Kegels. Mainly it was cutting out all caffeine, chocolate, citrus, etc. If you are interested in the regimen PM
and I will see if I can find it. I'm sure I have it somewhere! It took about a month, but I did get over the urgency and it is now no longer a problem.

Try Xanax ER, no highs, no lows, just easier to get off of. Take it once a day and ask your doc to change it for you if you want to stop

Ambien scared the H$^ out of me.  Went grocery shopping with a husband.  Thank God he was driving.  He left me in in the cereal isle looking at ??? for??? minutes. Came back to pick me up. For me, ambien basically decides that it's time to dream, awake or not.

Plus I dumped out a huge pot of vegetable broth that it took 3-4 hours to make and washed the pot, apparently

If it works for you great, but I tended to stay up and try to do chores 30-45 minutes after taking it. Not a good idea. :O

Howdy!
Ambien works great for me. My BS prescribed it for me to take after my surgery. It works great although I do have very vivid, odd dreams.


FYI I read on various drug/medical sites that you should never cut your pill in half. Something to do with it improperly releasing the drug into your system. There is a coating on the pill that makes the drug release into your system over time...so beware.

Hi Nora: I'm not sure which type of Ambien was discussed. I wasn't sure what kind was talked about. I just didn't want to chance it.

NO, not a good idea!  I'm finally learning. Some very strange ass dreams though! I just realized about my dream....The Beatle's  "I'm the Walrus"   Maybe that's why the dream of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. I didn't put it together until the next day. It was sort of an "Uh huh" moment!  It was a subliminal dream about the walrus visiting me.

My Ambien escapades have become a way of blaming me for everything.  

Christmas morning, shoes are missing.  I had borrowed my partner's clogs Christmas eve to go outside (easier to slip on something that's way too big) , and I was sure I had put them tidily on the floor at the end of the bed when I was done.  I was sure!  And I was pretty sure I hadn't taken my Ambien yet when I did that. But what happens when they are not there?  Well, first I get blamed.  Then when I protest that I did put them back, I am told I have no way of knowing if I'm telling the truth or not, and "it doesn't feel good when someone uses your things and doesn't take care of them."  

So of course here I am, all Christmas morning, thinking it's the walrus, expecting to find the shoes somewhere like the delicates hamper, feeling very guilty.  

Then I found them, right where she'd put them, in her closet under a little stepstool.  

So I didn't abuse the priviledge of wearing someone else's shoes, although I do still feel uncomfortable because it seems entirely likely that I easily could have.  Guilty by plausibility, if not reality.

She wants me to get off it.  But me, I still love the sleep.