My First Ambien

I'm still loving this thread. Ambien has been my friend for several years, and is a part of my going-to-bed routine now. Sometimes I imbibe it with a Benadryl, sometimes Xanax.i have had long discussions on Facebook about my "drug cocktail" of choice for a particular night.



Have any of you had "intimate times" with your husband and can't remember it the next morning? The only way to tell is the way he acts the next morning.

The walrus is playing havoc with my dieting. By day I do so well, and then when midnight rolls around...

Heard husband yelling this morning "Who ate frosting and got it all over the floor?" Um, I guess it was me? Half a jar of vanilla frosting.  I was horrified when I read the calorie count this morning.

So I guess I'm essentially sleep eating. I take my ambien, I'm still awake after everyone's in bed, and I go downstairs and eat - stuff like cheese, butter, and now frosting. And barely remember a thing... the crumbs and mess are the only clues. Good lord.

My latest saying - "Only the walrus knows for sure".

So I was wondering why I have put on 8 extra pounds. I know I am doing a bit of "Sleep Eating" however the wrappers etc normally lets me know what I have done the next morning and it's sort of an "uh huh" moment where I suddenly remember what I have done. It wasn't until the morning before last that my son asked me where his peanuts went. My husband explained to me that I very sloppily ate them over the kitchen sink. A whole bowl of them. Shelled them and everything. I have no recollection of this. I am trying prosom since then, but here it is nearly 2am and I am still wide awake after taking 3 of them. I am also having a couple of drinks to hopefully "Kick start" the effect. 3 hours later and I am still wide awake  <sigh>

I'm loving these stories, and I'm still loving my Ambien! Weesa, I've been taking it lately with one Benadryl, also. I think it is funny how one person in this thread said we had to get cancer to get Ambien prescriptions. I joke with my husband that I could now probably get any prescription I wanted to from my doc. I told her once that I was having some joint pain. I'm allergic to anti-inflammatory meds. She wrote me a prescription for 30 Percocet. Then I hurt me knee (tore the meniscus) and was having severe pain with that. She wrote me a prescription for 45 Vicodin. It's a good thing I'm not a drug addict! I've never been drunk, but I've sure enjoyed that "lazy, hazy" feeling from my (legal) meds once in awhile. Is that what getting drunk feels like?  I guess that's the closest I will ever come to being drunk from alcohol 

Also, have any of you been intimate with your husbands after taking your Ambien, and you don't really remember it the next morning --- the only way you think you did is because of the satisfied smile on his face and the way he is acting? No? Oh, me, neither. I was just wondering...

My parents were here for 2 weeks so I was trying so hard to take it while I was in bed. I never get that  "I'm tired I need to go to bed now" feeling. I go from being coherent to eating and passing out without remembering.

I guess my husband told me the other night to "go to bed" when I was sitting on the couch with my folks. He knew I took an Ambien, they didn't. (they are weird about that type of stuff, very anti-medicine sort of people) My husband said I argued with him, demanded he make me a snack and deliver it to the bedroom and I woke up with a banana the next morning next to my pillow.  I was like, "WTF???"

Last night the prosom just didn't cut it for me. I am thinking of just asking my husband to be firm with me and not let me eat. He says I'm an evil bitch when I dont do as he says while I am under the influence though  LOL

I can imagine those bran flakes......all over the place when you wake up???   Face, chest, sheets  LOL   I can see that picture in my head now.

Screw it..........it's Ambien for me tonight!   I need SLEEEEP

I have been taking a Xanax about an hour before my Ambien for over a year. Best sleep ever! I stopped cold turkey 2 weeks ago after I smothered myself by falling asleep face down on my memory foam pillow. I woke up during the middle of the night gasping for air. I woke up my husband with the loud gasping, he was ready to call 911. When I finally was able to breathe again I fell back asleep, but my husband was awake the rest of the night. I went to the doctor the next day to be checked and he assured me that my brain stem would always make me move my head to get air. It was too scary for me so I have stopped. I sure do miss it though. 

shorbr,

I've successfully gone from taking 10mg at bedtime plus 5mg when I woke up in terror (from the breast cancer, not the Ambien) at around 2-3am to taking just 5mg at bedtime.  Maybe will wean off over time, not sure yet.  In terms of causing problems for me, 5mg is a big improvement over 10mg.  I did it in steps.  The middle of the night dose kind of took care of itself as my anxiety level dropped, but the bedtime dose I first cut to 7.5 for quite a long time - at least a month - then to 5.   Each of those 2.5mg drops was definitely no fun, but not unbearabl -  I lay awake a while for a couple nights, but I didn't lie awake all night.  It wasn'tnearly as as bad as stopping cold-turkey (have done that accidentally).

Update: Have doing well so far with not taking Ambien. Getting 'real' sleep is something new for me, as I haven't been able to sleep on my own for years.

Well I was just called by my pharmacy. I was granted another 6 month supply of ambien.

Thats the thing.....i wake up and think about my boys. I have two college aged boys. The 19 year old has high functioning autism. I often worry about a recurrance but it is getting better than it used to be. I had a major scare last spring when i had surgery. They thought the cancer had spread to my lungs. Thanfully it was an active case of valley fever. Seems weird to be happy to be dealing with valley fever but its better than cancer.

Well, hey,  never thought I'd see this up again!  I even weaned off the Ambien because of those bran flakes incidents, although my daytime functions were sparklingly undamaged by eating the stuff like a horse.  Oh heck, may be I wasn't ven eating it.  I might have had some better idea at the time.  Who knows?