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Initech

(99,912 posts)
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:02 PM Sep 2018

Roseanne Barr talks to Dr. Oz about her Ambien behavior

Roseanne Barr is talking about Ambien again -- this time with Dr. Oz.

To recap, the comedian sparked the cancellation of her revived sitcom "Roseanne" in May after she posted a racist tweet about former Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett. In one since-deleted tweet explaining what happened, Roseanne claimed she'd taken the sleep aid Ambien the night she sent the offensive tweet.

"Guys I did something unforgivable so do not defend me. It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible. I made a mistake I wish I hadn't but…don't defend it please," Roseanne wrote on May 30.

Now, on the first episode of Season 10 of Dr. Mehmet Oz's medical talk show -- which debuts on Sept. 18 -- Roseanne's sharing what else she's done while on Ambien. Page Six got a sneak peek at some of what Roseanne -- who appears on the first half of the show and also talks about losing her sitcom because of her behavior -- had to say.

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Dr. Oz then tells her, "I actually looked up Ambien. Tweeting is not a side effect."

"No," Roseanne agrees before the clip ends.

In the wake of her May tweet about the drug, the makers of Ambien issued a statement shutting down Roseanne's seeming claim that it was responsible for what she said. "While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication," the company tweeted.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/roseanne-barr-talks-to-dr-oz-about-her-ambien-behavior/ar-BBNhpL5


Wow, you know you're full of shit when Dr. Oz calls you out for being full of shit.
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Siwsan

(26,177 posts)
1. So someone told her they roasted and ate a turkey, while on Ambien. In 4 hours.
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:17 PM
Sep 2018

If I heard that right, call me skeptical.

I think Roseanne is desperately trying to rationalize her irrationality. She needs to get help from someone who can help.

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(51,974 posts)
3. having tried ambien, i find it very plausible.
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:23 PM
Sep 2018

of course, once i knew how my body reacted to ambien, my reaction was to *stop f*cking taking it*.

apparently roseanne is not quick on the uptake....

Siwsan

(26,177 posts)
5. As someone who has roasted a whole lot of turkeys, It would have to have been a VERY small bird
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:30 PM
Sep 2018

Time to roast, prep and cool enough to eat the entire thing is way more than 4 hours - even for a smaller bird.

But I'm someone who, despite YEARS of serious insomnia, have never taken anything other than the occasional Diphenhydramine tablet, or magnesium supplements.

And, perhaps I'm obsessing on the turkey scenario.

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(51,974 posts)
6. as for the turkey,
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:40 PM
Sep 2018

first, no one's said it was cooked *properly*.

second, it's entirely possible that it was cooked in one sleep-walking episode, the person went back to actual sleep, then eaten during a later sleep-walking episode later that night.


diphenhydramine gives me a very strange sensation, like i can feel my blood vessels throbbing throughout my entire body. very disturbing and not at all conducive to sleep.

Siwsan

(26,177 posts)
8. I have to be careful with diphenhydramine because I've been known to 'rebound'
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:59 PM
Sep 2018

When I was in the Navy, I was plagued with some horrific URIs. They threw all kinds of medications at me. Once I got back home, the rebounding started - it was like taking speed, for me. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I didn't take it for years, and now I've reset my system but I don't want to risk that happening, again.

I've just accepted that there are some nights when I'm not going to get much, if any, sleep, but since I retired, they are fewer and fewer. I've also come to accept that I'm just one of those people who don't need much more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep. Which is much better than the 2 or 3 hours I was getting, a few years ago.

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(51,974 posts)
2. oz is a jerk and an idiot.
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 03:21 PM
Sep 2018

if he's got a medical show and he's there to give medical information, or at least, entertainment with a modicum of medical information, then he should be focused on the many, many side effects of ambien, which do indeed include some very wacky behavior, often combined with amnesia.

sanofi's comment was accurate -- *racism* isn't a side effect.

oz's comment -- probably trying to copy sanofi's comment without plagiarizing it outright -- that tweeting is not a side effect, is stupid and misleading.

basically, sleepwalking is a side effect of ambien. you can do allll kinds of crazy things and not remember when you wake up. that includes eating, walking, talking, singing, and getting on your internet-enabled device and making a fool of yourself publicly.

what ambien doesn't do is put rotten thoughts in your head in the first place. if roseanne was tweeting racist crap, it's because her brain is cluttered with racist crap.

but tweeting random thoughts shooting through your brain?
yeah, that's totally an ambien side effect.


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