Donchajustluv Ambien disclaimers on TV?

[ddeclue]

Sleep walking driving, etc. have been reported...

While the chicken walks down the street in the middle of the night...

Does anyone else think that it's OK to CYA with a disclaimer for "side effects" like "sleep driving?"

:crazy:

[shireen]

1. i hate that drug ....

when i took it, i'd do stuff after going to bed. Like aimlessly walking around my apartment. Watch tv.

Once i cooked dinner after going to bed! That could have been dangerous. I stopped taking the drug after that.

[ddeclue]

2. Sleep cooking?

:crazy:

Yikes....

[tavalon]

9. I have chronic insomnia and Ambien has been my best friend and I've learned

that I won't do anything really stupid on it but it does lower my inhibitions so it's best if I take it and go right to bed. I don't usually get back up but if I put off going to bed until I feel woozy, I will cook, eat, make a mess, go pick blackberries (and since I feel less pain on Ambien, that wasn't my best idea) wash the dog (yeah, really) but I won't drive. I worried about that for a while but then the idea of driving to the store occurred to me while I was on Ambien and I told myself no, never, not that and I listened so now I don't worry about it but I do go to bed right after I take it. Ambien used to give me amnesia but nowadays I remember the silly things I do while it's kicking in and again, I go to bed to avoid that.

My life has been made imminently better by Ambien and I know there are plenty out there who would say the opposite.

[Mudoria]

3. Used them a few times over the last couple of years with zero problems

[Qanisqineq]

4. I've used it

It was ok the first few nights but then I started buying stuff online that I wouldn't have if awake. And not even actual products or anything, like paying to take dumb tests about what I should be "when I grow up". Then I started doing other strange things that I would hear about the next day. I took it for 10 days. A couple months later I was prescribed it again and I started having hallucinations after I took it. I was screaming and seeing scary shit and scaring the hell out of my husband and my neighbors. One night I thought my recently deceased cat was dragging her little body across the floor and crying. I do remember that hallucination and it gives me chills to this day.

Needless to say, I don't take it anymore and now take melatonin for sleep. No problems and no side effects and I usually get nice and sleepy about an hour after taking it.

[sakabatou]

6. I've had hallucinations from a different med

[ddeclue]

7. Yikes!

My theory about the chicken at the end of the commercial is that it is sleepwalking away from the camera on Ambien down the middle of the street.

:hide:

[tuvor]

5. ...Promoting bad intel...(Colin Powell said that "everyone here uses it".)

"Yes. Well, I wouldn't call them (sleeping tablets). They're a wonderful medication -- not medication. How would you call it? They're called Ambien, which is very good. You don't use Ambien? Everybody here uses Ambien."

http://www.naturalnews.com/019413.html

[belpejic]

8. It can put you to sleep

But it also can get you really high. I'll admit it--I'm a 12 step dude with lot of experience in AA and NA--and I've actually met Ambien/Lunesta addicts. I used to be one myself (among other intoxicants). Never put me to sleep, but got me high as a kite. I've found that the only effective OTC sleep stuff is tryptophan.

[sandyj999]

10. I took one and that was enough for me to know I never want another one.

I took one and in less than 20 minutes I felt like I had been hit in the head with a brick. I barely made it to the bedroom.:crazy:

[nonconformist]

11. I've heard some stories about Ambien

I've heard first hand accounts of people waking up sitting in their car in the driveway, people walking down the street in the middle of the night in their underwear, and people who wake up to things moved around their house and food sitting out from the fridge.

Scary. I'm a chronic insomniac, but I'll pass.