| Ambien really scares me. Personally I think it should be taken off the market. My personal experience was with youngest son. A Dr. at school gave him Ambien as he was having a terrible time with insomnia (had for years, but worsened at school). One night when he was home for a break, I found him standing over my bed in the middle of the night. He told me there was something wrong in his room and I needed to come see. He walked upstairs with me, but refused to go into the room. He looked kinda wild and panicked. I finally got him into room and asked what was wrong--his response was that he had never seen that room before--someone had taken his bedroom and replaced it with that one. He spent the rest of the night on the living room sofa--and had no memory of night before. I threw out his remaining pills.
I called and talked to his roommate who told me that my son would get up many nights after only sleeping an hour and wander the dorm halls and most commonly clean---he would take Clorox wipes and do all the individual tiles in their room and even the hall bath. Sometimes he came back to room with other people's jackets, towels and things--then the next day he would have to search around for the owners. All these times he would swear that he never got out of bed--until roommate got video of him doing his cleaning thing and he had to accept it.
Another friend of ours takes Ambien most nights and makes middle of the night phone calls to her friends. She will call at midnight or 1am and go into a long involved story about some issue--and deny it up and down the next day that she made the call.
A local physician went on a conference trip to London (luckily with other Drs). He arrived and went to his room--took an Ambien to try and readjust sleep schedule. An hour later, he left his room in his boxers and was in lobby demanding a phone--he was frantic and crying. His travel companions were called and succeeded in getting him to his room--though he still insisted on calling home. They let him call, thinking it would calm him--he got his kids on the phone and told them he loved them, and was sorry he would never see them again, he was going to die that day. Needless to say it caused much emotional grief back home. The next morning he had no memory at all.
Like I said---scary stuff! |