Ambien Can Be VERY Dangerous

So in between trying not to let both of my sons have a lousy homecoming and trying to get him under control it turned into my nightmare.

Something was wrong and I needed to find out. I did! I hope!

My husband was taking AMBIEN. I researched AMBIEN along with his other meds. I found mass people who took Ambien developed such real and horrifying nightmares, along with personality changes (hate, anger, aggression,) walking in their sleep, violent behaviors , suicide attempts, deaths from hallucinations, and many other very bad mind altering problems. Actually, I also found a class action suit of March 2006. These problems were not occuring only in people with bipolar, it was causing problems for people who just had sleeping problems. These effects didn't happen right away. It had taken 2, 3 and 4 months of use before it started happening. For my husband it was 2 months. I noticed that for people that were only on it for short term, it didn't bother them. But, so many people with bipolar need extra help to sleep in general. It did greatly intensify the dangerous nightmares and behaviors for people with bipolar. Now, there were some people who loved it and had no problems on it. There were a great many more who had the serious side effects though. My husband felt like he needed to sleep with a baseball bat and a knife, of which he did not. I took him off the Ambien and he stopped having the nightmares and violent behaviors, and the other personality changes are subsiding.

This is not to say that this will happen to everyone, but I have read a lot and lived my own nightmare with it. It is something to think about. Just thought I would let you all know. Have a great day!

Yes, I was in the hospital for trying to get stable on my meds about a year or so ago and one day I told the doc I couldn't sleep. He then put me on Ambien and it was my first time.

When it came to bedtime, I took the pill they gave me and layed down. I started tripping out, looking up at the cieling and hullucinating that things on the ceiling were moving around and around. I drifted off to sleep.

The next thing I know I had a dream of jumping like a frog. I woke up, in the middle of the night, on my roomates end of her bed. She sat up real quick and just stared at me in horror, and I woke up saying," What, What did I just do!" I was just as horrified as she was.

The next thing that happened was (I find out later the next day) is I was walking around with just my sports bra, tapping all around the bed and the nurse even came in and told me to go to bed and I don't remember doing any of that.

I do, however, remember that I woke up some time in the night with my hands holding up my face and in the middle of talking to my roomate, who was just , again, staring at me horrified!

She even asked to be removed from my room but I talked to her and told her that it was the Ambien that made me sleep walk. She had nothing to fear and I wasn't going to take the Ambien again. I felt sorry for her, because she was mentally slow and was child-like and I didn't want her to be scared of ME!

SO trust me , I hear ya on this one!

Take Care,

April