Anyone ever have any bad side effects on Ambien?

I'm reading horror stories on the internet but I'd like more information on it and while I know that you all are "internet people" as well I consider your all less like internet strangers lol if that makes sense.

I have never taken this or any sleep aid but my stepdad who just passed away was on it because the nicotine patch he was on was making him so wired that he couldn't sleep for days. After taking the Ambien he complained of hallucinations and delusions. He also called me 4 times telling me the same story never remembering that he already called me. I never connected the two but after his death I happened to mention to someone that he was taking Ambien to help sleep and they said that Ambien has been know to cause hallucinations. I googled and googled and was shocked at how many people experienced the same thing.....

have any of you had this reaction or done things on Ambien that you don't remember doing?

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Yup! I have experienced COMPLETE memory loss on Ambien, as well as mild hallucinations. I wouldn't recommend it........at least as a sleep aid

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I've never taken it, but my friend has and ohhh man the stories he has are insane.

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I've never taken it, but have heard ridiculous stories of what people do when on Ambien.

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They did nothing for me. I took two one night and never slept worse. My sil mother took them and fell down the stairs trying to get to her car in a daze.

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I have heard that it can cause hallucinations and memory loss. I have never taken it however. If it is mixed with other RX meds, I'd imagine there could be serious contraindications.

I am surprised Ambien was prescribed while he was on the Nicotine patch. Melatonin would have been a great suggestion.

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One of my old roommates used to take it to sleep. She'd have whole conversations with me and not remember them.

She was up one night, hysterical, that she was never going to get married. I didn't realize she was on Ambien. When she got engaged the next week, I was like wow, you were so upset the other night and it was for nothing - and she had no clue it had happened.

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My friend takes it. She has set up multiple FB accounts and has not remembered, and tends to buy things online and on QVC....never remembers, then a package of greatest disco hits, bathrobes, or gourmet coffee shows up.

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How is this stuff legal!!! I can't believe this!

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I was prescribed Ambien when I was pregnant for insomnia.. Didn't really work on me and when it did, I had no problems with it at all.

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Posted by emilylives

Yup! I have experienced COMPLETE memory loss on Ambien, as well as mild hallucinations. I wouldn't recommend it........at least as a sleep aid

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I wound up eating in the middle of the night and not remembering. i blamed my boyfriend for eating all the rainbow cookies i just bought and then he pointed out the sprinkles on my pjs. i also got into my car and attempted to go the store, i ended up crashing coming out of my garage. awful!

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one pill knocked me out way hard, so i ended up only taking 1/2 to 1/3 of a pill (however it ended up breaking) and i was good for the night. i didn't take it consistently (only as needed) and didn't have any problems, except for one time when i took a whole pill (before i went down to half) and then tried to stay up to talk to my dh (then bf) on the phone. i had just seen pan's labyrinth and very unpleasant hallucinations ensured with me begging my dh not to hang up and leave me alone. fun fun.

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I've never taken it but an ex bf of mine did. He had PTSD (he was in the army) so it was given to him to help him sleep.

It actually did the complete opposite.
He would call me in the middle of the night, slurring, laughing at nothing, eating uncontrollably. A few time he called me and told me that he was sitting in the middle of his driveway. I was always afraid he was going to drive or do something stupid so I had to inform his family so they could monitor him/take him off the meds.

It was terrible

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My uncle took it for sometime and had halluciantions and strange vivid dreams