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Ambien - My Story of Experiencing the Hallucination Side Effect!
Ambien - Given to me in hospital before having my baby, made me hallucinate!
Ambien is a drug to help relieve sleeplessness and insomnia. If I would have had good experiences with this drug, I'd be looking into getting a prescription as I suffer sleeplessness quite often.
Like most prescription drugs there are many things you must tell your doctor before taking Ambien. For example, tell your doctor if you are depressed, drink alcohol frequently, pregnant or have any lung or liver diseases as well as many more. Ambien interacts with many other drugs as well, so be sure to notify your doctor of anything you are taking, prescription or not. Non-prescription, diet supplements and herbal supplements need to be discussed as well.
Side effects of Ambien include but are not limited to: vision changes, restlessness, depressed mood, confusion and of course, hallucinations! These are only a few, but I do not understand why they cannot make a drug that has fewer crazy side effects?
I was in the hospital getting ready to have my first child and she was going to be early but only because I had pre-eclampsia. The first night I was there they said they were going to give me something to help me sleep. I didn't mind, only because I do not like hospitals whatsoever, so I figured if I could just pass out it wouldn't bother me so much.
My partner was there with me, and he pulled his chair up by my bed to sleep. Shortly after they gave me the Ambien, I could feel it kicking in. I wasn't quite ready to go to sleep, even though I guess I had no choice in the matter. But I laid there with my eyes closed for just a few minutes it felt like, and then I opened them, I can't remember why, but I look over at my partner, and everything is moving! He had a pillow in front of him and it was moving along with everything else in the room.
I have never taken any hard drugs, or any drug that makes you hallucinate as the thought always scared the crap out of me, so here I am, seeing things moving and I literally freak out. I attempt to wake up my partner but he's sound asleep and sleeps like a log anyways, so I finally closed my eyes and concentrated on breathing until I finally fell asleep.
Ambien is a drug to help relieve sleeplessness and insomnia. If I would have had good experiences with this drug, I'd be looking into getting a prescription as I suffer sleeplessness quite often.
Like most prescription drugs there are many things you must tell your doctor before taking Ambien. For example, tell your doctor if you are depressed, drink alcohol frequently, pregnant or have any lung or liver diseases as well as many more. Ambien interacts with many other drugs as well, so be sure to notify your doctor of anything you are taking, prescription or not. Non-prescription, diet supplements and herbal supplements need to be discussed as well.
Side effects of Ambien include but are not limited to: vision changes, restlessness, depressed mood, confusion and of course, hallucinations! These are only a few, but I do not understand why they cannot make a drug that has fewer crazy side effects?
I was in the hospital getting ready to have my first child and she was going to be early but only because I had pre-eclampsia. The first night I was there they said they were going to give me something to help me sleep. I didn't mind, only because I do not like hospitals whatsoever, so I figured if I could just pass out it wouldn't bother me so much.
My partner was there with me, and he pulled his chair up by my bed to sleep. Shortly after they gave me the Ambien, I could feel it kicking in. I wasn't quite ready to go to sleep, even though I guess I had no choice in the matter. But I laid there with my eyes closed for just a few minutes it felt like, and then I opened them, I can't remember why, but I look over at my partner, and everything is moving! He had a pillow in front of him and it was moving along with everything else in the room.
I have never taken any hard drugs, or any drug that makes you hallucinate as the thought always scared the crap out of me, so here I am, seeing things moving and I literally freak out. I attempt to wake up my partner but he's sound asleep and sleeps like a log anyways, so I finally closed my eyes and concentrated on breathing until I finally fell asleep.
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Samantha
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02/06/2010
My69 year old mother has lived with my son and i for over 2 years and her Dr recently prescribed Ambien 10mg. She would do okay and sleep well, but lately, she has been hallucinating horribly. She is seeing and talking to people who are not there and she thinks that things are chasing or touching her, she has fallen out of bed because of these hallucinations. I really think that they are too strong for her and spoke to her nurse about them, someone her age should only be taking 5mg. People, please be careful with the elderly if they are prescribed this drug.
Person
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01/06/2010
Had a truly horrific, traumatic hallucination from Ambien the last time I took it.
It involved my boyfriend's face shapeshifting so that it became apparent he was Satan, and there were very scary demons all around the room with bizarre genitals helping him to have sex with me.
Poor boyfriend got a terrible fright and nearly called an ambulance.
Not fun.
Chris
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12/08/2009
Oh my! I have been taking it off and on for about a month. Had a few bouts with short term amnesia but didn't think too much of it, chalked it up to sleepiness, but last night I had the hallucinations. It was so scary. I really thought my comforter came to life, and the clothes in my closet( door was open) began to move all around. I have never done any kind of "street drug" but I really felt like I was doing what people described or you see in the movies when they are on Acid or mushrooms.
MF
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11/27/2009
I wish I had read these posts before I took Ambien. The first time I took it I had no real reaction, just sleepiness. Now everytime, within minutes, I feel like I'm floating and there's people moving along my walls (if that even makes any sense). My room also starts like coming to life. It's weird. I'm not sure if it's good or bad.
JJ
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10/12/2009
I have never personally took ambien, but my uncle has and he described his hallucinations. He says that he saw a little girl standing in front of him in a white dress, he claims he talked to her for like 30 minutes, then he closed his eyes and she was gone. Pretty freaky stuff, i kind of want to try it one night.
Emily
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08/17/2009
I too have experienced hallucinations on ambien. The first time, I had been asleep for probably ten minutes and then something woke me up. I looked over at my clock and it turned into an old woman's face with a scornful look. Then I looked at my desk and it was as if it had become the stage of a theater. There were sreamers floating in the air above it with confetti and little stars, and I think my desk appliances were dancing. I was confused at the time and found it amusing. The second time, a few weeks ago, the ceiling fan above my bed started floating around along with other things in my room like my hamper. It felt like the whole room was undulating like on a boat and I got really nauseous and felt like throwing up.
Crazy stuff... I hope I'm not doing crap I don't know about at night. :/
just me
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08/07/2009
I've been taking ambien for years with no problem, but last nite I took two (i'm fat and my doc told me to do that if one didn't cut i, have been taking two for a while) but this time I stayed up for a while and es the lines on the walls moved it was cool, 2d objects morphing into 3d things. Only concern is the next morning there was still a slight problem with the grab bar shifting and elongating based upon perspective, seemed more of a three d puzzle perspective optical illusion than the previous nites hallusions.
Wayne
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06/15/2009
I actually love the stuff. Not only do I sleep for 8 hours...but it appears I eat ALOT of food during the nite. I've even been caught at 2 a.m. eating peanut butter in the kitchen butt-naked!!! Gotta love it!!!
Anonymous
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02/08/2009
So I am just waking up from my night of hallucination so I thought I would documented it on here. I think mine are a little crazier than anyones on here. I see things that aren't there. I will take my Ambien(10mg) which I take along with my Seroquel (200-300mg). I never get hallucinations immediately or within 30 minutes. I might get one every month. Anyway people are in my room, that aren't, things are flying in my room, that aren't, I text on my phone constanstly and smoke cigarettes during hallucinations. One time I didn't even remember having one until I woke up and remembering going to bed with a full pace of cigs and waking up with 3. Crazy drug. I think I might change it.
Tracy
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11/06/2008
I found your page because I hallucinated BIG TIME on this stuff twice. Before, it was just crazy dreams. Last night, however, I took it and attempted to stay awake (I wanted to take a bath before bed). Jeepers - the faucet fixtures started "moving" and then I was convinced there were people on the roof (although oddly enough I wasn't as scared as I should've been). I thought the window was being removed so I kept staring at it, watching it "move." And I kept shining a flashlight at the window to see if anyone was outside (I almost thought I dreamt this part but the flashlight was definitely moved this morning). VERY BIZARRE but I DID sleep like a baby afterwards!
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