@BeachBum4u
Hello!
You are not alone. I have been prescribed from a USA Psychiatrist, since, USA brand name "Ambien 10mg" since, January of 2000, when, it was
manufactured by patent holder, G.D. Searle & Co (PeaPack, New Jersey) of the C-IV Zolpidem Tartrate, with a continuous supply, every month,
with either a prescription of 30 tabs, with 1 refill, and a office visit every other month, until, December of 2010. Sometime, around the years
2002/2003, Sanofi-Aventis, either merged with Searle, and/or bought the patent rights, in the USA to mfg USA Zolpidem 10mg, as "Ambien, as
Stilnox, in other countries.
It never places me directly to sleep, but it does relax me, for about 2 hours, I have took to non stop for ten years, after May of 2007, I switched to
the USA generics to save money. I currently take Torrent 10mg of Zolpidem Tartrate, I rate a B+, or, a 8 on a 1 to 10 scale.
Just a note, after about two years of use, I would wake up in the middle of the night, thus,my evening dose taken at 10PM, had worn off by midnight
but, I learned quickly, a 2nd dose, if I were still awake at midnight was wasting my pills. Thus, on my bodyclock, if I waited, or re-qwakened at around
5AM, I would re-dose, and, the USA Zolpidem worked for another 2 hours........alarm clock and wake up time was 7AM anyways.
My M.D would not raise my prescription intake, so after two years of use, since early 2002, I have relied on a variety of IOP's as my back up supplies, of
Zolpidem Tartrate. My current IOP, sends me 90 10 mg at a time, "from across the pond" by a mfg, Zentiva, who market "Ivedal" that I rate a solid
"10" and Zentiva, is a subsidiary of Sanofi !!! My USA prescriptions I still get from the same M.D I get filled @Rite Aid for the generic form of USA
Ambien, mfg is Torrent, I rate, a 7.5, but it is cheap, and, on my Insurance Formulary, so the generic costs me the price of one Starbuck's Grande Latte
with a shot of Vanilla !!
