I've only been scripted Ambien once, about 2 years ago and I'll never take it again. NEVER
The first night i took it all was ok, i slept wonderfully. But the second night-- good lord!
I woke up in the middle of the night and i thought my teddy bear was going to attack/murder me. Yea, I'm almost 37 and i have teddy bears on my bed lol.
I woke up and i swore to god it was about to lunge at me and start stabbing me. I started crying and saying "please don't kill me, please don't hurt me" And than i started throwing things at it and pleading with the innocent stuffed animal not to murder me.
Thankfully after about 20 minutes of pleading, crying and throwing things at it i realized i was hallucinating and it was the Ambien. I had just read an article about a month earlier on how people can hallucinate and do crazy shit while on Ambien. After 20 minutes my senses came back and reality came back.
But after i realized the bear wasn't going to kill me i still took all my teddy bears off the bed and stuck them into my closet LOL. And than i went back to sleep.
I woke up a few hours later and thought there was a huge spider in my bed, i got a shoe and kept swatting at nothing lol.
I can laugh about it now but at the time it was absolutely terrifying. I mean really terrifying. I literally thought my teddy bear was going to murder me.... it was so god damn real. I can still see the teddy bears face to this day.. how it was staring at me with an evil look and i swear it had a knife... i can even still see the knife in my mind, in my memory.
Isn't that crazy. I'll never take that stuff again. The next morning i flushed them. It was only a script for 20 so no big deal. And i didn't know anyone who would have wanted them.
Ugh.... i just got goosebumps recalling that night. It was like a horror movie. It could have been a lot worse. like that man who in the middle of the night got in his car and started driving and hit a woman and killed her. I never found out if he was convicted or not. When i saw his interview his case was pending and he was out on bail. He was on a TV show with his lawyer. But, i never heard a fallow up on what happened to him, if he went to jail and if he was convicted of murder, manslaughter, 2nd degree or what??? Does anyone remember, or know what the outcome was. I remember he said he didn't remember any of it and at the time of the interview still didn't remember a single moment of it all. I should google it and see what the outcome was.
There was also another case where a woman did the same thing only she didn't kill anyone, instead she was pulled over by the cops and arrested for DUI. She too never remembered any of it. The first thing she remembered was being handcuffed-- she was in her pajamas and housecoat/slippers. I don't know what the outcome of that case was either. Anyone know?
I think there have been a few other cases... some less severe cases of people doing outrageous things.
Why i remember my murderous teddy bear, i don't know. For all i know it was more than 20 minutes, i could have been pleading with the bear for hours and don't remember. But, all i recall is about 20 minutes of the traumatic experience and thank god i didn't go get in a car and drive to get away from the bear or something.
Isn't there a lot of lawsuits against the makers of Ambien for these type of things?
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