GoldenGlove00 said:
when u say benzos what u mean, there are so many diff. lost?
Benzodiazepines consist of Valium (diazepam), Xanax (alprazolam), Ativan (Lorazepam, Klonopin (clonazepam), Restoril (temazepam) and many others. All benzodiazepines exert five major effects which are used therapeutically: anxiolytic, hypnotic, muscle relaxant, anticonvulsant and amnesic.
All benzodiazepines act by enhancing the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid). GABA "tells" the neurons that it contacts to slow down or stop firing. 40% of the millions of neurons all over the brain respond to GABA, this means that GABA has a general quietening influence on the brain acting as the body's natural hypnotic and tranquillizer. Various subtypes of benzodiazepine receptors have slightly different actions. One subtype (alpha 1) is responsible for sedative effects, another (alpha 2) for anti-anxiety effects, and both alpha 1 and alpha 2, as well as alpha 5, for anticonvulsant effects. All benzodiazepines combine, to a greater or lesser extent, with all these subtypes and all enhance GABA activity in the brain. Example: Clonazepam has potent action on the alpha 2 and 5 subtypes which is why its useful for various forms of epilepsy and as an excellent anti-anxiety agent.
Ambien (zolpidem tartrate) is a non-benzodiazepine hypnotic. Its hypnotic effects are similar to benzodiazepines, but its molecularly distinct from the classical benzodiazepine molecule and is
classified as an imidazopyridine.
However, as an anticonvulsant and muscle relaxant, the beneficial effects emerge at nearly 20 times the dose required for sedation. For that reason, it has never been approved for either muscle relaxation or seizure prevention.
Such drastically increased doses are more inclined to induce one or more negative side-effects, including hallucinations and/or amnesia.
If you don't lay down to get sleep within roughly 15-45 minutes of consumption, more than likely it won't be a useful sleep aid. It will probably become tougher to get to sleep before even taking it and may experience stimulation. Repeated dosing isn't very useful if trying to actually get sleep. You may experience hallucinations and if you've taken a high enough dose you may wake up not having a clue what happened the night before.
The first few times I took Ambien I experienced some nifty visual hallucinations but haven't ever since, well with one exception when I split a prescription of 20 10mg tabs.
I remember very little. Somehow we ended up at a park and while sitting on the children's swing set, we watched some guy filming a couple fuck in the grass. I remember having a conversation with the couple after they fucked and out of nowhere I blurted out "do you have any ketamine?" I don't recall anything after that but I woke up at a different friends house.
...and by the way, the Adderall that you took roughly 9 hours before consuming the Ambien had nothing to do with your experience.
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