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Ambien bad news!!!

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phonix2g

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So. I usually am a fan of opiates. I've been going to pain management due to chronic pain from a surgery 2 years ago. Obviously by this time it has become an addiciton and my body is dependent on it. I always run out of my scripts early and have spend tons of money to keep pace with my addiciton and tolerance. I was out of my scripts for another couple days so I usually fill my scripts for Xanax and Ambien to curb the withdrawal symptoms. The one day I run to get my script for Ambien because I haven't been sleeping well and was exhausted and just wanted the hours to pass by until I filled my new scripts of pain meds. My two children were with me that day me and my ex share custody. So I get home from getting my script and I always take 2 10mg Ambien because one never did the trick. So I popped 2 that night and passed right out. Next thing I remember I'm surrounded by 4 cops in my apartment asking me a bunch of questions and making me get on the floor while they search my apartment. Next thing you know the cops are gone. I wake up the next day with no recollection of what happened. My kids are not there I am getting worried. My sister text me and tells me to come to her house. When I get there she explains to me what I did that night. Apparently I was running around my apartment saying their were people in the house and walking outside saying we needed to go to the bar and was spitting on myself just acting crazy to the point where I scared my 14 year old and she called her mother which came to pick them up which I don't recall. Then she called the cops because they thought I was going to harm myself or somebody else. I have never had an experience like that before and I've taken 2 Ambien before I'm not sure how I turned into a Zombie. Now my ex is filing for full custody and I'm not going to be able to have my children until I go to rehab which I'm willing to do because I realize how my substance abuse is getting out of hand and tearing apart my life. Anybody have any similar experience with Ambien??
 
I took 30mg one night with the innocent intent to sleep. After turning out my light, I was suddenly in the hospital with a brace around my neck. I assumed there must have been an earthquake, or god knows what. Turns out, I had woken up, started to get ready for work, made myself lunch for the day etc (which I left at home) and then drove 15 miles down the freeway got off a random exit, and wrapped my car around a lightpole at a high rate of speed. My forehead cracked the windshield because i wasn't wearing a seatbelt. To this day the only thing I can remember is looking at the deployed airbag and laughing, and that only came back to me after seeing the wreck. Added to my previous terrible amnesic experiences with Ambien, and I haven't taken it since. What a weird drug.
 
IF you are one of those people that this happens to with Ambien, do not take them again! I am the same and I still to this day have no idea what I did but apparently I was up and moving around on an overnight flight with people looking at me very strangely in the morning. Funny to me now but it could have been bad. Most people seem to be able to take one for sleep and have no problems but there are those of us out there that will be completely unconscious on one level but acting completely consciously on another. I'm glad you are OK and the cops didn't arrest you or anything worse.
 
It's beginning to look like Zolpidem disables the sleep paralysis system of the brain (it's GABAA & GABAB mediated) which really should get it banned from use. In fact, even at normal doses this is a known side-effect. I don't know if the other Z-drugs display the same side-effect BUT if anyone knows, I would like to hear from them.
 
I had a similar experience but it was technically because I had mixed it with some other opiate medication, and on top of it had drank alcohol before. This was a 'red flag' situation as I had thought I was so strong with medications and that proved me I was wrong. I suppose we never really know when our body has had enough.

Since being around your kids must be super important for you, going to a rehab will a good thing after all.

I hope things turn out okay for you and your family! :)
 
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