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Ambien - First Time - Thinking about Ambien? Please read!

looda

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Indianapolis, IN
For whatever reason - I don't know what caused me to do this or why I did it without thinking - I took some of my mom's Ambien recreationally yesterday. I regret it, and I can easily say it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, and I've made some pretty stupid decisions in my life. But moving on - I had a friend over and we were relaxing at my house after being stuck falling asleep in my car from a hard night of partying the previous evening. School had just ended for the semester, so we were looking to have a good time (from partying and hanging out with our friends, not the Ambien) and ease the stress from finals and circumstances in both of our lives which I don't wish to discuss here.

2:30 PM - empty stomach, find my mom's Ambien and remember hearing a friend said something about it being fun. Hop on bluelight, and determine that 40mgs would be a good dose...I have a pretty high tolerance to benzos, and although Ambien isn't a benzo, I read it was very similar to a benzo, so I figured my tolerance would apply here. My friend who I was with had been sleeping all day, and decided to only take 20 mgs, which although in retrospect was pretty dumb, it was a lot more intelligent than my 40 mgs. I had read several trip reports saying it had no recreational value, and even though I told myself many times I was making a stupid decision, I went ahead and took them.

T + 00:15 to T + 6:00 - I have no idea of what happened. No memory of ANYTHING whatsoever. I guess my mom came home and saw myself and my friend stumbling over the place, speaking in slurred tounges, and generally acting "fucked up." Apparently mine kicked in a lot sooner than my friend's, and he called a few of our friends over to watch over myself and him. I guess he saw how hard I was tripping and had the foresight to know he'd be done, too. I suppose my mom coming home and seeing 4 random people she doesn't know and two she does know very well tripping balls freaked her out. I wake up in a hospital bed and have no idea what's going on, and most of what happened while I was awake at the hospital was pretty hazy. I had my pants on backwards and had marker all over my arm; I was told by my mom that my friend (L from now on) said I "looked at my arm and wanted to make beautiful art." I was told that I reported to my mom that I was hallucinating and I couldn't stand up long enough to put my pants on, and when I was finally able to, I put them on backwards. I can't imagine how terrible I embarrased not only myself, but my parents as they rolled me into the hospital. I apparently admitted to using marijuana pretty regularly, and using MDMA once, and my desires to do so again. I was pretty delerious, and both of these statements were false. I have no desire to use MDMA again, although it did change my life and has made me a completely different person and a thousand times happier. I hadn't cheefed anytime in the past month, as I had mentioned because finals for the semester were coming up and I needed to concentrate on school. Even though I had been using marijuana pretty regularly, smoking probably 2 grams a weekend for the past couple months, marijuana never interfered with my regular life...keep this in mind as you read further.

Day after - no real side effects, just been kind of tired all day. I've not got any of the anger that is pretty commonplace with Ambein use, but I'm certianly not baseline. I feel somewhat enlightened, but wether that's from the Ambien or the events in the hospitale report are unknown...I strongly believe it's from the events after waking up in the hospital, though.

From those admissions, however, my parents both broke down crying, and I have been admitted to a drug counseling/rehab program at that same hospital. I personally don't feel any need to do this, as I feel it'll just try to give me an excuse for a simple lack of judgement. I'm kind of angry that I've finally reached the maturity level to admit that I made a stupid, bonehead mistake, and I'm trying to find a reason for what I did, when like I said, the only reason is because I wasn't thinking at all. Knowing how much this hurt my parents is the worst part. I've been terribly upset about how much I've hurt them, and I'll probably be upset about it for a while to come until I know that they know I was making bad decision after bad decision, and it was just a phase. They don't trust me right now, and they have good reason not to, and I know it's gonna be a long and difficult journey to regain their trust.

I wish this could be a more substantial trip report, but there's really not much recreational value to this drug IMO. My main reason in posting this is to warn those who are thinking of taking Ambien to dose VERY low, starting at 10mgs at the VERY most, and seeing how much that does; I also wish to convince everyone that is currently doing any form of drugs to reconsider why they are using drugs, and not only how it is affecting their bodies and minds, but how it is affecting those around them. Please be safe, and throughly research everything you're gonna do before you do it.
Cheers.
 
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Very nice report and very good advice as well. Props to that.

I have also had my experiences with Ambien and I personally find when done right it makes for a good trip.. Colors, etc.
 
jesus! this is really well written, it may not be the psychonaughts approach, but hey, it doesn't have to be, i read this one and instantly felt for you and the situation, and i think it's a great report. good luck with your situation and your parents, you sound intelligent enough to be able to deal with it appropriately
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All I have to say is that I have been in the same exact position as you, except worse. It is difficult, but things will go back to normal again,
 
Thank you guys for the kind words and support. It makes it easier knowing others have gone through it, even if I know you only by your names on a computer screen. And compliments of that nature from you, Mean Girl, are greatly appreciated :) . I don't see you do that often. I have found myself and my parents being closer than ever before, and it seems that most of what I wanted (trust from them) will come quickly. They realize that my bad decisions and my hurting them are behind me, and I've finally reached that point of change.
 
Be careful with Ambien…

I’ve been using (recreationally) lot of drugs in the last 10 years. Recently, i heard about Ambien “trip” and decide to give it a try. I used 10 to 50 mg with mixed results, but nothing exceptional.
Anyway, last week, coming back from a party with a friend, I took 20 mg (my friend did not). I had lot of alcohol during the party but still completely conscious of my acts.

I have no memories at all of what happened next.
My friend told me I was falling all over the floor, hurting myself without any pain (remember me ketamine), talking about stuff I don’t want talking about (apparently, this drug can be a very efficient truth serum), and finally fell a sleep (probably du to alcohol)..
In all my drugs use (and abuse), I rarely lost control and conscience of my acts, and that was after taking combos in massive quantities.
I am glad that was with a good friend, knowing about drugs and not of the kind to panic too easily…
 
Nicely written. I'm glad you survived this experience to learn from and to share.

Just remember guys, if the pill you wanna try is prescribed in small ass dosages and you're new to it, don't go over that. You don't wanna fuck with sleeping pills to boot.
 
Ive taken ambien a few times. All it does is cause me to black out and not remember a dam thing, so Im pretty mixed on it really. Last time I was on it my ex said I was walking around Wal-Mart carrying a shopping cart. Strange stuff ambien is...

DB
 
It's cool now, I think they've finally started to accept the fact that I can change; It seemed like they weren't ready to accept the fact that as quickly as things could change in a negative way, they could change for the better just as quickly. The trouble they were having with this is understandable, but not something I was happy dealing with because I knew/know I am done with drugs, and they weren't convinced of that (this is the main reason I'm in that rehab, is to convince them through a third party of my seriousness). Christmas was cool, too, they seemed to completely forget about all of these negatives and concentrate on the positives that I've been bringing into my life and theirs over the last couple months in terms of grades in school and my attitude around the house/school. Regardless of how these positives were brought about - drug induced or a concious change within my self (and regardless of how good these drugs made me feel) - as I said in my original post, the pain I caused them was enough to make me stop. And the rehab class is not really that bad, we spend a lot of time telling legendary tales of being high. Kind of depressing seeing some of the other kids and how their parents treat them, though - but that's a different discussion, and I'm not really sure how kosher it would be for me to share all of that information.
Thank you for the interest and support. :)
Cheers
 
Wow man, I dont know where to start on this. Two grams a weekend and using MDMA once, pop some sleeping pills, and your parents seem to think your some raging drug addict? I mean, you dont seem like a complete fuck up or anything(you stoped for finals, something I didnt even do). Whats their opinion on alcohol?

Ive been to rehab and it was exactly like you described, just a bunch of people telling stories about getting high. Complete waste of time. Drugs are bad mmmkay kinda shit. Granted that was my experience, and ymmv, but most rehab is pretty much the same Ive found.

I dunno man, I just see it as your parents controlling your life. If your happy with it, go for it, but it would drive me nuts. My family used to controll my life and it made me miserable, I had no feeling of individuality. I was a sheep. I basicaly told em to fuck off cause I got sick of it. Yeah, there was a period where they had no trust or faith in me, but I lived on my own for a year responsibly and now Im in engineering at a university and things couldent be better. The feeling of freedom I have now is something I couldent even imagine before. Basicaly all Im saying is if you live your life in fear you might dissapoint your parents or whoever, is that realy a life worth living?

DB
 
the only thing that keeps popping into my mind when i get messed up on ambien is that if i took too much i could easily be raped.

and i'm a 6'3" 200lb member of the "kick-yer-ass" club

the stuff is no joke. you were indeed stupid for doing it where you could get busted
 
Sorry you had that experience. Jeez. That really sucks. I had oral sex with a girlfriend of mine once on it. I barely remember it. She doesn't at all. So much for my first lesbian experience.

This is why everybody says ambien is not recreational. If you can't rememeber anything, well, how much fun is that?
 
Doing it at my house was a lot better than doing it out in public where I could have got in serious trouble with the law. In fact, I'm much happier knowing that I did it at home and it was only my parents finding out. But, this is no excuse, and I haven't denied it being something beyond retarded, and will continue to not deny it.

DB - those have been my thoughts the entire time about my not being a raging drug addict; compared to the kids in rehab, I'm nothing. If anything, this will lead to more freedom, and to be honest with you, the more I think about it, the more I realize how little freedom I had; I had centered several days around getting blazed, and the weed was starting to control my life. Even though I stopped, it could have easily taken over me. But, after rehab and seeing that from what feels like a third person point of view, if/when I cheef again, I won't let it control my life. Only reason I say when is because I'm convinced it'll be legal in the states before I'm dead, which at that point my parents couldn't really get angry at me.
 
I took 40 mg's once I was pretty disapointed. I phoned up my brother and he couldnt understand what I was saying, then I remember taking a big stinky shit and I was looking at the bathroom door and it was changing shapes and sizes, that was it.

Taking 10 mg and staying up is a bit better. It feels similar to a benzo, only with more giddiness.
 
just an ubdate after conusmming 10 mg of ambien it is like a high dose of benzo, but I look at my computerscreen and everythign waves all over, an anything im not foacing on seems to we doing acquard things liek the couch moves away and comes back but If i were to focus on the coutch it wouldnt move,
Much like my first ativan excperience. and that expeirence is still flrying around here somewhere im sure
 
I used to be prescribed to this stuff. 40mg is a really high dose. I remember when 5mg was sufficient for me to get off baseline and 10mg had me hallucinating pretty mildly.. Anything above 10mg would have me just fucked.
 
of course ambien is recreational....just don't fuckin take 40 mg's =) 10 - 20 mg's will do...in fact i'm popping 10 right now, want a good night's sleep...
 
I've had a few crazy expereince on Ambien as well.

me and my g/f took not exactly sure how much, as we can't remember, and ended up falling asleep. I recall driving and ordering hungry jacks. All seems dreamy and hazy. Now, whenever i take this drug I make sure I don't need to do anything/go anywhere in the next 12 hours, as common sense and logic doesn't seem to exist when on ambien.

I recall once i could see the future on the wall of my bathroom. Strange. My girlfreind said i was looking at the wall for about an hour before she took me to bed.

Great report btw. Describes the after effects perfectly.
 
Ambien is a very strange drug. Four years ago, I took it 4 times and every time it did a great job of fucking me up. My memory was always very haxy of the experience, except for incredibly weird closed eye visuals and the drifting in and out of consciousness. I would be dreaming when my eyes were closed, but awake to the moment. I would also smoke cigarettes down to their filters. It wasn't a fun time, and I'm sure its excellent for sleep, I just wish I had thought of that when I was doing it. I really embarassed myself on it in front of many people.
 
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