ambien on full stomach for sleep only

[allnamestaken]

Hi I was wondering what the best way to take ambien on a full stomach is as it does not work orally does insuffulation work? I'm not going to try iv that's not for me I just need my sleep. Thanks.

 

[pasha]

A food-effect study in 30 healthy male volunteers compared the pharmacokinetics of Ambien 10 mg when administered after fasting or 20 minutes after a meal. Results demonstrated that with food, mean AUC (area under the plasma concentration time curve) and maximum concentration were decreased by 15% and 25%, respectively, while mean time (exposure) was prolonged by 60% (from 1.4 to 2.2 hr). The half-life remained unchanged.These results suggest that, for faster sleep onset, Ambien should not be administered with or immediately after a meal.

http://products.sanofi-aventis.us/ambien/ambien.html

Having said that, you can circumvent this issue with intranasal or sublingual administration. If you wish, do a simple search on the different kinetics of each method of administration and chose what you prefer other than oral administration. I personally always put them under my tongue full stomach or not and they work fine. They just taste nasty though.

Homeless -> Basic

Welcome to bluelight.

 

[allnamestaken]

http://products.sanofi-aventis.us/ambien/ambien.html

Having said that, you can circumvent this issue with intranasal or sublingual administration. If you wish, do a simple search on the different kinetics of each method of administration and chose what you prefer other than oral administration. I personally always put them under my tongue full stomach or not and they work fine. They just taste nasty though.

Homeless -> Basic

Welcome to bluelight.

Thanks mate I do hate the taste that's why i thought through the nose might help but I've never been a fan other than prescribed but just looking for a way to get me my sleep especially after a late fatty meal

 

[allnamestaken]

It is for sleep but i have noticed that if I have it within a couple hours of eating it doesn't help me getting to sleep which is my biggest problem

 

[pasha]

Which means what you say is exactly the same as the studies findings. Either take it orally on an empty stomach or use another method of ingestion which bypasses the gi tract eg. Intranasal/rectally/sublingual.

No problem

 

[Nicholai]

Intranasal works great. Some people say it burns like fire...dunno, I've never experienced that with ambien but perhaps I just get a different formulation.

 

[allnamestaken]

Thanks guys but I think I'll avoid rectally

 

[ksralyv2mch]

Here, take the a piece of paper and fold it in half, place your ambien in the creese, crush up the pill into a fine powder. Now here comes your choose your own adventure part:

a) You could pour the powder into a drink cocktail (something with flavor presumably to cover up the taste) and drink it.

b) Pour the powder under your tongue with maybe a pinch of sugar and let it dissolve there (I have 10mg ambien, they are tiny), sublingually works in a way where a full stomach won't affect it, where even intranasally it ultimately winds up iin your stomach (i.e you swallow the drip in the back of your throat...into your stomach... so if it's full it'll still take a bit)

I'd say Sublingually.