Ambien/Zolpidem WARNING!
My day:
0800 5mg Diazepam - no tolerance for benzos just now.
1200 60mg Morphine - my usual dose - everything was fine, although I have some tolerance for opiates, and it was not so amazing really...
1730 5mg Diazepam
1800 I feel fine - I have dinner.
2300 I feel restless and want to sleep so I take 10mg of Ambien/Zolpidem
0430 I thought that I was drifting off nicely, but realised that I was actually experiencing RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION accompanied by a nightmare vision of DROWNING.
My guardian angel must have been looking after me.
Half-conscious, I had to force myself to breathe in and out to wake up. This was like apnoea, but scary, very scary. This happened twice, and it was hard to initiate breathing.
I got up and got myself a strong cup of coffee and smoked a cigarette.
Then, I ran to the bathroom and vomited, that is probably a good thing.
I am going to stay up for as long as I can now.
Ambien has a half-life of about 3 hours, but this has scared the shit out of me.
This is the drug which killed Heath Ledger!
I think that I would take it again, but not with diazepam or morphine in my system in any great quantity, or indeed at all.
What was I thinking? 8(
Please please be careful boys and girls and keep safe.
I do not think that Ambien/Zolpidem is a good mixer at all, and bear in mind that there was a fairly good interval between my taking morphine, diazepam and this rather peculiar hypnotic sedative.
Love,
Fortis. xxx