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Permanent brain damage from ambien..?

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kaossalami

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Well i usually take zolpidem every other night/atleast once a week for sleep. Anyways last night is an odd story.. i took one single 10mg tab and specifically remember going to bed. Anyways, long story short i wake up at 5am in the morning with an IV in my arm and they said i had just came out of a coma and had been having siezures.. I had my perscription refilled that day so there were 30 tabs. I took one and went to bed. The medics found only 10 tabs left when they found me laying unconcious on my floor in my bedroom. I slept walk and redosed... 200MG. i dont recall getting up redosing and i know for a fact i wouldnt have done this if i was sober...

does anyone know if ambien causes permanent brain damage? I've felt distant all day..Threw up more than once. Been shitting piss in general.. Headaches..head rushes.
 
Ive taken 100mg at once on purpose before with no ill effects aside from acting like a moron. I don't know about permanent brain damage but I doubt it. I'm sure you will be fine.
 
Thanks for the chin up... i took double that dose. I'll try not to freak out and worry myself sick.
 
This isn't unheard of, I don't think Z drugs are any more safe than benzos, and in a lot of cases, may be a much more unwise option (more dangerous like more likely to sleepwalk, more likely to redose, more addictive, etc).

In the future, please avoid the Z drugs for your own good. Other GABAergics might have a similar problem as well.

There are other options for sleep aids with less abuse liability and less side effects.

Overall I hope you feel better in the days to come, and best of luck getting quality sleep.
 
it's fairly common to hear of people doing things they wouldn't normally do under the influence of ambien. I used to smoke pot when I had quit when I took ambien, I also used to text my girlfriend things I didn't remember texting and didn't want her to know, nothing bad, just stupid shit. Alot of people who are on diets will go and eat a ton of food if they don't fall asleep fast enough after taking ambien.

It's a strange drug, your experience is pretty extreme. I've noticed that most of the things people do on it are a result of some suppressed urge that becomes uninhibited with ambien. If I were you I'd take a good luck at what might be going on in your life that might cause you to take twenty pills. Hell, I should take a closer look at my own life and see if I can figure out why I take so many fucking pills!

I still am prescribed ambien nightly and don't have any problems with it anymore, I just try and make sure I'm in bed with the lights out and ready to sleep when I take it. There have been a couple times when it doesn't work that I've taken a few too many Kpins in order to try and get to sleep but didn't remember till the next day and once I cleaned my kitchen in an ambien haze.

So maybe I should just say I don't usually have problems with it, but sometimes do things I don't remember.... so, I don't know what to tell you other than good luck, I doubt you'll have any permanent damage from the ambien. Seizures can cause long term damage but ambien by itself is fairly benign. I've always thought of it as a sort of truth serum.
 
Thanks for the reassurance guys..I feel like a fucking freight train today... feel spacey and out of it. Extreme depression and have just felt like killing myself all morning. Feels like I fucked my life up and ill never be the same...took 10mg adderall this morning and probably wont be taking any substances soon...all day I've just had this itch to shoot up some speed. Didn't do it though...fuck
 
Before the ambien I think I was on a speed binge.... I took 150mg on thursday...50mg on friday. Skipped saturday...took 70mg on sunday and monday.. 150 on thursday... anyone know how to ease this depression...
 
When I got out of rehab I was scripted 30 of the 10mg beauties. Took one, thirty minutes later decided to rig one, a few hours later I'd shot all of them. Somehow I walked away fine, didn't notice any lasting cognitive effects.
 
My brother... you just came off a speed binge and a Zolpidem overdose... of course you feel like absolute shit. Try and relax.. I've always recovered from depression following periods of d-amp abuse.. I've also been on Zolpidem for 18 months, the last six of which could be considered an abuse level. It sucks when I don't have it... but it always lets up in a few days, and I've "withdrawn" from it many times, and always ended up feeling like myself. I hate being on zolpidem... I feel so ALIVE when its out of my system, but I always get drawn back because of sleeplessness. I've never OD'd but I've gone around 30 mg/day for up to 14 days at a time maybe... yet I haven't done any damage (yet) because I always get back to baseline. So you should be okay after a little while, but seriously stay the fuck away from zolpidem. I can't say what will help you right at this moment, just stay strong bro
 
Sleep. Food. Relaxation.

Depression is from the Adderall binge and WILL ease up soon but you need to eat and sleep.

I took 600mg+ Adderall between Sunday afternoon and 10pm Wed night. Only 10mg on Thurs...im ashamed to admit it but ive been through this brain fog/depression shit dozens of times before...

IMPORTANT!!! If you smoke cigarettes only on amphetamines, OR smoke way more cigarettes than usual while on a binge...the brain fog/depression is being amplified by nicotine withdrawals...a cigarette or 2 can help tremendously if this is the case...

Finally, IME seizures can cause brain fog too...but 1 episode didn't result in long term impairment.

Hope you feel better soon!
 
I rarely take ambien anymore. I find it to be an awful toxic drug. I had a scary incident in June 2009. I got my 30 pills on a Monday and took one and went to bed. I woke up Tuesday morning very disoriented. I discovered my bottle was completely empty. I pray to God that I threw them out or flushed them during the night, but because i was so disorented, I am not sure. So now when I get my Ambien, which isvery very seldom now, I have my doctor write the prescription for 6 with 5 refills. This way, I do not have a large amount lying around.
 
Yeah, I don't take this drug anymore. Even when used correctly, I would still do fucked up shit. Like one morning I woke up and my pillow was smeared with chocolate.
 
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