[lauren_helene]

Here is what my husband and I think happened last night, I take Ambien CR 12.5 mg. I also take Prozac, Adderall XR and Adoxa for my acne. Let me also say that I do drink alcohol when I know I'm taking Ambien. There are warnings about this.

I bought a bottle of Grey Goose at the liquor store yesterday when I was out running errands around 6:00 pm because we are having friends over soon and I was out of it. I did not open this bottle and my husband doesn't really drink and if he does, it is never vodka. The only other person in our house is our 2 year old who is not this sophisticated yet and he can't reach where the bottle is anyway.

My husband went to bed around midnight last night and I was right here on the computer until about 1:00am. I had taken an Ambien about a half hour before and when I felt tired, went to bed. Around 7:30 this morning, I sort of heard our son waking up (he still cries sometimes in the morning) and I vaguely remember hearing my husband say 'are you going to get him or should I'...

Around 9:00 am I woke up. Let me say, I never ever sleep until 9:00 on the weekends, holidays or even days off. I'm just programmed now to wake around 6:30-7:00 am just like most working people. When I went downstairs my husband and son were there and my husband said 'wow, you look really out of it'...I didn't think anything of it, just went on with our day.

This afternoon, I noticed that the Grey Goose bottle (the seal) was broken and about 1/4 of it was gone already. As I said, I didn't open it and my husband doesn't drink it. I mentioned this to my husband and he said that of course he never touched it. I got mad thinking that I bought a used bottle from the liquor store and my husband and I started talking about this.

But then he asked me if I had come downstairs last night. I said no why? He said this morning the TV was on the Lifetime Movie Network channel and the last thing he watched was a Friends rerun. I said nope, I was on the computer upstairs and went to bed and never went back downstairs...that I know of.

He confirmed what I thought I heard this morning around 7:30 am. He did ask me if I was getting up to get our son up because he said I had just gotten back into bed and my eyes were wide open. He said I was looking at him but then didn't move or say anything so he just went to get our son and he said I rolled over and went to sleep.

We talked about all of this more and he then remembered that he saw a knife left out on our counter this morning too. He knew for a fact that he did not see this when he went to bed at midnight because he had cleaned that counter prior to going upstairs. I routinely use a knife when I open difficult bottles. I usually forget to put them back...so it's something I would normally do. But we know that I didn't do this consciously last night.

I must've slept walked downstairs last night, opened the bottle with the knife, drank some of the Grey Goose (can't imagine drinking it straight but I' must've)...then went to watch TV on my usual channel LMN. I must've also turned the house alarm off because we have one with a motion detector. My husband doesn't remember hearing the chimes that go off when the alarm is turned on or off. I have no idea when this all transpired but we are thinking my son cried around 7:30 because he heard me coming back upstairs and we have baby gates both at the top and bottom of our stairs. We know to be very quiet around my sons room and close the gate quietly because if he hears that, he starts crying and wants us to come get him.

We are very scared right now about this. So, I started researching sleep walking and came across that some people claim that Ambien did this with them. I remembered something about Rep Kennedy way back talking about how some drug made him get up in the middle of the night and crash his car, I didn't believe a word of it.

I feel pretty foolish now and will stop taking it the Ambien and will call my doctor and let her know. We are almost 100% this is what happened with me last night. Oh by the way, my husband NEVER WATCHES LIFETIME. So this is proof to him besides the open and already used bottle of Grey Goose.

I have no idea if this is the first time this has happened. I started Ambien around February 2007 so I haven't been taking it long.

Anyone else experience this ever?

[onlymedid]

That is the reason I am not taking Ambien anymore. I was having sleep-sex, sleep-eating and sleep-walking around the neighborhood.
I talked with my Dr and he took me off of it immediately.
I knew something was wrong when my girlfriend would ask me things about the conversation on-line from the night before. Such as "what did you mean when you said ****** (fill in the words)?" and I would say that I didn't even talk with her the night before.
The other thing is when I would wake up in the morning, find food or remnants of food in my room and on my nightstand.
I would remember nothing of the actions, yet there is proof in front of me.
I would recommend talking with your doctor about discontinuing Ambien.
After coming off of Ambien I was given Seroquel. The first night I took it I had intense nightmares. The second night I took it, I could not wake up in the morning. I was so incredibly out of it that I had to call in sick. I was told there would be minimal drowsiness, but it would go away after about a week.
The problem is that when I woke up, I could not function. Drowsiness is an understatement. I felt completely drugged the entire day. Every person that came in contact with me in my house said that I looked high and were asking me if I had smoked weed....I don't do drugs!
Anyways, that has been my recent experience and I wanted to share it with you.
I have been informed that Mug warts (sp?) and Valerian root are really good options and they are not drugs, they are natural.

[Juliana]

Wow. Ambien sounds scary.

I sometimes take diphenhydramine when I can't sleep and it makes me sleepy, I get a good night's sleep and I don't feel groggy when I wake up in the morning. It might not be an option for someone that needs something stronger, but it works well for me. It's also super-cheap and available OTC. The brand name is Gravol in Canada, but I think it's Dramamine in the U.S.

I have tried a couple of different herbal sleep teas, but one of them gave me heart palpitations and made me feel even more wide awake and wired, so that scared me away from taking anything like that again. I don't remember which herbs were in it.

[lauren_helene]

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onlymedid said:
That is the reason I am not taking Ambien anymore. I was having sleep-sex, sleep-eating and sleep-walking around the neighborhood.
I talked with my Dr and he took me off of it immediately.
I knew something was wrong when my girlfriend would ask me things about the conversation on-line from the night before. Such as "what did you mean when you said ****** (fill in the words)?" and I would say that I didn't even talk with her the night before.
The other thing is when I would wake up in the morning, find food or remnants of food in my room and on my nightstand.
I would remember nothing of the actions, yet there is proof in front of me.

Wow, how scary for you. I'm back to taking Unisom for the moment. This was enough to scare me...I have no idea how many other times something like this may have happened and I had no idea. They really need to update the warning paperwork on this drug or maybe discontinue it?

[Maven]

Oh, yeah, Ambien is famous for causing sleep-walking, eating, driving and other things. The last thing I heard is that they believe what is happening is, normally, when you sleep, your muscles freeze, so you can't act out your dreams. With Ambien, something happens so that your muscles don't freeze, and you do act out your dreams or you get up and do stuff.

I read about one man who dreamt he'd gone fishing and was gutting a fish. In real life, he was trying to gut his wife--thankfully, he didn't have a knife!

Some of the results can sound amusing, but there's a lot of dangerous potential.