Does anyone take ambien to sleep?

[seeme1954 32]

My doctor gave me a prescrip because my mind is racing every night and I can't sleep. I must say it works. No problems because I'm banded.

[candtwalker 46]

I take Ambien. I have been taking it for a very long time. I have no issues with it and my band.

[KAATNS 1,473]

I have been taking it for years and I have no problems other than the occasional funny things I do at night (so I'm told).

[line-dancer 810]

I take it and LOVE it, best night sleep I have in years about once a month I cant sleep but that is so much better then every night.

[AnnetteT 77]

I was on it for a couple of years. I slept like a baby. Then I realized what I was occasionally doing while sleeping. I used to get up in the mornings and there would be all of this food cooked and put away in the fridge...I thought wow, what a great cook my roommate is. When my roommate moved out the food would still appear in my fridge. One night my brother was visiting and he said I got up around 2 am and proceeded to make a huge pot of vegetable Soup, fixed us each a bowl, washed the dishes and then put it all away. I woke the next morning and asked him if he had trouble sleeping since he had been cooking in the middle of the night. Needless to say he thought I had lost my mind. For 2 years I was cooking in the middle of the night with absolutely no memory of it.

[parisshel 1,892]

I was on it for a couple of years. I slept like a baby. Then I realized what I was occasionally doing while sleeping. I used to get up in the mornings and there would be all of this food cooked and put away in the fridge...I thought wow, what a great cook my roommate is. When my roommate moved out the food would still appear in my fridge. One night my brother was visiting and he said I got up around 2 am and proceeded to make a huge pot of vegetable Soup, fixed us each a bowl, washed the dishes and then put it all away. I woke the next morning and asked him if he had trouble sleeping since he had been cooking in the middle of the night. Needless to say he thought I had lost my mind. For 2 years I was cooking in the middle of the night with absolutely no memory of it.

That's scary! This alone would prevent me from ever trying it!

[seeme1954 32]

How could that be? Weren't you exhausted all the time?

[AnnetteT 77]

Back then I weighed 288 so I blamed being tired all of the time on that. It didn't happen every night...but often enough to scare me. I can only imagine how crazy I looked to my brother. My roommate never realized what was going on because we were rarely at home at the same time. I do miss that great sleep!

[dispatchc15 3]

My doctor gave me a prescrip because my mind is racing every night and I can't sleep. I must say it works. No problems because I'm banded.

[dispatchc15 3]

I take amiben too I love it

[CHEZNOEL 4,061]

Yes to Ambien, no funny nocturnal activity though!

[chenie69 16]

oh NO please stop taking Ambien....my mother use to take that for many years and as someone above mentioned cooking and not even remembering , well that was what my mom would do as well as lots of other strange things , sorry to say that my mom hung herself on March 24th 2011 . sure she had other medical problems but the ambien was a BIG factor to her suicide . you should look it up. scary stuff.

[suzzie33 37]

I have been taking it for years !! Love it ! Never had issues with the eating /cooking and not rember !!! I can't fall asleep without it

[Deleted Account 2 28]

I take Ambien. It does make you do crazy things if you aren't careful. I was off of it for a long time because I realized I was sleep eating on it. So now I make sure I notice how much of everything there is before I sleep to make sure I know if it's happening again. Isn't that crazy?

[marfar7 1,528]

Once in the middle of the day, I went to the store. Had no clue until the phone call I received 3 days later that I had backed into a guy in the parking lot. The guy put my bumper into the back of my car. I had no memory of it until he called for my insurance info. I told my mom about it. She said I had already told her the nite it happened. Don't recall a thing.

My dr told me that was a frequent complaint of ambien. He gave me an rx for Temazapam. Doesn't quite work as well, but Im not forgetting major life events anymore

I don't think thered be a problem with taking it with ur band.

Marci