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Originally Posted by jenna26
My dad has recommended that as well, only problem is, that man has occasionally taken one, then actually proceeds to eat all the food in the kitchen...LOL...;) One time he took one a bit too early, when my husband and I were visiting last year, and didn't make it to bed. He had a bag of chips on the table. He tried to eat the WHOLE bag. We had to take it away. I'm worried about THAT side effect as well.....:p I'll have to lock everything up.
But you're the third or fourth person I have talked to that had good things to say about it. I will ask about it next time I visit my doctor (which will be soon hopefully, I am starting to get killer migraine headaches far too regularly....ugh).
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NO! Ambien is evil! I had been on it for over a year and would do things at night and not remember! Like cleaning, lighting candles, having sex (luckily only with my now husband). It's scary when you want up and can't remember things. Then I started not sleeping the whole night and had to take more to get the sleep. It has really been awful.
Now I take Lunesta, it's in the same family as Ambien so you're not groggy the next day, but it has a longer half-life and I don't wake up in the middle of the night and if I do get waken up I fall right back asleep. I can even sleep in. With Ambien once you wake up that's it. Lunesta is also for long-term, while Ambien can create serious addiction problems if taken longer than two weeks (which my jerk doctor didn't tell me and now I can't sleep at all without taking something).
Regardless of what other people and your doctor says, you should do your own research about the side effects of any sleeping pills. On the positive side, Lunesta has saved my sanity by allowing me to get a full nights sleep night after night and has really improved my quality of living since now I don't get sleep deprivation headaches and I'm not in a fog all day.