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- sonick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Actually it's Tryptophan that's in turkey, not Melatonin.
- lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22"including a case in which a woman painted her front door in her sleep"
seems like a feature to me - JamesBrown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Ambien is some crazy *****. Take 10mg and then fight it. You'll start tripping harder than you ever have.
- Flummoxer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Thanks, but my pineal gland is working fine. Oh and I always thought it was the tryptophan in turkeys.
- joaob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Make sure you don't take more then 2mg at a time. Melatonin sounds great but your body WILL become dependant on it eventually causing many sleepless nights if you don't have the stuff handy.
And for the record Melatonin is not more effective then Ambien. - smackhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14if you want to sleep naturally:
-exercise during the day
-don't take naps
-don't consume too much caffeine
-don't work/read or do any other waking activities in your bed
i've got pretty bad insomnia sometimes and that's how i've learned to deal with it. - AntBing, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20Go real natural and smoke a joint, you'll sleep great.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: "So do you use sleeping tablets to organize yourself?"
Colin Powell: "Yes. Well, I wouldn't call them that. They're a wonderful medication -- not medication. How would you call it? They're called Ambien, which is very good. You don't use Ambien? Everybody here uses Ambien."
-- Nov. 5, 2003 interview with former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
Evidence of bizarre behavior? Pshaw! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The first rule about Ambien CR is you do not talk about Ambien CR...
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Just the other night I took some, and I was playing bubble breaker on my phone before bed and I started thinking I was in the game.
- jd33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"Sleep medication linked to bizarre behaviour"
No *****, Sherlock. - offwhite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10They call it "Donnie Darko" behavior. ;)
Great movie, btw. - bswopes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Chew some valerian root and get more exercise.
- kevbell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I took some Ambien once and the next day I woke up 900 miles away, wearing a diaper and a wig
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"I specifically recall reports of people eating buttered cigarettes and other nasty stuff."
In that same article, someone reported eating a salt sandwich. As in, two slices of bread filled with salt. - crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7My wife has serious problems falling asleep (except when I show her who's her crawdaddy).
She trips on Ambien sometimes when her mind just won't settle down. She gets all kinds of tracers and visuals on the *****. I'll catch her doing weird *****, staring at the ceiling fan, moving her hand in front of her face.
Just imagine what the physical side of your body could pull on you when it's trying to sleep, but your mind won't let it. - destinyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Interestingly, everyone in the White House takes Ambien, according to Colin Powell. (Seriously!)
http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_11_09.html#001216 - ratbear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I went through a small (one week) ambien binge when I was in the experimental highschool student phase. Of course I taking them to get high, so my "side effects' were probably alot more pronounced than the average user. The most bizarre side effect I noticed was when I watched television, everything in the scene, the actors and the set, was so intimitely familiar to me yet distant at the same time. It was like I knew them personally at one point but couldn't quite put my finger on when/how I met them and what the extent of our relationship was. I was fully aware that I was watching tv and they were actors, but I still couldn't shake that bizarre fog of familiarity.
And, like weed and beer, it made smash bros. on the N64 about 100x more fun. - JeremyL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dude I know people who do all kinds of crazy stuff on these things and the next day never remember it.
- dickybrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You're right - I think it was a CBS news story - I specifically recall reports of people eating buttered cigarettes and other nasty stuff.
good times. - DontSayFanboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I said *strange*
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Next thing you know they'll be eating brains....
Ambien is made by the Umbrella Corporation! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+428 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds....
That is when the world will end... - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Wow, this was in the news over a year ago in the US...great to hear the brits and aussies just got wise about it
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Great. Turkey sandwiches are addictive. What's next?!
- tapedelay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5My girlfriend's mom takes Ambien and sleepwalks. She will stay up all night watching the home shopping network and ordering useless *****. One day I came in and she had multiple packages, proactiv acne medication (she didn't have acne, she justified it with, "Jessica Simpson is so pursuasive. If she promotes it, it must be a good product."), slender-tone belt that builds your abs by electro-shock, depression tapes, nutra system meals (they send food to your house), this thing that shakes your foot sending oxygen through your body, among other things. She is awesome. Ambien for the win.
- ewc80, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My mother was prescibed this medication once. She made the mistake of not attempting to go to sleep immediatly afterwards and according to my aunt she spent the next couple of hours talking absolute nonsense and acting extremely strange. In the morning she was just fine but claimed no memory of the night before. Needless to say she has not taken it since. The side-effect profile for this medication reads like the setup for a Stephen King novel.
- brada33928, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3another true ambien story. My wife was having trouble sleeping about a year ago, and actually took a half an ambien that was given to her by my mom who has been taking it for years with no side effects. She was winding down, and we were having a conversation when all of a sudden she was like "fire!" "fire!" I was like "huh?" She said that she saw flames shooting all over from behind me, and that I looked like the devil. Then she passed out 3 seconds later. She doesn't remember telling me that. Maybe ambien is a truth serum as well as a sleeping pill.
- DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The OP is wrong on two counts. First off, melatonin is the neurotransmitter produced in your brain when your biological clock knows it's nighttime to help slow your metabolism and put you to sleep (to oversimplify). It is ONLY an effective sleep aid if your brain does not produce enough of it on its own -- and therefore it is not effective in most cases of insomnia. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185302430
Secondly, as has been pointed out, tryptophan is in turkey, probably not melatonin. However, tryptophan is just one of the 20 essential amino acids, and is therefore in every meat product. It may happen to be in higher concentrations in turkey than in other meats, but it does NOT induce sleepiness. This is just a myth that has been debunked by scientists in the last 5 years or so. http://www.physorg.com/news8453.html - halfgook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i thought that was lunesta?
- Sublime059, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They are just starting to notice this? I know lots of people who trip on Ambien. I would never do it cause I prefer to be in control of myself, but many others enjoy it.
- margapantalones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was given Ambien by my doctor a couple years ago... The only night I took it, I took part in a Care Bear war in a light bulb. After several hours of stressful battling with the Care Bears, I DID sleep wonderfully.
- TimDenike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I occasionally take ambien when I can't sleep. Just last week, I took an ambien to crash, and when I awoke the next morning, I found that I had eaten a bunch of leftover chinese food from the night before. Next time I take ambien, I'm going to set up a video cam or something and see if I can catch myself in the act!
- JSatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My sister in law thought she saw her clock on the wall breathing when she took this stuff. Her boyfriend took it and was having a conversation with her for over an hour before he realized that she wasn't there when the conversation started. This is some crazy *****.
- kevbell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3but you still take single doses? okay...
- kcap122, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5you do not want ot try overdosing on diphenhydramine. the stuff is an antiemetic, so if you overdose and need to get it out of your system, you body can't even puke it up because the vomiting reflex is suppressed.
in any case, yea ambien is pretty cool for tripping. one time, i was trying to come down off of 80mg's of adderall from that afternoon, and i took about 20mg of adderall, assuming it would knock me out. i stayed awake for 5 hours until 6am, heard voices that weren't there, spoke to people that weren't there, and eventually put on fight club to go to sleep. i felt like i was in the movie. it was actually awesome - wannabetenor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This happened to me!!!!!
I had a pomegranate come up and talk to me. . .then some midgets came by to say hi. - iamdawlrs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i honestly woke up in the middle of the night, got dressed, drove to 7-11 and crashed my car along the way. somehow i got back in my car and drove to the 7-11 parking lot where i got out of my car and looked at the damage (this was the only 3 second part i remember, but thought was a dream). after all that i drove back home. when i woke up in the morning i felt that my lip was slashed on the inside, but just thought i chewed on my lip during the night. after an hour of looking for my wallet that i knew i left on my night stand before i went to sleep, i realized that the 3 second clip i remembered wasn't a dream at all. i then looked out my window to see my smashed car half on the street, half on my landlords grass. that is a true story. the worst part is that after counting my pills i realized that i was waking up and taking more during my sleep. scary stuff
- gushgear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Usually don't comment on Digg but really felt like I needed to share an experience here. I took Ambien once, about 5 years ago, for depression related insomnia. I say I only took it once because what happened after was the most bizarre this thing to ever happen to me. While I personally only remember taking the dosage and hitting the sack, my parents, it turns out, spent a majority of the evening trying to keep me from walking out of my house. Apparently I started ranting on and on about an impending alien invasion. I needed to speak to the president about this, and when I wasn't allowed to leave my room, I decided I could physically drill myself out of the house with the pneumatic drill I thought I had on my head. Not having any luck drilling myself out of my room I turn around and realize that the people behind me - my mother, father and sister - weren't my family at all, but a small group of aliens from the invasion. Eventually I calmed down and fell asleep.
After speaking with the doctor who prescribed it, I came to learn that I had an adverse reaction to the drug - which to me sounded like, "We don't know what the hell happened to you." I never took it again, and it's actually listed in my medical records now as a drug allergy. Thinking it was all just some weird occurrence, I found it interesting to read that I wasn't the only one who had a crazy reaction to this drug. - DontSayFanboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I take ambien and nothing strange has ever happened. True story!
- myborgdrone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you take Ambien and one glass of wine, you will definitely forget the wild stuff you did that night. That stuff is almost like a ruffi. Not that I know what that is like personally. I heard about it. I mean read about it in books. I mean I was told about it. Yeah, one of those.
- smackhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2not medication? what a moron.
- Photoblog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Every one I know who tried that crap had the weirdest things happen to them, I actually am starting to understand why the bush admin is acting so bizarre now! they are all on that drug... they are all drug addicts!
- Misterm65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is this what that female astronaut was on? Is this what caused her to put on diapers and drive to Florida?
- Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I work shift sched and take it to switch from nights to days (Melatonin will help fall asleep for about 5 min). Anyways, I popped one last December and immediately afterwards remembered I had to still order some stuff for Christmas. I got a confirmation email the next day from Amazon with about $200 of extra stuff other than the intended gifts including a Wok, a Wok cookbook and a book about E=mc².
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great recipes.
- Kyle660, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another year and this thing goes schedule II, or whatever schedule the government designates to prescription drugs that used to be kind of fun until a bunch of idiots ruined it for everyone. Hell, inside of a few months we'll probably see a mainstream press story connecting Ambien use with sleep-murder, or something equally ridiculous. Let's face it, American society wants nothing to do with anything hallucinogenic. Kinda sad, really.
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Compensatory Legal Disclaimer: This medication (Tryptophan) may cause nausea, loss of appetite, dizziness, drowsiness, headache, dry mouth or tremor. If any of these effects continue or become bothersome, inform your doctor. Notify your doctor if you develop: confusion, disorientation, incoordination, vomiting, itching. This medication may cause drowsiness or dizziness. Use caution operating machinery or engaging in activities requiring alertness if this makes you drowsy. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
http://www.medicinenet.com/tryptophan-oral_capsule_tablet/article.htm - actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ sockpuppets
You were near a stripper when she woke up? - hellotyler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ambien is ***** up, it's dangerous, it's unpredictable, and it's lame. While it may help some people get to sleep there is other medications that are tried, true, and far safer then Ambien when taken correctly. I personally have seen a few people 'messed up' on ambien and it is a sad sight - what kind of idiot wants to get completely incoherent, watch text wriggle around on your screen and do nonsensical stuff while talking to people who arn't there and experiencing zero euphoria ? Kids sure are desperate these days...
If you want a decent sleep aid then just ask for any kind of benzodiazipine, the docter will know what is best. Yes, they are slightly addictive but if taken properly they work like a dream and help you get back onto a normal schedule within two weeks. It should be noted that they are not designed to be taken habitually unless you have major chronic problems with insomnia or anxiety. Still, it's the safest drug on the market in my opinion and it won't have you sleepwalking into oncoming traffic, thats for sure. -
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