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Below are Ambien CR (Zolpidem) reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. This information is not vetted and should not be cosidered as clinical evidence. | | Ambien CR review by 33 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | |  |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 10mg taken periodically for the period of 1 year |
| Other conditions: | | stress |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | much improved sleep without waking in the middle of the night. |
| Side effects: | | none really. Maybe groggy but not terribly. |
| Comments: | | Took 1 pill at bedtime |
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| | Ambien CR review by 46 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Sleeplessness |
| Dosage & duration: | | 12 mg taken nightly for the period of Approximately 2 years, ongoing |
| Other conditions: | | Stress, anxiety |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | This drug has done wonders to help me get the much needed rest I have needed. Before I started taking this drug, I spent many nights not receiving the rest I needed. I have not experienced any negative side effects of this drug. It works quickly, within half an hour and I have been able to stay asleep throughout the night. |
| Side effects: | | None |
| Comments: | | This drug is taken shortly before bedtime, as needed. |
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| | Ambien CR review by 36 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | |  |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Severe Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 12.5 mg per night taken every night for the period of 1 year + |
| Other conditions: | | depression, anxiety, headaches |
| Other drugs taken: | | wellbiutren, estridol, soma, darvecet, nortriptyline, meridian | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | I was able to turn my thoughts off at night |
| Side effects: | | memory loose, I am dependent on the drug and look forward to when I can take it. I not only experience memory loose @ the time of the dose but have also noticed were I cannot recall a week of activities. |
| Comments: | | a 12.5 mg pill a night |
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| | Ambien CR review by 47 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 5 MG taken as needed for the period of occasionally |
| Other conditions: | | hep c , lupus |
| Other drugs taken: | | prednisone, zanaflex, ziac, methadose | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Fell asleep quickly, slept 7 hrs., woke up without hangover |
| Side effects: | | Didn't work as well some of the time, woke up mid-way, some hangover effects |
| Comments: | | Ambien CR is a basically effective treatment for sleeplessness, although I have experienced incidents where contrary to the ads I have woken up midway through the night, I have had a groggy, hard to wake up feeling the next day lasting for several hours. There have also been reports of sleep eating, walking, awake but asleep incidents that I personally have not experienced, although it can affect you differently each time you take it. |
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| | Ambien CR review by 72 year old male patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | to help sleep |
| Dosage & duration: | | 10 mg. taken nightly for the period of still taking it |
| Other conditions: | | high blood pressure |
| Other drugs taken: | | diovan | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | both seem to work well but looking for something over the counter that helps sleeping so i dont have to take the prescription med. to sleep. it is too expensive. it also would take a hour or so for it to work. then if i woke up later i had to take another one to go back to sleep. so i am trying to find a good over the counter sleep medicine to take instead. |
| Side effects: | | none with the sleep med. except i would have to use more of it as time went by i got use to it. the blood pressure medicine i take is diovan and i have to take it way before bed time because it makes me urinate a lot. i also take a blood pressure pill in tne morning. |
| Comments: | | take one to two tablets at bedtime |
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| | Ambien CR review by 46 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | insomnia |
| Dosage & duration: | | 12.5 mg. taken daily for the period of 4 years |
| Other conditions: | | anxiety |
| Other drugs taken: | | seroquel | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Immediate ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. No side effects in the morning. |
| Side effects: | | I have to take the drup on an empty stomach. Very bad side effects if taken with alcohol. Taken alone, side effects were increased night eating and loss of memory after taking the medication. If you do not go to sleep immediately you may drive or do things without using good sense. |
| Comments: | | Treatment is 12.5 miligrams for an indefinate period of time. |
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