Ambien and the Other "Z"Drugs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
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In the video, I go over the common sleep medications known as the Z drugs - that is, ambien, lunesta, and
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Believe the memory problems. Over time i noticed my memory was not as sharp. I would have to think to find a word. Went off them and this resolved within 2 weeks.
yes im going together that now memory loss
Trazadone gives you a hang over. 2 coffees at least every morning. Pain keeps me up...
Trazadone gave me a hangover at first but I got used to it.
You have to be fucking kidding me. I have been through hell with benzos my doctor said that there would be absolutely no withdrawals. I’ve been on 3mg of lunesta for months I’m going to loose my mind if I go through withdrawals
Hi Allie I’m going through hell on lunesta 3mg on it 3 yrs no way I can stop ru still on it ???
I've been taking Ambien for 20 years NF zero problems with it, 5mg to 10mg a night, have taken 15mg. I still have to concentrate to go to sleep, no matter the dose. If a patient doesn't have a problem with the drug & it works for them, why does the next Doctor I get (they keep moving away), say I shouldn't take it anymore & they won't prescribe it? Ridiculous! When you find something that works for a person, that person is responsible, articulate & 62 years old, why should you argue with them & take something away that is working for them. Now I'm on high blood pressure medicine from arguing with my doc & never getting enough sleep. Ambien takes the edge off my intense thought process, to help me be able to go to sleep. Guided meditation, flotation tanks, 30 other drugs they've asked me to try... now Lunesta & Belsomra "together" ? Nope, doesn't work either. Ridiculous. You take it every night for a year and tell me what YOUR problem is with Ambien, because I don't have one. Not after 20 years. It still works with no side effect & I can sleep for 4 hours, get up, go to work & work a 12-hour day if I have to. It just relaxes my mind so that I can get to sleep. I still get up and go to the bathroom throughout the night, I still hear if my dog or my cat whimpers & it doesn't increase by dream-state, which I'm an avid dreamer from the time I go to sleep untill the time I wake up. Other drugs increased by dream-state which makes me even more tired the next day. Please do not knock a drug that actually works for some people. Stop putting negative information out about this drug when it does not work negatively for all people. Thank you. Please excuse any typos I'm using Google voice.
I value you wrote your experience and would like that would be the case for me, but ambien gives me severe dehydration and/or canker sores and general buccal mucose affection. And also digestive issues, intense burps and belches. I tried more than once, and whenever i stop taking it those symptoms withdraw, but at the same time i start being unable to fall asleep, because ambien, among all the other things i've tried (tryptophan, 5htp, magnesium, ashwagandha, valerian, passionflower, meditation, sleep hygiene, etc) is the only thing that works consistenly. I looked for and there's other people that have reported dehydration for example, and digestive issues. So, my comment here is to mention that some people, like me, have severe adverse effects, that really i cannot live with them, my mouth burns all day long, it's horrible.
@@micamaik503no drug works well on everyone. I will say, Ambien gives me the munchies, if I mess around doing other things in the house and I don't lay down and try to go to sleep. So I tend to take it as I'm getting into bed.
Pls help me I am suffering for insomnia for months now due to benzo withdrawal I've stopped it completely and I just gave birth my daughter is 1 month now sleep deprivation really disturbs my mental health I have severe anxiety all I need noa is a good nights sleep I've started on ambien but scared to continue as it is same as benzo pls help me if I can take this drug through out am just 25 years old 🥺
@@hiddentalesofnature4183 make sure that you have someone else around to keep your child occasionally so that you can get a really good sleep. as long as you have someone else to hear the baby, Ambien will probably be fine. Tri just 2.5 mg. That can often be enough just to relax my mind to help me go to sleep.
@@TakeTheRide thanks a lot for ur advice 😇😇
I have a central nervous system disorder, ME/CFS from burn pit exposure in Iraq. Ive been an insomniac long before I was in the military. I have been on ambien and lunesta (seperately mind you, I take lunesta these days) for years now. One of the primary features is a sedation effect on the central nervous system. Because most of my pain is in my CNS a side effect of the lunesta is that for about an hour each night my CNS pain is relieved before I go to sleep. Clearly its not feasable to take it during the daytime but I wanted to comment on how it does have a pain releiving effect when the pain is in the CNS.
Trazadone didnt work
The world needs more medical professionals like you only cautiously proscribing medicine! Well done!
thanks!
I take eszopiclone 3mg which works great no hallucinations like ambien feels exactly like valium
I wish that you were my doctor. I saw a neurologist on Tuesday, 7/30, and he won't prescribe any medicine, sleep medicine.
I was just prescribed eszopiclone (Lunesta). I have taken Ambien (zolpidem) before and, while it worked extremely well when used occasionally for bouts of severe insomnia, I found that it made me extremely groggy like nothing else ever had. (I have experience with many different benzodiazepines and antipsychotic medications and, despite their capacity to work as sedative-hypnotic tranquilizers, nothing has ever made me feel as tired as Ambien has.)
I will have to take this video and the information you shared in it into account for the future. Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for this. I'm an international flight attendant, I stomach up to 18 timezones a week. Have become entirely dependent on Ambien (Zombien) but the effectiveness has worn off, I've become highly intolerant to it. It's just awkward.
Are you taking magnesium & vitamin C? Try massively ramping up your C. Also have you considered going carnivore. That could straighten everything everything out, you have more energy and you sleep better.
Excellent info. Thank you!
Information easily digested _ thanks!
I am 40 and have suffered from insomnia since I was 7-8. My brothers was paralyzed and sleep never really came again.
Why do you try to get people off of ambien if it's working for them?
There is a lot of "information" out there about how Zolpdiem (ambien) works on our GABA receptors the same way as a benzo would, therefore giving you similar withdrawals as a benzo. Im working on getting off of zolpdiem, and the first thing that pops up are detox centers advertisements saying this. Can you explain why we wouldn't get the same withdrawals?
either case needs to be done gradually - ambien and similar meds don't have the same physical addiction potential
@@letstalkaboutsleepave you ever put a patient on gabapentin? I've been taking it but want to wean off because I heard you get terrible withdrawals but not by a Dr...is there withdrawal on gabapentin?
If so can you make a video on how to slowly taper yourself off..glad I found your channel 😊
@@daybyday0731ambien and Gabapentin as well as pregabalin has terrible withdrawals. Lunesta works great for anxiety
@letstalkaboutsleep
You really don't know what you're talking about. You're talking from the outside with no research on the topic. It can cause mortal seizures. Very bad physical withdrawal. Google it, and you'll see.
If doctor has cut ambien dose in half after 15 years, what can someone do? It's horrible. The regular prescription was working perfectly.
I have bad tinnitus. Trazodone calms my fear and anxiety knowing it never stops! I can’t get to sleep on it, so I take half a Zolpidem to get into sleep, and 50mg Trazodone. Sadly i have thought of ending my existence with this tinnitus? I fear sunset, watching the clock as bedtime approaches. I cut a 10mg to take 5mg with Trazodone, but my Dr said he would only prescribe me Zolpidem once?
So how do we get off z drugs??
zipiclone does help with anxiety
@@sandywhat2429 not a benzo
When you said you’d like to try and get your patients off Ambien because there are better medications out there which sleep side medications were you referring to?
Trazodone
i’ve been taking zolpidem for 3~4 months. Am I addicted?
Only you can answer that question if you have problems not taking it. If you feel a little jittery, nit taking it, take 1/2 / 1/4 dose for a few nights. That keeps your brain waves in check.
@@TakeTheRide I've swapped for something else. Thanks!
@@luavasconcelos1637 What are you taking now? Is something else working and why did you switch? Just curious.
@@TakeTheRide All my doctors consider Zolpidem a benzo, so I had to switch. I take Quetiapine now. Zolpidem only on rare nights where I cannot fall asleep, but it's almost never.
@@luavasconcelos1637did you come straight off Ambien ?
Trazadone did nothing for me.
I’m on plus minus 90 Ambien per day. Starting to taper off slowly atm
90 mg ??
@@vikrambansal1375 nope 90 tablets
Trazadone has withdrawals too
Did not work for me
@tyrel everyone heals
Lunesta made me have a TERRIBLE taste in my mouth and throat 24/7. Nothing helped. I could throw up just thinking about it. 🤮
Yup, switch to zolpidem, doesn't do that to me anymore (maybe slight hint of a taste) but nothing compared to the insane copper taste that overpowers all food and drinl and takes a full day to go away. Their effects are pretty indistinguishable so no reason to use those blue bastards lol
@@MrAn0n I made that comment nine months ago - I don't use it most nights but usually once or twice a week, and literally yesterday I was sitting there and thinking about the fact that I love that nasty taste now lmao, you read my mind.
I take gabapentin along with eszopiclone for many years any hope for me ?
Trazondone is trash
Trazadone did absolutely nothing for me, gabapentin worked well for the first few months.
I used to get 2mg Xanax. I don’t get them anymore which sucks it worked well for me. I am on Ambien now. Snort them they burn like battery acid 😣
oh thats not a good strategy, I hope you find a sleep specialist to help you
Snorting a few is a nice rush
If a sleeping pill is working for someone and they want to keep using it…let them. Don’t change what isn’t broke.
Thanks for providing these information! How save is Trazodone regarding the possibility of getting sexual functions?
I had sleep ealking and hallucinations with ambien. What's the odds lunesta will do that to me?
They all do that sht man.
I have insomnia bambi helps. Me
hey, would love to ask you some personal questions related with zopiclone, do you have an email? thanks
Known as "hypnotics"
Do you do online coaching?
unfortunately not at this time, but I may in the future....
my girlfriend has used it for like 12 years ...
Has she become dumber or smarter?
It’s made my depression so much worse and I just want to be done
How you doing now
No response?
R.i.p
@@mgtowanonymous3120 what is wrong with you? RIP? I hate the fucking internet
i’m gonna take 2 pills(6mg) i hope i get high
Did you
@@lindaridleu6564 not ambien it was eszopiclone
@@imstupidbuthow you doing now??
Is Mirtazapine also better choice than z drugs
For some yes but for me it doesn't help anymore i wake up
@@ghostofsparta1045 Hey ive also take other drugs i take doxepin now low dose and its probably ver efficient i also tried suovorexant and ramelton try them both are for long term and also they provide natural sleeping stages iam insomnia free right know and battling with sleep apnea and mycotoxin exposurre.
@@stevo7220 thanks for replying, I've so far tried
Melatonin 100s of them
Amitriptyline 50-60tabs
Mirtazapine 50-60tabs
Alprazolam 5-10tabs
Qutieapin-6tabs
Let's see what happens I'm going to a new doctor (this is the 5th one( tomorrow im probably getting brain damaged from all this ive had insomnia since i was 12 now im 15
I've yet to try ramelton and the few you mentioned i was taking them mostly unprescribed as i was going mad from insomnia and i somehow by God's mercy got those pills but now even they don't work :/
@@stevo7220 sorry man i cant understand what you said i havent slept another night ill read it afterwards and reply
This is dangerous medicine
it can be