Lol...i just reread that and it sounds hilarious! Should I be concerned?? Lolol.

When I was on Ambien I would fold laundry at night and put way my dish's from my dish washer, "clean up" stuff and not even know I was doing it until morning came and I woke up and saww it done. When I told my pdoc he had me on it for about 2 weeks more and then switched me to klonopin.

Lord God Yes...............

I cannot take ambien. Although I don't particularly like klonapin, I have severe anxiety and I have to take it.

I've heard of people 'sleep driving' on ambien, which sounds scary as hell. There was a funny Simpsons episode like that with Homer doing stuff like that. Right up there with Bart taking Ritalin (Focusin) and driving a tank through town!

My mom had to go to 5mg(we just break the 10mg pills in half). She was eating everything and then in the morning was like who ate____ with whipped cream and left the plate in the fridge. She did some crazy stuff on it, but it is better on the lower dose.

After the night time non-stop eating and sleeping walking, that was the end of Ambien for me!!

I take Lunesta (Imovane), and I have none of that stuff previously mentioned.

I ran a call on a guy once that took ambien for the first time, he tore up his house then drove five miles down the road, went into a gas station and fell three times and had a huge laceration on his head and couldn't remember how he had gotten there. Craziness!! But, I think it affects everyone differently, sounds like you might just do some different eating lol. good luck!!

ahhh, good ole ambien!! had some fun on that!!! i did the middle of the night eating thing, too....and believe this or not, one of my favorite things was butter!!!! or buttery sweet cinnamon toast!!

Also had some very interesting hallucinations while taking it, like the patterns in the wallpaper swirling around and pictures looking 3-D.

i suppose it wouldn't hurt to mention it to your doc....i never did...i stopped taking it when it stopped working for me. :)

I absolutely cannot take ambien. It completely shatters my short-term memory, and this is the scariest thing: my soon-to-be ex husband got all excited when he found this out and said, "It's like the perfect date-rape drug!"

CREEP!

I strongly suspect he was slipping me ambien the last two weeks we were together, and my doctors believe he was too, but there was no way to prove it because some of my other medications show up the same of a drug screen.

I am now highly sensitive to any kind of "sleepy" medication, even trazodone and seroquel. They make me sleep-walk and have wicked vivid dreams. Now I just save my ativan for the evenings when I need help sleeping and that seems to work just fine.

Ambien frequently causes strange food cravings, as it can frequently cause people to get up in the middle of the night, or after taking their pill and eat, or cook even and not remember it the next day...this is also why some people associate weight gain with Ambien.

Kat

Ambien. I have such a love/hate relationship.
It is the only thing that will get me to sleep. Lunesta didn't have any effect on me. Ambien CR didn't put me to sleep. Have to have my ambien.

When I take it and go right to bed, I'm fine. If I take it and think I'll just watch tv until I feel tired, I do strange things. It used to be ambien sex(when I was married). Now that I'm divorced I eat. I hate that. I'd rather have the ambien sex. And yeah my ex once took advantage of my ambien amnesia state :(

I think a lot of the bad stories you hear about ambien are because people take it and think they can stay up until they're tired and then go to bed. But there really isn't a time between taking it and a feeling of being tired. You go from awake to unconsciously conscious state without knowing.

I have had the hallucinations too. I swear one night my door was breathing, I could see it inhale. And the other night a picture on my quilt was coming off on my hands when I touched it. My ceiling fan always creeps me out, it turns into an octopus a lot.

tremor said it well... There just is no real point between waking and sleeping with Ambien. I think it's because it's a hypnotic. You're awake/you're asleep and there is no transition. This go round, Ambien did not work for me as far as getting to sleep, just visions and horrible nightmares and a hangover the next day. All the info you get from your pharmacy should warn about the sleep walking, sleep eating thing. Back when Ambien worked for me I would sleep eat and sleep DRIVE which is freakin' scary!

I can relate to the ambien sex thing too...i do some crazy things...
If I reduce the dose it doesn't work at all.