My mom's doctor prescribed Ambien to help her when she complained of suddenly being unable to fall asleep at night, like at all. It turned out she had a huge brain tumor, but the doc never figured that out for 14 months until we finally demanded a CT scan and saw the monster. She died a week and a half later.
But before that, the doc treated her inability to fall asleep with a variety of pills. He tried muscle relaxers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety pills, anti-depressants and Ambien to try to help her sleep. This was in a very fit, active and happy woman.
You'd think that after months of trying all of these options with no success he'd ponder why they weren't working. He didn't. But I digress.
Anyway, during the 10 days she took one Ambien at night to sleep, she was able to sleep a little, seemed completely coherent upon awakening, but later, we observed that it wiped her memory. She lost recall of her birthday, her party, her presents, her stay in the hospital, her visitors and anything else of consequence. This was a woman that the FBI offered a job to when she was younger due to her extreme memory for details. We were horrified and took the pills away.
So, a few minutes of sleep for a full memory wipe was simply not acceptable.
So, for that reason I will not take it, nor recommend it.
You might be suprised but tons of modern medicine create physical and psychological dependence. SSRI anti depressants create a physical dependence despite being absolutely worthless as far as "treating" depression goes, but people are instructed they need to be on them almost a year before they will feel anything, by that time they are incredibly physically dependent and will go through withdrawal without. Ambien is very addictive, similar to benzos in that not everyone will become psychologically addicted, but physical dependence will set in after a while. Even certain nose sprays create a physical dependence, Oxymetazoline (Afrin) will instantly clear your nostrils, but once it wears off you can hardly breath through your nose even after the very first dose, so a lot of people become physically dependent. Adderall is literally amphetamine, and we also prescribe methamphetamine to kids under the trade name "desoxyn". Ritalin and other "ADHD" meds while they might not be amphetamine based will cause psychological dependence very quick for a lot of people. Gabapentin and as another poster mentioned Lyrica as well are also very addictive.
Doctors hardly know or seem to care what they prescribe people, there are even some doctors that are so naive as to think opiates taken daily "as prescribed" will not be addictive! Ha! They use this logic with other medicine too, that if you just take it as prescribed, you won't become addicted, and if you do it's a sign you "abused" the medicine. As if a sheet of paper somehow causes the medicine to function differently once taken.
I love how pharmacists refuse to fill ivermectin but have no problems filling antibiotics for viruses.
And opioids n fentanyl….?
OxyContin and Ambien aren’t addictive!
Oh. I forgot🤭🙃
Come on! It’s break-through pain!
I think you are being sarcastic but is ambien seriously addictive too??
I didn't know!
My mom's doctor prescribed Ambien to help her when she complained of suddenly being unable to fall asleep at night, like at all. It turned out she had a huge brain tumor, but the doc never figured that out for 14 months until we finally demanded a CT scan and saw the monster. She died a week and a half later. But before that, the doc treated her inability to fall asleep with a variety of pills. He tried muscle relaxers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety pills, anti-depressants and Ambien to try to help her sleep. This was in a very fit, active and happy woman.
You'd think that after months of trying all of these options with no success he'd ponder why they weren't working. He didn't. But I digress.
Anyway, during the 10 days she took one Ambien at night to sleep, she was able to sleep a little, seemed completely coherent upon awakening, but later, we observed that it wiped her memory. She lost recall of her birthday, her party, her presents, her stay in the hospital, her visitors and anything else of consequence. This was a woman that the FBI offered a job to when she was younger due to her extreme memory for details. We were horrified and took the pills away.
So, a few minutes of sleep for a full memory wipe was simply not acceptable. So, for that reason I will not take it, nor recommend it.
It can be. One of many substances I’ve had a problem with over the years.
You might be suprised but tons of modern medicine create physical and psychological dependence. SSRI anti depressants create a physical dependence despite being absolutely worthless as far as "treating" depression goes, but people are instructed they need to be on them almost a year before they will feel anything, by that time they are incredibly physically dependent and will go through withdrawal without. Ambien is very addictive, similar to benzos in that not everyone will become psychologically addicted, but physical dependence will set in after a while. Even certain nose sprays create a physical dependence, Oxymetazoline (Afrin) will instantly clear your nostrils, but once it wears off you can hardly breath through your nose even after the very first dose, so a lot of people become physically dependent. Adderall is literally amphetamine, and we also prescribe methamphetamine to kids under the trade name "desoxyn". Ritalin and other "ADHD" meds while they might not be amphetamine based will cause psychological dependence very quick for a lot of people. Gabapentin and as another poster mentioned Lyrica as well are also very addictive.
Doctors hardly know or seem to care what they prescribe people, there are even some doctors that are so naive as to think opiates taken daily "as prescribed" will not be addictive! Ha! They use this logic with other medicine too, that if you just take it as prescribed, you won't become addicted, and if you do it's a sign you "abused" the medicine. As if a sheet of paper somehow causes the medicine to function differently once taken.
Yes and it made Rosanne call that black chick from ghost busters a gorilla. The more you know 🌈
Neither is my Lyrica…oh wait?!! Funny the “Dr” never mentioned it’s debilitating side-effects before I got addicted?!!!
Yup. Even if you aren’t psychologically addicted you can certainly have bad withdrawals.