Comment on Anon can't sleep

Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fucking Ambien. I tried it for a week to help with my insomnia and it did not work at all. I would get a little sleepy for about 5 minutes then I was loopy as hell and very active/hyper. At about the 10-15 minute mark my memory would crap out so all the best stories I can’t even recall just what people told me the next day. Things like laying down on a skateboard and scooting around with my hands, sobbing about the small villagers in the bed that we’re going to lose their culture if the blankets got disrupted, searching the house for the blacksmith and winding up talking to my frog about his sword making. Wild stuff. I threw out the rest of the bottle after a few days because if it wasn’t helping me sleep and I couldn’t remember the high what even is the point

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Do they even prescribe that anymore? That shit was horrible

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  • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who’s having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn’t comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You don’t hear horror stories about it anymore. Who was it that almost drove off a cliff? Jack Nicholson?

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      • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yup: news24.com/…/i-warned-heath-says-nicholson-200801…

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      • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There was also that lady that drove to a gas station on ambien and had sex with a stranger then woke up the next morning and thought she had been raped

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It was given out promotionally then. My GP gave me a free sample that the ambien company dumped on him.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      what. the. fuck.

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      • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        he considered it a psych drug. this is the same Doctor who would ask me if I wanted a prostate exam or not during my physical. like who asks that? nobody wants one, but at a certain age everybody needs one every year. found out later it’s because he was a germaphobe

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes but not often. I actually have patients request it a LOT but I rarely see it prescribed. If the patient has been on it for a while, they’ll at the very least need to taper off of it to prevent seizures iirc, but honestly even then I see most doctors preferring benzos over ambien which is wild because benzos are nasty shit (if you need 'em you need 'em, but you do not want to need them)!

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ambien works almost exactly like benzos, it’s no less nasty. Benzos at least tend to be more predictable than Ambien

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      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s what I’m saying! Being on par or even worse than benzos is something!

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh yeah. It still seems to be a preferred option. Dependency doesn’t seem to be an issue, although tolerance does. Not everyone has quite OP’s reaction, although it’s not uncommon.

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• apt8@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hopefully we can all be lucky enough to meet the walrus some day.

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