Comment on Anon can't sleep

• tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Holy shit

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “at least buy me a dinner first”

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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