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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Do they even prescribe that anymore? That shit was horrible

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

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