thoughts?

Wish I had some.

Bunch of druggies.

;)

No dice..anything with the weird ass side effects that stuff has? No thanks.

Made me tired all the next day..

I take the CR version, but only rarely. I have to be careful not to sleep too late, as my blood sugar drops (but that's from a preexisting hypoglycemia problem, not the drug).

I don't find it hard to function after waking. In fact, it helps pretty good. I'll usually set an alarm or something to make sure I don't overdo it...and keep some Gatorade and glucose tablets handy for the inevitable bathroom call wake-up a few hours in.

I've had insomnia most of my life. The only thing that worked reliably is Tylenol PM, or more to the point, the generic version of Benadryl with the same allergy med in it, so I don't take more Tylenol than I can help. Still, that stuff only goes so far. Ambien will usually knock me down for hours, starting just about 15-20 minutes after I take it.

The only real beeotch of it for me is it's not cheap, and my insurance doesn't cover it. Still worth it for me, however.

I tried the CR, but it really didn't do much for me. I could take one and still stay up all night, but I think it's from lack of discipline. If I took it and then went and laid down right away, I would probably fall asleep. But I don't seem to be able to do that, I have to be almost dead tired before I can lay down and just drift off to sleep.

I need to get my sleep pattern back on a 1st shift track.

Ambien isn't too bad as far as hypnotics go. If you can get Zolpiderm, the generic form, it's much cheaper. I take it on flights over the Atlantic. Makes the time pass much more quickly. Start with the 5mg tablets and then go up from there if they don't work for you.

Skip the hypnotics and use benzo's. Valium, xanax, klonopin, etc, etc. They have been around for decades. Just dont get hooked.

#2. You can buy on the internet.

Masturbation works just as well for going back to sleep.

No drugs for me. Heard too many horror stories with that stuff.

GREAT stuff... I use the generic as needed...

agree with djk in above.

during long flights i have used atavan and had me dozing for a good 2-3 hours at a time with no grogginess afterwards.

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Try a little pot. It's safer. 😃

^ ... sadly enough, you may actually have a valid point there ... currently, from what I keep hearing on the news at least - there has not ever been one single recorded incident of anyone ever overdosing on pot - but Ambien has messed up some people's lifes and there are some reported deaths from it's usage ...

... supposedly, they are making pot in a pill form now that's supposed to work very well for a lot of people ... and personally, I don't see how (in a pill form) it could be considered to be any different from Vicodin, Hydromorphone, Percocet or Oxy ... so the THC in pill form sounds like it is even a lot safer ...

... and if they'd just legalize it and tax it like alcohol they could save/make billions of dollars each and every year ... as well as eliminate a LOT of the criminal/legal issues ... of course, we'd still have the illegal bootleggers growing their own, but it could even remove a lot of the drug dealers on the streets and the FDA would stand to make a hefty profit to be self-sufficient financially ...

They have never been able to make a pill that works as well as the real thing, so far. And why should they anyway? So big pharma can control something available for free? BS. Let people grow their own and just stop this war on personal freedom.

Free POT? Since when could you get it for free?

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... legalize it, but yes, I do agree that some form of regulation should be in effect ... but I'd rather not see another large Government Agency coming in and charging millions of dollars annually and keep trying to justify their paychecks ... that's my biggest concern with them making it legal ...

... somewhere, somehow, there will be Government waste, fraud and abuse if they legalize it - politicians are just dirty by nature and sadly enough, that's not likely to change ...