I know a lot of you are probably on ambien or tried it in the past. But wanted to share my story as a warning. THe night of my accident, i took an ambien to go to sleep. As my name says, i am a night nurse, so have had insomnia for years, even before starting my career and have taken ambien for about 4 years now with some breaks in between and not always every night. That night i took it, stayed awake too long, and spilled water and fell and had my first injury, a blow to the back of the head causing a coup-contrecoup injury. I have absolutely no memory for 12 hours after that from being unconscious, but i did get up and try and get help and fell many more times, once into a door (from how things looked the next day) and had a second impact and had a bad black eye and temporal hit. Im sure you all hear stories about people sleep walking or eating without remembering it. But i fell and ended up with a traumatic brain injury. So for those of you already dealing with PCS, please be careful with taking ambien because we all know how bad a second insult could be to our sensitive brains.

I was taking lunesta...(paying myself waiting for insurance to cover long story)..anyway had to switch to ambien. Either way - same type of drug. I talk in my sleep...catch myself and husband says it too. Last night I didnt' take anything and I slept a total of 2 hours....15 mins here and there maybe 45 mins at a long stretch.

I am starting ambien tonight...and of all things our toilet is broke! I'm hoping not to go during the night..if so, using the upstairs one if I remember!!

WTRPK-

Good luck with Ambien. I unfortunately did not react well to it. I ended up being up for 72 hours straight... It had the complete opposite effect on me!

Hopefully for you it will give you quality sleep that you need without any of the weird side effects.

Trying to live with disrupted sleep is awful. If I don't take trazadone, I get maybe a half an hour every few hours for a total of maybe 2 hours a night? Two days ago our pharmacy closed before my boyfriend could pick it up. It was 24 hours of insanity for me, in which I slept for a total of 45 minutes.

Wishing you peaceful, refreshing rest!