Comments on: NCBI ROFL: Writing emails as part of sleepwalking after increase in Zolpidem [Ambien].

By: Bluzonepc

Bluzonepc — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:49:08 +0000

wow i never new you could sleep email OMG

By: gordon

gordon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:16:24 +0000

Ha, having a flue, I gave my wife an ambien and i went to sleep on the couch. 6 am she was yelling and screaming so I went to see what was wrong. She told me that she s*** the bed.
After partially removing the covers, yes, indeed, there were dozens of skidmarks going in every direction.
Something was wrong though. There was no smell. i pulled back the covers fully and found an empty box of chocolate chip cookies. Apparently the chips fell out and melted overnight due to body head. She had no recallection of eating cookies; but she did a good jub cleaning the bathroom.

She hasnt tried them again.

[Moderator's note: edited the cuss word.]

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:44:29 +0000

Yes I emailed someone at 1 in the morning in Turkey, I only knew to look at my sent messages because he emailed me back that night. That is is scary to me. I can never take that medicine again, I cant trust myself when I sleep. That happens a year ago too, but I went outside!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:30:55 +0000

My mother-in-law took Ambien for a few years and started noticing weird things when she would wake up; keys in the microwave, shoes moved from the closet to the kitchen table, tuna salad prepared for lunch with no recollection of doing it, etc. She didn’t put two and two together and one night my husband received a phone call from her asking if he wanted apple pie around 11pm when she should have been in bed which he told her to go to sleep, about twenty minutes later he received another phone call from the police that she had driven her truck into a tree a block away from her house. She was still in her night gown and wasn’t injured but she totaled her truck and caused a lot of damage to the tree and took out a fence in the process. To this day she doesn’t recall the accident or the phone call she made to my husband. She also no longer takes Ambien.

By: CoffeeCupContrails

CoffeeCupContrails — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:06:00 +0000

Oh dear. Been there, done that. Done that again. And I’ve only been on Ambien 10mg for a month now. The sleep has been fairly restful, but it has worn off already and I get 5-6 hours myself.

Anyway, I’ve had mildly exciting hallucinations :
1. letters on my computer screen clearly being alive as I type emails I’ve regretted the next morning. They dont jump around, but they ‘feel’ alive, like a fly on the window that doesn’t move. Some letters are more pleasant than others.

2. Talk to myself more loudly and freely.

3. Have conversations with friends and family completely consciously and seemingly with full awareness of what I’m doing and saying (a bit excitedly), but have NO recollection of it the next morning.

I can see how the lady would do that. Although I feel she may have been conscious and active while she checked her emails but must, like me, have NO memory of it the next day.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:12:51 +0000

I’ve been taking Ambien for the last six years and have no shortage of embarrassing stories. I once text messaged an attractive female friend and told her I was going to become a male prostitute. I even gave her my rates.

By: daffodil

daffodil — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:52:42 +0000

I can totally relate. I have been taking zolpidem or Lunesta on and off for some time, and I have posted some strange things on Facebook with no recall of it the next day. Fortunately, nothing horribly embarrassing (except spelling and grammar errors, which is not typical for my writing) has been posted, but I do check my account every morning to double check. I live alone now, but my former live-in partner has detailed some interesting conversations I have supposedly had with him which I also do not remember. Thankfully, I have not attempted to drive or operate heavy machinery or tearfully call ex-beaux (at least that I have been made aware of).

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:45:26 +0000

The case mixing looks like the caps lock was on. She shifted the opening ‘c’ which in caps lock mode would shift it down to the lower case. Still, very strange.