Posted by jacquie on May 2, 2000, at 18:12:58
In reply to Re: Jacquie/ ambien and memory loss, posted by Mark H. on May 1, 2000, at 12:40:35
Hi Mark- thanks for the info. Ambien is very strange, but I must say that it works. I have learned to be very, very careful what I say and do and write and compute 20-30 minutes after I take it. I was told I talked very slowly and sounded drugged (don't remember this phone call) and then every once and awhile I look at my emails from the night before...no more emails after taking the ambien! Falling out of bed...yikes. Can't say that has happened to me. PLEASE be ever so careful...it helps to have humor and laugh at ourselves. I feel deeply for LK having lost an entire years worth of memories. Sometimes as they say the cure is worse than the disease. Thanks for sharing, Mark. I hope you're getting some rest. best to you, jacquie
> Hi Jacquie,
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> Wow! A year! Ambien is incredibly effective, but I just can't use it any more. My wife says I have fallen out of bed twice, that I flop around so much she thought we were having an earthquake -- I'll take it one more time just so she can videotape it and show me what it does, but I've actually hurt my back TWICE falling out of bed, and of course I thought I got a perfectly peaceful night's sleep.
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> One other caution: I made the mistake of taking it while still on the computer (thinking I was going right to bed, yeah sure), and Sue says when she came to get me, it was like I was drunk and incoherent, and I fell down the stairs!! A friend of mine said the same thing happened to him!
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> It's an amazing drug, but I'm done with it (except for the home video night -- I've got to see this flopping around stuff).
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> Mark H.
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