Posted by yxibow on February 5, 2009, at 5:43:29
In reply to Re: Ambien and numbness, posted by Betsy122 on February 3, 2009, at 15:14:35
> Thank you Scott! I am aware of this, but I am wondering if anyone has had personal experience with this side effect. I also wanted reassurance that this effect fades if one goes off of ambien, which I am trying hard to do!
It sounds like a pretty rare side effect and it could also be a random occurrence, as parasthesias do occur for other reasons.
As for sleep medications, basically the FDA put a warning on everything that could possibly be soporific, just like the suicide warnings on every possible antidepressant under the sun. *ss protecting, in a sense.
Yes, there have been, and I don't mean to be crass about it, people who have claimed to have baked and eaten an entire lot of cookies while sleepwalking on one of these sleep medications or something else, but those are rather rare effects and can also have to do with just random genetics and age also is a factor.
Lunesta is a better medication for long term sleep use of the pseudobenzodiazepines.But there are other things too that can be used longer, like doxylamine succinate (Unisom main formula), amitriptyline, etc... depending of course on what other medications are on board.
-- hope things clear up
-- Jay
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