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Ambien stopped working

Sleep Health | Last Active: Jun 25 7:56pm | Replies (123)

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@ripley

Can you offer more info on your experiences with Ambien and Lunesta, such as your dose, length of time taking them, etc. Also do they make you tired the next day? I am most worried about the side effect of sleep walking without knowing it. My sleep issues are related to an auto-immune disease I have.

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Sure. I have had insomnia for years and have taken several medications for it. I took Klonipin for a few years but had to keep increasing the dosage until it just quit working at an acceptable dose. That’s when I was put on Ambien. It worked well for a couple of years at 10mg a night. I never experienced sleep walking or any of the things that people supposedly do when taking it. Eventually though I had trouble staying asleep all night. When I switched to the 15 mg extended release, I had trouble getting to sleep but could stay asleep once I got there. I was still working and getting up at 6 every morning so that was a problem, so I went back to the 10 mg. Then my dr suggested trying Lunesta - same family of med as Ambien. It work well for a couple of months then nor so much, so I started taking the ambien I had left and it worked again. So now, the plan is take one until it doesn’t work then switch to the other for awhile. Neither make me feel bad in the morning. Not sleeping does!