Knotting on Ambien

Blergbot

Lets see if I can make anybsense, shall we? I hve this really stubborn inmomnia that JUST WON'T QUIT, so I take ambien, otherwise I'd be up until 3am every night. Usually Ambien works really well, but sometimes even that won't knock me out. It does, however, make me feel all high. Anyone else experience this? I've never sleepwalked or driven my car without being aware of it...the worst I've done is make random FB posts in gibberish and tell my ex what I really thout about the name he wanted for our completely hypothetical daughter.

hlvonb

Blergbot said:

Lets see if I can make anybsense, shall we? I hve this really stubborn inmomnia that JUST WON'T QUIT, so I take ambien, otherwise I'd be up until 3am every night. Usually Ambien works really well, but sometimes even that won't knock me out. It does, however, make me feel all high. Anyone else experience this? I've never sleepwalked or driven my car without being aware of it...the worst I've done is make random FB posts in gibberish and tell my ex what I really thout about the name he wanted for our completely hypothetical daughter.

@Blergbot

I have never experienced that nor have I taken Ambien but besides a few letters missing in words, you made sense

Blergbot

Thanks just wish I were asleep instead...

HisGirlFriday13

I am Knotting on three(ish) glasses of wine, which followed my latte at 8 p.m. and my adrenaline rush of fury around 9 p.m.

You made total sense!

(I also work with total morons, and routinely have to translate gibberish into useable English, soooooooo, I might not be the best baseline.)

What was the name for the hypothetical daughter? (Wine + journalist = nosy questions)

Blergbot

I was hoping someone would ask! It is TULIP. I shit you not. I didn't think he was serious. I apparently said it was laughable or it made me want to wretch or something. I don't rember, because AMBIEN. I didn't remember the name the next day, so I asked him, and apologized over my reaction. However, I made it very clear that I would never name my daughter tulip (because I'm not fucking insane!) it eventually playe a roll in our break up, if you can believe that shit. Ambien has worn off mostly...

Blergbot

I also had 3 glasses of wine...now I have insomnia+ horrible heartburn. Can I have all the antacid this time, instead of all the wine. Though all the wine still sounds pretty good...

HisGirlFriday13

I can believe that. That is a dreadful name. Although it is my favourite flower.

KytchynWitche

Tulip? Really?! You should just have told him the old joke "What's better than roses on a piano? Tulips on my organ!" I bet that would've shut him up FAST!

I'm sorry your Ambien wore off and didn't take effect. I too have battled insomnia for most of my life, and have experienced the not-knocked-out-but-high-as-a-kite sensation myself. It's fun, as long as you don't have anywhere to be the next day...

Jells2dot0

I currently take Ambien while I'm living in a hotel, but if you want to experience some real cray cray shit, take Sonata! It only lasts about 4 hours, so it's meant for people who need helping falling asleep rather than staying asleep. I did some ridiculous things while on it, at least according to my DH! I don't remember most of it. I do remember seeing a green net in front of my eyes and if I reached out to touch it, I could see the net wrap around my hand. Also, the furniture would move. Great stuff.

seshat303

Ambien worked reasonably well for me (I started sleeping okish, no crazy sleepwalking, felt fine the next morning) until I started breaking out in massive hives.  Then I got to take different drugs to knock me out at night (which eventually stopped working) and sleeping pill levels of benedryl during the day.  I do still get pretty loopy if I wake up at 2-3am and decide to just get out of bed, probably because continuous lack of sleep just makes you kind of crazy.

Also, if it makes you feel any better my ex though Asmodeus was a brilliant name if he ever had a son and FI is voting for Hooper Cooper (last name more or less ryhmes with super) for our hypothetical kid.  One of my friends made the observation that the kid would probably get called "pooper scooper" at some time in grade school/middle school.

blabla89

Made total sense. I took ambien for a while and felt a slightly zombieish and still didn't sleep well. Have you tried progressive muscle relaxation? That's one thing that actually helped me.

emmyg65

Oh man, I hate Ambien. I used to take it when I was in college, but then I found out that I had been out in my hall chatting with people and had no memory of it! Plus it still made me tired in the morning.

Sorry about your insomnia. It truly is the worst.

pumpkinsandturkeys

Tulips are my fave flower, too haha. I once had a glass of wine with my anxiety med (Ativan), and I'm pretty sure I spent an hour and a half just staring at the TV... which was turned off.

A friend of ours takes Ambien regularly, and she ends up pretty looped sometimes. Her best description of it is all of the Ambien Walrus comics:

Blergbot

I love Ambien Walrus! @lalalaurita yep, tried that, but it doesn't work for me. Ambien usually does the trick, and I usually wake up well rested, but sometimes it doesn't work and then I'm kinda stuck.

Blergbot

Also, tulips are lovely. Tulip as a name makes me want to gag (which, now that I'm totally lucid, is, I think, what he told me I said at the time,)

afox007

I miss my Ambien, but I do not miss the totally insane nights from when I couldn't sleep. One of the few I remember was my now ex was watching River Monsters and I was convinced the scary looking fish was trying to eat my foot every time I let it slip off the couch.

This was the fish:

pittiemama14

My mom used to take Lunesta, and once she came into my room with her pj shorts on with both legs in one hole, and told me that she couldn't find her other leg to put in her pj's. It was pretty funny, even though she was very upset about her missing leg. Lol.

Also.... TULIP?!? Just. No. My H calls our hypothetical son Stompy. He's kidding. I hope.

KeptInStitches

All this thread has done is convince me that, no matter how bad my insomnia stays, I'm never taking sleep aids. I'm loopy enough in real life without pills to help me along the way.