Re: Sleepwalking and Ambien thread ..Ambien driving leads to DUI?

[likesmountains 52]

http://www.durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/07/news071012_1.htm

[VenusRising]

1. It's becoming an epidemic.

Just yesterday my husband and I were driving home and we were behind a vehicle with a Bush/Cheney sticker and a personalized license plate that said "AMBEE N". Now that's some freeper loyalty right there. :puke:

[Lady Effingbroke]

2. My friend took Ambien, 'sleep drove', and wrecked her car.

No one was hurt, but the car she hit was totaled, and there was several thousand dollars' damage to her car.

After that incident, her husband confiscated the shit and flushed it (before that she had other incidents where she sleep walked and 'sleep cooked', frying a pan of Crisco thinking it was grits - and she doesn't even like grits. It's a wonder she didn't burn her house down).

Ambien is Bad Shit.

[VenusRising]

3. I'm glad your friend is ok.

I'm also glad that her husband had the foresight to take them away before something irreversible happened.

[likesmountains 52]

4. That's scary...glad no one was hurt. I don't know why this guy took an Ambien in the middle

of the day b/c he didn't feel well..

[Lady Effingbroke]

6. My friend was prescribed Ambien b/c of nerve damage in her legs,

which was causing her not to sleep well.

Since she wrecked her car she has returned to her doctor and received other medication for the nerve damage which is working much better without the scary side effects.

[halobeam]

7. sounds like now the root problem is being addressed.

I wonder why the Ambien first?

[halobeam]

5. How many ppl are going to get seriously injured before they pull this medication already?!?!

I was about an inch from losing my life from Ambien. I was up in the middle of the night, all drawers of a solid mahogany dresser pulled out (they were filled w/ clothes), so the thing started falling down toward me, I was sitting on the floor getting something out of the bottom drawer (what for.. no clue, don't remember it at all)..

Thank God right before it fell over, hubs heard me making a racket in the next room, came in and saw dresser start falling onto me, pulled me away just in time. I was talking in a child-like voice, weirdest thing EVER!! He was seriously freaked out (must've thought me possessed or something..poor guy) he remembers this, and I don't.

He put me back in bed and that was it. Threw the stuff right out.

REALLY BAD CHEMICALS.