ambien vs. lunesta

[galaxy]

Basically the same thing.

Lunesta basically did a study to get it approved for long term use unlike ambien. Ambien will soon be approved for longer use also.

Its all about marketing and whos paying ur doc the most to prescribe what. Sad but true.lol

My doc was gonna give me some trazadone to help me sleep also, but i didnt really feel like being on another anti depressant as it is im on lexapro now. No sexual sides with the lexapro like the effexor i was taking.

Anyone else have experiences with trazadone?

 

[JuicedAthletics]

I was on a script of trazadone or kolonopin? for about 4 months.. My dad became very ill and I just started a new job living about 1500miles away from my parents. I am an only child so i had to try and take care of my mom and sick father at the same time. My doc prescribed the meds even though I am usually the most laid back carefree guy out there. They worked well but are very addicting. I stopped cold turkey because I found better ways to deal with my stress but I went through some horrible withdrawles. Galaxy, if its for sleep I would stay with ambien, the worst sides are a stuffy nose and occasional headaches.. Benzos are a bad idea to use for sleep....

 

[Indy]

I was on a script of trazadone or kolonopin? for about 4 months.. My dad became very ill and I just started a new job living about 1500miles away from my parents. I am an only child so i had to try and take care of my mom and sick father at the same time. My doc prescribed the meds even though I am usually the most laid back carefree guy out there. They worked well but are very addicting. I stopped cold turkey because I found better ways to deal with my stress but I went through some horrible withdrawles. Galaxy, if its for sleep I would stay with ambien, the worst sides are a stuffy nose and occasional headaches.. Benzos are a bad idea to use for sleep....

Gotta go with Juiced on this one....

 

[markshark]

im on traz, ambien and lunesta right now. i have such bad insomnia that i get scripts for all 3. traz has the lowest amount of sides of all antidepressants and the sedating effects can help with sleep. as far as ambien, it puts me to sleep fast and then i wake up only after a few hours and cant get back to sleep. lunesta lets me sleep longer

 

[criffer]

lunesta and ambien about the same, but lunesta gave me a horrible taste in my mouth , so im on ambien now

 

[ruggermu]

Yeah I think the work about the same. I also got the horrible taste in my mouth from lun. Also the reason I went back to Ambien is one of the possible sides of Lun is Gyno. I take enough gyno risks, that's not woth it to me.

 

[markshark]

you guys that take sleep meds, how often do you take them? just curious because i know when i take them one night and the next night i try not to, i cant sleep that next night. i usually have to go through the whole bottle and run out of it and ten go through like 3 days of insomnia before im back to sleeping again.

 

[Lupercal CATS]

Ambien hardly does shit for me. I've taken 40mg at a time and it still takes about 1-2 hours to knock me out.

 

[massgainer]

I was on traz 50 mg every night for about 3 years. I found it addicting as hell and if I went somewhere and forgot my traz, I couldn't sleep. I quit cold turkey with some withdrawls, but sleep much better now without anything. Just lay there and eventually you will fall asleep if you relax. It's better than getting hooked on some shit.

 

[mademale]

I remeber one time i was prescribed ambien for sleep i took two pills and i started hallucinating so bad it was crazy.... anyone else had that happen to them?

 

[Advisor_x]

Ambien is amnesic so if you take higher than 10mg you probably will not rember the night and has a bounce effect you could keep you up with out you knowing, more if you had some beers or wine..............

 

[galaxy]

Yeah the windows on my screen will start popping out at me. I know its time to shut down and sleep then.lol Doesnt always happen tho, but i kinda like it when it does.lol

 

[Mr. Laredo]

Ambien hardly does shit for me. I've taken 40mg at a time and it still takes about 1-2 hours to knock me out.

HOLY CRAP...........IF I TOOK THAT MUCH I WOULD GO IN A COMA

 

[DRG]

I remeber one time i was prescribed ambien for sleep i took two pills and i started hallucinating so bad it was crazy.... anyone else had that happen to them?

Yes. I called it dreaming while awake. But hallucinating works too. I cut the dose in half and it went away.

Ambien did not keep me asleep all night though. Only about 3-4 hours.

I take Lunesta now. I get the bad taste in the mouth but is is gone by the morning. I generally wake up with a headache that goes away after I have been up for awhile.

 

[Indy]

You guys will love this. From time to time my wife will take an Ambien from my medicine chest if she has problems falling asleep at night, unfortunately that doesn't happen very often, and here's why..

When she takes Ambien, and I dont know why, but EVERYTIME she takes it, I have the WILDEST sexual sessions with her, I have ever seen, and each time get's better. She is experimental, more open than ever, and keeps going for a couple of hours until she just falls asleep from the medication....She doesn't remember it ALL, but if I tell her about it, it comes back to her mind....When I ask her she cannot explain it, just says that it makes her hornier than anything she has ever seen before.

A little off topic, but an intertesting read of a FANTASTIC side effect of Ambien....which means my vote is still for Ambien being the sleeping med of choice in my medicine chest !!

 

[schneiderc2004]

Yeah, both of them are pretty much the same. I've tried Ambien but it gives me dizziness on the following day, and a feeling of bein druged. For insomnia I just take 1mg of Ativan and it works fine.

 

[Advisor_x]

You know is a no no when drinking...LOL

HOLY CRAP...........IF I TOOK THAT MUCH I WOULD GO IN A COMA