Rules for taking Ambien?

No legal documents!!  I wrote my daughter a hurtful letter in the middle of the night a few years ago in a Ambien daze.  Wish I'd have read it in the morning before I sent it.  Don't drive if you've taken it...I almost crashed my truck while on it.  Do boring stuff if you wake in the middle of the night...Not important stuff.  You sort of have (are in) a daze of what happened during the night even when you are awake during that time.  Brian

I agree with everyone - take when you are ready for bed..

I have also had a few "blackout/sleepwalking" periods in the middle of the night where I have done/said things I have NO memory of.  I haven't tried to leave the house or drive, but I have woken up on the couch and with some weird things in bed with me. Use caution..

I could handle waking up with some weird "'tall, dark" something in bed with me .... !!!! hahaha! Oops, I'll slap mahself!!!!!

Actually, we alter them as time goes on but:
1. do not get out of bed
2. do not shop, catalog, phone or TV
3. do not get out of bed
4. BACK AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD!
5. do not get out of bed
6. do not find ANY reason to go into the kitchen
7. do not get out of bed
8. do not pluck your eyebrows
9. do not get out of bed
10. do not cut your toenails, bangs, any hair
11. do not get out of bed

Learned this one today: do not pick up the phone and speed dial someone - it was hysterical but it wasn't me!

Add your own!

Did you catch rule 1? DO NOT GET OUT OF BED, no matter how "good an idea" it seems to you and you think you are not sleep yet. You are ALREADY asleep!

 That is exacting what I was looking for. The ones I have to agree is the eating. I got out of bed and was eating slices of American cheese and kept saying they were nasty so I would spit it out and put another one in my mouth and spit it out, hubby realized I was really out of it and actually picked me up and put me in bed. 

Another time I redo a whole website. I honestly thought about it and thought I dreamed it and checked it in the morning and sure enough I had redone the whole website. 

Thanks Michelle.

Ambien has been a lifesaver for my lack of ability to sleep, but it has caused some amazingly hilarious stories. I'll list a few:

1) The first time I ever took it I was in the process of moving out of my mom's house and in with my boyfriend. I took it, then went upstairs and continued sorting some of the things to be packed. Once it kicked in, I decided it would be an awesome idea to try on all the clothes I had and then decide if I should keep it or Goodwill it. In my ambien haze, I managed to try everything I own on, look in a mirror, say "Damn this looks good!" and then throw it in the keep pile. Nothing made it to the Goodwill pile

2) I went to DC for the Stewart/Colbert rallies and stayed with friends. It was winding down to bedtime, so I took my dose. After that they decided to stay up longer, so I stayed up too. I felt fine, but apparently started talking about "planty people" who were "talking in rogues". I then said that the rag on her fridge and the TV tray next to it were dancing.

Well, at my house the rules should have been: Take away the credit card, lock the computer and do not let EN out of bed.. I spent wayyyyy too much money I don't remember spending when I took Ambien. :-p

Hence, RILE NUMBER 1


Everything seems like such a GREAT idea!