*trying to figure out the last panel in the meme*
“Computer, enhance.”
How the fuck?
Reminds me of that sleepwalker perk on fallout London
Mild side-effect, don’t worry about it.
Somnambulism actually would explain anon’s terrible sleep tho.
I had a friend whose mom was prescribed Ambien. I think it was the first time I’d ever heard of it. She said she kept having experiences like waking up in bed with empty bags of flour and jars of mayonnaise, so she stopped taking it.
My ex GF had a roommate who was taking this stuff and apparently frequently woke up with empty bags of McDonald’s or Taco Bell on the bed, meaning he’d literally sleepwalk to his car, go to the drive thru, order, drive back, and eat, all without remembering any of it the next day. No idea how this stuff is even legal, it’s a miracle he never ended up in a car accident.
It does seem pretty wild how widely it’s prescribed given anecdotes like that. I also a knew a guy who had been taking it for over 10 years and clearly was wildly addicted.
Ambien. Ambien happened.
Fucking Ambien. I tried it for a week to help with my insomnia and it did not work at all. I would get a little sleepy for about 5 minutes then I was loopy as hell and very active/hyper. At about the 10-15 minute mark my memory would crap out so all the best stories I can’t even recall just what people told me the next day. Things like laying down on a skateboard and scooting around with my hands, sobbing about the small villagers in the bed that we’re going to lose their culture if the blankets got disrupted, searching the house for the blacksmith and winding up talking to my frog about his sword making. Wild stuff. I threw out the rest of the bottle after a few days because if it wasn’t helping me sleep and I couldn’t remember the high what even is the point
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Do they even prescribe that anymore? That shit was horrible
Yes but not often. I actually have patients request it a LOT but I rarely see it prescribed. If the patient has been on it for a while, they’ll at the very least need to taper off of it to prevent seizures iirc, but honestly even then I see most doctors preferring benzos over ambien which is wild because benzos are nasty shit (if you need 'em you need 'em, but you do not want to need them)!
general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who’s having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn’t comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien
what. the. fuck.
The only rationale I can think of is that trazodone has a small risk of causing mania if you’re sensitive to it since technically it’s serotonergic but what the actual fuck. Ambien is waaay more dangerous!
You don’t hear horror stories about it anymore. Who was it that almost drove off a cliff? Jack Nicholson?
Oh yeah. It still seems to be a preferred option. Dependency doesn’t seem to be an issue, although tolerance does. Not everyone has quite OP’s reaction, although it’s not uncommon.
Hopefully we can all be lucky enough to meet the walrus some day.
The first rule of the Loaf Club…
