Posted on 05/30/2018 11:47:00 AM PDT by davikkm
Conservative media pioneer Matt Drudge slammed drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis on Wednesday for mocking Roseanne Barr’s suggestion that her racially charged remark about Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett was induced by Ambien. “The drug company mocking Roseanne for her mental illness while they drug a generation is a new low!” Drudge tweeted at the drugmaker’s Twitter handle, @SanofiUS, including three sources detailing the drug’s scary side effects.
The first report — published by Thought Catalog, titled “44 Ambien Stories That Will Creep You The Eff Out” — is a listicle of people recounting their bizarre experiences while on the drug.
One person says they had no recollection of purchases they made on Amazon.
I tried Ambien for a while. I would take it about 30 minutes before going to bed and browse around online, waiting for it to kick in. I started receiving packages from Amazon that I didn’t order. It was all good stuff that I liked, so I called around to family and friend trying to figure out who was so kind to send me stuff. When my credit card bill came, everything was on there, thankfully nothing I couldn’t afford. I checked my Amazon account, and apparently I ordered them myself and don’t recall it. Thanks Ambien. I stopped taking it for fear of what else I might do.
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Wasn’t Ambien Bill Cosby’s drug-of-choice for rendering women helpless?
Ambien is dangerous stuff. Most people think it is a “sleep aid”, because that is how it is marketed. It is not a sedative, though, it is a “hypnotic”. Rather than actually inducing sleep directly, it shuts off your higher, conscious brain function while allowing your lower, subconscious functions to keep working, at least for some time.
Basically it can put you in a state similar to a sleepwalker, or a blacked out drunk, rather than just putting you to sleep.
Agree
LOL. Trump supporter that I am, I still have to say this is funny.
Did it exist at that time? I thought it was roofies (Rohypnol).
They ‘say’ that he was using Vicodin and Ambien combined. Lousy combination. He was begging for trouble. I think that’s part of the problem....you don’t realize how stupid you can get, and then wake to realize you did something really bad (like cranking up your mower while it’s sitting inside of the garage, and just letting it run).
Trump does have a touch of gorilla guerilla in him, so to speak. Sometimes I wish he’d rein it in. There’s a lot of hyperbole which isn’t helpful (and Pence would never go for it, however dutifully he serves in the background now). At some time we have to stop taunting the fools and speak to them with pity instead.
It can be dangerous, true. I take it about once a month, cutting the dose in half. It puts me into a natural sleep with no side effects, providing the off switch perfectly. But for some folks it is a troublemaker.
Nobody was after them until the snarky tweet. Sanofi knows Ambien is a mess. They got a pass from the FDA and its out there. Oxy is similar. It’s a mess too.
I would have just shut up and let the thing leave the news cycle.
Too late for that. Daddy’s mad, and he’s going to break it off in Sanofi before this is all said and done.
I still don’t see the racism in her tweet.
Such medicines need tighter watch on how they are administered. A trust-but-verify policy is needed in some cases. Go ahead and give the Oxy but in small quantities while periodic blood, urine, or hair tests are used to verify patient compliance. After a period, the tests can be spaced out more. And Ambien patients need to be interviewed on the results of the therapy. Any sign of sleepwalking and it should be stopped.
In elderly patients, and depending upon patient's metabolism rate (Labs - I. e., LabCorp - now able to test for and predict that rate), this and other meds must be dosed differently to avoid serious consequences. Actually, it is family members who must be interviewed in many cases, because the patient for whom the drug is prescribed, because of strokes, or other conditions, may be unable to perceive his/her abnormal behavior.
MY DH took some 1/2 hour before driving home from somewhere thinking it would not kick in right away. Wow, did he have a “fun” ride home. Didn’t know where he was going, light posts seemed to be moving in their own, got lost, fortunately found a huge land markHe hasn’t taken the stuff since
Didn’t one of the Kennedy women successfully use Ambien as her legal defense? I seem to remember something like that.
I used to sleep walk as a kid so wouldn’t dare take the stuff.
However, it would be neat to wake up with the house painted.
Kerry Kennedy.
Patrick Kennedy also had a rather bizarre incident talking to Ambien Walrus when he crashed his car in front of the Capitol.
Ah, thanks. Looks like the Ambien defense only works for the libs.
https://www.drugs.com/sfx/ambien-side-effects.html
I’d call “confusion” an open door to a lot of -isms.
Made me all beery and happy and I told jokes and stories the whole two-hour drive, all of them witty and hilarious, of course.
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