Comments on: UPDATE: Ambien lawsuits no longer being pursued

By: marci

marci — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:47:34 +0000

My 24 year old son commited suicideby shooting himself in the head on nov 4,2011. He was taking zolpidem under doctors care. The pain I feel is unspeakable. if i can save another person pain i would in a minute.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:56:04 +0000

My Ambien story luckily does not involve being pulled over for DUI but I guarantee if I had been pulled over I would have went to jail. At 3:30 in the morning after working a 10 hour shift I took 1 Ambien and went straight to bed. I can’t say when I got up. I know I worked on a deck of mine simply by the progress made. I fell sometime that day but didn’t know it until the next day when I got out of the shower. I had two large scrapes on my left foot and one on the left side of my forehead above my eye. I don’t remember drinking but, I was even though I had to work that afternoon. The next thing I remember is being confronted at work by a supervisor and my manager after going to work at 3:30 and them asking me how I got the scrape on my head. I didn’t know I had fallen earlier at home so I told them I bumped it on some equipment. I failed a breathalyzer test and was fired after 17 years of employment with a perfect work record. Even though I was fired for failing the breathalyzer test I blame the Ambien. I couldn’t remember hardly anything that went on that day. I was truly an Ambien zombie that day and I’m lucky I didn’t hurt or kill anyone by driving under the influence. Ambien has turned my life completely upside down and for the first time in my life feel a lawsuit justifiable. I lost a 60k a year job.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:13:33 +0000

I am just wondering how many more people will have to die, go to jail, be treated for long term diseases, loose their jobs, families and friends until the law(Lawers), who iare supposed to protect the citizens, take a stand on it. We have these big controversies about marijuana, alcohol, and other drugs, but nobody (except the afflicted patients or families of Ambien actual/former users) are trying to do something about it. What a shame! Isn’t the justice system supposed to protected us? Isn’t the FDA supposed to to protect us? Aren’t Lawers supposed to defend our cases no matter what, until the end? Ambien harmed users are not on it for the money. All they want is to ban a lethal drug from the market!!! I can’t help but just ask myself which segment is on it for the money, on way or another.

By: randy

randy — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:35:08 +0000

Mine wife shoot herself in the head april 11, 2011. I had her blood tested and it can back with high amounts of ambien.she was a god loving person. I blame ambien for her suicide. She no idea wants she was doing.

By: ronnie

ronnie — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:43:36 +0000

i took ambien and woke up with a 7 year prison sentence for crashing my vehicle into a building and threatening an officer and don’t remember a damn thing. i just got out after doing the entire sentence. Ambien sucks!

By: Darryl

Darryl — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:10:36 +0000

Driving one morning and noticed my friends car wrecked on the side of highway with police behind it. I stopped to inquire and police told me my friend was in jail for DUI. I went to get him out and he literally was still sleep walking and told me he didn’t remember anything except taking sleeping pills before bed. I asked what pills, he said Ambien. I didn’t know these side effects until reading this and he didn’t know either. Now he has to go to court get car fixed and pay tickets! This is too real to believe NOONE is doing anything about it!

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:25:56 +0000

My brother gpt out of bed got his gum went to the garage starting shooting his gun at the back of the house, his wife called the police, a Swat team came out (5) officers, they say he shot 18 shots and they shot close to 200, his gun jammed and they tazared him and arrested him for five counts of attempted murder. He does not remember anything and it has been ~ 7 weeks and he still does not remember anything. He has been on ambien for many years and based on his wife’s account of how many was missing he apparantly took three and does not remember anything. Can this be addressed with Ambien makers? My brother has never been in any trouble.

By: raissa

raissa — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:41:10 +0000

Just lost a family member due to sucide after taking ambien for only about 45 days and the month before was unbelivable events — no one knew the effects

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:49:22 +0000

Yes, I do agree that ambien is a dangerous drug. I was fortunate that my husband was observing me after I had taken a ambien. About 30min prior. It had started to take effect. I don,t remember much, but my husband had noticed a big sudden change in me, the way I was acting. It was not me at all. I was walking around the house, looking for something, still don’t know what I was looking for. I acted as if I was drunk. I went into my car that was parked in my garage, started the engine and started to drive forwards into my utility cabinet. According to my husband he started to yell at me, asking me what I was doing. He finally did get me out of the car. The next day when he told me all this I was horrified. Yes, I do believe that this drug is very unpredictable and dangerous.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:46:06 +0000

Dec 26,2009
I took ambien for a good nights sleep, and woke up the next day with a broken back after learning I had fallen down the stairs and broke a wall. the rest of the story hasn’t been any better. The pain is angony and I now have a bulging disk and pinched nerves in my spine. I need money to fix this. Please teel me what to do?