As in Heaven, so on earth.
Gfaptor
Pie Moderator
My big boss was taking Ambien, sleep drove, and flipped his car. At least, that is the story he is going with.
I can sympathize with orderfire with how unpleasant severe constipation can be. I had a bout this summer and even went to an urgent care place because I was getting rather worried. I was told if I didn’t get results that night I should go to the ER to be disimpacted :eek:. Fortunately I found that Fleet enemas can work wonders.
Uh huh. I read an article last year that followed up on 70 “sleep driving” police accident reports, and 100% of the time the geniuses who had accidents had purposely taken it before driving, figuring it wouldn’t kick in until they reached their destination. Obviously they were wrong.
Jesus. As a very happy Ambien taker, I have to say there it takes a truly special breed of stupid to do this.
I need someone to moderate my pie intake. Trying to lose the holiday pounds and all 
Hijack/serious question, is it possible to build up a tolerance to Ambien over time?
I took it for a period of about 2-3 months a couple years ago. At the start, it kicked in within 10 minutes, and I just could NOT keep my eyes open. By the end, I’d take it, read for a bit to settle down, and end up still wide awake and exhausted 3 hours later. Didn’t bother getting the scrip renewed after that.
Back on topic, chemo does funny things to your waste management system too. After the first treatment I was unprepared, not knowing what to expect. The thing is, it wasn’t even that I had the urge and couldn’t, I just literally never had the urge (and being preoccupied with what felt like rats gnawing on my bones, I didn’t notice). Until 5 days later, when suddenly I had to go RIGHT NOW! Except I couldn’t.
I was in the bathroom (the office bathroom, even better) the entire morning. Phone call to my nurses, trip to the pharmacy, two .75 litre bottles of magnesium salt solution (disgusting to try to choke down even a little, nevermind a litre and a half). I was probably just shy of actually impacted, and I felt like I was ripping in half. Ow.
A lot of chemo was like that, too. It broke my internal gauges – I didn’t feel hungry OR full anymore either. I could only tell that I needed to eat, or stop eating, through stomach pain.
Every time I read this thread title, I interpret “DE-bilified” as “got rid of the bilious qualities of”, and can’t figure out why you’re pitting the stuff.
Aaaagh, Abilify. I was on that stuff last year. I couldn’t sit still and I gained twenty pounds. I feel for you.[ul]
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