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wdytname asked in HealthOther - Health · 1 decade ago

clonzepam with ambien?

i took my daily dose of clonzepam around 4 pm and when i go to sleep tonight i want to take an ambien ive never taken ambien after i took my clonzepam is it safe ones for anxiety and the other is for sleeping problems...

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  • 1 decade ago
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    As long as your medical practitioner knows that you are taking clonazepam and has prescribed ambien then it should be fine.

    Clonazapam is predominantly an anxiolytic, it prevents anxiety.

    Ambien is actually more a "hypnotic," (though it is a sedative also) and its effect is largely to take your mind off of what you are thinking about (possibly too much thinking).

    Make sure that when you take your Ambien you are literally "in bed," and don't get back up after taking it, stay in bed. It's effect can be quite fast.

    Both are good medications when used appropriately, but it is wise to attempt to, over time, with appropriate help, wean yourself off the need for them. If your anxiety is long-term and not a short term thing, such a related to loss (of a job, or a person you love, etc.) try to work to resolve the underlying problem and never, ever, start increasing your clonazepam up "on your own," and never stop taking it "cold turkey," either for it could cause a sudden increase in anxiety.

    Sweet dreams...

  • shake
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    I even have persistent insomnia and take Ambien. I had an adventure with Ambien that grow to be weird and wonderful. I had painted my mattress room that day and had gotten slightly of paint on the ceiling while i grow to be reducing in. I went to mattress that evening and took an Ambien and it did no longer something for me so I took yet another one and went to sleep. I remember dreaming that I had gotten a Magic marker out and decrease a at present line interior the wall the place it met the ceiling and then painted over it. nicely, some days went via and that i regarded up on the wall and the ceiling and occasional and behold there grow to be this dark purple line drawn suitable there. i could no longer have confidence it and then I remembered the dream. My partitions have been yellow and my ceiling grow to be white, yet that huge magic marker line grow to be purple. i found out then that it wasn't a dream. additionally, I doubled up on Ambien yet over lower back and the subsequent morning my husband advised me what super "evening" we had. I had no concept what he grow to be speaking approximately. He gave me some info and that i could no longer have confidence it. i presumed approximately it and theory approximately it and the distinctive memory got here back, yet while he hadn't mentiioned it, i'd on no account have remembered. for sure i do no longer double up on Ambien anymore.

  • BL
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    It is safe. I do it all the time. Just don't take together.

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