Recently, the FDA has recommended that prescribing doctors and pharmaceutical companies begin reducing the doses of Ambien and two other sleep medications by half. Nine million Americans take sleeping pills on a regular basis and the thought of not getting their normal dose raises some legitimate fears.
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A recent study reports that the 6% to 10% of Americans using prescription sleeping pills such as zolpidem (Ambien), temazepam (Restoril), eszopiclone (Lunesta) and zaleplon (Sonata) are up to 35% more likely to develop some form of cancer, and far more likely to die prematurely, than those who take no prescription sleep aids whatsoever.
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It seems nowadays that everyone has heard of someone who has taken Ambien or Ambien CR and exhibited bizarre behavior while not fully awake.
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“When it was time for bed, I would just lay there with my eyes closed and watch streams of code in my head”. says Charles Bellisamo, a software engineer in Chicago describing his nightly experiences with insomnia as “having a brain that was stuck in 5th gear”.
According to a recent study by Sarrafi Zadeh S & Begum K entitled: “Association between insomnia and quality of life: an exploratory study among software engineers “.
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