What's your worst Ambien story???

This comment reminded me of just how crazy Ambien is.

I'll start...

Went to the walk-in. Couldn't sleep.

Walked out with 30 pills of ambien or some generic version. Can't quite remember.

That night... took one as suggested. Nothing. Took another in about 2 hours, finally started to get sleepy and slept like a baby apparently. Ok, so 2 is my dose.

Next night... took two off the bat. About two hours later, presumably nothing but was probably just fighting sleep as I usually do. I remember taking one last one, and that was it.

Next thing I know... it's 9am, but I am still tired and groggy as fuck. I think I was up all night just staring at the TV but "sleeping" at the same time.

There is a large Arizona iced tea open on the table next to where I "phased out". One sip may have been taken. But basically I just opened it and didn't touch it.

There is a 26er of vodka on the table as well. About half gone. No idea if I was throwing it around the room or drinking it. It wasn't in the room when I started to try go get to sleep.

I stumble upstairs to my bed dropping pills everywhere as I do so (must have been holding them close to me) with my parents mumbling something incomprehensible at me.

When I finally came to I realized that I had finished about half of the bottle and most probably drank a fair bit of vodka. I have never had a suicidal thought in my life, but from the looks of it that's what I was trying to do.

That was about 6 years ago. I have never before and will never again take a sleeping pill in my life.

Ambien. Not even once.