What is Zolpidem?
Zolpidem tartrate is a sedative-hypnotic drug that is used for short-term treatment of insomnia that presents as difficulty of sleep onset and maintenance of sleep.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Insomnia | 16 |
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6 | |
| Other | 8 |
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2 | |||
| Sleeplessness | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Anxiety | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Sleep problems | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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3 | 50% |
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Other
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2 | 33% |
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Expense
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1 | 17% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 17% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- Excclussive
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: none
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: moderate
- 540
- VL < 50
- See profile
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- Excclussive
- 10 mg daily
- since Jun 01, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Insomnia
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- ShannonandJohn
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: moderate
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: mild
- 441
- VL 30
- See profile
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- ShannonandJohn
- 10 mg daily
- since Nov 16, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Insomnia
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips it works but not as good as tamezpam See full evaluation
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- hcubbyhill
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: moderate
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none
- 921
- VL 47
- See profile
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- hcubbyhill
- 10 mg daily
- since Jul 31, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 8 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.