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 | 140 |
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32 | |
| Other | 78 |
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10 | ||
| Difficulty sleeping through night | 72 |
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12 | ||
| General health | 16 |
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1 | ||||
| Excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence) | 11 |
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1 | ||||
| Sleep problems | 9 | 0 |
See all 336 patients currently taking Zolpidem
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Zolpidem. See all 29 dosages ►
| 10 mg as needed | 10mg as needed | 12.5mg as needed | 12mg as needed | 20mg as needed | 2 10mg as needed | 3mg as needed | 4mg as needed | 5 mg as needed | 5mg as needed | 6.25mg as needed | 6.5mg as needed | 6mg as needed | daily | mg as needed | 10 mg every other week | 2.5 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 6.25 mg daily | 6.5 mg daily | 10 daily | 10 mg daily | 10 mg one time | 12.5 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 20 mg one time | 25 mg daily | 50 mg daily | ||
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46
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9
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4
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25
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4
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5
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3
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1
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1
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42
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10
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1
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1
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39
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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24 | 33% |
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Other
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18 | 25% |
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Side effects too severe
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17 | 24% |
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Doctor's advice
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15 | 21% |
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Personal research
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5 | 7% |
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Expense
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5 | 7% |
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Course of treatment ended
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4 | 6% |
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Not indicated
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3 | 4% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 55 patient evaluations
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- gardener
- Sex: F
- Sensation: None
- Overall: None
- Cognition: none
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: none
- See profile
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- gardener
- 5mg as needed
- since Aug 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Babystars
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Moderate
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- Babystars
- 10mg as needed
- since Sep 04, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Insomnia
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips When I use the ambien and my clonazapam together it puts me to sleep and I wake up feeling not tired right off the bat.I have to use both because the ambien ... See full evaluation
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- brkrchll
- Flare-up: Moderate
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: mild
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- brkrchll
- since Sep 30, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Insomnia
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips Take this medication AFTER you are in the bed and just before you turn out the light to minimize the chances that you will get back up and do or say things y... See full evaluation
See all 55 patient evaluations
Report created on November 20, 2009.