Comments on: Drug Interactions: Vicodin, Ambien, Wellbutrin, and Alcohol

By: cory

cory — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:18:50 +0000

I was takign only 150mg of wellbutrin per day, with from 5mg-15mg /500mg-1500mg Vicodin per day. At night I was taking Ambien to help me sleep. I went to bed with my wife and woke up in the living room with my Camping tent set up. Another night I also saw ghosts. My wife was on vacation and I was alone at home. I called her after taking 2 sleeping pills and told her I was having fun playing with my imaginary friends. These instances happened over and over. I decided that this can’t be safe. I was scared for my health, and every morning I would wake up and have to have my wife tell me what happened. Many times we would have sex and I wouldn’t even remember it. This was it. I threw away the pills. I would rather suffer with my insomnia than have to go through that again. There is nothing that I hate more than waking up and my wife telling me how much of a fool I was being the night before.

By: Manda

Manda — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:00:36 +0000

I’m positive the hallucinations are from the Ambien and alcohol. I too had a few drinks one night, took my ambien, and laid down to watch a movie in bed. My fiance said I kept looking at the corner of our room and asking why a crowd of people were in there. I told him a man was staring at me and to make him go away. There wasn’t anyone in our room obviously but the alcohol and Ambien combo made me hallucinate. Another night I did the same thing without thinking and ended up being intimate with him “pornstar style” and didn’t remember a thing, he definately remembers it though. I flushed them down the toilet after that.

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:57:12 +0000

I too share your insomnia problem. I have tried all sorts of sleep aids and combinations thereof over the last 25 years, although I’ve never taken Ambien.

After many years of trying this and that, I finally settled on an 8-oz glass of warm milk (1.5 minutes in the microwave) and 2-3 Tylenol PMs. If I take this combination and lie down immediately, I usually fall asleep within 20 minutes and sleep like a baby. It’s a simply but effective solution for me.

I sometimes have the added problem of pain due to my military disabilities and sometimes take a few 30mg codeine tabs instead of the Tylenol PMs. They aren’t good for you anyway. The codeine helps stop pain from interrupting my sleep.

In the worst case scenario where I cannot sleep, I take 2 .5mg of Xanax. That always does the trick too.

I never mix booze with any of this stuff. Booze tends to wake me up after it wears off and I can’t seem to get back to sleep. Too much booze can be the root cause of insomnia.

Remember, KISS (keep it simple stupid).

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:39:16 +0000

I’m a life long insomniac. I have been having the blackouts too often because of this exact cocktail (But only difference is I was on 400 mg of Wellbutrin, had three glasses of rum and tonic and topped it off with 300 mgs of dyphenhydramine). I am aware it needs to stop because I I’ve been doing it at least two times a month, I’m stopping Ambien as of this day. Apparently last night my wife told me that she was going to kill me if I don’t go back to bed and get to sleep. I then I told her she can’t kill me because I’m invincible. Also I mentioned something about the brothers Reese, Kyle and Derek last night. They are characters from the Terminator franchise. I also repeatly bumped into the wall as I was putting on pants to go out and she had to stop me at least 3 to 5 times last night. She can’t attend her prior engagements because of me keeping her up all night. I don’t remember a damned thing about what happened and that does worry me so I need to stop now. The question is, Will I? I don’t know. Will I stop taking Ambien? Yes. Because taking it alone does me no good and mixing it with alcohol and Wellbutrin makes me unconsciously do stupid shiet, like singing “Eye of the Tiger” outloud on the couch all night on my iPod and yes this actually happened. My doctor recently Rx’d me a last ditch effort to help me sleep and I am to pick it up tonight but I don’t think it will help. It’s in the same family as Ambien. Back to dyphenhydramine and two glasses of rum and tonic I suppose. At least that puts me out and kept in bed.

By: Lawrence of Bessarabia

Lawrence of Bessarabia — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:54:53 +0000

Were you trying to channel Elvis?