Ambien making me even more awake, even euphoric and creative?

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So I went to sleep dead tired at 11pm, then woke up at 1:30am, then took 5mg of Ambien (Zolpidem) at 3am, then just got euphoric and had happy creative thoughts until now, its 6:25am and I am dressed and making coffee. What the ■■■■?! Someone explain why the sleeping pill did anything but make me sleep.

And I have noticed that every time I eat a ton of cottage cheese before going to bed (a bodybuilding thing, it’s a casein protein), I wake up in the middle of the night.

I could really use some advice. I need to sleep at least 7 hours a night to stay sane, no kidding at all, if consecutive nights of less than 7-9 hours of sleep add up, I get really unwell very quickly.

I am fine for just one night of this, I will sleep well tonight and then for sure take 10mg of ambien Wednesday night before the GRE on Thursday. I’m on spring break, if that explains anything, like why I have been at museums and hanging out with one of my old friends who is also on spring break.

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This happens to me sometimes, especially recently when I increased the dosage of invega which is supposed to be sedating I started to find it difficult to sleep, which, to me is an early sign of something going wrong. After the increase in invega by the way I don’t dream anymore which is a big relief as it made me really anxious for sometime. Talk to your doc or I don’t know how but force yourself to sleep.

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Yeah, I’m gonna call my psychiatrist tomorrow and tell him what happened. It was simply not okay. Like way across the border of what is not okay

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