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Originally Posted by rubecube
I take zopiclone every now and then and the one thing I will say about it is go to bed right away. I've stayed up and had experiences with hallucinations and amnesia. One night I had a friend staying in town and I left the hotel he was staying at, walked home and took a zopiclone, but I guess I didn't go to bed because he said I showed up again three hours later, just babbling completely incoherently and then I walked home again. I don't remember any of this.
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Zopiclone worked for me for the first 2 days then I had a tolerance to it. I know it (like all sleep meds really) is only supposed to be used sparingly as needed, but you'd think when first using it most would use it for a week or two before balancing out. Two to three days, that's all it did for me.
I stopped for a bit. Restarted. It always worked good for a day if I took some significant time off. But it was never a solution. Course I started doing double doses or more after that. Self medicating. Eventually I got put on something stronger. I forget the name. But that's where I started having my sleepwalking issues as you mentioned.
Scary stuff, and that's why I stopped. One time I decided to make something to eat. I opened a can of tuna with a potato peeler. Punctured it and ripped it open. I can't believe I still have all my fingers. Another time I put on all my clothes, like you'd do while awake, and went for a midnight walk by the ridge. Only I fell down the ridge. Broke a rib (the floating rib I think, took near a year to heal) and cut my face up pretty bad. Stopped the pills after that. Eerily similar to the stories in the States where people woke up and decided to go for a drive.