"i love it. i am a very restless sleeper, wake up almost every single hour then have a hard time falling back to sleep. the only time i could sleep through the night is if i drank a load of alcohol. well, first i started out with half of a 5mg ambien just to see how it would affect me, i slept a solid 4 hours, woke up, but it didn&#039;t bother me, i didn&#039;t get all upset because i woke up, and i easily fell back to sleep. so even 2.5 mg took the edge off for me. it depends on how good i want to sleep as to how much ambien i take, last night i took 5mg and slept a solid 6 hours, got up went to the bathroom, slept another 3 hours, i don&#039;t have all the weird side effects. i feel like a whole new person taking this medication."