15 Rx Meds With Some of the Most Dangerous Side Effects

Some of these might be in your health prescriptions, be careful out there. Ambien and Lunesta seemed to be the sleeping aids of choice at the hospital I was at. 
http://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/rx-meds-dangerous-side-effects.html/?ref=YF&yptr=yahoo

1. Yaz

Most people who are on Yaz experience less severe side effects like headaches, nausea, and irritability, but blood clots can be life-threatening.

12. Levaquin or Cipro

According to an FDA safety review, researchers found these antibiotics can greatly affect the tendons, muscles, joints, nerves, and central nervous system. 

13. Brilinta

For some, though, this medication can cause severe bleeding that can even be fatal. 

15. Ambien

It’s also possible the medication’s effects can carry into your day, causing severe drowsiness and impairment in your thinking and reactions. Could this have been part of the reason I could fall asleep in 5 minutes during the day while at the hospital? And the fogginess of my thinking?

 

The molecular neurobiology of the sleep-deprived, fuzzy brain

What is your doctors sleep protocol? I got nightly Ambien, still wonder if sleeping pill induced sleep is equivalent to regular sleep.
http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/9/425/fs7.abstract

1. J. David Sweatt¹,²,* and
2. Kimberly E. Hawkins¹

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1. ↵*Corresponding author. Email: dsweatt@uab.edu

Sci. Signal.  26 Apr 2016:
Vol. 9, Issue 425, pp. fs7
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aaf6196

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Abstract

Sleep deprivation is well established to cause diminution of cognitive function, including disruption of both minute-to-minute working memory and decrements in the stabilization of long-term memories. Moreover, “replay” during sleep of episodes and sequences of events that were experienced during wakefulness has been implicated in consolidation of long-term memories. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the role of sleep in memory function are just starting to be defined. In this issue of Science Signaling, Tudor et al. identify one molecular component underlying the effects of sleep on memory function: dynamic experience-dependent regulation of protein synthesis in the hippocampus.

Stroke Recovery Better With Ambien: Study - In mice

I don't remember if I got Ambien or Lunesta as a sleeping pill while in the hospital. If it did any good it didn't really show. Once again this will not have a followup study in humans because we have NO stroke strategy or stroke leadership. Your children and grandchildren are going to still be screwed if they have a stroke if we don't remove existing stroke leadership. You'll have to read the study in Brain to see what functional changes there were. 
http://www.latinoshealth.com/articles/14026/20151220/stroke-recovery-better-ambien-study.htm
This is proven and tested in mice. A sleeping pill is revealed to have properties that can help stroke patients recover.
In a study, a low dose of sleeping aid called Zolpidem, also known as Ambien, was given to mice. Zolpidem was used to cure insomnia.

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The study aims to discover faster recovery therapeutics for ischaemic stroke. Researchers, who are from Stanford University School of Medicine, had successfully found the faster way after testing it on mice.
Published in the journal Brain, the study noted that it would usually take days, up to months to recover.
Long and certain methods were done to achieve the aim of the research study. Three to five mice were placed inside a cage under normal conditions. Mice, which were 10 to 30 weeks old, were anesthetized with isoflurane (2.5 percent in a mixture of 1 l/min of air and 0.2 l/min of oxygen). Body temperature was measured by rectal probe. No deaths were recorded.
Skin incisions were done to sham animals to expose the distal middle cerebral artery and Photothrombotic model. In the second day of the experiment, another anesthesia and cuts to the mice carried out.
They were also stained with 2 percent triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC). This was done again in days 7 and 28, only using heparinized phosphate-buffered saline and paraformaldehyde to spread in the tissue, and stained with Cresyl violet at day 28.
Array tomography was done after a series of stroke models. According to Smithlab, array tomography is a new proteometric method in imaging that gives out high-resolution of tissue molecular images. The Gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) synapses were then analyzed.

GABA, as stated in The Brain, is a neurotransmitter that serves as the distributor of chemicals in the brain. The researchers had only included "stroke-injured animals with lesions with a medial edge within 3.0 ± 0.3 mm from the midline" for analysis. Whole-cell patch-clamp techniques were also used to analyze the synapses.
After a long process and further analysis, the researchers have concluded that GABA signaling using a low dose of Zolpidem can help stroke patients recover faster. According to them, Zolpidem enhances functional recovery in just four days.
While the results of the study are beneficial for stroke recovery, Science Daily said co-researcher Gary Steinberg suggests to make further studies in other laboratories before starting to use Ambien in stroke recovery.

More on Sleeping Pills and Older Adults

I think everyone on my stroke ward got Ambien at night.  There was obviously no attempt to find out why I was having trouble sleeping.
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/more-on-sleeping-pills-and-the-elderly/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

'It showed what I always knew - he was really in there': Stroke sufferer, 23, woken up by SLEEPING PILL

Wonder what else it would work on.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079018/Sam-Goddard-Stroke-sufferer-23-woken-SLEEPING-PILL.html

WHY DOES AMBIEN HELP?

Ambien, also called Stilnox, is a prescription medicine used to treat insomnia by initiating sleep.

It contains Zolpidem, which studies have found increases blood flow in the brain, particularly in areas involved in language comprehension - allowing improved function.

Studies into the connection between stroke rehabilitation and Ambien are ongoing.

John White at Moss Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia is leading a study into the connection.

So far he has found that fewer than 10 per cent of stroke victims respond to the drug - and that Sam's case is extremely rare.

'We’re not able to yet advise families on how to use this drug clinically because the research is in the very early stages,' he told MSNBC.