This is Ambien, so what you NORMALLY do doesn't count. PLEASE, for your safety, read the following story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/14/AR2007031401027.html
I haven't read that story, but I've heard enough to steer me away from ambien no matter what.
Even during the recent search for the woman missing from the cruiseship, there were people posting their scary Ambien stories explaining that they would never take it on a ship, for fear of where they might end up. Scary stuff.
I rarely laugh at the warnings on medications, as being there does generally mean that someone has done it, been harmed for it, and reported it.
We don't even hear the marketing parts of drug commercials anymore, we only hear the warnings, and it makes us even firmer in our stance to stay the heck away from medications if we possibly can!
Also, the off-label use of medicines makes those weird warnings necessary. for instance, the VERY dangerous drug that OBs use to "soften" cervices can cause catastrophic rupture of the uterus. Why is that use allowed? It's NOT. IT's an off label use of a drug that is intended for stomach ulcer sufferers. Someone discovered that it caused cervix softening, so OBs started using it for that, despite the fact it hasn't been studied, hasn't been approved, and can cause catastrophic problems for mother and baby.
I think all warnings are important, as someone out there has likely tried to blow their hair while drowsy and fell asleep and caused a house fire, and some pregnant woman who is losing her hair has probably tried to take rogaine and had bad things happen, etc.
Even the much made fun of "this cup made for coffee contains contents that are hot" warning has merit. The McDonald's case that started it involved a cup of coffee that was jsut barely below boiling, it was something McD's had been doing, keeing their coffee WAY too hot, for ages. The cup spilled on the elderly lady's lap, and she required skin grafts in her thigh and groin area, it was THAT hot. The case and settlement had merit...do YOU expect a coffee to be hot enough to require skin grafts???? I sure don't! So the companies think they can cover themselves by letting us know to be extra careful b/c the coffee might be hot, when in reality they just need to keep that coffee below the temperature that would require skin grafts if spilled.
Heck, my son's chest was splashed with actually boiling water, while helping hubby stir the pasta (I was not in the room, I did not sanction this nor would I have approved even if DS hadn't been burned), and he only had second degree burns...didn't require a skin graft. I can't even imagine how HOT that coffee must have been....
