Does Ambien keep the nocturnal awakenings at bay?

I was just wondering if any of you taking Ambien find that it keeps you from getting up at night to have D. This doesn't occur that frequently with me overall, maybe once a week or so, but I do take Ambien several nights a week and so wondered about it. Sleeping through the night at this stage in the game is heavenly...

It has cut down on the number of times I wake up, but I still wake up if I need to use the toilet, but I'm able to go right back to sleeep afterwards. Some nights are still better than others, but overall, I'm sleeping much better. I don't use the CR, just the Ambien, because of short bowel.

I have ambien but rarely take it.  I was given the script back in August with 1 refill 20 pills in each bottle.  I still have 1 pill left without even refilling it.  I do have issues falling asleep but find my  bigger issue is staying asleep and I am one that luckily doesnt run to have D throughout the night I just wake up.  Those are my issues  waking up and being unable to fall back to sleep after.  Recently I have been having many accidents in bed though.  Many to me is 3 in this past week alone four if you count while awake too.  The other night I had 2 accidents I awoke and found that I had an accident.  I went down to the bathroom cleaned up changed underwear and pj pants.  I also placed an overnight maxi pad placed more towards the back of my underwear just in case.  I was laying in bed all of 30 minutes and it happened again.  What is odd though is that I had not fallen back to sleep when this occurred.  I had no urge to have a BM when it occurred not even passing gas occurred it just came out.  I dont remember it ever coming out without me pushing a little.  it wasnt one of those i think it is a fart kind of things...too bad the pad I put on didnt help 100% When I went to the bathroom and pulled down my underwear I guess some left on my skin rubbed the unprotected area of them....least it helped my clean up of the mess.

I was given Ambien while I was in the hospital back in August. I had a bad reaction to it, felt as though bugs were all over my hands. I can fall asleep pretty easily every night. I do wake up from time to time though. I did notice (like 3 or 4 weeks before my latest hospitalization) that I would wake up between 2-3am and would be unable to fall back to sleep.