Reviews for LUNESTA57 ratings: (side effects include amnesia memory)Edit Filter | Clear FilterCompare LUNESTA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LUNESTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Insomnia | Only lately memory issues but may just be age😃 Wondering if anyone taking such a low dose and how they stopped | F | 71 | 2 years .05 | 5/11/2017 | 1 | sleep | Psychosis, visual and auditory hallucinations. I attacked a staff member while recovering from surgery and have no memory of it. Hallucinations discerned by my behavior. | A dangerous drug that should be taken off the market. | F | 35 | 1 days 1X day | 4/29/2015 | 3 | Can not fall asleep. | Chest pains, random headaches, short tempered, I have no desire to do the things I once enjoyed. weight gain, memory loss | This drug has worked for me. It has stopped working well over the last few years. It puts me to sleep most of the time. I have never had a problem staying a sleep. I have only recently noticed side effects. I have always thought it was simply me, not the drug. It has become clear that many people in the beginning of my of my treatment noticed a personality change. I refused to believe it was the med. Reading posts on this site makes me open my eyes a bit. I experience chest pains that move around. I have become more or less a hermit. I don't really believe in depression issues. 5 yrs ago I was the life of the party. Now, I don't want to do anything. Reading some of these posts, Im worried that I will have a dependency problem if my Dr. tells me I can stop. I can not stand relying on this med anymore. If anyone has found a better, more natural method, please pass it on. I never try and sleep without it. It has been 6+ yrs since I have tried. Also, will I go thru withdrawal symptoms? | M | 42 | 7 years 3mg 1X day | 5/20/2014 | 4 | Insomnia | Memory loss, dry mouth randomly | M | 33 | 1 years 3mg | 7/26/2012 | 4 | insomnia | Bad taste, memory loss. If its taken right before bed the taste is not really noticeable. Shouldn't try to stay up and eat or drink. Satisfied overall. I haven't slept this well in months. Entirely worth the side effects. | F | 31 | 1 months | 6/28/2012 | 1 | Chronic Insomnia | Worsening depression,memory,and made Insomnia worse. | Was taking the eupropean equivalent of lunesta/eszopiclone.Zopiclone: approx 6mg Lunest = 15mg Zop = twice max Just discontinued because of above side effects. Initially it worked ok,but slowly made my mental state worse to the point I could barely think.Cut down now to minimum dose and added Valium and now feel much better.Will ask my doc for tca antidepressant as well not ssri | M | 38 | 2 years 15mg 1X day | 5/2/2012 | 5 | Chronic Insomnia | Metallic taste is very rare. There is a slight amnesia effect for what I have been reading in the 5-10 minutes before I fall asleep. | I had tried many other drugs including Klonopin, Trazadone, Seroquel, etc. All either did not work or had terrible side effects. The Lunesta has worked form the beginning and is very consistent. Takes about 20-30 minutes to kick in so I just read in bed until it does. It is easy to wake up also. Sometimes I just pop awake and ready to go. 6 hours per night seems to be fine. I also add 300 mg of Neurontin every night, which I had picked up from years earlier. I think people need to trying different things until they find what works for them. It took me over 10 years. (Ambien and Ambien CR are in the same family but did not work as well for me.) | M | 55 | 2 years 2 mg 1X day | 11/13/2011 | 2 | Sleep Aid | We are just now finding out that possibly the Lunesta is causing my symptoms to return. I dropped back into a severe depression two months after beginning Lunesta. The doctor has switched many medicines but nothing was working. I've been chilled, had anxiety, deeper depression and during the past month have had serious memory loss. Completely forgot what my children looked like when they were younger or what my wedding day was like. SCARY I have been off of it for five days and still feel awful. I pray this is the answer. Don't take this. Memory Loss, Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Loss of Hunger | F | 63 | 5 months 1 1X day | 11/4/2011 | 4 | Insomnia | I have been feeling tired and a bit out of it during the day. Also, it seems to affect my memory. Another thing I've noticed is it makes me want to eat right after taking it. | Lunesta knocks me out within a half hour after taking it. It's the only pill I've taken that works so fast. | F | 38 | 2 months 2 MG 1X day | 5/5/2011 | 2 | chronic insomnia | The bad taste never went away. I could deal with that if the med worked. It just did not work for me. The scarest thing is the memory loss. I had such severe memory loss I found myself forgetting what happened minutes later. I do not recommend this drug. | I have had insomnia for years and have tried many sleep aids many which did not work. lunesta is veryy expensive drug not to work. | F | 40 | 30 days 2mg 1X day | 2/26/2011 | 3 | Insomnia | This drug makes me sleep so well, but I have noticed within the last 2 weeks some memory loss that is concerning to me. | I have not experienced any other negative side effects such as the nightmares or the metal taste. I would get a full 6-7 hours of sleep and wake up feeling refreshed. The memory is a concern its not just "forgetting something". | F | 54 | 60 days 3MG 1X day | 1/13/2011 | 4 | Could not Sleep after Hysterectomy | Loss of memory is getting worse as time goes by. Also I have this constant swelling in my lower throat. It never goes away. DO not drink and take Lunesta, wont work. Also if you eat fatty foods or take it on a full stomache it takes time to dissolve. | I go back and forth between Lunesta and Ambien. I have a mjor bladder problem, so I take the Lunesta so I don't get up 25 times at night to pee. Its probably just a band aide to another problem, but whats a girl to do? | F | 42 | 4 years 3 1X day | 11/2/2010 | 3 | chronic insomnia | Initial euphoria, vivid dreams/nightmares, impaired memory and hangover feeling the next day, bizarre actions under the influence of the drug: emailing old contacts and other strange behaviour during the night with no memory of it upon waking up. Very addictive and has severe withdrawal effects if taken long term. | I've been diagnosed with childhood onset primary insomnia and delayed sleep phase syndrome. I can't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning, and even then, I toss and turn for hours unless I take something to knock me out. My doctor prescribed this to me (one 7.5 mg pill at night) when I was a seventeen year old struggling to finish the last year of high school while battling severe sleep deprivation. At first, it was a godsend. I even grew to like the bitter taste. That meant the drug was kicking in and I would soon fall asleep (finally!). Dreams and nightmares became more vivid. It knocked me out, but I would wake up after a few hours, and if it's taken on consecutive nights, the groggy hangover effect the next day is almost as bad as sleep deprivation. Over the years I had to double the dosage. I get hit with random anxiety attacks during the day if I go more than 24 hours without a dose. It can be very, very addictive, particularly if your insomnia is ongoing and your doctor refuses to try other drug interventions, as my doctors have. Often I have to take two or more 7.5 mg tablets at night in order to fall asleep. I'd recommend it for occasional insomnia, not as a long-term treatment for chronic insomnia or other sleep disorders. I've tried to taper off gradually. But I always relapse and take another Lunesta pill after a few days without sleep, and the cycle of drug dependence continues. There has to be a better solution somewhere. | F | 24 | 7 years 7.5 mg 1X day | 7/26/2010 | 5 | Insomnia (primary) | Memory loss, "flashes" of brief unconsciousness, nausea and anxiety in the evenings | After 16 years of nightly insomnia, this was a miracle drug for me. I first starting buying it in Canada as Zopiclone in 1999 before Sepracor obtained the patent for the USA, eliminated parts of the zopiclone formulation and re-issued it as Eszopiclone (Lunesta). I have never looked back. For the first time in 16 years I was able to hold down a difficult job (up to my mental capabilities). Without it, I'm just taking up space. Only wish we had approval for it here in the UK because the old formula sucks (BAD side effects). I fly home periodically to stock up rather than risk importing through customs. Yes, I have built up tolerance, increased my intake to 6 mg, and gone off of it -- usually once per year does the trick. It is SO worth it, even though extremely expensive for me, especially considering airfare and time off work. But -- I have a LIFE now! | F | 52 | 11 years 3 mg 1X day | 3/16/2010 | 4 | To get a full night's sleep | Have not noticed any side effects. Do have trouble with short time memory which may be caused by the use of Lunesta. | Have been using Lunesta every night for 2 years. It's great but I hate to think of it's high cost for the remainder of my life. Would love to find a less expensive replacement. | M | 68 | 2 years | 12/26/2009 | 4 | chronic fatigue syndrome w/insomnia | My short term memory was affected I seemed to notice it more as time went on, not dibiltating, but very annoying so I am trying Rozerem. Other than the memory thing, Lunesta worked very well for me. | M | 58 | 2 years | 12/5/2009 | 1 | couldn't fall/stay asleep | memory loss, sleep walking and sleep driving after taking lunesta, ambien, ambiem CR and restoril. After consulting the prescribing Dr., she had me try rozerem and it is awesome. It has melatonin in it which is a natural sleep aid and I never had any weird side effects as mentioned above and my memory is getting sharper. Only problem, my new insurance company won't cover it and cash price is $168 for 30 pills. So, I went to the vitamin section of the store and bought natural melatonin for about $7 for 60 3mg pills. Pharmacist said that it may work but it won't have all the chemicals in it that rozerem has in it but thought it wouldn't hurt to try. I took two 3mg pills and had a great nights sleep and woke up feeling refreshed. I'm usually not a huge believer in natural remedies and I know it was only one night I tried it, but I'm very hopeful now. If this doesn't work and I can't get my insurance co. to cover it, I will just pay the $168 for the rozerem. I will not use medicine that pu | Another clue to those not having success with sleep aids, my Dr. told me and there is info. on each of these drugs that if you take it too close to having just eaten a fatty meal, it can screw up how it works, so try taking it at least a few hours after you eat. Good luck | F | 41 | 30 days | 4/10/2009 | 3 | Insomnia | Depression, excess mucus, memory loss | This is an update to my previous review of Lunesta. While I found it does help me sleep much, much better than Ambien, a few weeks ago I discovered it was the cause of the depression that seemed to come from nowhere. As soon as I stopped taking it the depression disappeared. Was formerly on the 3mg dose--the 3mg made me feel snappy and aggressive, and then the 2mg made me almost suicidal. I would warn anybody else with a history or a tendency towards depression to be very careful & observant on this drug. | F | 1 years | 4/2/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | Some memory loss/feeling spacey, a little aggressiveness at the 3mg dose (went away at 2mg), excess mucus | I was surprised no one else has mentioned this side effect, but Lunesta somehow has a way of creating a ton of excess mucus in my throat, and this has been going on for over a year. When I skipped a dose last night it went away almost completely. All this time I thought it was allergies, and I'm annoyed I never figured this out until now (Google "Lunesta" and "mucus" and you'll see it's happened to others). My only other issue with it was at the highest dose, which turned out to be too much for me: it didn't wear off well in the morning, and it seemed to cause some weird mood changes, like making me prone to "snap" at people without warning. I have not had that issue with the 2mg pill. It does make your memory a little less sharp at times I think, but I've made making lists a habit and I figure anything that doesn't make the list probably wasn't that important anyway. Sometimes it doesn't work as well if I am having a hormonal surge (ovulation, etc.), but | F | 33 | 1.5 years | 1/17/2009 | 3 | insomnia | 3mg/night. No side-effects at first. Great sleep. Well-rested in the morning. Never a bad taste unless I broke the pill in half. Changed my life for the better. ...now I've been on it 4 years. Want to get off. Tried but after a few days can't afford to not sleep (work). In the past year I have noticed worsening foggy head, difficult memory, depressive thoughts. Used to feel sharp and alert always. These days I just feel foggy and ...dumb. (for lack of better term). If I do not have my pill I don't sleep. I lay awake and feel anxious and jittery. I also must take it when I've had alcohol or no sleep. I am physically very fit and healthy, don't smoke, don't do drugs, eat healthy and take vitamins. Now, I feel Lunesta is numbing my brain. | F | 32 | 4 years | 12/28/2008 |
LUNESTA (ESZOPICLONE): This medication is used to treat a certain sleep problem (insomnia). It may help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and lessen how often you wake up during the night, so you can get a better night's rest. Eszopiclone belongs to a class of drugs called sedative-hypnotics. It acts on your brain to produce a calming effect. Use of this medication is usually limited to short treatment periods of 1 to 2 weeks or less. If your insomnia continues for a longer time, talk to your doctor to see if you need other treatment. FDA Approval Date: 2004-12-15 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)