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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LUNESTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | PTSD autism stress related insomnia | I'm still taking this medication. Just a metallic taste after. | F | 37 | 3 months 3 mg 1X day | 3/12/2024 Patient History | 4 | Insomnia | Works great however about 10 minutes after taking it causes the worst taste in your mouth. Takes like I have chewed up aspirin and no matter what I do nothing makes it better . Even when I breath through my mouth I taste it. It hangs around for a little while the next morning and then tends to go away for me. | The bad Taste is totally worth it for sleep | F | 48 | 14 days 1 mg 1X day | 8/21/2023 | 1 | Insomnia | Worst and longest lasting taste I've ever had in my life. Also barely made me sleepy at all and the taste would wake me up throughout the night. Took it too late one night and was almost too impaired to drive to work despite feeling totally normal all night. Found that being woken up repeatedly from the taste made me significantly tired throughout the day | To anyone in general but ESPECIALLY to people with sensitive stomachs or recurring nausea, spare yourself from this. Worst taste I’ve ever had from a medication (fish oil pills don’t even remotely bother me for comparison) and it lasted most of the next day. The duration of the taste increased every night I took it. I found myself getting up to eat sugar free frozen yogurt or ice cubes in the middle of the night because freezing my mouth was the only way to lessen it (and it would be back within 15 minutes). The final straw was when I was on antibiotics my second week taking it. I had to stand over the toilet multiple times a day at work, would start to gag during meetings, and had to drive to work with a plastic bag in my lap. One day I got sent home early because everyone was so scared I’d puke on them, and before I left I took an antacid (since the taste was so acidic). I threw up several times into a bag on my lap while I was on the highway. Even months after I stopped taking it I would get this phantom horrible taste when I thought about going to sleep. I can taste it now just thinking about it and I’ll probably never forget it, sadly. | F | 30 | 2 weeks 2 mg 1X day | 8/15/2023 | 1 | Chronic Insomnia | Slept great. But I'd never take this again. There was a terrible metallic taste in my mouth at first and even breathing had me tasting the metallic flavor. Water tasted like bug spray if you've ever sprayed yourself with OFF! And accidentally got some in your mouth imagine that but it'll take a day for the taste to go away. | If you're an athlete stay far away, the taste doesn't subside for longer then 24 hours and if you drink a lot of water expect to go without for a while. | F | 27 | 1 days 2MG 1X day | 7/24/2023 | 4 | Insomnia | No side effects, but the OCCASIONAL and MINOR aftertaste. | Since there is a benzodiazepine phobia in the country, Z-Drugs (eszopiclone/L Lunesta is one of the best medicines a patient can get. Do not eat for at least 2 hours prior to talking it for best effect. Taking with food at all can render it ineffective to a degree. | M | 44 | 12 months 3mg 1X day | 6/28/2023 | 1 | Insomnia | Left an awful taste in my mouth like metal and could not fall asleep at all back to ambien | F | 62 | 1 weeks 3mgs 1X day | 5/18/2023 | 5 | Multiple sleep disorders | The metallic taste in mouth. | Other than Halcion there has been no better drug for me. | M | 49 | 12 years 3 MG 1X day | 5/4/2023 | 2 | Insomnia | The bitter taste isn't fun, I have horrible insomnia and this works short term if you want to nap - I think I'll ask my doctor about upping my dosage and it's let you sleeep through the nigh fyi and no rest sleep so have fun. | F | 148 | 12 days 3 1X day | 2/8/2023 | 1 | Insomnia | Horrible taste in mouth that lasted for a day | Did not help me sleep well | F | 63 | 1 days 3mg 1X day | 2/1/2023 | 4 | Chronic insomnia | Works much better for me than Ambien and yes when I wake up in the mornings my water tastes like a**!! That will last for a good 3 or so hours as soon as I wake up in the morning then the nasty taste will subside. But it just sucks it has to be like this day after day after day!! Whoever makes this medication FIX IT!! Get rid of the nasty aftertaste PLEASE?!! | Lunesta has been a godsend to me after over 8-9 years of chronic insomnia. Still kept waking up while on Ambien. | F | 52 | 3 months 3 1X day | 12/9/2022 | 1 | Insomnia | Absolutely horrible. Glad it works for some, but it did not work AT ALL for me. Not even remotely drowsy from it. I made sure not to let it touch my mouth when taking it (I gulped it down with some water/let it basically drop straight down my throat), but about an hour after taking it, the taste hit me like a ton of bricks. I honestly wish it tasted metallic for me; instead, it tastes EXACTLY like acetone nail polish remover, but as if I drank an entire bottle of it and am continuously huffing it. The taste will not go away, no matter what I do/eat/drink. This sucks. Even just taking a shallow breath through my nose, the taste is overwhelming. Without sleep medication, I can usually get at least a couple of hours of broken sleep a night, but with Lunesta I got zero. Back to ambien for me. | F | 23 | 3 days 2mg 1X day | 8/27/2022 | 2 | For insomnia | It is making me really hungry. I cant believe the amount of food i want to eAt after taking it. And the bitter taste in mu mouth is revolting. I through out all my food cause everything tastes spoiled It may be causing my weight pronlems gaining | The generic cost me $62 a Month ridiculous. Might go back off it | F | 49 | 4 months 3 mg 1X day | 8/10/2022 | 3 | Insomnia | It seemed to moderately help with sleep on the 2mg. I'd occasionally get the bad after taste but assumed it was from the pill hitting my tongue. I recently got bumped up to 3mg and the horrendous after taste is ten times worse. The after taste is so bad I'm actually WAKING UP because of it. Kind of defeats the purpose of the drug. I'm gonna have to give it up which is a shame since nothing else works for me | I don't know what exactly is the cause of the horrendous after taste, but anything that could possibly be done to at least lesson it to a tolerable level would be a huge help. | F | 32 | 30 days 2-3mg 1X day | 7/21/2022 | 2 | Insomnia | I am done with this medication. This bitter taste it leaves in your mouth is DISGUSTING. I can deal with a lot of side effects but this taste lasts for days after taking it. Water literally taste like poison. Food is gross even my favorite meals. I've tried taking it with acidic drinks but it only mildly calms the taste. I've even taken it with peanut butter, marshmallows, wrapped in turkey, everything. The bitter metallic taste just lingers. Works ok for sleep but even at high doses doesn't keep me asleep. I'm going to ambien. Done wanting to vomit everyday from Lunesta. Good riddance. | Put a coating or something on the pill that gets rid of the god awful taste. | F | 33 | 3 months 4mg 1X day | 5/14/2022 | 5 | Couldn't sleep | Love this. I get at least 7 hours of sleep. No grogginess in am. The metallic taste went away after a couple weeks. Ambien quit working for me 6 months in. Switched and am glad I did | F | 65 | 0 years 2 mg 1X day | 4/4/2022 | 5 | Insomnia | It's definitely the best on the market for insomnia. My DR warned of the metallic taste before prescribing but when you need real sleep it's worth it. It's non addictive like Ambien n is a much smoother coarse from going to sleep n starting the next day! | M | 31 | 100 days 3MG 1X day | 3/20/2022 | 3 | Insomnia | Major dry mouth/metallic after taste | Lunesta itself worked wonderfully for my insomnia. I would sleep through the whole night no issue. And would usually feel refreshed the next day...however that after taste I would wake up to was God awful. It literally made everything i ate or drank taste gross. So i barely ate much of anything when i was on it. I tried to mask the taste by chewing gum throughout the day but it does nothing to help. I figured well its a side effect i might have for a while maybe it'll go away? Well two weeks passed...it didn't. I also realized when I would take it again the following night I'd wake up the following morning with the taste. So a few times i tried just not taking it and woke up with the taste gone. But of course my sleep was back to being bad. Basically if i continued to take the medication multiple days in a row the after taste would stay. Only if i skipped a day would it go away. Tried everything including attempting to alternate maybe take it every other day...but it wasn't good for my sleep. Sadly wasn't able to withstand the major dry mouth. Also want to note that while I had that going on I felt like I was always thirsty and no matter how much I drank water (along with the fact it tasted gross) I'd still be thirsty. I've been through 5 different sleep medications and it's a shame that if not for the side effect this medicine honestly would be perfect. | F | 27 | 22 days 5mg 1X day | 3/11/2022 | 3 | Insomnia | I would get a horrible aftertaste after talking it, and would wake up with it still the next morning. It would last all day, and then it would start all over that night when I took it again. And was still there when I woke up, and then all day. It was never-ending. I switched off of it as soon as I met with my prescriber again, because it was bad enough that any pros were outweighed. I didn’t know about any of the ways to try to mask the taste that I am now seeing here, and my prescriber must not have known about them either, as that never came up. | F | 37 | 1 months 20 1X day | 3/7/2022 | 4 | Insomnia caused by Fibromyalgia | Like most of you, I get that very bitter taste in my mouth that makes liquids taste horrible. After trying everything I could think of, I finally came across these "Vegan Empty Capsules" On Amazon. So I now put my pills into these clear and it cuts the taste down, I think because it dissolves with the capsules in my stomach. I hope this helps. I LOVE the sleep I get from it. It's the only one that will work for me. Good luck to y'all. | F | 52 | 4 days 2 mg 1X day | 3/5/2022 | 5 | Sleep Disorder | Metal mint taste. It's depends how much you drop it right down the throat. Take the pill and open up your throat, head back and chase with a bottle of water. If you take it normal and it sits on the tongue in any way, the metal taste is more evident. It does change your palette for at least two days, everything is "minty" or cool, like peppermint um. | For the amount of sleep I get, I jam that pill straight down and don't let it touch my tongue or back tongue or sides. Open up and drop it in. | M | 50 | 4 weeks 3 3X W | 2/19/2022 |
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)