LUNESTA Reviews (ESZOPICLONE)Average Rating: 2.7 (851 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LUNESTA with similar:
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| 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 | 5 | poor sleep | none except a little sleepiness in the morning if I had drank alcohol with it | I don't understand the posts on this website. Lunesta is hands down a life saver. I do not take it every night because of the possibility of dependence, but if I had a bad night's sleep, the next night I will take it to catch up, and it always works perfectly. I sleep unbelievably well with it. Sorry, but I love this drug, but then again, I don't abuse it or take it every day. | F | 44 | 1 years | 4/9/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | I have taken Lunesta for over 3 years. For over 15 years I had problems falling asleep and staying asleep. With Lunesta I can fall asleep and usually do not wake up during the night. I taste was bad a first but that does go away. If you break them in half and try to take it than the taste will be in your mouth all night. I would not recommend that. I love taking Lunesta it is the best thing I have taken and it really works for me. I am not too sure about how long I am able to stay on this without being addicted. But some days I do not take it (if I dont have to get up early the next day) and I dont have any side effects or withdrawals. The only thing is with my insurance it is still $35.00 a month. I hope they make a generic soon. | F | 31 | 3 years | 4/8/2009 | 2 | chronic insomnia | Awful taste in my mouth, excessive urination, dehydration, took 4 hours and 3 pills to finally get to sleep. | It took me 4 hours to get to sleep and that was after taking 9 mg (3 pills) of it! But maybe it was because I kept having to get up to urinate! It felt like a diuretic and made me dehydrated. It also created an awful taste in my mouth, which didn't go away even after brushing my teeth. It made me drowsy, but I couldn't fall asleep. Once I did finally overdose on the medication and there wasn't anything left in my bladder, I did sleep great and woke up feeling good. But, 4 hours to finally get to that point just wasn't worth it! I was on Ambien CR, which works really well for me, but the company I work for decided to change health insurance. New insurance requires me to take at least a month of generic Ambien and a month of Lunesta before they will pay for Ambien CR because Lunesta is their "preferred brand" (I HATE insurance companies!) | F | 23 | 1 days | 4/7/2009 | 1 | insomnia | anxiety,tolerance,dependence,worse insomnia eventually | Dont take this grug for more than a week. Its addictive and should not be used long term. It was hell coming off this drug.I had to take a leave of absense from work for 6 weeks. It was like coming off Xanax all over again. | M | 38 | 1 years | 4/7/2009 | 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 | 1 | Insomnia | Woke up after 2 hours and fell in and out of sleep for the next five hours, I was awake for up to two hours - horrible taste, HORRIBLE... | I took Lunesta for the first time night before last and immediately had a horrible taste in my mouth. Thinking that I let it linger on the tongue for a moment too long, I wrote the bad taste off. I went to sleep around 10:30 PM and was awake at 12:30 AM - and I mean wide awake. I used an aromatherapy inhaler a few times that night but drifted in and out of sleep until 5:30 AM. The taste in my mouth lingered almost the entire day. I tried Lunesta again last night and had the same sleep deprivation issue and the same horrible somewhat metallic taste in my mouth all day. It's 6:00 PM and the taste is still there. I've brushed and rinsed three times today and I can still taste it. I'm a chef so interference with taste is a HUGE deal breaker. I'm never taking this again. No sleep and the horrible taste are too much to deal with. I'm going back to Ambien. I can get at least 5 hours of sleep with Ambien - not really enough, but better than Lunesta | F | 41 | 2 days | 3/27/2009 | 3 | insomnia | bad taste, cannot think clearly,anxiety,dizzyness,euphoria. | I have been taking lunesta nightly for about 3 years now for my insomnia.For the most part it does work as far knocking me out quickly.Sometimes I sleep all night, some times I dont.But I have also experienced anxiety, confusion,dizzyness,cannot think clearly at times.Some days are not so bad, others are.I am currently trying to stop taking this stuff and see if the symptoms go away.Hopefully I can find a natural sleep aid that will work for me. | M | 38 | 3 years | 3/23/2009 | 4 | Insomia | Mild metallic taste that easily was brushed/rinsed away in the morning. | I tended to wake up for several hours in the middle of each night and finally broke down and went to my doctor. He prescribed Lunesta and provided samples. Before I filled the prescription I looked for r/w experiences and was very concerned by all the adverse feedback. But after another week of poor sleep, I broke down and took one. I feared nightmares, sleepwalking, a rancid taste in my mouth for a week. Instead I got a full night of deep sleep. There was a mild metallic taste in my mouth the next morning. But it was gone after the morning brush and rinse. I know drugs effect people differently, but it did exactly what I needed it to do with no side effects for me. I only take it every few days. But after a few weeks I feel it's helped me tremendously. | M | 38 | 3 weeks | 3/19/2009 | 2 | F | 38 | 10 days | 3/19/2009 | 2 | Horrible Insomnia | Horrible taste in mouth. Wide awake after only 2 hours. Sleepiness during the day. Anxiety. | In the past, I have been on Triazolom, Ambien, and Ambien Cr. While they all had their own pros and cons, Ambien Cr seemed to work best for me until I had an incident of sleep driving which resulted in an accident. At that point, I stopped all sleep medications. But after 6 months of limited sleep at best, I knew I needed to try something else. Dr. prescribed Lunesta 3mg. I do not like the unpleasant taste, and have awakened 2 hours after falling asleep both nights. Not sure that I will continue to take it. Some of the responses here really worry me. | F | 42 | 2 days | 3/14/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | There is a metallic taste the next day but it's not overbearing at all. And it goes away. | This is the only med that gets me to fall and stay asleep for 7 hours and the next day I feel rested. The dreams are a trip, too. I have no complaints, only one concern and that's with the alcohol - I didn't notice it myself, but others have said that using Lunesta ups alcohol cravings and usage. I drink moderately - I'm the 1-2 glasses of wine a day person and don't want to lose control of that. Will watch that but otherwise, Lunesta's working. BTW - I tried Trazadone first for sleep issues and felt like a zombie 10 minutes after taking it every time - Lunesta just makes you feel sleepy - you know, like the Mr. Sandman had visted as my Mom used to say... good luck all. | F | 40 | 2 weeks | 3/1/2009 | 2 | Insomnia | Horrible bitter taste that would NOT "rinse out" of my mouth | F | 47 | | 2/28/2009 | 3 | Insomnia | 1st day after taking the night before I felt, well, a bit like I was coming down from a pot high, very calm, but not all-together there. I slept fine the first night, but it did take me almost 2 hours to go to sleep. I woke up about an hour after I fell asleep, and felt wide awake, but as soon as I laid back down, I went right back to sleep. VERY vivid dreams on this stuff, some bad, but for the most part just vivid. In the following 5 days that I have taken Lunesta, I have woken up several times (about 5-7) every night. I don't feel rested in the AM (perhaps because I am waking up so often), and by about 4:30 PM I am spent and feel like I need a nap. The other night I had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner and they hit me HARD (I usually have a much higher tolerance to alcohol) and while I was pretty tipsy/on the cusp of being drunk, I craved more wine! I've read on other forums that if you mix Lunesta and alcohol, you can have a hard time stopping drinking (though I | Expensive and didn't work for me. | F | 31 | 5 days | 2/21/2009 | 1 | Could not sleep. | No sleep. Agrssive-ness. | HATE IT. It is horrible. | F | 25 | 5 years | 2/11/2009 | 1 | Insomnia | Metallic taste in mouth. Dismay that this drug is on the market | For severe insomnia, this drug is a joke. A very mean-spirited joke for those of us who take it just to have our normal sleepless patterns. How much better than placebo did Lunesta do in clinical trials?? Lunesta does not help me fall asleep or stay asleep... DON'T waste yr time! | F | 26 | 1 weeks | 2/8/2009 | 4 | Insomnia | Took Lunesta for the first time last night. Woke up with a metallic taste in my mouth which quickly went away with my morning coffee. Slept ALL night! I didn't wake up at all! I never had a problem falling asleep, but would wake up between 1am and 4am, wide awake and up for at least another hour or so. My doctor put me on ambien which really helped me fall asleep, but I would still wake up in the early morning hours, unable to go back to sleep. The doc changed me to Lunesta and I slept all night! It has been years since I have slept through the whole night! I did feel a bit groggy upon waking this morning, but then again, I always do. Tell you what, if I am able to sleep through the night and get decent sleep, I will deal with the weird taste in my mouth. The sleep deprevation has caused more emotional and mental problems for me than anything! | I started on 3mg. Went right to sleep, slept through the whole night. Wierd taste in my mouth went away when I drakn my morning coffee. Didn't effect the taste of my coffee or breakfast. I look forward to getting sleep! | F | 37 | 1 days | 1/21/2009 | 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 | 1 | Insomnia | lethargy during the day, dizziness, depression, hopelessness, really high anxiety, unable to stop feelings of worry and hopelessness | I have never been a good sleeper, not since i was 11 or 12. Until recently, I used Tylenol PM or Unisom, but decided to move to something stronger and started taking Lunesta. At first i thought it was pretty good besides the awful taste, but after taking it regularly for a little over a month, I have found myself dealing with depression and extremely heightened anxiety. I have had several full blown panic attacks that were among the worst nights of my life. I am generally a happy, funny kind of guy that loves life, and lately I have found myself unable to laugh at things that normally make me laugh, and I am constantly scared that i am going to die or something is wrong with me. It seems like others have had the same sort of experience. This is my second night in a row without taking Lunesta.....I am having trouble sleeping because I have so much anxiety that my heart races and i get dizzy and lightheaded. I am hoping that after a few days without Lunesta, I will go back to normal. Any | M | 30 | 1.5 months | 1/15/2009 | 3 | Occasional Insomnia | Tiredness throughout the day | It seems to help me fall asleep, but I wake up several times during the night. The only difference is - I fall back asleep. So the Lunesta is doing its job, somewhat. I will only take it occasionally to avoid any potential problems. | F | 42 | 2 times | 1/14/2009 |