LUNESTA Reviews (ESZOPICLONE)Average Rating: 2.7 (851 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LUNESTA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LUNESTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | To sleep through the night | Heart palpitations, shortness of breath, esophageal pain and spasms | I used Lunesta 2mg for approximately two months. The nasty taste seemed to be an acceptable trade for being able to sleep through the night without feeling hungover the next day. During the second month of use I noticed spontaneous heart palpitations and shortness of breath. Most disturbing, however, were three increasingly severe instances when I started to eat dinner of esophageal spasms (like a cat trying to bring up a hairball) with searing, burning chest pain. It felt as though a fiery golf ball had lodged in my esophagus and would not go either up or down. The last occasion I vomited a mucus-like substance. Being 70 years old, in excellent health, and not using any other medications, I decided the Lunesta must be the cause of these symptoms and discontinued its use. For the two months I have been off Lunesta, I have not any recurrence of any of these symptoms. | F | 70 | 2 months | 6/15/2008 | 1 | 5days | suicide | my wife Sharon Coalson committed suicide by self inflicted gunshots on dec. 12 06 as a result of cymbalta and lunesta. she had experienced sleep depreviation along with depression and was prescribed lunesta in addition to cymbalta. she had complained of anxieties on the mornings she had taken lunesta and said it was not effective. a close friend had also been prescribed cymbalta and lunesta and confided that after the 4th tablet of lunesta he would have ended his life. he reported this to his doctor and lunesta was removed and he returned to normal. my wife contacted her doctor who never bothered to call after she experienced a reaction. her last comment to me was that she was going to take a lunesta (her 5th tablet) to see if it would help her sleep and about midnight she ended her life. . based on the abject apathy of the medical profession and lack of interest with the pharmacuetical companies there are no investigation when suicides occur as a result of adverse reactions. it has | F | 62 | 5 days | 6/13/2008 | 1 | Insomnia | About 45 minutes after taking it I started seeing vision and hearing noises. Only when I had the light off, if the light was on, there was nothing. | Stay Away! | M | 25 | 1 days | 6/7/2008 | 1 | insomnia | Always high irritability the second day after taking 3,5 mg at night (Taken lunesta only approx once or twice a week for about a year) | M | 1 years | 6/6/2008 | 5 | Insomnia | none, as long as I get 8 hours sleep | This is the BEST thing I have ever taken. I have not slept in years, and I have NO side effects at all. It is so wonderful to be able to sleep thru the night for the first time in my life. I have been on it now for about 3 years with NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. | F | 43 | 3 years | 5/31/2008 | 3 | insomnia | Depression, derealization, feeling cranky and not like my self. | Lunesta 3mg will usually put me to sleep and I have had lifelong trouble sleeping. But I made the mistake of taking this every other night for a few weeks during a bad spell. After two weeks I realized the Lunesta was causing palpitations and anxiety...in other words, making the insomnia worse. On top of that it quit working so well and I had to wait a good hour or more to fall asleep. I think this drug should be used "once in blue moon" for special occasions only: like when you absolutely HAVE to sleep for something the next day, like getting up early for a plane ride. Oh, and it makes me dopey the next day. | F | 54 | 1 years | 5/31/2008 | 1 | insomnia, medication related | The first night I did fall asleep. The second night I did not sleep a wink and experienced the worst anxiety of my life, weird thoughts, dreaming while awake. I stopped taking it immediately. One of the scariest experiences ever. | A dangerous drug that should be prescribed more strictly. Watch out for drug interactions. | F | 52 | 2 days | 5/29/2008 | 1 | Insomnia | metallic taste in mouth | I am or was an avid water drinker, recovering alchoholic, four years now without a drink. The taste the next morning not only gave me breath to die from but did not allow me to drink my water without wanting to throw up. Someone should do something about this, first and last time for me, life is too short to give up something so big only to have some medication take away the benefits. I will stick to my over the counter medications. | F | 40 | 1 days | 5/26/2008 | 5 | Insomnia caused by arthritis pain | The most salient side effect is the 'bad taste.' Its not a terrible taste by itself, but it does ruin the taste of any midnight snacks that you might consider. Otherwise, I occasionally wake up still feeling drugged and a little out of it. That has always passed within an hour for me. | An interesting effect I observed on a few occasions: i had a stomach bug and had been vomitting all morning. I took a Lunesta hoping to make me fall asleep, but the stomach ache was gone in about 15-30 minutes after taking the Lunesta. I've seen some people complain about stomach pain with lunesta, but for some reason, I get a cure. | M | 23 | 2 years | 5/22/2008 | 1 | Trouble falling asleep | Horrible, feel nervous and very groggy, muscle fatigue during the day almost like I SHOULD be sleeping. After reading all of the comments I am very much in line with all opinions. I am afraid to not take anything but the way I am feeling during the day it really does not even feel like I have gotten a good night sleep on lunesta. So not worth taking. I am going to go to a homeopathic pharmacy to get something natural. | F | 35 | 13 days | 5/5/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | None | Have had sleep problems for sixty years. Tried Lunesta. Wasn't bad. Noticed none of the problems mentioned here. Took is maybe 15 times. It just didn't seem strong enough so went back to Ambien.Ambien is worse with worse problems but it does help me sleep. The medicines sure do have different effects with different people so you just have to cautiously try some of them and see how they do. They are all bad and we all wish that we could get along without any of them but that seems not to be the case with most of us. So we have to figure out which medicine is the lesser of the other evils. | M | 72 | 15 days | 4/29/2008 | 2 | Interrupted Sleep | Horrible Taste In My Mouth During Night (still woke up frequently) | So far I would say Ambien CR is much better | M | 51 | 3 days | 4/26/2008 | 1 | insomnia due to depression | Horrible taste in my mouth, horrendous headache. | I took one 3mg tab and was off to sleep quickly. Woke up at 3:30AM after a very disturbing nightmare with a headache. Was afraid to go back to sleep. I will NEVER take this again. I would rather not sleep. I don't know how they can even tout this as a sleep aid. | F | 44 | 1 days | 4/17/2008 | 4 | Insomnia | For the first few months, every morning after I had a bitter taste. It went away completely. | I've tried Rozerem and Ambien. The Lunesta works the best for me. Rozerem didn't work at all and the Ambien was almost too strong (hallucinations)and I feel like I would get addicted to it. Lunesta just puts me to sleep within 30 minutes and I wake up feeling great. I don't have a strong urge to take Lunesta unless I absolutly need it. With Ambien, I felt like I had to take it every night. | F | 29 | 1 years | 4/16/2008 | 1 | trouble sleeping | I had the worst depression of my life while on this medication, I had a full blown panic attack. NO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION! I didn't feel like myself and the smallest things would make me go irate and I felt like killing people and killing myself. | If you take this medication and have the same reaction to it as me, STOP immeditately. I flushed the pills down the toilet. If you continue to take it knowing that many people have had these crazy thoughts and do something, you DO NOT have the pill to blame. You will sit and roit away in jail wishing you had not taken it for the rest of your life if you do something crazy (like kill someone). Is the risk worth the possible reward? I don't think so...because I got no benefits from this drug. WORST MEDICATION EVER, IT SHOULD BE BANNED! FU to the people that profit from this drug. | M | 23 | 2 days | 4/15/2008 | 2 | Insomnia | Within 3 days of taking it, I was expreriencing depression. I felt a sense of loss and just felt like crying. I had confusion and of course that awful taste. | I have am no longer taking lunesta. Not worth it. | F | 42 | 3 days | 4/14/2008 | 1 | Sleep interrupted at night | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG! THIS DRUG HAS HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS. THE WORST WAS THE HORRIBLE TASTE IN MY MOUTH ALL THE TIME. THAT ALONE IS WORTH DUMPING THIS DRUG DOWN THE DRAIN. | After less than two weeks I had a filthy disgusting greasy stench, taste and smell in my mouth and sinuses for everything I was eating. Yoplais yogurt with strawberries tasted like rotten fish. Everything tasted the same way regardless of what it was. It was bizarre. It wasn't just when I was taking the pill as the "bad taste" in the package instructions implies, it was all the time. I could not get rid of it. I started thinking I might not ever recover my sense of taste. I had no idea what was going on. My pharmacist knew what it was immediately however. How come my doctor thought this drug had no side effects? I finally got rid of the problem by stopping the medication and after four days I got my life back again. You don't know how much you depend on taste for enjoyment of life until you lose it. | M | 67 | 14 days | 4/14/2008 | 5 | Difficulty staying asleep | I woke up with the much described bad taste in my mouth, but after a drink of water or coffee it went away. I have noticed that the longer I take Lunesta the less odten I notice this side-effect. I have amazing and vivid dreams when I withdraw from Lunesta for one to two nights; if I go off for two or three nights I feel dizzy and I have a rebound night of extremely poor sleep. | I tried Ambien CR and Rozeram. Both got me to sleep, but I continued to wake up multi0ple times a night. Lunesta is the first medication I have taken that helps me sleep through the night. Even when I do wake up, I am able to roll over and fall back to sleep. (Without sleep aids, I wake up and then my mind engages with thoughts of work, which then keeps me awake.) I am concerned that a lot of the postings on this site are histrionic and some of the the side-effects cited are not related to the drug. | F | 49 | 2 years | 4/13/2008 | 1 | Insomnia | I had a side affect I really didn't expect about 15 minutes after taking the drug I had a pounding heart rate like I had been on the treadmill for 15 minutes ... scary | I would say be careful because that fast heart rate is the opposite affect I thought I was gonna have .... sure it made me tired after about 30 minutes or so but it was like a stimulant when it first kicked in .... has anyone else had there heart rate increase from this drug? the day after I still feel groggy and I have a bad taste in my mouth when drinking water ... be careful with this drug people .... that was my last pill of Lunesta thats for sure .... | M | 39 | 1 days | 4/13/2008 | 2 | Insomnia due to depression | The metal taste in the mouth is awful. What's strange is the taste isn't there unless I drink something. Slight headache. | It did help me fall asleep quickly, but I still woke during the night, after a HORRIBLE nightmare. When I woke I had the worst headache. I will try one more night, but if it doesn't work better in helping me sleep I'm stopping it. I'll ask for Vistaril or just take some Benadryl instead. | F | 43 | 1 days | 4/11/2008 |