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 |
| 2 | insomnia | I took 2 mg at 10:00 p.m., woke at 3:30 a.m. with a horrible taste in my mouth, 4:45 a.m. and 6:40. It was not easy to fall back to sleep. It's 7:45 and I feel slightly hungover with a possible sinus like headache coming on | F | 50 | 1 days | 1/16/2008 | 2 | Sleep Problems | I would take a pill, and not fall asleep -- have conversations and have absolutely no recollection of what I said the following day. After taste is discusting -- Wake up several times during the night, and groggy and lifeless in the am. This is not for me. | F | 49 | | 1/7/2008 | 3 | Insomnia | Very bitter metallic taste, all beverages taste bad, especially water. Taste like a 9-volt battery. Still some restlessness. | Before taking the drug Lunesta I was prone to waking up several times throughout the night, I had very frequent episodes of interrupted sleep, roughly about every half an hour. While taking the Drug I still woke up several times throughout the night but much less frequently and I did feel a bit more rested in the morning. But I don't know if I can live with the nasty aftertaste. Will keep forum posted | M | 26 | 1 days | 1/3/2008 | 5 | Chronic Insomnia | None. No odd taste. I walk a bit drunken if I am up longer than 30 minutes after taking the med. No weird dreams. No sleep walking. No sleep eating. | No other sleep med works for me. I have been diagnosed only with chronic insomnia at sleep clinic and am not depressed. Am Ultra Type A (super in control) personality that does not relax well (runs in family) so this is necessary as I have gotten older. I still have a shallow sleep pattern and must create the perfect sleep environment to make all of this function through the night. No caffeine, soothing bath, no light, perfect temp, perfect bed, no noise, etc which I generally can create. I can still wake up at 3 to 4 am and be extremely aware of surroundings and have to meditate on going back to sleep and not start troubleshooting the upcoming week. Honestly, I hate grogginess and that is what Rozeram does to me, and Ambien/CR doesnt even help me sleep. I count Lunesta as a blessing as I have been taking it for over a year or two. If I cardio exercise each day for 30 minutes or more, I sleep much heavier with Lunesta so that is really my edge---and healthier for me too. The best s | F | 46 | 1.5 years | 1/2/2008 | 1 | To help with sleep | This medication could have caused me to do something VIOLENT to myself or someone else! I was NOT myself at all while on this medication. I was violent, depressed, have memory related issues meaning --- I CANNOT for the life of me REMEMBER THINGS that have happened. It may have been the reason I suddenly QUIT a job which I loved. It made things over exaggerated to the point I became overly stressed in situations. This medication SHOULD BE BANNED from the drug market before someone dies as a result of the side-effects. If they haven't ALREADY! The "Butterfly" in the Lunesta add should turn into a "BAT" or a "SNAKE"! If you take Lunesta --- BE VERY CAREFUL with this medication! | Started taking this medication in "sample" form from the doctors office. | F | 44 | 6 months | 12/30/2007 | 2 | chronic insomnia | dizziness; cloudy head feeling i.e. brain fog, wired but not tired | Was up 4-1/2 hurs after taking first dose; got frustrated and took a Tylenol-PM which actually worked much better. I'll never spend money on this prescription again. What a waste. | F | 46 | 1 days | 12/23/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | I only noticed the bad taste for the first few nights. Now I only notice it if I don't swallow the pill immediately. Some dizziness the following day especially if I am working at my computer all day. I am a bit more irritable and quicker to get excited. I have to make sure I get at least seven hours of sleep or I feel dizzy the next day. | I took Ambian for a couple of months but found the dizziness the next day was terrible. Lunesta gives me a good night's sleep with fewer side affects. I've been taking it every night for about one year. I traveled to England last summer and forgot my prescription. I didn't sleep the entire week. | M | 51 | 360 days | 12/10/2007 | 4 | insomnia | Wierd taste in my mouth..but nothing to bad, dizzyness, drugged up feeling | I have bad imsonia and could never fall asleep, no matter how tired I was. I started taking 2mg lunesta which didn't really help me so my doctor switched me up to 3mg lunesta and it worked better. I find some nights are better than others, some nights it works very well for me and I can fall asleep easily, other nights I find it doesn't help at all. But overall, I am satisfied with how it has helped me. | F | 19 | 1 years | 12/9/2007 | 3 | very hard time faling asleep | The only side effect for me is waking up. Very foggy for a time. | I am finding that the drug works at times and others (like the past 3 nights) it doesn't seem to work at all. When it doesn't work I for the most part will be laying there for hours on end. A night like this starts out with me going to bed and taking Lunesta about 10:30pm, and at 3 or 4am I am still not asleep. I may be wrong but it seems to change with each time I refill my perscription. The last time, I seemed to take it and within a 1/2 hour I was rolling over to go to sleep, but with my present script (which is almost ready for a refill) I have been in this state where I can't fall asleep for hours. Could this be a consistence problem with the drug ? I have been on it for quite some time now and find myself seeking something to try to make up for or replace this drugs lack of effectivness which has now been a problem more often than not. | M | 56 | 1 years | 12/8/2007 | 1 | insomnia | everything imaginable (almost everything on the list) GERD, aspirating reflux, panic attacks, increase depression, the list goes on. | ALL of these went away when I stopped taking it and returned when I started again. FLUSH. (to be fair, it helped me get to sleep) | M | 44 | 1 years | 12/8/2007 | 1 | For Sleep | I never felt fully awake--groggy all day, was anxious, depressed, foggy in the head--sometimes almost in a stupor--unable to make decisions, withdrawn, headaches, felt like I had to take medication to get to sleep--hooked. | At first, I thought it was a good drug, but as time as gone by, I felt less and less like myself. I stopped taking it 2 weeks ago, and am starting to feel better, but not all there yet. When I first started taking it, it was because I was going through a very difficult time dealing with my mother's illness, and I thought many of the effects I was having were due to stress--now I don't think so. | F | 53 | 10 months | 12/8/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Bad taste in mouth | I took this drug twice. The first night I woke up about 5 hours after falling asleep (which took over an hour). I noticed a foul taste in my mouth but being half asleep (and possibly dazed from the drug), I figured it was just morning mouth or something. When I woke up a few hours later the taste was still there. It got worse through the rest the of the morning, and by early afternoon it was so bad I began to feel a bit ill. I'm a big water drinker.. while drinking water while experiencing this side effect, I likened the taste to drinking liquid copper. Absolutely horrible.. After some investigation (and one more chance the next night), I discovered may other people went through similar side effects. I destroyed the remainder of my prescrption, and have been using Ambien (10mg) for over a week now with NO problems whatsoever. | M | 39 | 2 days | 12/7/2007 | 4 | Chronic Insomnia | Slightly tired the next day but I expected that. I have no issue with bad taste in my mouth as others descibed. I did have to half the dose from 3 mg. Itworked much better. I also still have to take xanax with get my mind to shut down due to Adult ADD butI sleep well on small doses of each. | I was reading about another sleep medication in this forum and started to get freaked. I decided to look up Lunesta as I have been taking it for 2 years. After reading the forum I suggest everyone try there medication no matter what this says. We apparently area all AMAZINGLY different in body chemistry. | F | 45 | 2 years | 12/6/2007 | 1 | insomnia | Just realizing this, but severe depression at times - so severe I thought I'd be better off dead although I didn't actually think about suicide itself, heightened anxiety, constant burning behind and in both of my eyes, swollen eyes just like someone else said, incessant fogginess, irritable, agitated. | I started taking this medication back in May, my primary care gave me some samples and a script for mg of Lunesta after I'd been taking Ambien for almost a year and it stopped working. Well, I kept waking up at night. So I tried the Lunesta and it worked much better than the Ambien. So I took all the samples and filled the script. My father had passed away in February and in early June I was feeling extremely depressed about his death and then, my life in general - though I am happily married with two very young children who I love dearly. I would cry on and off all day long and was feeling hopeless. I thought I would be better off dead so I would not feel so hopeless anymore. I even went on Lexapro for a month because of it! I stopped Lunesta 3 days ago and feel like a new person. | F | 39 | | 12/5/2007 | 2 | chronic insomnia | The metallic taste initially. I started to suffer anxiety attacks which I NEVER had before. Also dizziness the next day with palpitions which I attributed to the anxiety. Increasse emotional sensitivity. Too easily moved to tears or laughing a little more than seems appropriate to the situation. Very mild, but noticeble confusion the next day as well. | I have tried this for two years because Ambien stopped being effective. Since I won't take sleep meds on a regular basis I didn't connect the side effects to the drug until a few months ago. I then started to keep notes to see if how I was feeling was related to Lunesta and it has proved to me that it has. I am now going to ask my doctor to switch me back to Ambien after two years I think it may start to work again. Otherwise, I will just stay awake because I refuse to take Lunesta again. Five hours of sleep is not worth the aggravation that it brings. | F | 55 | 2 years | 12/4/2007 | 1 | sleep deprivation due to stress | Received this prescription from my Primary Doctor last Thursday (November 29, 2007) the mettalic taste!!! I thought it was just me and this website is a GOD SEND. I, too, had very vivid nightmares, one was a green frog levitating on my ceiling. Also I LOVE water, need water (very very prone to kidney stones)....water tastes like IRON now. Even Sierra Mist, Slurpees, Milkshakes, nothing has gotten rid of the taste! I find myself getting choked up, lump in my throat talking about tv shows or news events (I am not usually that sensitive!) I'm calling my Primary doctor in the MORNING! Thank you...all of you SERIOUSLY! Taking this for sleep issues is DEFINITELY NOT WORTH IT! | F | 34 | 4 days | 12/4/2007 | 1 | insomnia | none | A nothing drug | M | 52 | 14 days | 11/28/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG! I take Lexapro and have suffered from depression and anxiety during my life. Within a day of taking, I noticed incredible aggression and RAGE. I also felt completely hopeless and had brief suicidal thoughts and ideation. | I had taken Diphenhydramine (simply sleep) for months to help me sleep and then decided to call my GYN for something stronger. Aside from the foul/bitter taste, I seemed to relax quickly. However, the violent, nasty, bitchy person I became was embarrassing. I ruined my Thanksgiving for my entire family with a complete panic attack and meltdown. Butterflies in the ad? Hardly! Shame on me for falling for the false and misleading ad. I am relieved by reading others' stories. I thought I was going insane! | F | 39 | 7 days | 11/27/2007 | 5 | insomnia/hot flashes | Nasty metal taste | I started taking Lunesta because I cannot take anything else for menopause and the hot flashes were waking/keeping me awake at night. Lunesta helps me to go to sleep and stay asleep. If I have a hot flash that wakens me, I take a melatonin to "aide" the Lunesta and I go back to sleep. I am very pleased with this combination, and I'm thrilled that I can finally sleep with all these hot flashes. | F | 48 | 4 months | 11/26/2007 | 1 | waking up early | I had a sleepwalking experience. About a half hour after taking it, my wife received a phone call for me. She found me in our pantry, looking for food, and handed me the phone. I proceeded to have a conversation with a work associate, and handed the phone back to to my wife. The next morning, my work associate mentioned our phone conversation; I had absolutely no recollection of it, and called my wife, who told me what had happened; she did not realize I was asleep! Needless to say, I quit taking Lunesta, and have gone back to taking 2 benadryl tablets before bed, which seems to be working OK. | M | 55 | 21 days | 11/26/2007 |