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 | Insomnia | Initially it made my limbs feel very heavy. I did not feel sleepy. I did not sleep through the night - I woke up a few times. The next day I had a terrible migraine. I could barely lift my arms. I have several hours in the day that I can not remember. It has taken 3 days to get this medicine out of my system. | I have never felt so terrible on a medication. The insomnia didn't feel as badly as this medication made me feel. I would never, ever recommend it to anyone. Please think twice before taking this medication and talk to your doctor about it. | M | 44 | 1 days | 7/26/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | Bad taste in my mouth. After taking Lunesta for two months now my teeth are sensative to hot and cold. anyone else with this problem? | Sensative teeth | F | 60 | 2 months | 7/25/2007 | 4 | chronic insomnia | Bad taste, grogginess, short-term memory problems | Lunesta is the first med I've tried that works -- not 100%, but I do get about 6 hours of sleep every night now. I've been taking it for about 6 months and have been noticing that I'll be thinking of an idea or something I need to do, and a minute later can't remember what it was (the most annoying, recurring one is that half the time, I forget to zip my pants after using the bathroom). I will also be in conversation with someone and have difficulty remembering a name or a detail. And I don't think it's the onset of Alzheimers. I'm thinking seriously of stopping the Lunesta to see what changes. One more thing: I just read that you're not supposed to cut the tabs in half. I've been doing it for months. Makes the taste worse. But, hey, just get a mouth full of water, tip your head up, and drop the pill in the back of your throat and swallow fast. It works. | M | 55 | 6 months | 7/24/2007 | 1 | Continuing Insomnia | Horrible metal taste in my mouth... doesn't subside till hours after | First time I took it, it gave a bad taste and kept me asleep for near 10 hours. This time I just took it, the bad taste is WORSE and i'm also very dizzy. That is unexpected and i've never had any issues like these with ambien. I'll try to go back to that. | F | 29 | 2 days | 7/24/2007 | 1 | hard to speep | nasty taste effects everything you eat. | only have taken it for 3 days it took about 2 hours to fall asleep then up about 10 times during the night. I will try it a few more nights, hope it will change. | M | 67 | 3 days | 7/23/2007 | 3 | insomnia possibly hormone related | 1.Continuous terrible taste in mouth. Food tastes bad! 2.Unable to eat any fatty food(and I'm not referring to junk food, any food with fat hamburger, etc) after 7:30 p.m. because the medication is not effective. I constantly worry about what I'm eating. 3. The medication never gives me a full night of sleep, but it's better than not sleeping at all. 4. Some grogginess during the day but not as bad as other sleep aids. 5. Experiencing depression, could be related to medication. | F | 52 | 2 months | 7/22/2007 | 5 | Chronic insomnia flared by pain | Strange (but totally bearable) taste in mouth, awful breath in the morning, a strong urge to clean and small memory loss if I stay up a while on it. | Was put on Lunesta 8 months ago by my pain management doctor. I've always been an insomniac, but chronic pain put it over the edge and my doctor was adamant about me being able to rest and restore my body at night. Lunesta did just that. It doesn't knock me out like Ambien did. Didn't make me tired past the first night, now just relaxes me enough to not be scared to try and sleep. Always fall asleep within 10 minutes of crawling into bed. I've experienced the bad taste in my mouth for the entire 8 months I've been on it, but I have no issues with it. It is what it is. My breath is awful in the morning however when compared to a night without Lunesta. I love this medication, it's one that has finally guaranteed me the ability to fall asleep regardless of circumstances. | F | 17 | 8 months | 7/21/2007 | 1 | General Restlessness; Not Sleeping | Hallucinations; Horrible Taste In Mouth; Grogginess All Day After Taking Dose | Dr. prescribed Lunesta because I was having trouble sleeping and staying asleep due to stress and anxiety. On the first night of 3mg dose, I hallucinated before even passing out. I walked around the house touching things and laid in bed watching the ceiling fan come down on me. It was horrible. The awful taste in my mouth that came on about 5 minutes after taking the pill was one of undescibable nastiness, and it stayed with me all the next day. I do not reccommend this pill to anyone with sleep problems. | F | 30 | 6 days | 7/18/2007 | 5 | insomnia | Insomnia | I am really happy with Lunesta. I tried Trazadone (made me gain weight) and Ambien....the most horrible drug to ever be prescribed. I have no bad taste in my mouth or any other side effects. | F | 27 | 4 days | 7/17/2007 | 4 | Trouble staying asleep | Mild bad taste, possible headaches | I try to only take it twice or three times a week owing to a fear of dependence. In general, it's worked very well for a few months now, but the past two times I've taken it have been followed by a dull headache behind one eye the next day. Too early to say if it's directly related. Further testing is required to assume direct link as I've had headaches like this in the past. Also, the past couple times I've taken it have been a little less effective. | M | 32 | 3 months | 7/14/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Mood swings, aggressive and hostile thoughts and behavior, severe anxiety, depression, flash thoughts of suicide | At first, I thought this drug was amazing. I could actually fall and stay asleep for 7 to 8 hours in the beginning. After about 4 or 5 months, the range is now more like 5 to 6 hours and then that's it - I'm awake. But It's only after I started reading the postings here that I realized the psychological effects. For the past couple of months, I don't feel like "myself". I feel sad most of the time, with no desire to start or finish anything. I often experience a feeling of being in a haze (not in a good way) and weird thoughts with my mind racing. My Doc was sympathetic to my sleep problems and prescribed this without much diagnosis. I would advise folks not to take this med without some thorough research - especially if you're already anxious or even slightly depressed. | M | 46 | 5 months | 7/14/2007 | 1 | insomnia | First night felt claustrophic and couldn't move. In the morning I thought there was something wrong with the iced tea. I poured out the whole pitcher and made another one - same thing. Nasty, bitter taste. The doc didn't tell me about this. And I didn't see Lincoln or the beaver. | I won't take it again | F | 54 | 1 days | 7/14/2007 | 3 | Trouble falling asleep | Extremely bad taste of metal in my mouth, even when i inhaled thru my nose. I found that drinking grapefruit juice (ruby red) helps get rid of the taste, but not completely. i havent had any halucinations or any real side effects except for the taste. i was told to take it while in bed because if you are not READY for bed then you could have the worse side effects. i have found that i dont sleep as long tho, but do feel very alert when i wake. but i do not get more than six hours of sleep on it. | F | 21 | 4 days | 7/12/2007 | 2 | as a sleep aid - hello? | immediately noticed a bad taste like i had just swallowed a handful of pennies that left a metallic trail down my throat. water did not help get rid of this taste. | i am 42 and recently finished chemo for breast cancer and haven't slept well since. i started taking advilPM which helped but stopped helping. doctor suggested sonata but that did nothing to help me sleep. three days later i was prescribed lunesta. the first thing i noticed, immediately, was the taste. YUCK! i fell asleep but only stayed asleep until 3:00am (two nights in a row) but was able to fall right back to sleep after seeing what time it was. i did wake up with a killer headache today! hmmmm. perhaps a shot of whiskey is all i need to help me sleep. between the taste, the waking up, feeling grogged-out in the morning and the headache, who needs the stuff? also, i have unfortunately spent $80 in one week on two meds that don't seem to work. | F | 42 | 2 days | 7/8/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | Calling, texting other people with strange messages, or moving things around my room. Before I stopped taking it I woke up with a severe laseration to my wrist, it was literally cut down to where I could see an artery. | This sleeping pill is not worth losing your life. I have to live the rest of my life with a large scar on my wrist, and I almost had to go into a pych ward because of this pill. | F | 18 | 2 months | 7/4/2007 | 5 | chronic insomnia | mild drowsiness at times during the day | I highly reccommend Lunesta. I alternate nightly between the 2mg and 3mg dose. It is a fast acting drug, so be sure to be in bed or near a bed within 20 minutes after taking it. I have experienced confusion and disorientation if taken too early. There is no "drifting" off to sleep. The onset of sleep is pretty fast and you may not remember falling to sleep, or what you were watching on TV. A bonus to Lunesta is that I get away with only 6 hours of sleep, although I found 7-8 hours to be ideal. I no longer dream, and the sleep often feels induced, but at least I know my body is getting rest. Also, The metallic taste becomes tolerable after a few weeks of usage. | F | 35 | 9 months | 7/3/2007 | 1 | sleep aid | bad taste, headaches, could sleep only for short periods of time, severe paranoia, delusional thoughts, dizzy and claustrophobic | I would not recommend this to anybody. | F | 45 | 2 months | 7/3/2007 | 1 | Chronic Insomnia | Horrible taste in mouth all day, vivid nightmares, headaches | I went from regular Ambien to this and am now taking Ambien CR and would never go back to this, it's horrible. You actually get the bad taste in your mouth when it kicks in at night, but the taste lasts the whole next day, even water tastes bad. It also gave me the most vivid, horrific nightmares (every single night), so I always woke up feeling exhausted. And some nights it didn't even work, but it would make you feel comatose anyway, and you'd just lay half awake all night unable to move. Ambien CR seems to have zero side effects and costs me the same $100 a month. | F | 45 | 45 days | 7/1/2007 | 4 | Insomnia | Bad taste when I first started taking Lunesta, now I am used to it or it went away. | I sleep good now and it has trained my body to sleep better without it. After years of only sleeping 4 hours a night this has helped me get to 6 or 7. If I want more than 6 hours I'll take Lunesta in the middle of the night when I wake to use the restroom. For awhile I took it every night then tapered off. I only take it now when I travel or have not slept well due to husband, children or illness to help me catch up on my zzzz's. | F | 34 | 7 months | 6/30/2007 | 1 | Insomnia | I started taking Lunesta 2.5 mg about 3 months ago and I couldn't stay asleep for more than 4 hours..I then starting taking 3mg tabs approximately 2 months ago and everything was fine at that at that time...However in the past two weeks I have had multiple problems with my sexual drive...One day I will be able to perform and the next day I will not...I am going off the meds to make sure it is the Lunesta however after reading the side-effects it sounds like this is a problem for whomever takes the 3mg tablets... | M | 24 | 3 days | 6/30/2007 |