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 |
| 3 | Sleep problems | nightmares and groggy mornings. Seems like the next day lasts forever. Like yesterday, I was making dinner and realized that it wasn't even lunch time yet!! I felt Loonie! Maybe it should be called Looniesta instead of Lunesta. | Other than my weird experiences during the day and my occasional nightmares.....I couldn't sleep without Lunesta. Then again, I've only taken it for a week. | F | 40 | 7 days | 10/8/2006 | 4 | insomnia | Bad taste in my mouth but it was worth it | Unlike Ambien I didn't do weird things in my sleep. I take it once a week to restrt my clock. It does give me a horrible taste until about three the next day, but that is worth it in my book for a good nights sleep. | F | 31 | 20 days | 9/30/2006 | 1 | COULDN'T SLEEP | NO EFFECTS AT ALL | I'VE ONLY TAKEN IT ONCE. IT DID NOTHING FOR ME. TYLENOL PM WORKS BETTER. | M | 26 | 1 days | 9/27/2006 | 1 | COULDN'T SLEEP | NO EFFECTS AT ALL | I'VE ONLY TAKEN IT ONCE. IT DID NOTHING FOR ME. TYLENOL PM WORKS BETTER. | M | 26 | 1 days | 9/27/2006 | 1 | COULDN'T SLEEP | MAKES EVERYTHING TASTE HORRIBLE. EVEN ICE TEA WHICH I LOVE BUT COULDN'T DRINK AFTER TAKING THE DRUG. | I'VE ONLY TAKEN IT ONCE. IT DID NOTHING FOR ME. TYLENOL PM WORKS BETTER. MADE EVERYTHING TASTE BAD MAYBE IF THEY COULD SINGLE OUT WHAT'S DOING THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR WEIGHT LOSS. | M | 26 | 1 days | 9/27/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | Bad taste | M | 23 | 1 days | 9/26/2006 | 2 | Had time sleeping or staying asleep | As of today (9/23/06) I've only been on it two night. The first night I took 1 mg and felt a little sleepy and went to bed at 9:30 p.m. Ended up waking up at 3am, 4am, 5am 6am and then finally got up around 7am. I had a slight headache. And so far tonight, I took 2 mg and it's making me kinda light headed and woozy and I have a bad taste in my mouth and smell something when I breath in. And no I'm getting a slight headache again. Going to be going to bed now just in case I pass out or something. Not sure if I'll try more or not. | F | 32 | 2 days | 9/23/2006 | 3 | Can't Sleep | I made yummy noises in my sleep. Sometimes I would get up and eat 3 tubs of tapioca pudding during the night without waking. Once I microwaved a watermelon and cuddled it, again without waking. Still though 6hrs sleep most nights. | Will continue using it... | M | 29 | 37 days | 9/22/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | Works wonderfully, go to sleep quickly and stay asleep. After long term use (over 6 months), dizziness, confusion, marked brain fog. | This is a great sleep aid. I've taken Ambien before and lunesta is not as strong...but does not have as severe side effects after long term use. However, the side effects of both drugs are identical. Namely, dizziness, short term memory loss, brain fog, and lethargy. | F | 57 | 1 years | 9/18/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | No side effects. I have not had the unpleasant taste that many have experienced. | This is the best sleep med I have tried. I find it works better than Ambien CR. The onset of sleep is about 30 minutes and I usually do not wake during the night. | M | 55 | 2 months | 9/16/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | Bad taste in mouth, horrible vertigo, inner ear problems, jaw pain. | Lunesta worked okay for about a month. I would wake up several times during the night, but would fall back to sleep quickly. After a month, I started having horrible vertigo and inner ear problems. My jaw hurt, my ears ached, and the vertigo was awful. It took two months for me to suspect the Lunesta. I stopped taking it and less than 48 hours later the vertigo, which had plagued me for two months, was gone. The jaw pain and inner ear problems are still with me, even though I stopped taking Lunesta a month ago. I think Lunesta has caused long-term damage to my inner ear and TMJ. | F | 52 | 3 months | 9/16/2006 | 4 | Insomnia/staying asleep | GAK! that taste! That is almost enough to quit taking it. 2.) Very vivid dreams, nightmares, "prolonged waking sleep." | It does not drive me to sleep. It does make my brain slow down enough to actually attempt sleeping. I usually take it about and hour and a half before I go to bed. I usually take it with some soup, or when the taste gets really obnoxious (I have had it wake me up) a fudge popsicle usually takes care of it. When I don't take it...I don't sleep. If they can come up with a Lunesta that renders a sweet aftertaste instead of the icky bitter one, that would be perfect. | F | 41 | 47 days | 9/14/2006 | 1 | insomnia | The taste is horrible and nothing gets it out of your mouth. Plus I was so dizzy I had to wait to drive to work the next day. I just threw out the rest of the pills. | There is a lot of abuse potential despite their commercials. Non-narcotic is not what everyone assumes it is. | F | 34 | 1 days | 9/14/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | I went to sleep fairly quickly, but didn't stay asleep all night -- woke up several times, but usually went back to sleep with little trouble. The nasty taste it left in my mouth was awful! But the worst side effects came after I had been taking it for a month -- horrible vertigo and inner ear problems. I've never had so many inner ear problems. I didn't associate the inner ear problems with Lunesta for 2 months. When I suspected the Lunesta,I stopped taking it, and the vertigo disappeared within 2 days. It's also possible the Lunesta caused long-term inner ear damage. I now have a lot of bothersome problems with my ears now -- pain, noises, etc. -- that I've NEVER had before. | F | 52 | 3 months | 9/14/2006 | 1 | Problems Sleeping | Suicide thoughts and extreme depression, I never thought I would cut myself in my life, and I did after I took the medicine. | This was the first and last time I would ever take such a bad evil drug!!! FIRST it made me have this nasty taste in my mouth then out of nowhere while im in my bed trying to sleep I start to think about all the negative things that happend in my past, all boiling under my head, I start to have a emotional break down and go and find a razor to cut myself... enough said. Beware because I have NO depresed problems, my life is great until the first AND LAST day I took this drug. | M | 20 | 1 days | 9/12/2006 | 3 | to sleep | Horrible taste in mouth whenever I drink anything the day after I took it. Really bad. | It helps me sleep, but I only take it if I'm desperate because I hate the taste in my mouth the next day. | F | 31 | 6 days | 9/11/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | could not sleep until 4 hours after taken lusesta, horrible nightmares that I was about to die. Woke up in the early morning in a panic and and was shaking. Felt tired the whole day. | Horrible drug!!!!!!!!!! | M | 27 | 1 days | 9/11/2006 | 5 | insomnia | No side effects at all, no bad taste. | 7-8 hours of solid sleep | M | 40 | 8 days | 9/10/2006 | 1 | insomnia | I quit smoking and started suffering from horrible insomnia. { Always had it but not this bad } My doc prescribed lunesta, and I ws so excited to finally sleep last night. HA!!!! I woke up shortly after with the worst taste in my mouth. Like sucking on an aspirin, or maybe even worse. I taste in when i inhale, exhale. Nothing tastes good. I am actuallu considering smoking a cigarette to try and kill this flavor. I was exhausted all night, and was kept awake from this horrible taste. I swear it tastes like my diet pepsi has a quart of whiskey in it, along with many tablespoons of some type of poisoness cleaning fluid. I have a months prescription for this stuff, and I am scared to death of it. | Went to sleep but couldnt stay asleep because the taste in my mouth woke me up. If I ever wanted a cigarette. it is NOW | F | 45 | 1 days | 9/8/2006 | 5 | Insomnia | Seemed like my tastebuds stopped working at the back of my tongue. Anything I ATE TASTED HORRIBLE! The next morning still had a taste, like I chewed up an aspirin. Good news before you get use to it(whenever that is) just brush you teeth and only drink water after taking it :) | This stuff really works! you cant do anything but sleep!But I hope that taste goes away soon cause that is gross. | F | 24 | 1 weeks | 9/5/2006 |