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 |
| 4 | Chronic insomnia | Side effects are limited to horrible taste in my mouth, like everybody else, but that has diminished to only after I've taken it, not the rest of the day. But I have lost most of my ability to taste. | Usually it gives me a full night's sleep. My dreaming is strange. Sometimes I'll have a whole dream, beginning, middle, end. It's coherent, like waking experience, but it's bizarre. | F | 65 | 3 months | 2/7/2006 | 3 | Primary Insomnia | No problems with side effects. Have problems with staying asleep and sometimes falling asleep. | Worked about 4.5 hours so used for the second half of the night. For the first part of the evening rotated Ambien or Herbal Mix as needed to preserve effectiveness. Lunesta started loosing effectiveness 4-5 months out. Had problems with getting back to sleep, so helped Lunesta along with 5mg Ambien or .5mg of Klonopin. Lunesta is probably headed for the rotation list for lighter duty and a chance to regain some muscle. | M | 57 | 7 days | 2/5/2006 | 1 | Insomnia (severe) | Mood swings, depression, suicidal thoughts, chest pains,nightmares, headache, itching accompanied by dry skin, dry mouth,dry eye, nausea. | Was on Lunesta 2 mg.for 8 months. Worked good first month,then started waking after 4 hours. I am NOT taking anymore and am dealing with anxiety symptoms due to withdrawal. | F | 54 | 8 months | 2/3/2006 | 4 | Not able to stay asleep | I have not experienced any bad taste any more than without it. However, I have developed some type of skin rash. A rash appears on legs and torso, gets real red and itches for a day and then dries out. Eventually the dry patch goes away. Don't know if its Lunesta related or not. | F | 58 | 6 months | 2/1/2006 | 3 | Insomnia - PTSD | The two things that really stand out is that HORRIBLE metal taste, and I have been having pretty severe chest/muscle pain. I have had a sharp pain across my chest every morning about a week or two after I started taking it. I'm switching medications because of the latter issue. I mean it did help my insomnia; I was out for a few solid hours (2-3 hours of uninterrupted sleep), but it is just too much of a coincidence that I am having this sever muscle/chest pain. Another story of a drug with worse side effects than the insomnia itself (for certain individuals that is). | What works for one may not work for another... but that metal taste seems to be a constant. | M | 36 | 3 months | 2/1/2006 | 1 | anxiety/stress/insomnia | nightmares while awake, almost hallucinations. Irritable, short fuse. confusion, and mean spirited. | It worked well the first night, not the second night at all, then for the next few night, off and on sleep with the above symptoms...not good if you are a pediatric nurse!!! It took several days to get it out of my system, and am still scared I might have more dreams (which weren't a problem in the first place!) I have tossed the pills down the toilet, and would rather wake up off and on through the night than EVER go through this again. | F | 57 | 6 days | 1/30/2006 | 3 | insomnia | slightly out of it the next day | Sometimes Lunesta worked and other times it didn't. The grogginess the next day was worth it compared to not sleeping. But many times I STILL couldn't sleep when I took Lunesta AND had the drugged grogginess the next day. I'm now working with my doctor on finding other alternatives. | F | 41 | 3 months | 1/26/2006 | 2 | insomnia | I experienced that awful taste, gastrointestinal upset, strange dreams - some of them good but mostly bad. I realized that I was having some chest pain about dinner time the day following the evening dose but it was probably indigestion. I found myself taking a few naps during the day and, on two occassions within one week, I didn't even get out of my pajamas - strange for me. Good thing I work from home. I slept longer than usual - about 7 hours but it wasn't worth it. Back to Ativan. I think that butterfly ad made me try Lunesta. Those drug companies are so clever (and I work for one). | F | 64 | 2 weeks | 1/25/2006 | 1 | Fibromualgia.sever sleep interuptio | HORRIBLE, woke up screaming over and over again nightmares...if you look elsewhere on the web this is a profound feature of this drug. As one other person put it here on this site...nightmares like I have never had in my life! Will never go near this drug again. Back to the Trazadone for me. Cannot even begin to put another one to my mouth. | BE PREPARED! | F | 54 | 1 days | 1/25/2006 | 4 | chronic insomnia | nasty taste for 16 hrs everytime | this drug definately works amazingly well. I get the deepest, most restorative sleep on Lunesta. Unfortunately, I only take it 2 or 3 times a week because of the bad taste. I have found 2 things help with that. Make sure the pill does NOT get stuck in your throat by drinking a glass of OJ, and keep a pack of the Listerine Citrus breath strips for the next day. Turns out the bad taste is an alkaline ph change of your saliva, the only thing that seems to neutalize it are the Listerine Citus flavor breath strips. I still use Lunesta, becuase it works. | M | 31 | 4 months | 1/20/2006 | 3 | sleep disorder | this worked better whenI first started tking it. I started at 2. mg and now take 3 mg. | F | 62 | 6 months | 1/20/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | metallic taste-mild, but persistent; itching-mild, increased appearance of vericose veins and pain in legs/ankles associated with this problem...anyone else experienced this last symptom or is it just me? | F | 48 | 90 days | 1/18/2006 | 1 | sleep issues | The main side effect is the HORRIBLE taste it leaves in my mouth. The tv ad does mention it leaving a taste, but I had no idea it was that bad. Drinking water was nasty, drinking anything was nasty. I thought about using it as a diet aid, because anything you eat tastes horrible, so you avoid eating. | I used it for two nights, and no more. I will try something else. | F | 47 | 2 days | 1/17/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | I had a bit of the bad taste in the mouth...but this wasn't bad enough to lose a good night's sleep over. | I have been locked in what seems to be a non stop anxiety attack for the past couple of weeks. I came here to see if anyone was having this response to long term use of this drug. Apparently it does happen. I'm going to stop taking it and see if it subsides | F | 50 | 3 months | 1/16/2006 | 5 | Killer insomnia | The only side-effect I've noticed is an altered sense of smell. Lots of things (like newsprint, dogs, books) smell to me like a sweet citronella flea powder. This started after I'd already been using Lunesta for 5 months! | Lunesta has helped me get back on track. I took Ambien before, and it often left me with an "Ambien hangover" - all day, which made me feel like an old man. | M | 50 | 6 months | 1/12/2006 | 1 | Can't sleep | Lunesta was the strangest experience I have ever had with a sleeping aid. I took it, had the horrible taste in my mouth and than was wide awake and dreaming at the same time. My dreams were so vivid and so on the surface of me being awake that I seriously thought i was losing it. I can't even describe it. It was not like the dreams were in a deep sleep - they were as if I were one step away from being awake . And my dreams were creepy and beyond anything I have ever known in 36 years of being alive. | F | 36 | 2 days | 1/10/2006 | 4 | Mania/ Insomnia | Finally my partner is sleeping at least 6 hours a night. Even 2mg Ativan and an additional 2mg Xanax didn't work. | I've read other comments here where people aren't getting relief, especially the woman who bashed her stepkid's bike with a baseball bat -- Manic Depression is all I can say -- if you're not getting sleep from these types of hypnotics, something else is wrong. | M | 3 weeks | 1/5/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | This product is, at best, half as effective as Ambien. 10 mg. of Ambien has never failed to put me to sleep whereas Lunesta has had no effect when my anxiety was high. | The only reason to use this drug is that, unlike Ambien, it is not related to diazapine drugs and is said not to affect those receptors. The danger is that a consumer may assume it's OK to use it like aspirin or vitamins, but there's not enough data yet about its safety. Moreover, it's not as effective as Ambien. | M | 65 | 6 months | 1/4/2006 | 2 | Insomnia | That horrible taste the next morning...lasted all day. | Fell asleep quickly, but only stayed asleep for 4 - 5 hours. Tried it 3 nights with the same result and the same awful taste. I'm concerned that the taste may be indicative of a more serious side effect that hasn't been discovered yet. Will not take it again. | M | 52 | 3 days | 12/31/2005 | 1 | life-long insomnia | Severe mood swings, aggressive and hostile behavior, anxiety, depression, flash thoughts of suicide | When I first started taking Lunesta, I was in heaven. Within 20 minutes of taking it, I'd be out cold, and I'd sleep through the night. I've always had problems with falling and staying asleep. If I was woken up too soon, though, like with one of the kids coming in the room in the middle of the night, I wasn't able to help them because I was too heavily sedated. Otherwise, it was great, until I started having violent mood swings, where I'd be absolutely furious at the slightest dumb thing the kids did. The night I took a baseball bat to one of their old bikes and told my husband I didn't want to be a parent anymore (I am a stepparent), I finally realized something was REALLY wrong and started researching the side effects more deeply. Through sites like this, I found out that Lunesta can trigger this behavior (I am normally a little anxious, but reasonable!), especially over time. I had also had two separate flashes of suicidal thoughts, and am NOT the type at all to think of that. I im | F | 36 | 2.5 months | 12/30/2005 |