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 | HORRIBLE taste in mouth. I have not taken it for 3 days now and the taste has not gone away. I brush my teeth at least every hour. Don't do it!!!! | Fell asleep fine but it only worked for 3-4 hours then I was wide awake and couldn't fall back to sleep. | F | 30 | 4 days 3 mg 1X day | 3/27/2012 | 2 | Insomnia | Morning grogginess, headache, unpleasant taste in my mouth, killed my libido! | I was prescribed 3mg of Lunesta nightly for my insomnia. It worked the first couple of days (although I had the bad taste in my mouth from the first dose.) Then it would only keep me asleep for 3-4 hours a night, so getting up in the morning was extremely hard since I was so tired and groggy from not getting a full 8 hours of sleep. My doctor told me to double up temporarily(insurance won't pay for 2 pills a day.) I slept then, but the side effects got worse. I had a constant headache that just would not go away. And my healthy sex drive went to absolute NO sex drive. I only stayed on Lunesta about 2.5 weeks. My doctor just switched me to Ambien. | F | 33 | 2 weeks 3mg 1X day | 3/25/2012 | 4 | insomnia | None | F | 27 | 3 days 20mg | 3/9/2012 | 4 | insomnia | metallic taste,dry mouth,anger | the pill is somewhat helpful it gets me anywhere from 5-7hrs of sleep on a good night. but the next morning the mouth is dry and the metal taste is unbearable. as for the anger it is true i've find myself snapping at the least simplest things. controlling this side effect with yoga, meditation and Bible scriptural readings, but other than that it is okay. i am hoping and praying to wean myself off of this pill near end of may it is addictive. pray and root for me team! | F | 47 | 3 years 2mg 1X day | 3/9/2012 | 1 | insomnia | HORRIBLE METALLIC TASTE FOR OVER 24 hours!!! Only slept 3 hours! Tachycardia next morning, also extreme dizziness! Do not recommend this drug at all! | I have been on ambien, restoril, and clonazepam for insomnia. I would recommend ANY of those over Lunesta! The side effects are horrid. It took me 2 days to recover! Very disappointed! Can not believe this is FDA approved! I am sure we will see a recall commercial in the near future. | F | 26 | 1 days 3mg 1X day | 2/29/2012 | 3 | I have insomnia | It helps me get to sleep It but I wake up every morning around 3am and then again at 6am and can't get back to sleep. Once asleep I go into a deep sleep. I have unlocked doors and let people in my home and don't remember. Kinda scary. | F | 29 | 2 months 3mg | 2/14/2012 | 5 | Problems staying asleep | None. It was amazing. I sleep 8 hours and I get up ready to go! | F | 25 | 2 years 3mg | 1/24/2012 | 1 | Insomnia | Horrible taste, did not promote sleep | Been taking Ambien (Zolpidem) and wanted to try Lunesta, but Ambien is far and away more effective for me. Would not recommend Lunesta due to side effects and poor intended effect. | M | 36 | 5 days 2mg 1X day | 1/14/2012 | 4 | can't fall asleep | Metallic taste but only lasts about an hour, sleepy in the a.m. but again doesn't last long, vivid dreams but does not bother me, I have been using it a long time and more recent takes longer to get to sleep but still better than not using it | M | 61 | 4 years 3 | 12/25/2011 | 5 | Chronic Insomnia | Metallic taste is very rare. There is a slight amnesia effect for what I have been reading in the 5-10 minutes before I fall asleep. | I had tried many other drugs including Klonopin, Trazadone, Seroquel, etc. All either did not work or had terrible side effects. The Lunesta has worked form the beginning and is very consistent. Takes about 20-30 minutes to kick in so I just read in bed until it does. It is easy to wake up also. Sometimes I just pop awake and ready to go. 6 hours per night seems to be fine. I also add 300 mg of Neurontin every night, which I had picked up from years earlier. I think people need to trying different things until they find what works for them. It took me over 10 years. (Ambien and Ambien CR are in the same family but did not work as well for me.) | M | 55 | 2 years 2 mg 1X day | 11/13/2011 | 3 | insomnia | Bad aftertaste all next day; depression next day; racing heart. | I use Lunesta when Benadryl won't put me to sleep..about once a week on average. I try to take as small a dose as possible. It does put me to sleep and the quality is pretty good for 4-5 hrs. Unlike with Ambien you do get REM sleep with this drug. BUT: over the years I've noticed the next day I'll feel like life is pretty dreary and somewhat down in the dumps. Finally figured out it's probably the Lunesta doing it. And if I take more than 3 nights in a row, I get crazy heart racing and anxiety before it knocks me out. This is a drug of last resort for me because of the horrid taste it leaves all next day. Lemon juice does counteract it, as does flushing with lots of water. | F | 57 | 4 days 1 mg 1X day | 11/5/2011 | 2 | Sleep Aid | We are just now finding out that possibly the Lunesta is causing my symptoms to return. I dropped back into a severe depression two months after beginning Lunesta. The doctor has switched many medicines but nothing was working. I've been chilled, had anxiety, deeper depression and during the past month have had serious memory loss. Completely forgot what my children looked like when they were younger or what my wedding day was like. SCARY I have been off of it for five days and still feel awful. I pray this is the answer. Don't take this. Memory Loss, Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Loss of Hunger | F | 63 | 5 months 1 1X day | 11/4/2011 | 5 | Insomnia | This medication has been a life saver for my Insomnia. I have had some night sweats which has not been attributed to Lunesta by my doctors as I am approaching 50 and can be hormones as well. This medication makes me feel rested in the morning and I sleep well through the night. Before taking Lunesta, I would be staring at the walls all night. All medications have side-effects and I recommend that you weight the risks vs. benefits. | F | 48 | 6 years 3 mG 1X day | 10/27/2011 | 2 | sleep insomnia | disgusting taste, bad headache migraine day after. | didn't work, gross taste, bad headache. | M | 26 | 10 mg 1X day | 10/20/2011 | 3 | Chronic insomnia | After 3 weeks of taking it and LOVING it because I slept a SOLID 8 1/2 - 9 hours per night suddenly the energy was drained from me during the day, I felt anxious, completely groggy, depressed, my heart would race randomly throughout the day and I just couldn't function. | At first I thought Lunesta was the greatest thing ever! I was sleeping a solid 8-9 hours per night which I hadn't done in YEARS. The first few weeks I felt refreshed and energized. Suddenly I found myself feeling horrible and didn't associate it with the Lunesta for about 3 weeks. After weeks of spending most of my time in bed or unable to function at all at work my doctor suggested to stop taking the Lunesta. Mind you~ i was only taking it 4 nights a week. But after stopping Lunesta for 5 nights I FINALLY felt "normal" again on the 6th day. I no longer feel foggy, anxious and I can concentrate! If you have no side effects to Lunesta you will love it but be aware of side effects weeks after you begin taking it. | M | 43 | 7 weeks 3 1X day | 10/18/2011 | 4 | To stay asleep | Slight bad taste in mouth in morning, sometime slight headache, a little slow to start (grogy/foggy) when I wake up. Vivid realalistic dreams (not nightmares). I love Lunesta. | I dont have any problem falling asleep, just staying asleep I would wake up after about 1 1/2 hour of sleep and flip flop the rest of the night with my brain running at 60mph thinking of all kinds of things one right after another then going back to the original thougt and starting over again. Started taking lunesta to stay asleep started with 1 mg, then 2mg now I take 3mg and it works the best. I can get a solid 7 hours of sleep now. Metallic taste in the morning is the worst side effect, but thats not everyday. If I sleep less than 7 hours a little grogy/ foggy in the head when I first get up, but that stops after a bit. Vivid dreams (3) to date at random times. First dream aprox a month after starting Lunesta. Dream I was walking down a city street seemed like NYC, but I have never been to NYC walking on the sidewalk by a city trash can with some guy (looked dirty or homeless) digging in the trash can he had his hand in the trash can like he was hiding something and he was looking at me as I past him he had a broken beer bottle in his hand and stabbed me in the right rib cage it seemed so real that I could feel the glass scrape my rib bones, intense pain and a warm feeling like I was bleeding, jumped out of bed and stumbled into the bathroom while holding my right side turned on the light looked in the mirror and was shocked to see no blood, lifted my shirt and no cut I really cant explain how real it seemed it was crazy . | M | 44 | 2 years 3 1X day | 10/2/2011 | 3 | Chronic insomnia | Severe dry mouth. Change in texture of tongue, feels like it's been scalded with hot coffee. Inflamed taste buds at the tip of my tongue. Cracks in skin at corners of my mouth and dry eyes and skin. Increase in RLS symptoms. | This is my second time taking Lunesta. The first time the dry mouth was so severe that I was sent to a rheumatologist to test for Sjogren's, no one ever connected it to Lunesta. Got off Lunesta and several other meds and then got on Ambien but was getting up without knowing it and eating everything in the house. Also had conversations that I couldn't remember. Finally I obtained a medical necessity letter to my insurance and went back on Lunesta. All of the dry mouth symptoms returned immediately. My tongue feels raw, I have the inflamed tastebuds on the tip of my tongue. I also have deep fissures in my tongue again as well as cracks in the corners of my mouth and very dry eyes. I am thirsty all the time and get no pleasure from my favorite chai tea or any other food. I will gladly accept the anorexia but feeling like my tongue is scalded all the time is miserable. I do get good sleep with Lunesta (7 to 9 hours per night) but don't know how much longer I can accept this severe dry mouth. If anyone else has experienced this symptom, I would love to hear of possible solutions. | F | 52 | 3 weeks 3mg 1X day | 10/1/2011 | 2 | insomnia | Panic Attacs, depression, anxiety, weight loss | Stay away from this drug if you have any history of depression or psychiatric dissorders!!!!! After taking this drug for insomnia, (2 months), I slept great!!! Started loosing a lot of weight, getting nasty, short tempered, anxiety attacks, crying, hoplessness, panic attacs, so that I could bearly function every day. Went to the prescribing Dr., who told me that it was not the drugs side effects, it was just me. CRAZY!!!!! Look at the side effects, panic attacks, and anxiety are #2 on the list!!!!! Don't take it, the anxiety will kill you , not the loss of sleep. I feel like I'm going nuts. Stopped 2 nights ago, had lots of trouble going to sleep, and lots of unwarrented panic attacs. Hoping that natural sleep aids will work, and excersise will help with the anxiety. Heart palpitations, sweats, burning on chest and arms, crying, hoplessness, no ambition. Don't take it!!!!! | F | 44 | 4 months 3 1X day | 9/14/2011 | 5 | Insomnia | Occasional metallic taste, fuzzy head in mornings. | Got the metallic taste a few times. For me, it isn't an issue if I take the pill with a lot of water. It seems like the metallic taste is tied to how long the pill is in my mouth, and if it touches anything. So the quicker it goes down, and the less of my mouth it touches, the lower the chance of getting the bad taste. I get this maybe once a month. I only take the pill Sunday-Thursday for work. If I don't book about 7+ hours of sleep, I maybe a little groggier in the morning, but that's not guaranteed. This pill has been a life-saver. Have been an insomniac all my life. I was so exhausted all the time, prior to taking this pill. So I would fit into one of the very satisfied groups. Don't seem to notice any other bad effects. | M | 34 | 6 months 3 mg 1X day | 9/6/2011 | 5 | insomnia... adhd speeding thoughts | Bad taste, hard to wake up but this is very very very rare... also on one occasion hallucinations this was caused from me fighting the drug for 2 hours to stay awake.. I now take it and go straight to bed and have not had a hallucination since then... | Have had insomnia since I was a teen (14 was first sign of it) at first it would just simply take me a while to fall asleep (4-5 hours before actually falling to sleep) Dr. Thought it was caused by my ADHD because the main reason I would stay awake so long was from racing thoughts (could not stop thinking no matter what I did..) that progressed to me just simply not being able to fall asleep at all... I would stay awake for around 35+ hours before crashing... I'm now 25 years old and only started taking sleep aids about 6 months ago... currently if I don't take sleep aids I will be up for 3+ days before crashing witch is bad because I drive 18 Wheelers in the oil field... first my Dr. Had me on ambian this worked for a couple nights then just quit working also I have moderate depression... the ambian made me suicidal after only about a week.. was on "watch" for 3 days before my friends would let me out there site for more than enough time to hit a bathroom... a week after my last does of ambian my depression went back to "normal" my Dr. Decided to put me on lunesta after that episode... I have been on lunesta for 3 months now taking it every night unless I'm on days off because there is no reason for me to sleep while I'm on days off... I have had no major side effects and still fall asleep almost immediately when I lay down... lunesta has literally saved my life, my job, and my sanity... I just wish I had found out about lunesta before now... | M | 25 | 3 months 3 mg 1X day | 7/27/2011 |