Posted by lunesta on April 10, 2005, at 14:14:01
In reply to Lunesta, Has Anyone Tried It?, posted by Phillipa on April 10, 2005, at 13:06:33
It is basically a small blue round tablet marked 3193 for the 3mg dose I am on,
It worked more quickly than ambien and sonata, but similary, though it was more dizzy-powerI did wake up to goto the bathroom twice (dehydration from duragesic patch) and I never had the funny taste in my mouth.
I actually got a decent 6 hours sleep on it( whihc is VERY good for me without Xyrem... so
I would say out of all the nonbenzo traditional hypnotic category (Ambien, Sonata and now Lunesta) Lunesta was superior at its highest dose over all of them includingImovane (overseas zopiclone-which Lunesta is basted on).
The only side effect I could attain was a try mouth, but no bad taste which people said was so common in the original zopicline.
So its approved for long term use, so docs should have no problem giving it out like candy, also it is less addective supposidly than others.
If you have ahigh tolerance to benzos or ambien type drugs though this may not be for you as there is always cross-tolerance.
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