Worst sleeping pill ever I saw the commercial with the butterfly and thought that this was finally going to be the one that keeps me sleeping all night without any interuptions. WRONG, Lunesta did nothing at all. I took up to 3 pills and still had no sleep. I will stay with Ambien CR thank you very much.

Worked but had to double the dose I started taking lunesta after I was not able to fall asleep or stay asleep. Ambien CR did not do anything for me but Lunesta originally worked with 3 mg. It quickly stopped working and I had to move up to taking two 3mg pills (since it does not come in 6 mg). This worked great but insurance would only allow me to get 30 pills a month and doubling the dose caused me to run out in 15 days. I have since found a different medication that works just as well but is a stronger sedative and I am worried about not being able to sleep without drugs. I have also tried acupuncture and it briefly worked but I couldn’t afford to go everyday.

Great for getting to sleep slowly. I take it about one hour to two hours before bed time and i sleep so great. Wake up refreshed. It does cause a wierd taste in your mouth and I asked the doc about that and she said take a glass of milk with it or OJ and that will take that bad taste away.

Initial experience PRO: helps me to get to sleep and remain sleeping (with appropriate dose)
CON: 1)does not give me restful sleep 2) more tired than usual during the day – needing to snooze alot just to function 3)metallic taste in mouth getting worse
NOTES: Only 4 nights on this so far, so this is just my initial experience. However, I have yet to get a good night of sleep on Lunesta which is very disapointing given the promising research. If I lower the dosage to 1mg I wake up after 4hrs and can’t fall asleep. If I up the dosage I am groggy for the entire morning. I will remain at 2mg and hope that my sleep improves. But so far, hard as it is to believe, my already horrible sleep is made worse via Lunesta. But I haven’t given up hope yet. I’ll continue to try it for the next few weeks and see if things get better.
UPDATE: I have to stop lunesta now. Although it can put me to sleep and keep me out (at the right dose), the sleep quality seems poor and I’m feeling awful. If anything I feel like I haven’t slept in days. Very hard to function. Great disapointment here since I have been following the positive research on this drug for almost a year. I’m starting to wonder if any sleep drug that operates on the gaba system will work for me. Ambien, Sonata and now Lunesta seem not to work with me. I’ll definitely retry lunesta at another time and see if I have a better result. For now I need to recover.
I should also mention that for this time on Lunesta I was not taking any supplements and was only on 25mg of Zoloft.

Have had sleeping problems for several years. Lunesta had worked great for me.