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Eszopiclone Treatment Report

Brand Names: Lunesta

What is Eszopiclone? Eszopiclone is an hypnotic and nonbenzodiazepine used for the treatment of insomnia.

See more information, including instructions, precautions, side effects, and interactions.


Reasons taken

23 patients in the community are taking or have taken Eszopiclone.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Insomnia 17 73%
Other 4 17%
can not sleep 2 8%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Eszopiclone.

  1 mg daily 2 mg daily 3 mg daily
  3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Eszopiclone or how long patients were taking Eszopiclone before stopping.

Currently Taking Eszopiclone

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
1
2
5

Stopped Taking Eszopiclone

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
3
4
1
1
1
1
Why Patients Stopped Taking Eszopiclone (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 7 58% Did not seem to work: 58%
Side effects too severe 3 25% Side effects too severe: 25%
Doctor's advice 2 17% Doctor's advice: 17%
Expense 1 8% Expense: 8%
Personal research 1 8% Personal research: 8%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 5 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

There is currently no efficacy data for Eszopiclone.

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 20% 1
Mild 0% 0
None 80% 4

Top reported side-effects include: Bad taste in mouth, weird dreams, wake up several times during the night

Summary results are based on 5 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 5)

  • daddytom
    Sex: M
    Mouth/throat: moderate
    Arms: mild
    Chest: mild
    Legs: mild
    See profile
  • daddytom
  • by daddytom
    Apr 17, 2009
  • EfficacySlight
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Insomnia
Advice/Tips
I am t the max dosage for Lunesta. Anymore it does not always help me sleep. My Dr has said if I want to quit and go to a different sleep med he will prescribe one. I was also told that Lunesta would let me sleep without having diffuclt dreams. This has not been the case. I have recurring bad dreams. And I am only sleeping 5 to 6 hours a nite.

  • cacy
    Sex: F
    Mouth/throat: mild
    Arms: mild
    Chest: mild
    Legs: mild
    See profile
  • cacy
  • by cacy
    Mar 20, 2009
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Insomnia
Advice/Tips
At this time Lunesta is working great, I'm finally able to sleep a full eight hours a night. I feel so much better. However, just because it works for me, it may not have the same effect for others.

See all evaluation results for Eszopiclone

Report created on November 08, 2009.