Lunestra….now sleep, sleeeeep, sleeeeep
In the familiar Dolphin Guest House, their last season here on Nantucket. Next fall, a rich guy will make this big hotel his own private home. Probably tear down some of it, and make an opulent home for just a few.
Watching TV here, May sweeps is always the best time of the year…all of the juicy shows are coming up with their dramatic endings. Desperate Housewives is on tonight. One commercial was for a new drug called “Lunestra” complete with swirling butterfly/bird that swoops around and helps users of this “daily sleep aid” to learn more about taking this drug…for those who keep thinking about all of their duties and obligations for the next day and need to….just…fall…asleep.
February 1, 2006 @ 5:04 am
It doesn’t work as far as I am concerned. I have had to resort to Benedryl which I shouldn’t take because I have high blood pressure.Lunestra worked for me one night. …within three nights I was up the entire night and after being awake 7 hours after getting to bed took “a benedryl”. Did wake up until 1:00 PM that afternoon.It leaves a terrible taste in your mouth and throat. What is in it that does that?I am writing the company who makes Lunestra. As far as I and others I have read about, it seems Lunestra has sold us “the sizzle and not the steak”.I need sleep. I have been going on 3.5 to 4.5 hours a night for too long… If I sleep five hours I feel like I have hit the jackpot…but not really because I still am tired. Lunestra is of no help. What a waste of $135.Took it tonight for the last time after dinner. It is not after midnight the following day…I’m not tired in the least.Sleepless in South NJ
May 16, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Hasn’t worked for me either, and I’ve given it more than a few chances. However after many sleepless hours I have thought of many ways to put that butterfly to “sleep”.
May 24, 2006 @ 4:36 pm
Have you tried Sonata? Helps a bit. I’ve had insomnia for 40 years, 3 hours a night sleep is good for me. Have tried about all, most leave hangovers which don’t work for me as I work 5 days a week as an RN, need to be sharp.Good luck,A fellow insomniac,Alice De.
July 26, 2006 @ 1:14 pm
My doctor perscribed Lunestra because my lack of sleep was giving me severe migraines during the day. The first night everything was okay. I went right to sleep, and aside from waking up a couple of times in the night, I got about 7 hrs of sleep. After taking it for two weeks, my sleep time decreased to zero. Last night I decided to take two tablets. When I fell asleep I had the worst nightmare I have ever had in my life. It was so much like The Wizard of Oz but Oz was some cult in Oklahoma where their “wizard” inflicted horrible forms of torture for the slightest things, and you would never see your family and friends again. Needless to say, I called my mother when I woke up (after 1 1/2 hours of sleep) and flushed the rest of the pills. Horrifying!
October 22, 2006 @ 2:02 pm
The pill makes me sleep walk, if you can say that what I do is “sleep walking.” It all starts when I open my eyes and the surroundings are never familiar. I begin to panic, help, help as I am pulling clothes away from my mouth. I am in a close, ouch, bang, ouch and kick. I am not just in my closet I was leaning over my clothes rod with my head on the pill with apple pie half in half out and the rest of the apple pie was inbedded into my cell phone!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It is a nightmare it is one of those movies that you wake up and the same thing happens over and over again and again. Different food and just different locations in the house. I think that this drug should be taken off the market, otherwise there will soon be a classaction lawsuit because someone did not do there homework in the lab.have my pillow with the door shut standing in my closet!
June 13, 2007 @ 2:24 am
Took Ambien for a long time until my grown children started complaining that they told me something in great detail that I did not remember at all. Then I switched to Sonata for a while, but the good effects wore off. Now I take Lunestra and it works very well…not to get to sleep but to stay there for at least 6 hours. It’s a relief. It never tasted bad to me!