I tried Lunesta the other night after having trouble sleeping. I slept well, but when I woke up, it tasted as if I’d fallen asleep with my mouth full of old pennies. The taste lasted all day.
It turns out I’m not the only one who had a problem like this (see here or here and see the fine print at the bottom of the official website where it mentions the “unpleasant taste”).
I don’t want to complain too much. After all, “pennies in the mouth” is a better side effect, then say, a damaged kidney or liver. Or heart failure.
TV commercials for Lunesta typically show a glowing butterfly gently floating near a person apparently in deep, peaceful slumber. My idea is that they change the commercial to show the butterfly floating around the sleeper’s mouth, and when the sleeper breathes in deeply, she accidentally swallows the butterfly. In the morning, there should be the remnants of a brown, dead butterfly in the person’s mouth.
