Imovane (zopiclone 7.5mg)

[dozystrelok]

Anyone else had experiences with these? doc prescribed em for insomnia, and they work a charm, but also have the side effect of me not being able to remember anything afterwards, and blacking out :s
they seem to be great for relaxation and anti-anxiety tho, which is what I'm mostly interested in finding out about.

 

[pally pete]

Anyone else had experiences with these? doc prescribed em for insomnia, and they work a charm, but also have the side effect of me not being able to remember anything afterwards, and blacking out :s
they seem to be great for relaxation and anti-anxiety tho, which is what I'm mostly interested in finding out about.

Metal mouth.

Say no more.

 

[dozystrelok]

Metal mouth.

Say no more.

heard about the metallic taste, I've never had it personally..

 

[pally pete]

heard about the metallic taste, I've never had it personally..

Count yourself lucky

 

[debaser]

I don't have the metal mouth either.

Zopiclone can be used as an anxiolytic, although it wasn't made for that purpose.

 

[pasha]

I think you have to break the tablet in half, or not drink enough water for the metal taste to occur. If you keep the coating on the tablet intact, and you drink a glass of water, then it will not happen.

I have to admit though, when it did, I would probably rate it as the worst taste known to human kind.

*pukes in mouth*

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Zopiclone, has some selectivity for certain GABA-A receptors (a1,a2) that are hypothesized to induce sleep. However, as effective as it is at inducing sleep, it's relatively short half-life robs of it's ability to be effective in maintaining sleep, and managing anxiolysis.

 

[Swimmingdancer]

I think you have to break the tablet in half, or not drink enough water for the metal taste to occur. If you keep the coating on the tablet intact, and you drink a glass of water, then it will not happen.

No, that shouldn't make that much difference, tons of people who keep the tablet intact and drink a glass of water still experience the taste. It is something to do with the drug being in your body. The dysgeusia (distortion of taste, perception of a taste even though you have nothing in your mouth, like the metallic taste caused by zopiclone) is correlated to the blood levels of the drug. Only about 1 in 2 people actually perceive a metallic taste from zopiclone (that's still a lot, just explaining it doesn't happen to everyone, even in studies where each person administered the drug in exactly the same way). I haven't experienced this taste myself and I've broken the tablets and not drank water with them.