"i have taken lunesta 3mg for around 6-7 years.  it takes about 45 minutes to make me start nodding off.  i had the metal taste when i first started using it but don&#039;t have any problem with that for years.  i got insomnia when i had a hysterectomy years back.  i use to take trazodone and it worked great but gave me a headache every morning.  be sure not to eat any snack near the time you take you take lunesta that interferes with absorption and falling asleep time.  i think it might make me a little more depressed.  however, if i don&#039;t sleep i would be a raving loon!  nothing worse then laying awake and you head won&#039;t shut-up.  i would like to be able to fall asleep without medication but it just doesn&#039;t happen without lunesta."