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Tried some and it tasted sweet. Not medicinal at all. Any ideas?
You've got to be kidding! It sounds like you got jacked. Zopiclone is maybe the sickest tasting med on the planet. Or maybe you just have weird taste buds
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When I tried Zopiclone once, I awoke the next morning with that bad taste still in my mouth. I felt the pill worked in putting me to sleep and staying there but the taste I couldn't overcome and never took another dose. Yes, the taste was that bad.
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You should swallow the tablets whole; they are film-coated to help you do this. There could be sweet-tasting binders and fillers in the drug. If 7.5mg is the active ingredient, there could be over 100mg of inactive ingredient. This is why 'taste tests' are not reliable.
The metallic taste is sometimes experienced the following morning, as the drug is recycled through the saliva. This is a totally different issue to how the pills 'taste' should you suck or chew them when you take them in the evening.
Personally, I do not experience any appreciable taste disturbance with the drug, though I do guzzle flavoured water constantly, which might help, and thoroughly clean my teeth in the morning.
Now clarithromycin - that WILL make you want to use bleach as a mouthwash. The taste disturbance from that stuff is disgusting.
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No , it worked fine. Just the outside tasted sweet next to the other pill I was taking at the same time. I just needed a higher dose to work on me. And no I didn't eat it! Yuck!
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Intas Zopicon (small round scored and marked) and come in a a blue and white box initally have a sweet taste. I thought I'd been had but it worked and I since found out that the sweet taste with Intas is as it is surposed to be. I think to try to cover up that very metalliac tatse you get. It does at first but not for long enough!!
I use tham all the time now. I found them as good as Imovane but a lot, lot cheaper.
Edited by Brigid (11/06/0905:41 AM)
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Intas Zopicon (small round scored and marked) and come in a a blue and white box initally have a sweet taste. I thought I'd been had but it worked and I since found out that the sweet taste with Intas is as it is surposed to be. I think to try to cover up that very metalliac tatse you get. It does at first but not for long enough!!
I use tham all the time now. I found them as good as Imovane but a lot, lot cheaper.
I agree. Intas Zopiclon do have a sweet taste if you place them on your tongue. But be warned, they aren't as well coated as the Immovane and the bitter metallic taste soon appears. I think they work just as well, if not better, than the Imovane brand. I take mine with a large glass of water to try and avoid the bitter taste when I swallow them.
Edited by hayek1 (11/06/0907:39 AM)
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