Side Effects

I've always found the imagery in this ad bizarre if not downright creepy:

The very idea of a luminescent butterfly flitting about the bedroom is disturbing but that's just the beginning of it.  The ad above is old and I can't find the current ad anywhere on these inter-tubes.  The thing that gets me is the current ad's litany of side-effects, which are considerable.  Here are some I found (embedded links in text removed):

These include, but are not limited to:

• Chest pain


• Anxiety or nervousness


• Suicidal thoughts (see Suicide by Lunesta)


• Confusion


• More outgoing or aggressive behavior than normal


• Strange behavior


• Depression (see Lunesta and Depression)


• Hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not really there)


• Signs of an allergic reaction, including unexplained rash, itching, hives, wheezing or trouble breathing, or unexplained swelling.

I understand the FDA's mandate for listing side-effects and I also understand these things occur in a very small percentage of subjects in clinical trials.  Still and even... I damned sure wouldn't take any drug that might include the highlighted effects, however small that possibility may be.  

The current ad also mentions somnambulism as a problem, including driving while on Lunesta and not remembering you did so.  Yikes!  The caution about not mixing alcohol and Lunesta would be kinda problematic for YrHmblScrb, as well.  And there's always that damned luminescent butterfly.  Which is not a problem according to some people, or it shouldn't be...

Heh.