Dayvigo (lemborexant) Side Effects, Uses Dosages
Side Effects for Dayvigo (lemborexant)
I'm no longer taking this medication. This drug helped to sleep longer. HOWEVER, the sleep paralysis was so horrible, that I will never use it again.
Really crazy sometimes scary dreams I have cut the pill into a quarter size still having insane dreams
I had sleep paralysis, hallucinations and dreams the third dose, which I found weird. But took it again and haven't had any bad effects since.
It works quickly and I stay asleep for 3-4 hours which is a huge improvement over the 2 hours I used to get. I also fall back to sleep easier.
I took it at 9:30 and was still awake at midnight. I did notfeel anything at all - sleepy or drowsy. It was as if Itook nothing. I tried it a few more nights and fell asleepafter midnight-1am but with broken sleep. Woke in themornings feeling horrible because I did not get therecommended 7 hours sleep-maybe 5-5.2 hours total.Klonopin worked way better and may have to go backto that. Not sure I want to take 10mg because if that doesnot knock me out I will feel so much worse than the 5mg.
Awful drug, terrible paralysis, racing heart, headache
It can take anywhere from 15 min to fall asleep to two hours. I had developed a condition called ENS friom unnecessary turbinate surgery. One of the major side effects of ENS is the inability to fall asleep and severe sleep disturbances. I went from sleeping to not sleeping for days at a time. I could not even function because of the sleep deprivation. My doctor prescribed dayvigo along with meds I had already been taking. After many days of no sleep I tried dayvigo. Although not perfect, dayvigo has given me back my life.
Nightmares, body aches, heart racing and anxiety
Horrible drug ! Worst dreams had no sleep. Kept me up all night with anxiety and racing heart. Couldn't distinguish between thoughts and semi dreams. Stayed up the whole next day just out of it. Would never recommend. Stay away !
It takes 20 minutes or so and I'm asleep. However I do get horrifying nightmares that are so realistic- I might write horror stories!
Terrible sleep paralysis (difficulty breathing) and hallucinations. Only took once and will not take again. Almost went to ER.
Chronic insomnia for at least 4 yea
Made me fall asleep within 30 minutes, which was a total blessing after years of no sleep. However the nightmares were so vivid and horrifying...very scary and violent. May have to stop taking dayvigo as I keep waking up from the nightmares. Doesn't make me sleep more than 5 hours a night and that is with waking up 3 or 4 times within that period. Really hoping that the nightmares stop.
At first none, and then recently horrible false awakening/sleep paralysis nightmares on a loop. Prior to that i would occasionally have dreams so vivid i'd wake up feeling like my mind never slept, like i was living my dreams all night.
compared to every other sleep med, basically nothing!
LIFE CHANGING! I have been on everything under the sun - from clonidine to ambien, amitriptyline, gabapentin, ropinerole, klonopin, etc. Finally, Dayvigo works without the side effects! :DNo nightmares, I sleep through the night (or I can at least get back to sleep), I feel rested, theres no hangover, I dont feel dumb or groggy the next day. Its truly a miracle.I think some people forget if you stop ambien youre going to experience withdrawals, which youre confusing and calling Dayvigo side effects! It may not be for everybody, but I urge anyone with insomnia problems to give Dayvigo a chance. It is changing my life.
I took it at 10pm and fell asleep fast. I had nightmares,vivid dreams and hallucinations.I slept until 2am and then could not get back to sleep. I was laid up the rest of the next day with a headache and extreme tiredness/sleepiness.
This was my first and only experience with this drug. I took another sleeping pill and went to bed a 5pm.I lost one whole day to this insomnia drug that caused me insomnia
Did not stay asleep. Only slept 2-3 hrs.
No real side-effects except for the very vivid dreams. They were intense. But, never what I would call a nightmare. Felt like I had actually lived them.
First few nights it seemed to do nothing. Went back to Ambien. But Ambien has caused my tinnitus to get worse. So a month after taking those first three Davigo, I tried it again. It worked. By then I had become pretty rigid with when I went to bed and the Ambien had broke me of my habit of waking within two hours of going to sleep and then staying up. So with a pattern formed I took 5mg pills for 5 days, then dropped to cutting them in half and even skipped a few nights of taking them. Sleeping from 10:30 straight through to 6:00-6:30.
No side effects. Takes about an hour to work.
Since starting Dayvigo I've had odd bouts of nausea and vertigo in the day. I don't know if it's related to the Dayviigo. Unfortunately, I've become dependent on the Dayvigo, and so stopping for a week to check the side effects will be difficult, but I'll try soon. Have other people experienced vertigo and/or nausea after starting Dayvigo?
After the first week or so, I found that it lasted only for about 3 hours. Therefore, I took half on going to sleep, and another half later in the night.
Horrible nightmares vivid. Absolute trash.
Just don't ever not even once.
I am very, very pleased with this drug. It takes about an hour to work and there is no "hang over" feeling when I awake
Severe headache no sleep couldnt move thought i was having a stroke.
DAYVIGO (LEMBOREXANT): Treatment of adults with insomnia. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)
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