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This new generation sleeping pill will make it easier to wake up, which is generally complicated after taking a traditional sleeping pill. It is reserved for people who have not had results after psychotherapy to improve sleep and who have suffered from insomnia for more than three months.
It’s the evil of the century: 15 to 20% of French people suffer from insomnia. In order to solve the problem, some people give in to the sirens of sleeping pills. However, they have many side effects, such as memory or behavioral problems, and this is why it is recommended not to take them for more than 28 days in a row. But a new kind of sleeping pill has just appeared on the market.
Act on the waking period
Indeed, if traditional sleeping pills have a sedative effect which will cause forced sleep, daridorexant acts on the waking period: “This new treatment will antagonize a molecule which is orexin. It is a neurotransmitter in the brain which allows us to stay awake, as in insomnia, we are hyper awake. By reducing the activation of this orexin network, we will reduce this proportion of being awake”, explains Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy, professor of psychiatry. neuroscience at the Paris hospital group and at Bichat hospital.
As a result, consumers are not stunned. In the morning, waking up is also easy and unlike usual treatments, it can be prescribed beyond 28 days. “There is no habituation with this new treatment and there is no rebound either. That is to say, when this treatment is stopped, there is no resurgence. significant cause of insomnia”, continues the doctor.
Daridorexant is reserved for people who have not had results after psychotherapy to improve sleep and who have suffered from insomnia for more than three months.