Daridorexant and Sleep Paralysis: What Users Say

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 15, 2023

Daridorexant for Insomnia "The worst sleeping medication ever! Takes too long for it to work. Tried it for a week, but I had multiple sleep paralysis and horrible vivid dreams within dreams every night! I had to hurt myself in my dreams to be able to wake up. I feared going back to sleep while I cannot control myself. The experience was like some evil kept dragging you to hell. This medication should never have been approved for people to use!"

• Jsh...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• February 14, 2023

Daridorexant for Insomnia "This was absolutely horrible. The nightmares were so real and terrifying with sleep paralysis. I had a similar experience with Belsomra, but this was way worse. I felt like I had been fighting for my life all night. I had read the reviews of people having this same experience, but I wanted to keep an open mind and try it anyway. One night was enough. Never again."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• October 7, 2022

Daridorexant for Insomnia "This is the worst sleeping medication ever. It takes over an hour to kick in, then all it does is give horrible nightmares. After a week, I started having sleep paralysis and a dream-within-a-dream experience. I do not recommend."

• Tyl...
• November 22, 2022

Daridorexant for Insomnia "So I took this medication at 50 mg with Klonopin 1 mg as my Dr. prescribed. The pharmacist had questions the next day about why my Dr. would prescribe such a combination. When I told them I went through sleep paralysis that night, they refused to refill my Klonopin and get a hold of my Dr. I thought an intruder entered my home and literally went upstairs, then came back down and was literally a cm from my face staring at me. It seemed so real I went upstairs and checked on my grandmother to make sure it wasn't real. Overall a horrible, scary experience with an intruder, and then when I fell back asleep, I turned the opposite way where I was staring at closed blinds, and when I woke back up, the middle blinds randomly were open and the intruder was staring through them. Scary-ass experience, but we'll see how it goes tonight without the Klonopin. So far, I'm going to give this a 3 star, but if I keep seeing things, I'm going to stop taking it and go to Lunesta or Ambien CR, which have none of these side effects for me."

• Dav...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• April 17, 2023

Daridorexant for Insomnia "I've been experiencing insomnia for a few months, and it seems likely that it's a new manifestation of the multiple sclerosis I was diagnosed with a few years ago. After a couple of weeks on Ambien was unsuccessful, it was decided that I should try Quviviq. This stuff affected me so oddly. A couple of nights that I took it, I was falling asleep all over myself within 15 minutes, feeling almost narcoleptic, like I was going to pass out before I made it to the bed. On other nights, I might as well have swallowed a sugar pill; I literally felt like I'd taken nothing. Genuinely, this medication was so wildly inconsistent, I wondered if the pharma manufacturer had quality control issues with a few lots. Toss in a weird 'inverse' sleep paralysis a couple of times (I lost the ability to move before I fell asleep, instead of waking up and being unable to move), and it was an unexpectedly bizarre and frustrating experience with a medication. It was discontinued for the stated reasons."

• Jos...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 19, 2024

For Insomnia "I had a really good sleep. I went to bed naked after taking it, then taking a bath. I took my inhaler, I managed. Though, I went in bed and was out like a light switch. I had these cool lucid dreams like I used to have with sleep paralysis as a teenager. It was positive, and I felt I didn't want to leave that heavenly space. I'd call this some sort of spiritual experience for me. I woke up excited to tell my dream report. It was odd, but refreshing sleeping. Good quality sleeping. That was the best!"