anyone had any luck with Belsomra to put you to sleep

I take belsomra 15 mg at night. I do not have COPD. It’s ok, not as good as some of the others, but keeps my nighttime wakenings at bay. Most of the alternatives are generic. Belsomra is not. $400/ month retail. With my Medicare advantage plan, I pay $131 for 3 months worth

Belsomra worked for me okay, but I find Quviviq to work better with less morning grogginess. Both companies offer co-pay assistance cards if you have insurance (saves me a lot of money). I do not have COPD though.

most insurances i checked dont cover Quviviq

I used 10 mg Zolpidem for quite a while but it left me groggy in the morning. I overcame this by going on a five mile morning walk or a 20 mile bike ride. This really helped (also lost weight and got in better shape). I switched to Belsomra about two months ago. I found it to be less effective and it consistently gave me headaches at night. I switched back to Zolpidem. For me Belsomra did not provide the nighttime sleep I need.

I take Belsomra 15mg an hour before bedtime. it makes you a little groggy and then go to sleep. When i was taking 10mg. it seems to work better.

I find that Belsomra, 20 mg helps me get to sleep quickly but doesn’t keep me asleep. I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. I also take Trazodone, which I have been using for 35 years but the combo isn’t working that well for me. Ambien works better with it for me but my doctor won’t prescribe Ambien and Belsomra. Not sure what I will do. I have been taking sleep meds for so long I have given up the hope that I will ever get off of them. I am 72.

@aethos at 72 now is not the time to try new things. Go with what has worked for you in the past and explain this as calmly and nicely as you can to your physician. If he is not understanding.......find a new one. I tired of these physicians making supercilious decisions for geriatric patients when they have had success with what they have been on for years. He must have not taken that course in Med School.!

@lizjlb my Medicare advantage plan covers it but it’s $100 per month which is not in my budget

I too have been on everything. Now I'm doing CBTI, be restriction therapy. Its now considered the "Gold Standard " for insomnia. It is very hard though. We now adding medication to help get through it. Like most, I hard tried it all. 5 nights into Belsomra 10 mg. Nothing but up ALL night 5 days in a row. Going to switch to 20 mg Sunday night as I don't work the next day so I can see what's happens. If it doesn't im going back to what seems to be the only thing that worked well. Temazapam 30 mg.

Ambien worked for me for many years, then it quit working. Now taking Lorazepam, and it works erratically. I'm moving in 3 weeks and hopefully the new doctor can try me on Ambien again, maybe the CR version. I'll be in CA then, AZ now, and the laws are different.