Our insomnia service provides you with a convenient and affordable way to manage your insomnia symptoms, and empowers you to do so appropriately and safely.
You can get the care and advice you need online without having to go to a traditional doctor’s office. Our goal is to help improve your sleep so you can fall asleep faster and stay asleep.
Insomnia is difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep when you have an opportunity to sleep. The lack of sleep can impact your ability to function during the hours you are awake.
Insomnia can be considered acute or chronic. Acute insomnia occurs for less than 3 months and is often related to a specific event or temporary stress. Chronic insomnia lasts 3 months or longer and can be a result of other medical conditions or have no clear cause.
Our medical team recommends all patients try cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-i), stimulus control, sleep hygiene, and sleep restriction before adding prescription medications to help with sleep. We also recommend that other medical conditions, including depression and anxiety, are well controlled as these conditions can make insomnia symptoms worse.
This service offers insomnia evaluation and treatment, when clinically appropriate, with the non-controlled and non-habit forming prescription medications, hydroxyzine or trazodone. See our insomnia service page for more details.
You can use our service if you’re between the ages of 18 and 63 years old. If you have a history of suicidal thoughts or actions, bipolar disorder, manic depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, seizures, or are pregnant or breastfeeding, we recommend that you see a healthcare provider in person. See our insomnia service page for more details.
You should seek care in person if you require a work note for your employer, or need to be evaluated for a disability of worker’s compensation.
Our doctors and nurse practitioners can treat your insomnia based on your history and self-reported symptoms. Our medical team follows strict guidelines to make sure we only treat you when it's safe and appropriate to do so. It’s important that you answer our questions fully and truthfully, and read any information we provide.
If, for any reason, our doctor or nurse practitioner thinks it’s not safe to treat you, we’ll ask you to see a healthcare provider in person.
Our medical team will then determine if treatment with medication is safe and appropriate for you.
If we prescribe treatment, we can ship your medication directly to you from our own Lemonaid Pharmacy. Shipping is discreet, fast and free. Alternatively, our medical team can send the prescription electronically to your local pharmacy.
All consultations with a member of the medical team and medications shipped from our pharmacy are included in your membership.
There are risks and benefits to taking any medication. It’s important to answer our health questionnaire fully and truthfully so that our medical team can help you make an informed decision about whether the benefits of a medication outweigh the potential risks.
The medications we prescribe are effective and work for most people when used correctly. Please read the information we provide in your treatment plan to learn more about the risks and benefits of treatment.