With high-deductible insurance, using a hospital sleep therapist is unaffordable. That’s why for 12 years, after I changed employers, I’ve been buying everything on the Internet and following the journey wherever it takes me. One challenge for some patients with sleep disorders who are prescribed sleeping pills is that the half-life of the drugs usually precludes administration in the middle of the night, even if patients wake up and are unable to fall back asleep. Ebb Insomnia Therapy, formerly the Cerêve System, is a prescription device that physically cools the foreheads of people with sleep disorders, reducing frontal cortex activity and reducing latency to phase 1 and 2 sleep. Ebb Insomnia Therapy, formerly the Cerêve System, is a prescription device that physically cools the foreheads of people with sleep disorders, reducing frontal cortex activity and reducing latency to phase 1 and 2 sleep.
Ebb can be used in patients who have difficulty sleeping every night or when needed in people with episodic insomnia.