Sleep Cycle Inversion (Awake At Night, Sleeping During Day): A Simple Technique Fixed This For Me
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- unspecified (years of severe middle-of-night insomnia)
- Published
- Jan 2015
Summary
For years of severe middle-of-the-night insomnia, built an evening stack of 3mg sublingual Natrol melatonin, 500mg niacin with dinner (300mg more if woken at night), 100mg 5-HTP, 100mg L-theanine, magnesium glycinate, a calcium tablet, Seriphos for cortisol, and occasionally 0.5mg lorazepam on waking. Reports the sublingual melatonin as "noticeably more effective" than swallowed pills and describes sleeping better overall, though the improvement reads as partial management of a persistent problem via a multi-supplement routine rather than a resolved issue.
What they credit
Credits Hormones & thyroid, Supplements, Hydrocortisone / cortisol, Selenium, iodine, minerals.
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