Personally making a major recovery with insomnia

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I have battled with insomnia for four to five years now. My symptoms have been:

not

being able to sleep at all for six months to a year, waking in the middle of the

night and

not being able to go to sleep, severe hypoglycemia, fatigue when I do not sleep

and pain

at certain points between the shoulder blades.

What helped me:

One thing that helps my sleep is to avoid food that I am sensitive to. For me

it is: onions,

garlic, yogurt, mustard, certain eggs, liver and a few other things.

L-Carnitine - I am taking 1000 mg every morning and since I have started taking

it about

a week ago, my sleep has improved most dramatically. I take the tartrate form

by Now. I

have tried the liquid form for long periods in the past and it does nothing.

Liquid B Complex - I use the ones from Nature's Answer with the silver label.

I take about

a tablespoon in the morning and in the early evening. I have taken other B

vitamin

formulas that did nothing (Fatigued to Fantastic). Discovered this by accident

when I ran

out of other B Complex and I decided to try something new.

P-5-P - Derivative of B-6. I feel that this makes some difference, but not as

much as the

above. I use the Vitamin Shoppe brand. I take 100 mg every night.

L-Glutamine - I take 2 grams every evening. Helps sleep quality and

hypoglycemia. I have

the powdered form from Jarrow.

I am in no way saying that this will work for other people. I just know that

when it has

been difficult for me, it would have been beneficial for me to have a list of

ideas for things

I could try. I was taking 15 mg of Cortisol a day, but I thing that I will

begin lowering the

dosage gradually because the improvement is so dramatic. I can literally go

several hours

now without feeling my blood sugar drop.

-Rob