I hear you on the melatonin. It's the only thing I've ever consumed - including alcohol - that has given me a hangover the next day, and essentially rendered me nonfunctional.
Have you tried a fizzing calcium magnesium supplement, combined with something like chamomile tea? (For personal reasons, I find the Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Tea with a shot of honey the perfect "chaser", but it has an almost Pavlovean sleepy response for me. I've heard a lot of good things about their Sleepytime with Valerian (http://www.celestialseasonings.com/products/detail.html/wellness-teas/sleepytime-extra), though, and generally see it in my drug store herbs and vitamins isle.) Making sure you get enough B-vitamins daily also really helps; a lot of insomnia is caused, at least in part, by vitamin deficiencies.
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on 2009-04-23 08:50 pm (UTC)Have you tried a fizzing calcium magnesium supplement, combined with something like chamomile tea? (For personal reasons, I find the Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Tea with a shot of honey the perfect "chaser", but it has an almost Pavlovean sleepy response for me. I've heard a lot of good things about their Sleepytime with Valerian (http://www.celestialseasonings.com/products/detail.html/wellness-teas/sleepytime-extra), though, and generally see it in my drug store herbs and vitamins isle.) Making sure you get enough B-vitamins daily also really helps; a lot of insomnia is caused, at least in part, by vitamin deficiencies.