Posted by bleauberry on February 5, 2019, at 14:20:03
In reply to Terrible Insomnia, posted by bleauberry on February 3, 2019, at 9:26:50
So last night was totally sleepless.
I did common herbal sedatives early in the evening and again doubled up on them again two hours later, with magnesium, and yet, at 2am I was still wide awake. I got up and did yet one more batch of all the herbs. Sat in a recliner in the dark for a while before going back to bed.
I passed out at 3am and was wide awake again at 3:45am.
The one herb I did not have was probably the most important one - Valerian root.
I just filled a prescription for Lunesta. I anticipate I will have some negative side effects the next morning. I just want to sleep.
Mold toxins - Aflatoxin and Ochratoxin - block dopamine, serotonin, and GABA. They disrupt the entire sleep-mood-cortisol complex in a bad way. I have no way to prove it but my gut instinct is that there are a lot more people with this.
Sometimes the cocktails make sense. For example if someone has Mycotoxiosis but doesn't know it - most don't know - then they will need help in the dopamine department, the serotonin department, the GABA department, and the mechanisms for all those would not be predictable in advance, though you could assume you want agonist-like activity.
I can see how a mold toxic psychiatric patient could experience improvement on something like an SSRI with a Stimulant, and maybe an antipsychotic to help block the toxins at the receptors and to indirectly cause the release of new transmitters.
So anyway. Tonight goes to Lunesta as an emergency fix. Tomorrow goes to Valerian with the other herbs supporting it. And magnesium.
Fingers crossed. None of us can get better without sleep.
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