Comment · Tue, January 21, 2020
Anyone else getting insomnia from sleep support?
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Greyone · 7 points
For the first week, Sleep Support was giving me the best sleep of my life. At the peak of the benefits, I was hitting 3:30+ of deep sleep and waking up feeling incredible. Now that's all changed. It still causes drowsiness, and I almost doze off but it feels like my brain is "stuck" on. I've tried adding plenty of magnesium, 300mcg of melatonin, 400mg of phosphatidylserine, and 4mg copper (to offset zinc) but nothing works. The only way I'm able to "turn off" the weird head sensation is with a dose of ZZZquil.
Is it the Zinc that has somehow started causing too much stimulation? I'm hoping to soon try supplementing with the individual components one by one but need to wait until I have the extra funds. It was pretty devastating to start experiencing this since the initial week was so pleasant. Nothing else was added or removed from my stack at this time, and I'm taking very little else at the moment.
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ar-jan · 2 points
If you're keeping track of how many are affected by this, add another one. In my case I was affected from the start. Not using anything else at the moment (besides occasional multivitamin). One time it led to brief lucid dreaming.
Any chance that adding something else might counter this effect?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
I think it might be the zinc. We have been doing testing with a few people that reacted this way, including the OP. We made an R&D batch of Sleep Support without the zinc, and the effects are night and day. The OP in particular said that the original formula kept him up all night, but the non-zinc one was the best sleep supplement he has ever used. Then I had him try the original formula again, and it kept him up. So at least for the OP, the zinc is the issue. Some people must just have a weird reaction to zinc at night.