Comment · Thu, January 23, 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
Then maybe it's also got to do with the sucrosomial form? I've taken 50mg zinc (from zinc gluconate, Now brand) before bed without problems. (it's been a while so I'll try again to check, but).
Guess I shouldn't have ordered so much of the Sleep-support but I'd never had an adverse reaction to a supplement (worst case no effect), and I'd already tried all ingredients combined (except magnolia) with good results :(
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
The sucrosomial form leads to much higher levels in a short amount of time. Perhaps it is fighting with magnesium, which is causing excitation in some people. We are about to make a new batch of Sleep Support, and I am 99% sure I am going to take out the zinc. This is only a small percentage of people it is happening to (10-15%), but if I would rather not have some people get the entire opposite effect than we intended. No effects is one thing. Opposite effects is entirely another. Very strange reaction that we could not predict.
Don't worry. If we take out the zinc, I'll get you taken care of.