Sleep help

Try Melatonin, and increase dose slowly to see what works for you. Take either 2mg, 5 mg or 10 mg before bedtime.

Thank you!. The insomnia is getting out of hand.

I'm a fan of benadryl. I also have a small radio with an ear plug and I just put that on talk radio and I am out. They bore me to sleep.

It may be worth getting your hormones checked with a saliva test. I found out my sleep issues were due to cortisol levels. I'm taking Cortisol Manager and it has helped me get good sleep after years of struggling and trying everything as others have suggested in this thread.

Hi FivebyFive - welcome to our community!
Thank you for your post.

Do you have, or think you have Lyme disease?

ksnin -

As you can see, there are lots of choices! If you bought all here, figure a lot of $$. What is a " powerful natural supplement for sleep" for one, might not be for another, since there are different reasons for insomnia. It helps to get an idea of whats out of whack causing your insomnia

These infections put the body under tremendous amounts of stress, deplete some minerals (like Magnessium), and can stress the thyroid and adrenal hormone glands.

Some of the choices previously mentioned are general natural sedatives which might help, but really aa afordable band-aid, .......but still good though if you sleep! Benadryl, Valerian, lavender, passion flower, chamomile ect....

Adrenal herb adaptogens, support stressed adrenals. This is common with people who awake a few hours after sleeping and cant get back to sleep. There are about six common adrenal adaptogens available separately, many come in mixtures. A basic 24hr adrenal saliva test runs $150 to start, and shows adrenal levels 4 times in 24 hours.

Your thyroid can also be affected from these infections. Hypothyroid tires you during the day, but can cause insomnia at night. Go figure! Free T3 and Free T4 need testing, not just TSH. Low in ranges, are still low!!!

Then there are the neurotransmitter affecting supplements, GABA, 5-HTP, Sam-E. Keep in mind neurotransmitters are also part of certain methalation cycles, (not just all in your head), so the reasons when they work are different for different people. These have been known to cause grogginess in some individuals.

Some amino acids like glycine, taurine and L-theanine also help, and are rather complicated in what they actually do.

Certain ones work great for certain people.............and this can change, as your "chemistry" changes, due to healing, age ect.

An oddball for me that works great is D-limonine, its natural orange peel extact. I originally took this years ago for other purposes, not sleep, and not every night. I have recently begun using it again, and it knocks me out, no grogginess the next day, and I dream (did not for ten years prior). Due to its lack of info, I dont take it every night.