posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 06:47am on 2004-12-10
Glad I could help.

I'm seriously thinking about getting a Real Medicine (TM) and stop fooling around with herbal stuff, because I have some really bad troubles getting to sleep.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:07am on 2004-12-10
This was MyoCalm P.M., supposed to keep my legs from waking me up in the middle of the night. On the plus side, my legs did not cramp, near-cramp, or twitch the first two nights, but that didnt do meany good the first nightwith the not sleeping a wink anyhow ... last night/this morning, my body split the difference -- insomnia that eventually did give way to brief (but interrupted) sleep, but calf pain on waking.

Last night wasn't much different from 30-40% of my nights without the MyoCalm, so unless I take it long enough to observe patterns, I don't know whether the supplement had anything to do with it. But that first night felt (at least subjectively) different from other bouts of insomnia -- I felt drugged -- to spark my question about valerian. (Especially with the number of atypical reactions I've had to central nervous system drugs.)

Depending on how often the really nasty effects occur, I may stop the experiment early.
 
posted by [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com at 09:24pm on 2004-12-11
if the leg cramps are a big problem, you might want to take a look at your levels of magnesium and calcium

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