Sleeping stack produces increased breathin...
Harmen
20 Jan 2015
Hi!
Before bedtime I take
magnesium malate 300 mg
lithium orotate 15 mg
zinc 60 mg (I was deficient)
6 gram glycine
200 mg valerian
200 mg passiflora.
I notice a increased amount of effort to inhale my breath just before I felt to sleep.
I am a recovering chronic fatigue patient, almost fully recovered and if I sleep very well with this stack. I wake up fully refreshed (a feeling which I didn't feel for ages!), have 4 hours of deep sleep and I can have a productive day, do a lot of stuff like normal people.
If I don't take or take halve of the dosage I wake up frequently during the night (3 or 4 times), lay awake from 3 to 6 or so and I feel sick the next day and after a few days I can barely do whatever is necessary for the household, making food and stuff. So I think sleep is the last bit of the puzzle for my recovery.
But my question: is the fact that my breathing requires more effort a sign that I am taking too much? Is my stack depressing my autonomic nervous system? Is it a normal thing for sleeping aids to do this?
I started resistant starch today. Rest of my supplements vitamin d 2000, selenium 200 mcg, vitamin k2 mk7 100 mcg, milk thistle, q10, 15 mg boron. Every now and than methyl-b12 1 mg.
Centurion
20 Jan 2015
Do you really want to be banging lithium before bed every night?
Are you prescribed it for other conditions, such as your CF?
Harmen
21 Jan 2015
No I use an OTC supplement. Note that it is lithium orotate, 15 mg.
Nowhere near lithium carbonate which has to be taken at dosages that 10 to 20x times more elemental lithium.
I did call a doctor that is a friend of mine and he told me that valerian probably has the same route as benzo's. These type of medicine are known for respiratory depression. Zinc increases the function of valerian and the glycine is general nervous system inhibiting.
Yesterday I took 25% less of the glycine, the valerian and the passionflower and didn't notice the suppressing effects. I was totally relaxed but still couldn't sleep and woke up for a few hours in the night. So melatonin time released is my next trial.
