Sounds like you’re definitely on the right track. Stick with it—some of the negative sides might go away with time. I sometimes get the stuffy nose, and sometimes I don’t—it’s kind of hit-or-miss. I’ve noticed that two milligrams is far more likely to have this effect than one milligram. My sleep stack took a long time to perfect, but persistence paid off and I’ve finally got it nailed—two mgs. of eti, one mg. of prazosin, ¾ of a teaspoon of glycine, and 300 mcgs of melatonin. It just keeps working better and better with continued use. When I first started this protocol, I still experienced nocturnal awakenings, but they were almost invariably brief. I was usually able to fall back asleep within a few minutes. Now they’re gone completely. I haven’t experienced a single nocturnal awakening in almost two months now. For all intents and purposes, I am now sleeping normally for the first time in my entire life. I’ve had insomnia problems dating as far back as elementary school. Now they’re completely a thing of the past. The kicker was the addition of the melatonin—that’s what really fine-tuned it to perfection. And even that took a little tweaking to get it to work optimally. The trick in my case was to keep the dose down to 300 mcgs, and to dissolve the melatonin in DMSO and administer it transdermally. I make a 100-day supply at a time. If you want to try this, weigh out 10.96 grams of DMSO (specific gravity of DMSO at 77° F = 1.0955, so 10.96 grams yields 10.0 mL. Add 30 mgs. pure melatonin. It will dissolve instantly. One large drop will contain almost exactly 100 mcgs., so place three drops on the inside of your forearm and briskly rub it in. Good luck, and it’s nice to hear another success story which so closely parallels my own experience.
Where do you get your eti? The stuff that Nippon Pharmacy sells is definitely the best, and the stuff from Mimaki Family Pharmacy is almost as good. Nippon also currently has the best price for pressed tablets of any vendor anywhere—about $42 for a box of 100 one-milligram tabs, and shipping is free. Mimaki charges $16 for shipping, but they have the advantage that they ship everything EMS, so if you’re in a hurry and you get lucky, sometimes you can get it to your door in less than a week.