[Snowbird]

Originally Posted by Karen

Thank you everyone.
For the last 4 years I have had a terrible time not being able to go to sleep and waking up a lot and then not being able to go back to sleep. I can spend 10 hours in bed and feel like I slept about 4 of them. I've tried all kinds of stuff - melatonin, herbs, etc. I'm a natural health nut and always looking stuff up. Unfortunately I seem to get the most help from benedryl and advil.

Now I seem to be getting more and more allergic to vitamin C, even in food - and my gut for the last month or two, has just been roiling and carrying on with pain and all sorts of irregularity, making it ever more difficult to sleep.

I live in the Eastern Oregon boondocks hours from any metropolitan centers, and there is very little available for alternative care, and I'm not a money chaser, so there's no money for that anyway.

Soooooo.......I'll accept all your love and best wishes as a healing balm and like a mega NLP session to reset the allergies to the time before the traumas that caused them, and the sleeping back to the time I would hit the pillow and simply sleep.

Thank you, thank you,
Many blessings,
Karen

Karen, my prayers and good thoughts are with you. My sincere intentions for you are that you will find a solution to the problems that currently plague your body, mind and spirit.

Your sleeplessness sounds so very similar to what had interrupted my sleep patterns until I found Chamomile tea coupled with Melatonin. I offer only suggestions for your consideration. I use 4 C. tea bags per large pot. Once cooled, I pour the tea into a glass bottle(s) and store in the refrigerator. Right before bed, I pour a glass of the tea and heat it in the micro. I then drink the tea coupled with 3-4 mg of Melatonin. I buy Schiff brand at a very reasonable price-300 tab-bottle. For me, sleep is assured.

Vitamin C is very difficult to digest unless it is used in the more natural form, which is Ester-C. Even this at first, requires patience for the body to purge from the body that which is causing the digestive problem...about a week. Any vitamin C that is buffered is much easier to digest.

If there is possibly a health store or chain within reasonable distance that you could call and ask them to ship or drop-ship product to you, this might be a solution to the distance problem.

Sleep is something that for us humans, is a must. We need to be fully rested in order to face this life. The above are only suggestions that you may be able to creatively incorporate into your life.

Many, many, many blessings to YOU!!