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I guess this is yet another med that just isn't going to work for me. I ate late so I didn't take the med at a normal sleep time... and before I knew it, it was 3 am...so I took it then.

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Sky, you can't use the drug like that, and expect it to work. It is not magic.

The first thing you need to do is to establish a rigid sleep routine. Sleep hygiene, it's called. Cleaning up your bedtime routine is essential. You just about made it impossible for the drug to do what it can do for you. You failed the drug. It didn't fail you.

Rozerem acts by supplementing your own melatonin production. The diurnal cycle that is regulated by sunshine controls the release of melatonin by the pineal gland. The cycle regulates the pineal. The pineal regulates the cycle.

Your cycles are all a mess. Your stress, the general state of your health, may perhaps completely block your body's ability to even synthesize melatonin. You have to really look after yourself. I know you're really unwell. I know that. I came back from that. I came back, slowly but surely, inch by inch. By taking responsibility.

You need to set a regular sleep time. And don't eat late. You need to take the drug precisely as prescribed, timing the dose to supplement your own body's sleep signal. If you take it at the wrong time, you destroy your body's sleep signal.

If all you want is a drug that will help you to sleep no matter what, get a benzo. Or better yet, a barbiturate.

Rozerem can't work, unless you let it. The great thing about this drug is that they claim there is no rebound insomnia. They claim you can literally use it as needed. But it won't fix bad unhealthy habits. It just can't do *that*.

I came back, from a place very similar to yours. A place where I couldn't sleep, got no restoration, and I dreaded waking again.

You didn't get sick like that, in one day. You are not going to come back, from there, in one day, either. You need to adjust your expectations.

Lar