What is your response to magnesium? Epsom salts baths are a good way to get a little magnesium going on. It literally dissolves into your blood, right through the skin. A little bit of magnesium can really calm things down.

What is your response to melatonin supplements? The dose usually supplied is huge! though. 3 mg is far above what the pineal gland produces over the course of 24 hours. I have no idea where they came up with the "standard dose" of melatonin, but it's way too much for many people.

The melatonin receptor is very sensitive. It has an inverted U dose response curve. It looks like a bell curve. We're accustomed to that straight line dose response curve. Low dose, low effect. Medium dose, medium effect. High dose, high effect. But that isn't true for melatonin. It's low dose, low effect. Medium dose, huge effect. High dose, low or no effect.

I only use about 0.3 or 0.4 mg of melatonin. I just break up those tablets, and take a chunk that's round about 1/8 of a pill. It sure makes one bottle of melatonin go a long way. And I don't use it very often. I still haven't used up my first bottle of it.

Maybe you would benefit from simply giving your body a little nudge, with magnesium and melatonin. Stress (you're under huge stress, for a long time) depletes magnesium in your body. Stress can totally block melatonin synthesis, if the stress goes on long enough.

Lar