I take melatonin 5mg. before bed, but found that I only finally
achieved good sleep when I added 30mg 5-HTP at midday.



--- In PozHealth@yahoogroups.com, "makor3" <makor3@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Need your guidance, After a bad case of psoriasis I was diagnosed poz
> back in march this year VL 114,000 and CD4 108 - I was put on meds on
> April Sustiva and Combivir, then switched to Sustiva and Truvada and
> then to Atripla, My VL went undetectable and my CD4 increased to 306
> as of my last lab work of September.
> I never had any serious health problems or with the meds until about
> a month ago when I started to have problems to sleep so I asked my
> doctor to give me something that would help me fall asleep and stay
> sleep, until we found the reasons for my problem, he then prescribed
> Ambien and AmbienCR, it worked at first but now I'm taking from 4 to
> 5 pills a night to get a very poor quality sleeping.
> My doc thinks it might be the sustiva, so he put me ONLY on Truvada
> for 15 days without results... Woldn't the sustiva be out of the
> system by now??. To rule out any thyroid problems my doc send blood
> tests and it just came back today apparently within normal ranges
> Free T4 1.0 and TSH 3.02 I'm very concern since I don't seem to
> concentrate at work and and feel very tired. I think my doctor is
> just guessing. Sorry to come out so desperate but my doctor went on a
> extended trip and I'm burning out, please help! Any suggestions??
> Happy holidays!!
> Max
>