Product Review : Clinicians REM Sleep

I've had sleeping issues for a looooooong time -even as a baby my parents had a LOT of trouble getting me to sleep, and for whatever reason, things started to get worse in the sleep area from highschool onwards.

I've had some odd things happen like waking up in my wardrobe, being aware that I was sitting up in bed and talking to myself -but not being able to do anything, and once my mother found me asleep with my eyes open and thought something had happened to me haha I remember being very annoyed -I was asleep after all!

I have ups and downs with my sleep. I have patches that may last for days, weeks, or months where I won't be able to sleep at all during "normal" sleep hours. I might not be able to sleep till 8am the next day. Till 1pm the next day, I might not sleep for two days. For three days. I might then get say five hours sleep, and then not sleep for another two days. And then I also have patches where I will barely be able to stay awake -or sometimes I won't be able to stay awake at all, constantly falling asleep no matter what I'm doing.

Either patch is very annoying and not exactly convenient or ideal!

In the past I have tried several different presciption sleeping pills -the most recent one was zopiclone. I have heard from a lot of people that it works well for them, but I hated it.
None of the pills worked out well for me. Most worked for a couple of weeks then stopped working. All of them worked a little.. too well? A couple worked far more than called for.
All of them left me feeling groggy and grumpy the next day, a couple made me feel horrible and out of it 24/7. I have patches of time I barely remember because I was just in and out of sleep all day. One second I'd be sorta there, the next I'd be completely gone again.

I tried that cherry melatonin drink, and it was ok, but it didn't work for very long, and it left me feeling groggy.

The best thing I have tried was Bach's Rescue Remedy Sleep. You put a few drops on your tongue before you go to bed -easy! It worked the longest, and the best, giving me slightly easier sleep, and not feeling any adverse effects in the morning.
Unfortunately though, that started to not work too.

With my sleeping habits getting worse, I was getting pretty desperate to find something to help me.
And yes, I have done sleep exercises. I've tried all that I've been told to. And none of them work for me. Breathing exercises. Physical exercises. Mental exercises. Meditation. Get up and have a warm shower. Get up and have a drink. Get up and do something until you're sleepy again.
I have a very active mind and it's all well and good for a doctor to say "just clear your mind" but obviously they don't understand that for some of us it just does not happen.

I am often tired, but not sleepy. This is something that I have a hard time explaining to people -that you can be tired, exhausted even, but not sleepy. And that's the thing you need. You get sleepy before you sleep. But what if you don't? It's very hard to get to sleep without first being sleepy.

So along came ads for Clinicians REM Sleep. I didn't think much of it at first, thinking that it was a prescription pill, and I didn't really want to go there again! Once I learnt that it was "herbal" I decided to take a closer look at it.

The reviews I found were positive, so I decided to go and see if I could afford some.
At $36.50 I couldn't! You get about a month's supply depending on how much you use, and while it works out to about $1.20 a day, which isn't too bad, I don't exactly have the money to afford that kind of outlay!
I found it for about $30 on our country's local version of something like ebay, and made the note to save up so I could get some.

Over the last few weeks I've been getting back into what I call "my insomnia cycle".
One day I had crawled into bed feeling very unwell at somewhere around 5pm, and shortly after my flatmate came home from work, came in, and handed me a bottle of Clinicians REM Sleep.
He had been so concerned that he had gone and bought it for me. I told him he was naughty and that the website had it for cheaper haha but I was very grateful.


I haven't been taking it for particularly long but so far clinicians REM sleep seems to be doing an ok job!
I've been feeling sleepy a lot this week but I'm not sure if it's because of the supplement or just because I'm sick (maybe both?)
I've definitely found it a lot easier to get to sleep!
I have been nodding off within twenty minutes of getting into bed instead of being awake for hours, and while I still wake up throughout the night, I fall back asleep within 10 minutes!
I wake up still feeling a little sleepy/tired but not groggy like what you get with prescription sleeping pills -it's not too bad.
So for now I will definitely be sticking with this product!

If you have a lot of trouble sleeping and have either not had much success with prescription pills, or want to try a more "natural" remedy, I do suggest trying this product out, as well as trying out Rescue Remedy Sleep (not together though!).

With everything, please talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you take something like this though, as there are certain medications that can interact negatively with them, or your doctor may want to try something else first.
You cannot take Clinicians REM Sleep if you are taking antidepressants.

I hope this helps some of you out there to get some decent sleep!

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