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Originally Posted by CarolynC
Not for me. I have the insomnia, but I don't have the allergy.
I slept well last night! A full 8 hours with no trouble falling asleep. I feel so much better. I was getting so exhausted before.
I took my last pill of millk thistle of Saturday morning at 8:00 AM and I finally slept well again on Sunday night. My Fitday diary shows that I stopped sleeping well on the second night of the 6-Week Cure. So, for me, the milk thistle took some time to "wear in" and "wear off."
I'm throwing the partially used bottle of milk thistle in the trash. I'm done with weeks 1 and 2 and those were the only ones where we were supposed to take it anyway.
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This past week, I've been going crazy, no longer able to fall into a deep sleep, even with double benadryl AND xanax!! This horrible insomnia and (at best) half-sleep state has been worrying and exhausting me.
I googled everything new I was taking along with "insomnia" and came across your postings. It was like
"Eureka!!! That's IT!!!"
This past week I've been taking 700 mg of milk thistle every day as a "liver cleanse". And like you, it took 24 hours for my insomnia to kick in, so I didn't associate the milk thistle with the sleeplessness. I also had no overt allergic reactions to it.
Soy protein (and oddly, melatonin too) does the same thing to me, and it had also taken me a while to realize that soy that was keeping me from deep sleep. This past week, I've actually been trying to figure out what "hidden soy" I might now be consuming that could be doing this to me, not realizing until I read your postings that it had to be the MILK THISTLE!!!
Last night, 24 hours after my last milk thistle dose, I fell into
the first deep sleep I've had in four days. So, like you too, I'm throwing the rest of these capsules in the trash. After googling coffee and liver, I find that coffee apparently has more
proven benefits to the liver than milk thistle, and its waking effects wear off within a few hours in my case.