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Any other Insomnia Sufferers???

After years & years of suffering from insomnia, I found a sleep disorder doctor who told me that what I really needed was to get a minimum of 25 min exposure to bright sunlight every morning (no sunglasses on) prior to 9 or 10AM (and this depends on your work/sleep hours though)  Then my body can make a neurochemical substance called melatonin
and THIS IS WHAT CURES MY INSOMNIA!!  My brother lived in a city like Seattle where there are long, long times
of rainy cloudy weather and NO bright light whatsoever. A lightbox can help if this is the case. If you enter LIGHTBOX in Google or any other search engine & you will find a host of companies who make & sell these devices & it should not cost more than $150. MY dear fellow insomnia sufferers - this actually cured my insomnia, my results have been just absolutely fantastic!! I can actually get decent REM sleep now. Of course I also have other sleep disorder issues that are a real problem, but at least this takes care of the insomnia part. Good luck to all.
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757137 tn?1347196453
Melatonin never worked for me. Sleeping pills never worked for me. What cured me was iodine. I was iodine deficient and had increasingly severe insomnia over a 30 year period. By the time I tried the iodine I had short-term memory loss and was a zombie. Now I sleep and have my memory back.
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i tahe 10 mls of melatonin havent worked so far but live in hope
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535822 tn?1443976780
That is indeed a success story and good for others to hear and try ,I find most of us try everything and anything to get some sleep, I am taking 5HTP and I find that has helped me ,I am going to google lightbox as you suggest, and thank you  
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