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For the past 1.5 years, I’ve been struggling with intermittent bouts of sleep-maintenance insomnia (i.e. middle insomnia) and terminal insomnia (i.e. early morning awakening insomnia). This causes me to wake up ~2-4 hours before my desired wake time and have d…
Read articleDoxycycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic of the “tetracycline” class used to treat a variety of bacterial infections and some parasites. Conditions commonly treated by doxycycline, include: acne; bacterial pneumonia; chlamydia; Lyme disease; cholera; typhus;…
Read articleAccording to a 2012 survey administered by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), around 1.3% of U.S. adults (3.065M) had taken melatonin within the past 30 days. (R) (This was more than a 2-fold increase from just 0.6% of U.S. adults who admitted to u…
Read articleAlprazolam is a medium duration-of-action benzodiazepine anxiolytic utilized primarily for the treatment of acute anxiety episodes (e.g. panic attacks). Because alprazolam functions as a positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of GABA-A receptors, it allows endoge…
Read articleProton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are medications that induce profound and prolonged reduction of stomach acid production by irreversibly inhibiting the H+/K+-ATPase proton pump. These medications are utilized as monotherapy or adjunct interventions for the treatm…
Read articleOn various websites and forums, there are reports of PPIs (proton-pump inhibitors) causing worse reflux than before using them (i.e. pre-PPI baseline). Additionally, many alternative health practitioners (e.g. naturopaths, chiropractors, etc.) promote the idea…
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