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I have once again discovered that something I was doing that I thought was helping was actually doing more harm than good.

The thing I was doing was taking melatonin before bed. As it turns out, melatonin can cause anxiety, is not effective for insomnia, and has an interaction with blood thinners.

The underlying cause of my sleep issues has been anxiety, but I'm taking buspar for that.

Anyways, this discovery was spurred on by me sleeping better than normal last night and then realizing that I forgot to take my melatonin. The a small research binge followed.

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