CoQ-10 causing insomnia

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I tried this supplement for the first time a couple of days ago. I
normally am quite unmotivated and fatigued. The effect was amazing,
elevated mood and energy throughout the day. However, when it is time
to sleep, I am way too restless for that. Second day in a row. Is this
unusual? Any remedy to this? If this continues, despite the positive
effect, I will have to discontinue. I am taking 50mg liquid caps before
food in the morning. Many Thanks.

YMMV. Since your handle is phenibut, I'd imagine you tend to be a bit more
hyper than most. As am I. I had a similar reaction to CQ10. Indeed I have
a similar reaction to many things. It took me more than a year to get used
to taking Life Extension Mix tablets because the pantothetic acid and other
things used to give me a bit too much energy.

I've been taking it for years and never noticed that effect. I take it at
different times as well, not just morning. My husband also takes it without
any affect on sleep. I wouldn't think it's the cause of your insomnia.

Perhaps you need to burn a little more of that extra energy with some
exercise during the day.

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|I tried this supplement for the first time a couple of days ago. I
| normally am quite unmotivated and fatigued. The effect was amazing,
| elevated mood and energy throughout the day. However, when it is time
| to sleep, I am way too restless for that. Second day in a row. Is this
| unusual? Any remedy to this? If this continues, despite the positive
| effect, I will have to discontinue. I am taking 50mg liquid caps before
| food in the morning. Many Thanks.
|

I've been using anything up to 200mg a day for the past 3-4 weeks and it's
not had any effect on my sleep and I sleep like a log. Overall, I haven't
noticed much of an effect on my health either, really.. after the first time
I took it I felt really energised, which given I suffer from CFS and am
mostly knackered, was even more pronounced, but since then nothing except
perhaps a slight sense of wellbeing.

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I tried this supplement for the first time a couple of days ago. I
normally am quite unmotivated and fatigued. The effect was amazing,
elevated mood and energy throughout the day. However, when it is time
to sleep, I am way too restless for that. Second day in a row. Is this
unusual? Any remedy to this? If this continues, despite the positive
effect, I will have to discontinue. I am taking 50mg liquid caps before
food in the morning. Many Thanks.

I had a similar reaction, but over the period of about a week, it went
away. I have heard of similar effects from others.

Quoted message said:

I tried this supplement for the first time a couple of days ago. I
normally am quite unmotivated and fatigued. The effect was amazing,
elevated mood and energy throughout the day. However, when it is time
to sleep, I am way too restless for that. Second day in a row. Is this
unusual? Any remedy to this? If this continues, despite the positive
effect, I will have to discontinue. I am taking 50mg liquid caps before
food in the morning. Many Thanks.

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Quoted message said:

I tried this supplement for the first time a couple of days ago. I
normally am quite unmotivated and fatigued. The effect was amazing,
elevated mood and energy throughout the day. However, when it is time
to sleep, I am way too restless for that. Second day in a row. Is this
unusual? Any remedy to this? If this continues, despite the positive
effect, I will have to discontinue. I am taking 50mg liquid caps before
food in the morning. Many Thanks.

Hello,
You might try getting capsules in a lower dose such as 10 mg or 20 mg--(in
the morning hours). By the time you go to bed, most of it or all of it
might be out of your system.
Jason

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Hi,
I would guess the effect will wear off in a while. I wouldn't try
a lower dose. The results of clinical trials of the past few years are
showing the effective doses to be in the range of 1200-2400 mg. It
looks like we've all been taking too little for too long.

Thomas

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Hi,
I would guess the effect will wear off in a while. I wouldn't try
a lower dose. The results of clinical trials of the past few years are
showing the effective doses to be in the range of 1200-2400 mg. It
looks like we've all been taking too little for too long.

Thomas

Rather large quantities of a blood thinner like CoQ10 seems a bit risky to
me.

IanW said:

I've been using anything up to 200mg a day for the past 3-4 weeks and it's
not had any effect on my sleep and I sleep like a log. Overall, I haven't
noticed much of an effect on my health either, really.. after the first

time

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I took it I felt really energised, which given I suffer from CFS and am
mostly knackered, was even more pronounced, but since then nothing except
perhaps a slight sense of wellbeing.

Persons with CFS may benefit from taking an amino acid, L-Lysine.
A commerical company, Quantum, makes a Super Lysine product with
500 mg. of L-Lysine.

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IanW said:

I've been using anything up to 200mg a day for the past 3-4 weeks and
it's
not had any effect on my sleep and I sleep like a log. Overall, I haven't
noticed much of an effect on my health either, really.. after the first

time

Quoted message said:

I took it I felt really energised, which given I suffer from CFS and am
mostly knackered, was even more pronounced, but since then nothing except
perhaps a slight sense of wellbeing.

Persons with CFS may benefit from taking an amino acid, L-Lysine.
A commerical company, Quantum, makes a Super Lysine product with
500 mg. of L-Lysine.

OK thanks for the tip.. I happen to have some L-Lysine powder "in stock", in
my ever expanding supplement cupboard, but that was to counteract the cold
sore reviving effects of L-Arginine in a supplement regime I was (but
haven't yet) going to try.

Ian

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Hi,
I would guess the effect will wear off in a while. I wouldn't try
a lower dose. The results of clinical trials of the past few years are
showing the effective doses to be in the range of 1200-2400 mg. It
looks like we've all been taking too little for too long.

I've read a few articles on CoQ10 but not noticed any referring to
quantities beyond 390mg a day (and that was in cancer treatment).. 1200-2400
would work out very expensive, I should think too.. the 100mg capsules (in
soy oil) that I use cost 40GBP (about 70 USD) for 60!

Ian

All the advice is greatly appreciated. Lowering the dose would be the
obvious choice, I am just not sure if I want to buy another bottle of
smaller dose just to adjust. Just had another restless night, and
that's after taking 600mg of standartized kava, fell asleep fast enough
but awoke early. I haven't awaken early without the need for it in
YEARS, I also haven't suffered any insomnia in years. If the insomnia
continues much longer, I will simply stop the use of this supplement.
To reply to some previous posts, I am currently working on remodeling
my house and the energy required for that is immense. I literally put
in 12 hour days redoing my floors, painting etc. So I am actually more
tired than usual. Also, I paid less than 14$ for a 120, 50mg softgels
at Sam's Club. Seemed like a really good deal.

Sooner or later you'd have to buy another bottle anyway. And after taking
the smaller dose a while, you may be able to gradually move up to the
present dose you have so that it's not wasted. The health benefit of taking
it would make it worth the money (imo).
I know what you mean about the type of work you are doing. It is indeed
exhausting.
Perhaps the painting smell/fumes keep you awake? If the painting was near
the time of the insomnia that may be another possibility. I could never
sleep around freshly painted areas.

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| All the advice is greatly appreciated. Lowering the dose would be the
| obvious choice, I am just not sure if I want to buy another bottle of
| smaller dose just to adjust. Just had another restless night, and
| that's after taking 600mg of standartized kava, fell asleep fast enough
| but awoke early. I haven't awaken early without the need for it in
| YEARS, I also haven't suffered any insomnia in years. If the insomnia
| continues much longer, I will simply stop the use of this supplement.
| To reply to some previous posts, I am currently working on remodeling
| my house and the energy required for that is immense. I literally put
| in 12 hour days redoing my floors, painting etc. So I am actually more
| tired than usual. Also, I paid less than 14$ for a 120, 50mg softgels
| at Sam's Club. Seemed like a really good deal.
|

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Quoted message said:

I tried this supplement for the first time a couple of days ago. I
normally am quite unmotivated and fatigued. The effect was amazing,
elevated mood and energy throughout the day. However, when it is time
to sleep, I am way too restless for that. Second day in a row. Is this
unusual? Any remedy to this? If this continues, despite the positive
effect, I will have to discontinue. I am taking 50mg liquid caps before
food in the morning. Many Thanks.

I'm coming into this thread a little late. Has anybody suggested to you
a Candida problem or allergy? Yeast living in the GI tract feeds on
CoQ10 and your symptoms are consistent with intestinal dysbiosis. It's
possible this is aggravating your allergies or a sinus problem which is
then keeping you up at night. Sinus inflammation might then aggravate
TMJ or bruxism. Have you noticed whether your symptoms improve on a low
glycemic index diet? Yeast also feed on that.

Is this ringing any bells for you?

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Is this ringing any bells for you?

Yes, it is. It's ringing that I haven't bored enough people with copy and
paste citations of the most incept in baldness Usenet groups and
sci.life-extension. I must now redefine insomnia as discomfort from yeast
in stomach or insomnia caused by sinus conditions. I must prove that Mr.
Smith was right. Than humankind is a virus which spreads from newsgroup to
newsgroup until there is no room left.