NAC helped me sleep?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Jul 2012
Summary
Started NAC 600mg (alongside B6 begun about a week earlier and eating onions) and got 6-7 hours of straight sleep for three nights running, with 8+ hour totals, less nighttime urination, and an "almost refreshing" quality to the sleep. He flags several confounding changes that might explain it instead of the NAC, and by his own follow-up post "the good sleep nights have ended after only three nights," so the effect was brief and did not hold.
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