SAWEET!!! I did the same with 2 mg instead of your doses; we are all different. Your experience lines up really well with how epitalon tends to behave when it’s doing a true circadian reset rather than acting like a sleep aid. You didn’t use it to knock yourself out, you used it to retrain the system, and your timeline shows that pretty clearly. During the 20-day run, sleep getting worse before it got better (harder to fall asleep, frequent awakenings) fits with the idea that the pineal–circadian signaling was being destabilized and re-patternedinstead of just sedated, which is why it felt rough and not immediately rewarding. The more important part is what happened after: over the following month your sleep consolidated, your wake time normalized back toward 6–7am, and now two months out you’re sleeping deeper, longer, and more consistently than your baseline, which is exactly what you’d expect from a regulatory, upstream intervention rather than a symptomatic one. Your plan to run another cycle in late spring/early summer also makes sense, especially if seasonal light changes in northern climates are part of the trigger, because epitalon seems to work best as a periodic reset with long gaps, not something you live on. The big takeaway from your experience is that it’s slow, uncomfortable, but durable, sustainable and very different from melatonin or DSIP, which help you sleep, whereas epitalon seems to teach your system how to sleep again. Great to hear stories like this. Thanks for sharing.