i totally understand...mine issues with sleep started when i had my son 17 mos ago...i had really bad insomnia...and i just cant kick it...i take drugs to sleep and i have to stop cause it is interfering with my bladder gettin better...i lay there until i cant take it anymore and then take the drug...i dnt have the luxury of laying there till i fall asleep for i have a lil one at home so i NEED to sleep...alot of patients here say they have off and on good sleep depending on what herbs ur on.....its pretty common... u could ask matia about ur adrenal gland but i am pretty sure its the herbs,,good luck...i know how bad this is...i am exhausted all day...and i just started treatment...if it gets worse i dnt kno what to do!!

I got that often before treatment, and still have it occasionally. I had my adrenals tested through a saliva test and they were terrible.  My old doc told me that was the cause of being so tired during day and wired at night.  He gave me a prescription for cortisol, because I was laking it almost completely throughout the day (this is the hormone you need to get you up and going in the morning and afternoon, it slowly is supposed to taper off at evening and be at highest during the morning and day)  I had none in the morning and lots at night..therefore causing a fight or flight type reaction, like what you desrcibe.  Matia told me my adrenals would get better with treatment on there own, and I did not need the prescription for cortisol.  

I would defintaly tell Matia it sounds like your herbs need adjusting esp if it came out of the blue. Sometimes this happens with me. I normally have sleeping trouble but i can tell when it's me and when it's the herbs. sometimes cleansing herbs if not balanced properly can cause insomina they need to be paired with tonifing herbs.

You might try som meditation CD's to help you cope with your anxiety till things shift I know it helps me though some hard times.