Hello @dustycat52. I can ID with you on the severe anxiety. It's absolutely brutal! As far as the sleep problems and anxiety, if it was me, this is what I would try: I think there is a lot of benefit from seeing a good sleep doctor (I would research that choice too. I wasted 9 months in pain because I had a bad doctor). I use a sleep doctor and also a psychiatrist to work with me on anxiety. Although I have a different sleep disorder now, I believe that principle remains very helpful.

Secondly, before taking any supplement or even a prescribed medication, I would get on Google and search for scientific evidence that the substance actually works for your problem. You don't need any scientific knowledge, but just look to see if it's been studied and look at the summary to make sure they found evidence that it really works. I'd say there are many more supplements that get pushed by advertising (big money there), than ones that really work. In my opinion, I would say that "holistic" remedies are labeled that because they can't get approved to become real medicines. That's a controversial thing to say, but I stand by it 100%. I do have advanced education and research in that area.

Whatever you decide to do, I wish you the best, and a very, very happy life to follow.