Careful with attribution. You changed the timing, the dose and the season. That is three variables. Currently on chronic pain myself.

Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.

If it needs three other compounds to notice, you have not tested the first one. Not on taurine but the pattern is familiar.