I may start this next week.
Is anyone else taking it for sleep ?
If so what are your experiences.
Thanks.
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I think in the uk melatonin can be gotten off a GP
Yes. My psychiatrist is thinking of prescribing it to me off label. She wants to talk more about it next week.
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For me it works at small doses. I take about 0,7mg which is close to what the body is supposed to produce under normal circumstances. Large doses is counterproductive for me and actually inhibits sleep.
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It helps me a bit but I’ve found that it does have a very slight impact on how my antipsychotics behave, likely due to some relationship with serotonin, switching up its internal distribution in various regions of the brain. The effects have always been negligible and minor but I thought I’d bring it up. Personally my current preferred role for melatonin is to regulate my sleep cycle, I take a tiny dose like Mr_Hope daily and increase it if the day before I fell asleep later than usual in order to help roll back the circadian rhythm. Also, taking a slower release version gave me better results because that way it helps me fall back asleep after waking up in a more pronounced fashion, which was my main issue to begin with since getting me to not wake up multiple times each night has been a lost cause for me.
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I will ask her about the slow release.
I got my 2 mg tablets off Amazon. Yeah, it works if you take it right. I started taking it right at bedtime and if I woke during the night I would take another one. Both of those are wrong ways to take it and I felt weird in the morning after taking it. You’re supposed to take it about an hour and half before bedtime. When I took it right it mostly helped though a couple of times I took it and I still couldn’t fall asleep.
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Yeah I take melatonin every night
It helps but it can make you drowsy during the day if you take too much
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