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Melatonin has made it possible for me to sleep much more consistently which has been a huge help, since I saw Gwern's post on it a while ago.
by elevensies 10y ago
Melatonin has made it possible for me to sleep much more consistently which has been a huge help, since I saw Gwern's post on it a while ago.
- throwaway123912 10y agoMelatonin has worked wonders for me as well. However it's worth mentioning that the 3mg capsules I bought are WAAAY too strong and cause me to wake up with a dry mouth and a headache after a couple of hours of intense dreaming and nightmares. Instead now I split the caps open and take a tiny fraction of the melatonin every night. It takes me a few weeks to go through a single capsule.
- elevensies 10y agoInteresting, I take 3 or 6 mg per night about an hour before sleep, I've never experienced that but it does make my dreams more vivid and memorable and I wake up from the occasional nightmare as well.
- aidenn0 10y agoTrader Joes sells 500mcg tablets.
- thatswrong0 10y agoPlus they're chewable. Probably the most convenient though a tad expensive.
- stormbrew 10y agoI split the 3mg sublingual tabs into quarters. I often split them again and take part when I go to bed and the other part after reading and getting a bit drowsy. Seems to do some good (N=1 and all that). I definitely think that if you're taking them under the tongue the doses they sell them in are much too high. Probably make more sense if you're swallowing them.
- DanBC 10y agoMelatonin in the us is weakly regulated so its hard to know hoe much, if any, you're getting.
- RandomInteger4 10y agoInteresting how different doses affect different people differently. Melatonin works great for me as well. I take 5mg. Not sure if my dreams are any more vivid than without it, as I've been taking it every night for years. I think I've always had vivid dreams, though I no longer get recurring nightmares (which I had years prior to taking melatonin; not sure when they ended).
- blhack 10y agoYou should switch to valerian root if you can. It isn't habit forming in the way that melatonin is. edit: since everybody is asking the same question about habit forming. I am just passing on the information that I got from my doctor. She made this suggestion to me, and it was beneficial to me. Once I had started using melatonin, I would have trouble falling asleep without it. Valarian root didn't cause that issue for me.
- avianbc 10y agoI thought that one of the main benefits of melatonin was that it is not habit forming?
- joshschreuder 10y agoCan you elaborate on habit forming? From what I've read it's non-addictive.
- langseth 10y agoYea, pretty sure you are wrong on melatonin being habit forming. Google says it is not: https://www.google.com/search?q=is+melatonin+habit+forming https://www.google.com/search?q=is+melatonin+habit+forming
- daveguy 10y agoMelatonin is not addictive. You can form a psychological habit with anything, but physical dependence is not an issue.
- daveguy 10y agoMelatonin definitely works for me too. I can take 3/4 mg and have an effect. 3mg and I feel groggy in the morning. Of course, melatonin has been well known for decades.