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You should try taking 5mg of melatonin around 9pm. I have trouble falling asleep before 12-1am, too. Undeterred, I stay up too late every night working on whate

You should try taking 5mg of melatonin around 9pm. I have trouble falling asleep before 12-1am, too. Undeterred, I stay up too late every night working on whatever project I have and can't sleep because I'll lay awake thinking about it. If I take a melatonin I get the benefit of becoming inept at writing code by 10 and will be sound asleep before 11 and ready to wake up hours before I have to start my day.

pstuart 15y ago
My sleep doctor advised taking less, and earlier (1.5 mg around 5 or 6 pm).
- polyfractal 15y ago
  This is good advice. Taking melatonin when you go to bed will help you sleep, but taking it a few hours before you want to go to bed helps retrain your circadian cycle (which is the goal, not just going to sleep easily)
  - whimsy 15y ago
    Do you have a source you can cite for this? I'm keenly interested in how this works.
    - hobin 15y ago
      I suggest reading this: http://www.medicinenet.com/jet_lag/page4.htm http://www.medicinenet.com/jet_lag/page4.htm
- gbog 15y ago
  You have sleep doctors in the US? seriously?
  - pmiller2 15y ago
    Yeah. Sleep medicine is a subfield of neurology.