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I've suffered from insomnia for a long while now, and I despise taking Melatonin (300ug for the people asking, at least according to the label on it). It gives
by sensanaty 3y ago
I've suffered from insomnia for a long while now, and I despise taking Melatonin (300ug for the people asking, at least according to the label on it). It gives me unnerving dreams - not quite nightmares, but in some ways more anxiety inducing than a typical nightmare - and a lot of people report similar things. Without it I still have vivid, intense dreams but they're usually just very fun and nonsensical, a night on Melatonin makes them really terrible though.
It does help with actually physically getting me to sleep, but to be honest I can't really say it's good quality sleep. The feeling is almost 1:1 comparable to my usual bad days where I don't fall asleep until 6/7 and wake up 2 hours later, just extremely groggy and with a lot of mental fog, so I've stopped taking it altogether. This article is kinda worrying to me, can't even imagine what kinda weirdness external melatonin could be doing to a young mind if even tiny doses has such a strong effect on me, and I was a psychonaut in my younger party days.
- etrautmann 3y agowhat kind of dose were you taking? Pills range from < 1mg to over 10, and I would guess there might be very dose dependent response.
- sensanaty 3y agoAccording to the label, 300ug, even those are pretty strong for me. Never tried higher, since it's always been a strong reaction
- jerf 3y agoHow big is your dose? There's a reasonable degree of evidence that all the commercially-available doses are too high, even 1mg. Cutting it way, way down may give the benefits without so many negatives.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoSeconded. If you're gonna keep taking it, then experiment with smaller doses.
- drcongo 3y agoI've had chronic insomnia since about the age of 13 and melatonin literally saved my life - long periods of little or no sleep can do really awful things to your brain. These days I take 1mg tablet about an hour before bed, takes me about 30 minutes to get to sleep after lights out, and I wake up feeling perfectly fine. My wife though can take the same dose, same routine, and report similar symptoms to you. I wonder if her body technically doesn't need the additional melatonin but mine does.
- jokowueu 3y agoSwitch to clonidine ( the instant release version ) I've been using it for years and also helps with anxiety considerably , no addiction issues