Melatonin?

[idrivea4banger]

you couldn't hold my jock, Carlos!

Neither could the other so called women.

[Stephen]

Knocks me the f out! But I have problems waking up when intake it.

[ceyko]

Makes me drowsy and it overall easier to fall asleep. I can't remember the strength, but I take the stuff from Costco. 2-3 pills. Not sure you can really OD on it.

I started with one pill, which helps - but then upped it to 2 and sometimes I'll do 3. I've heard of others taking 5+ - but I do not directly know those people.

It's worth a shot, that's for sure.

[Chopped54]

When I used to party quite a bit I would take it to go to sleep. Works like a champ, It would give me some vivid fucked up dreams....

[Captain Crawfish]

be careful messing with the chemicals in your brain. most of the people i know who took brain meds for anything ended up 10 x worse than they were before.

[downshift_me]

Yeah, I don't think that's going to be a great idea since I'm on call sometimes. I will just start the countdown until she moves out to help me get through the days I've gotten 2 hours of sleep.


The vivid screwed up dreams can't be any worse than the images of Tony, Carlos and lacrosse outfits. Yikes!

[mardyn]

I take a 3 mg tablet each night before I go to bed... about 30 minutes later I'm out.

Works really good for me... wish I known about it back in my partying days.

mardyn

[Leah]

My daughter had used it for years. I recently found out, in doing research, that it can cause flare ups in JA patients so we've switched to a rx of Trazadone. It didn't work so now I have her on an over the counter dissolve able tablet that seems to be working great.

[DON SVO]

3mg of melatonin is great for me, I take one and I've got about an hour before the engines are pulled back. Some folks I know actually have to take it for up to a week to start getting level results. Some of you that have "hit or miss" reactions to it might need to take it nightly for a week: it seemed to do the trick after that.

[YALE]

be careful messing with the chemicals in your brain. most of the people i know who took brain meds for anything ended up 10 x worse than they were before.

Melatonin isn't an MAOI or SSRI, doctor.

[Shorty]

I'll take it occasionally when I need to go to sleep at a reasonable hour but don't feel tired. As others have mentioned I get crazy, vivid dreams. I tend to feel sleepier than normal upon waking though.

[Big A]

It works best when taken daily, to help regulate your sleep pattern, not so much as a "as needed" sleep aid.

Try to take it and lay down at the same time each night.

[Silverback]

i take it every now and then. Works pretty good, my fiance takes in nightly.

I get some weird dreams, and also wake up a few times, but fall right back asleep on it.

for those that take it regularly, do you find that after 3-4 weeks of use, it doesn't seem to work as well? I used to have to stop one week out of the month, then start taking it again to get it to work regularly. This is when I took it nightly

[Big A]

for those that take it regularly, do you find that after 3-4 weeks of use, it doesn't seem to work as well? I used to have to stop one week out of the month, then start taking it again to get it to work regularly. This is when I took it nightly

I dunno if I can attribute it specifically to the just the melatonin, but I've been taking it regularly for a few years now, for months at a time, and I still get tired at the same time each night so long as I'm on schedule.

If I'm up late one night for whatever reason, and then sleep in the next day, I can't usually fall asleep until later than usual that next night, regardless of taking the melatonin. It does make me feel a little sleepy if I am laying down, but not to the point of conking out, which is why I say it's not necessarily effective "as needed" like something like aspirin is.

[lowthreeohz]

Yep, take it with my lazycakes. mmmm mmm bitch!