I love melatonin!

I'd hope so. Even if you didn't, you wouldn't sleep at all without it.


I've never taken one. I don't want my body getting used to something like that and it becoming dependent on it. My body naturally makes it and unless it stops, I hope I never have to take one of them.

You are right. I have read this too. I've also read it's bad to take melatonin for a long period of time because it can cause your body to stop making its natural melatonin, so I'm planning to take it only as needed, which like I said, is not often, but the week I have of insomnia every 3 months kicks my butt, so I'd be willing to take melatonin once-twice during that week of insomnia to kind of give me at least one good night, and that would probably be enough to settle me back into a good routine.

I have a very jacked up schedule as it is. My week days is when I am working the longest hours, and often times it's night shifts. Then Sundays are family days where we'll have a big party with all of my family and we have ALL the kids on Sundays, so I'm up at the dang crack of dawn (often on just a few hours of sleep) and this tends to make me a little off all Monday, sometimes even for a couple of days because I'll be so exhausted by the evening time.

Thanks! I'm so glad to have gotten so many wonderfully helpful answers from you guys. I'm glad I decided to ask about this.

I dozed off a little after posting this earlier tonight and sure enough, woke right up. It's like I'll be on and off for a couple of hours all throughout the night and I'll feel like I never slept a lick! So I'm about to go ahead and take me one of those. They're sounding better and better as I read ya'll's comments. I worried about my body getting used to it too, but I think I'll do fine just taking one and I'll probably be back in order in no time.

The thing is, I have the 3mg, so I'm not sure it'll do best for me. Maybe I'll do what you said and just split it and take a half. Almost all medications (even little things like this) affect me a lot more intensely than they do the average person for some weird reason. I've taken cough syrup and actually woke up high and stayed that way for an entire day! I could take one Donnatall (aka Belladonna, I know, strange name for a pill! LOL) and be pretty out of my head. I was prescribed it for stomach issues and don't take it anymore, but my OB/GYN said I MUST take 4 a day and I could never even get past one a day because I would literally sleep all day long and be so out of my head that I wouldn't know if I'd had company that day or dreamed it! There were times where I'd call my sister and have to ask if she had been here telling me something or if I dreamed it. I'm glad I'm not in that zombie state anymore.

So I think that might be best -- to only take a half because I might just get a little too sleepy! LOl

Thank you for the advice.

Indiglo: Thank you for sharing! That was really helpful. I'm so sorry you've suffered with such severe insomnia. I couldn't imagine being in that state regularly. I used to have problems a lot more frequently than I do now, and I relied on Tylenol PM. It made me feel crappy though.

Benadryl is a good idea. I did not think of that. I bet just one of those might be enough to pull me right out of this weird funk. It seems like once I can get one day of normal, non-interrupted sleep, then I'll get back to normal, but usually I've had to let it play its course and it never fails that I'll finally exhaust myself out about one week after it started and be normal again... until the next 3 months. It's really weird that it happens on the dot like that. This has been going on for at least one year that I've been keeping track of. Very strange!

Thanks for suggesting Valerian! I don't have any at home, but love trying the natural route, so that will be what I try next. I did try some of my herbal teas and even the chamomile didn't cut it this time.

Thank you again for your help and concern. I am glad to hear you were able to find the right combo for you.


LooooveMonkey Yay! Yippeee! That is such good news! I too worried it'd lower my sex drive because I read that before I bought the supplement yesterday. I'm so glad to hear that it didn't leave you groggy or mess with your sex drive. Very relieving! Thank you for letting me know that.

SilverMinx Darn it! That's my biggest problem -- staying asleep. I keep waking after a couple of hours without being able to force myself back to sleep, no matter what. But then a few hours after being awake, I'm sleepy, but I cannot go through my day sleeping every few hours. LOL. I'm sorry to hear it didn't keep you asleep. I hope it does it for me. If not, I think I'll try Indiglo's suggestion and go for some Benadryl. Heck, if all else fails, I might even bring it up at my appointment in February (Pap smear day before the Birthday -- yay! Last year they gave me a damn pap smear ON my B-day! Happy fucking birthday, huh? LOL) and see if they'll request something or send me to the Physician down the road and give me a short-term bit of something to knock my exhausted butt out. Lol.

LilDrummerGurl Yes, I don't think it will make you sleep super hard like something like Seraquil might, but for someone like me, who any kind of supplement affects me stronger than the average person, I figure if it works slightly for some, it just might work slightly more for me. It very well could knock me out since I am already exhausted going on very little sleep since last Saturday. So a little push could send someone like me into a full night's sleep. You see?

And your friend probably did have nightmares. I'm a vivid dreamer and a lucid dreamer and I've read that melatonin supplements can cause vivid dreaming, so for someone who has nightmares (and especially vivid dreams) on a regular basis, I could definitely see that happening. I've had certain supplements give me strange dreams. That's very interesting how some people are affected by it and some not. Both in the dreaming department and sleeping department.



Well, thank you guys so much for the advice! I feel a lot more confident taking it now, knowing that it won't be likely to make me groggy all day.

I love melatonin; it's the only sleeping pills I take and I feel refreshed in the morning. Just ensure you hang out in the dark to make sure it gets activated and makes you sleepy