Melatonin

Melatonin is a naturally occurring "sleep regulating" hormone in your body. As such, it is not really a mood stabilizer as over the counter medications are. But since it helps regulate sleep, and since sleep is critical to overall mood, it does play a part in how our mood is if we do not get enough restful sleep.

It can be bought over the counter in various milligram dosages without a prescription; and it is often the first thing that some practitioners will suggest if there are sleep deprivation issues present. Since it is already present in the body, one is merely replacing something rather than adding a foreign substance. Therefore there is relatively little risk to the person.

Stress, and long periods of sleep deprivation can deplete the stores of melatonin in the body making sleep onset and duration difficult. Adding melatonin back can assist with both. Generally, the first suggested dose is 1-3mg per night; but there is also a 5mg extended release dose, as well. There do not seem to be any contraindications in my experience with most psychiatric medications, and indeed, melatonin is a first line additive when sleep issues are present prior to adding any prescription sleep aid.

It takes a lot of pills... We are talking about bottles.

Melatonin should not be taken by people using certain antidepressants, such as Prozac (a serotonin inhibitor) or Nardil (a monoamine oxidase inhibitor).

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Yes you can take that

there is no limit, it is a natiral substance , well the 'safe' limit is actually 40mg but ...that them being ultra safe .. you may experience very vivid dreams , sometimes hallucinations. its cant kill you.

Melatonin became available on the market in 1994, 36 years after it was discovered in 1958 by Aaron B. Lerner.

Bio-Melatonin is a branded product containing 3mg of melatonin in an immediate release formulation.

Yes it will dissolve inside you anyway.

You'll probably turn gay

I've been taking Melatonin for several years and I've been chewing them (3mg tablets) instead of swallowing them for the last year or so and they seem to work just as well as when I swallow them. They taste similar to aspirin, which I actually like to chew as well. I know. I'm weird. At least I'm getting my beauty sleep. : )

No, but, like most sleep aids, if you use it consistently to help you sleep, you can suffer sleep disturbances if you don't have it. It's best to use it only occasionally, or not at all.

I have been on 5mg's of melatonin for five yeas now as an anti-age holistic. My sex life is the same as before taking it, no difference.

Melatonin is routinely taken by cancer patients at a rate of up to 80mg's (per day) an hour before bedtime, so an overdose would be difficult. We're talking bottles of it to even begin to cause a problem.... And experimental (unpublished) studies show that AIDS & cancer patients are taking 100's of MG's per day, but this is a strictly 'under a doctor's care' situation (not only would it be a prescription situation at that point but the patient is in a hospital bed).

At age 55, I take 20mg's per day an hour before bedtime, and see no side-effects at all, except for a few wild dreams (because the brain is more relaxed). There are studies done on mice that increased their life span by 25% by adding melatonin to their water bottles, and it was saturated in some mice to an equivalent of a human swallowing a melatonin pill the size of a house brick, and doing fine, so if you're into suicide, there are better ways.

In fact, I realize that the original question was probably a joke, because suidcial teens are given melatonin to lessen depression (they also get more sleep by taking it, as do colicky babies to get more sleep [usually at a rate of 0.3mg, but see a pediatrician first] which may reduce SIDS, plus not putting a fan directly on a sleeping infant as this triggers a gasping-to-exhaustion situation, putting them in stress and they later dream of when they were back in the womb when they did not breath [they autonomic system reverts back and they stop breathing]).

So if you are thinking of taking enough melatonin to kill yourself because you are depressed, you would not be able to do it, and in fact the joke would be on you because you would feel better than ever after taking it for a while, because by increasing the percentage of melatonin in your blood you would no longer want to kill yourself. Oops, try something else.

Colicky babies, depressed children, and ADAH situations can have a lower-than-normal producing pineal gland (which produces melatonin), so simply taking melatonin can raise the level and bring back an infant (from crying so much), wild child, teen, or ADAH situation without harmful 'drug the kid into a comma' type pills.

For detailed information about melatonin see the related questions below.

An article on this subject is at the related link.

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All of these Melatonin and Aloe Vera have been claimed to have a strong anti-oxidative properties and other additional activities not yet scientifically studied. It clearly appears useless to every one to use things that have similar effect. Beside this, why do you need to take them? If you have a reason, this is not scientifically supported, be careful and consult your physician. If you need more details email me (ndufredfr@yahoo.fr).

Yes, a hypothetical patient could use these products together. Read & follow all package labeling. Take Advair only as prescribed.

My son who is seven has been on Melatonin for about 2 months. Since being on Melatonin he has gained weight and he has major breathing difficulty, especially at night when he lies down. We have been to ER thinking is was his asthma and it all seemed fined, we have had a ENT take an xray in case his adenoids where swollen, and they too where fine. I have been so concerned about his condition and was willing to go to any specialist to find out what is going on. I have read on the side effects of Melatonin and a couple are shortness of breath, pain in chest (which he is definitely getting) and headaches. I have had him off it for three nights and I just hope he gets better soon. Has anyone got any stories that relate??

Melatonin and doxepin are two medications that can be combined without causing any harm to the user. They are both extremely similar medications making little to no impact.

Liquid melatonin helps to administer the dietary supplement to children who have difficulty swallowing pills (usually kids on the ADHD).

For adults and children alike, liquid melatonin is a lot easier to use.

If also you want the effect of the supplement almost immediately, the you could say that liquid melatonin is better though there is really no better to the use of liquid melatonin over the pills it is just in the matter of the preference by the user.

Abilify is one of only six atypical antipsychoticsapproved by the FDA. While testing is apparently complete, this is an unusual and extremely powerful drug, with a wide range of side effects. Melatonin is the only hormone secreted into the bloodstream by the pineal gland and the fact is we don't know everything it does. If you're getting this in a holositic meds store, this means that the tight controls placed by the FDA on pharmaceuticals are lifted to some extent, so you don't exactly know what you're getting. And in fact, I'm not sure why you want to take melatonin right now, so it's hard to comment on the efficacy of your approach. While I can't find a documented interaction between these two meds, I wouldn't consider mixing them myself. I would advise you to give this a pass. If I can't convince you of that, at least discuss this with your doctor before proceding.

You should never chew any medication, prescription or over-the-counter, unless told to by a physician. Melatonin is not simply a "dietary supplement"; it contains ingredients that can affect the body in ways that prescribed medications can affect the body.

It's important to understand that ALL meds including herbal remedies use parts and extracts of plants-- this is true for prescription meds also. Herbal remedies are not studied by the FDA, though, and all of the potential effects are not known.

Chewing a tablet (prescription or over the counter or herbal) makes the dose enter the bloodstream much faster than the manufacturer intended. While some meds may only make you nauseated or sleep longer or faster, other meds could create a bleeding stomach ulcer, could slow respirations to dangerous lows, could make a person so sedated they wouldn't awaken during vomiting (leading to aspiration pneumonia or death), or -- the med's fast release could lead to death.

No, It isn't. We have a friend whose doctor recommended 1mg which is a little more than 3-times that amount. Good luck. You should probably consult your pediatrician first though.