Melatonin

From experience you will just sleep. Take before bed and make sure to get at least 7 hours of sleep, and eat something with it or you will wake up with a tummy ache

can a person take melatonin and depakote,and will there be a reaction

The short answer is 'probably.' The reason for the ambiguity is that doxepin has very wide-ranging effects depending on your age, your level of depression, and the dosage prescribed.

Melatonin on the other hand, has almost no verified side effects, (the only consistently reported is 'vivid dreams') Remember that melatonin is naturally occurs in your brain already. Now whether you should increase your circulating melatonin with a supplement is a question for your doctor, speaking of your doc; You should be asking yourself (& your caregiver) whether you really want to be taking doxepin at all, to be honest. It has a long list of nasty side effects, and unless your suffering from depression serious enough to be physically dangerous, the risks of continuing with doxepin may outweigh the benefits.

Yes, it completely relaxes you and makes you drowsy and does make you sleep for a really long time... however, you end up being relaxed and drowsy the whole next day also. They say to take just one pill for it to be most effective, the more you take the less effective. I believe it is around 20-30 mg.

mgs=milligrams mcgs=micrograms

mgs=more

so if you have 3 mgs in melatonin you would have to take 3,000 mcgs

that would be 10 pills of 300 mcg

you would only have to take 1 pill of 3 mg to equal that 3,000 mcgs

Basically the micrograms are for people who need a mild mild mild sleep

milligrams would be better for a good nights sleep trust me I know but nI have to take 6mgs to get an accurate sleep. You cant always go by weight here you must go by need of sleep.

Example is my 8 yr old son who is a athletic kid with ADHD must take the same 6mg of melatonin. That's why you should always consult a DR or Pharmacist, you don't want to get the wrong dose.

After looking around on several different websites, I have found minimal help with this question. A few sites say it is synthetic, although it is not listed on the bottle, and it doesn't help that the bottle has a lack of information and Spring Valley doesn't have a site. I've purchased SV Melatonin 3mg a week ago from walmart. The walmart product QnA blog says that "it is synthetically derived." It isn't entirely clear, but you could always call your physician or a pharmacy just to make sure.

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).

No

melatonin

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.