Posted on 12/07/2021 5:51:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Ping!
I looked at a bottle. Even the cheap stuff has warnings.
Melatonin is generally safe for short-term use. Unlike with many sleep medications, with melatonin you are unlikely to become dependent, have a diminished response after repeated use (habituation), or experience a hangover effect.
The most common melatonin side effects include:
Headache
Dizziness
Nausea
Drowsiness
Other, less common melatonin side effects might include short-lasting feelings of depression, mild tremor, mild anxiety, abdominal cramps, irritability, reduced alertness, confusion or disorientation, and abnormally low blood pressure (hypotension). Because melatonin can cause daytime drowsiness, don’t drive or use machinery within five hours of taking the supplement.
In addition, melatonin supplements can interact with various medications, including:
Anticoagulants and anti-platelet drugs
Anticonvulsants
Contraceptive drugs
Diabetes medications
Medications that suppress the immune system (immunosuppressants)
I DON’T WANT TO DIIIIIIEEEEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
Ping.
Melatonin did absolutely nothing to help me with sleep. Nada, Zilch.
What strength? I take a 10mg pill and I’m good for at least a six hour deep sleep.
Thanks! I saw melatonin on FLCCC’s prevention/early outpatient protocol .... my dad takes it every night so I showed the protocol to him. His eyes lit up ... something he’s taking is a ‘good thing’ in the fight against COVID. He’s already prophylacting on Dr. Zelenko’s protocol. 99th birthday in 12 days.
Melatonin becomes a horse dewormer in 3, 2, 1…..
I have been taking it.
Don’t know about the health stuff, but it gives me vivid, epic dreams.
99 years young!
God bless and keep your dear dad. What a treasure! 💞
Dear Lib loather,
All you report may be true however there is far too little information contained in your remarks that will help us make decisions such as “I will not be one of those that take melatonin” or “You’ll never catch me with melatonin on MY breath!”. There is nothing indicating very overweight or diabetics or people with other problems should not take melatonin in the prescribed amounts in what you shared with us.
I have been using 9-12 mg of melatonin to get to sleep and stay asleep for 8-10 hours every night for a number of years. I have Never Ever had a side effect that I could classify as a “side effect”. I have enjoyed years of sleep with marvelous dreams. And it doesn’t matter if I have to go to the bathroom. I fall asleep immediately after returning to bed.
I have several physical problems that should have mitigated my remarks. I have MS, RA (both with big pains daily and much fatigue, spasms and spasticity and nightly with muscle and bone aches), I have PTSD(it reacts variably, and I have other such maladies. No matter, melatonin works with me and my miserable maladies.
Once I take my two or three (depends on mgs...9 or 12) of malatonin, within 20 minutes I am asleep. Joy of joys....
On occasion, if I get to sleep at 8 pm and am up at 4 am, I take an additional 3-5 mgs and sleep until 8:00 or 0900.
Every day I awake clear-headed with a degree of very welcome eagerness to meet a new day.
I do think if a person is taking medication of almost any sort for major problems, they ought to talk with their doc before trying melatonin.
He’s getting excited because it looks like he’s going to make it LOL! Then he’ll try to make it to 100 ... I can see that coming. We’re staying close to home due to COVID plus he can’t take a big party/lots of folks so we sent out about 50 letters to relatives/friends & asked them to either send a card/note for his birthday or call him on the day. He doesn’t know we did this so cards/calls will be a surprise. I think he’s going to have a pretty special (& busy!) birthday.
He watched a lot of shows on Pearl Harbor today. He remembers the attack & after the attack, he served as a surgical tech in one of the Army hospitals on Oahu, treating the wounded coming in on hospital ships from the Pacific Theater. He’s got a few stories.
Melatonin is the Devil.
Heart pounding, dripping sweating, sit up fast at 0300 nightmares...
First glance, I thought it said melanin, and thought it was going to be another attack on whiteness.
99
Wow
God speed, to your dear dad!
He watched a lot of shows on Pearl Harbor today. He remembers the attack & after the attack, he served as a surgical tech in one of the Army hospitals on Oahu, treating the wounded coming in on hospital ships from the Pacific Theater. He’s got a few stories.
Film EVERY second of his stories.
What a blessed treasure!!
Bookmark
Plus, per Fox News, VIAGARA appears to slow Alzheimers!
Maybe Joe assaulted that staffer in the Capitol basement and pinched those little girls because his dosage was too high?
You are not supposed to take it with whiskey!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.