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erasedcitizen2 · 7 months ago

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for anyone else out there struggling with insomnia, I'm sharing this just in case it helps anyone else: my doctor suggested 5 mg melatonin for me. It didn't make me sleep better and also gave me pretty bad side effects like having brain fog the day after, like I was completely unable to think and my reactions were slowed down to the point I would've been a danger in traffic. but I switched to a lower dose of 3 mg melatonin and not only do I have no side effects from that dose but ALSO IT WORKED. I've actually consistently slept 7-8 hours for the past week since I switched dose. I don't know the science behind that but lowering the dose worked better to put me to sleep.

#really hoping this lasts haha... ha... could just be coincidence... temporarily sleeping good....#but i have some amount of hope that the 3 mg melatonin pills could be something i could use temporarily #when i'm in these shitty insomnia periods #i take them about an hour before i want to sleep #spend the first half hour brushing my teeth doing my skincare routine etc #then the next half hour after that i'm chilling in bed until i start feeling sleepy #about an hour after taking them i just start feeling comfortably sleepy and relaxed #i feel like it calms my brain down and makes it Shut Up #this past week i haven't spent any time in bed with brain active just Thinking... my brain gets calm and sleepy instead idk #and it's not a creepy drowzy drugged feeling either just comfy tired #i know melatonin is super common in some other countries and is regulated as a supplement in the us so maybe this is old news to people #but it's regulated as a medical drug here and not something most people use or might know about #like before 2020 you even needed a prescription for it #now you only need a prescription to get bigger boxes of it here

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