Anyone Try Melatonin Supliments?

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I find they help me a lot. I currently take 10 mg at bedtime and not only does it help me get to sleep, it takes the edge off anxiety the next day. Anyone have similar success with it? Or not?

Hubby tried it for sleep issues--difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. Not much success. Maybe slightly drowsy but that was it. Ambien worked much better for him. I have not tried it myself. I didn't realize it could help with anxiety too.

It's the best thing I've ever tried. I have terrible results with most medicines that affect the mind in some way and this one doesn't do anything weird to it.

I will only take it occassionally. Melatonin is a hormone, and hormones are regulated by a negative feedback system in the body. If you keep supplementing with any hormone, the body eventually downregulates its own production to compensate. The body doesn't like being told what to do. It is much better to simply avoid bluelight from your computer screens, tv's, phones, or living space in the last 3 to 4 hours before bed each night. Bluelight stops your body's own release of melatonin because it tricks the brain into thinking its daylight, it doesn't know the difference from a computer screen or the sun. Red light, doesn't nearly as much.

the recommended dose is 3 mg., not to be taken on a regular basis. i sometimes take it.

I've been taking 15mg as of late and its been working pretty well. I've tried taking less, but nothing really happens and I'll end going to bed at 2 or 3am. I went to the doctor recently for something else, made mention of it when they asked about my medication routine and they didn't say anything about it. So I assume it's ok.

i have f.lux ever since richard dawkins posted the link for it on twitter. i like it, too.

I use F.lux too, as well as Twilight on my Android phone, but unfortunately it still does not filter out ALL of the bluelight. I use these glasses at night to further block all blue light while using devices or looking at tv's. http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewe ... per+Safety.

They filter out the bluelight spectrum completely. You can easily tell if bluelight is filtered out because you will not be able to see it at all.

I have just been prescribed circadin which is a melatonin based medication, but haven't tried it yet as I thought it better to start on a day where my sleeping pattern is anywhere approaching normal, and I've still been nocturnal since it was prescribed. I hate being nocturnal. It makes it completely impossible to live a normal life with normal people. I'm hoping this can help.
With the blue light thing - I always discounted this as I have been nocturnal all my life and was not using computers, phones, or watching TV as a child/adolescent simply reading or doing art relates activities, and I was still nocturnal without a blue light in sight. This blue light thing is not always the be all and end all when considering circadian sleeping disorders. If you have a circadian sleeping type issue it is theorised that the brain is responding improperly to light cue - I can sleep when it is light, for example, as well as dark. The brain is not responding to the cue that light = waking and dark = sleeping. Thus it probably wouldn't make a difference if you were exposed to day-simulating light or not. Might be interesting to experiment with.

Yes. works great for myself and both kids. We seem to be very sensitive to it and only take 1mg each.

I think I have always had a serious melatonin imbalance. When I was a kid, I hated sleeping and couldn't get to sleep very easily. I was awake something like twenty hours a day most days.
So, I doubt there is much to cut down on due to regular taking of supplements. Not only could I not sleep, I have always experienced chronic, partially debilitating anxiety which I just tolerated. I find this Melatonin supplement helps me feel relaxed all day but not in the drugged out way I absolutely loathe. Just feels like natural relaxation that others probably normally experience but I have been deprived.

I took it for a few months earlier this year. Initial results were awesome - best quality of sleep I'd had for years and so much more energy in the day time. Alas, I just got used to them and my sleep went back to how it always was - i.e. poor pattern with periodic insomnia and never feeling refreshed upon waking. Once I realised they'd stopped working I stopped taking them.

I couldn't sleep even before blue lights. I have always had a problem with it which is what leads me to believe my body doesn't produce much for whatever reason, so compensating with a supplement is the only way for me.