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A Melatonin Hoot

Posted by Escher Dementian on May 3, 2004, at 5:11:42

I have just recently been trying melatonin for insomnia. i'd like to know if my experience is typical, or just telling me that melatonin is not the right assistance for me. i'm curious to hear the actual action of melatonin explained, as it relates to my experience... anyone?

Here's what's happened:
1. 1st night, taking the suppliment when i find i cannot fall asleep - nothing. (hello sunrise w/out sleep)
2. 2nd night, taking the suppliment when i find i cannot fall asleep - nothing. (hello sunrise w/out sleep)
3. 3rd night, "Okay, i'll try taking this thing at sunset..." - nothing. (slept after sunset again)
4. 4th night, sunset, - BLAMMO! fell into a sleep, without taking any melatonin and missing evening meal. Then woke up hours later, (feeling like a dead rubber gumby) but could not fall back asleep until my regular time the next morning.
5. Purchased chewable 500mcg, because sublinguals work very well for me.
5th night, chewed the minty tablet at the time i wanted to fall asleep (11pm) - nothing. (*sigh* ...hello again sunrise)
6. 6th night, 11pm - BLAMMO! (Dead rubber gumby melds with the sofa) Asleep without having taken any melatonin. i sleep for a few hours, but then wake up before full night and watch the good ol' sun come up.
7. 7th night, "Okay, THIS time, i'm taking TWO of these suckers". i chew them at 10pm. - nothing. (hello sunrise w/out sleep)
8. 8th night, tonight - *laugh* at precisely 10pm my body does the BLAMMO! routine again. (But TWICE as deep)
8&1/2. - and now it's 3:00am and i'm awake as ever. i've already been outside on my back deck hooting back at the owls in my douglas fir trees.
....are we seeing a pattern here?

Either the way melatonin works, is it shuts the body/brain down for sleep precisely at the time it's taken - but exactly 24hrs later, or i'm in a Twilight Zone episode, and need to find my way back to that Licorice Root Tea commercial break.

Sorry for the silliness...
(no i'm not, it's 3:00am) :-P***

~Escher


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