Melatonin - suggestions please?

[quietmorning]

I just tried Unisom's Natural Nights, though I think the B6 kept me more awake than asleep. I really like the idea of a slow release Melatonin - that helps you all night to regulate sleep cycles.

Is there a Melatonin - JUST MELATONIN (no B6) out there that is slow release that you have tried and would recommend?

Thanks!

[Julie]

You can get lots of melatonin with nothing else, but I don't know about slow release... the trick is to take it an hour before bed (not a lot closer to) and the effect should last the night.

[PapHater]

I regularly take melatonin and honestly can't tell a difference from the time released version and the regular. I take two of these and it works just as well if not better than the 5mg TR version I used to take.

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Made-Melat ... =melatonin

[stage0]

I take a slow release melatonin about half hour befor bed...works great. I just have to make sure that I get a full 8 hours of sleep; otherwise I have a headache.
Here is the link to the product...

http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/natrol ... 75-product

It is higher cost as you can see.

[Julie]

Stage 0 - your Melatonin has B6 in it - and she's looking for some without it.

[stage0]

oops, my error. thanks julie

[synaptium]

Check this page out.

http://www.sleeping-with-a-sleeping-dis ... ments.html

[LSAT]

If you have any medical problems aside from OSA, I would check with your doctor before you start Melatonin. Most people need less than 1 mg, but most stores only sell 3-5-10 mg tablets. Higher doses may conflict with other meds.

[fredr500]

If you have any medical problems aside from OSA, I would check with your doctor before you start Melatonin. Most people need less than 1 mg, but most stores only sell 3-5-10 mg tablets. Higher doses may conflict with other meds.

My sleep doc told me that 3-6mg of Melatonin probably wouldn't do anything, he recommended 9 or more. Even at 9 I don't see a difference so I quit.

That was before my first sleep study and CPAP. Tried a 6 and 9mg a few times on CPAP, still no discernible difference.

[quietmorning]

If you have any medical problems aside from OSA, I would check with your doctor before you start Melatonin. Most people need less than 1 mg, but most stores only sell 3-5-10 mg tablets. Higher doses may conflict with other meds.

Yes, I did talk to my doc a while ago. He said to use 1mg if I can find it and not go any higher than 3mg - and to consider splitting a 3mg in half. He said that it would help with regulating my sleep stages - which I sorely need help with, and recommended it. I've stayed away from it because I'm ansy about taking stuff I'm not familiar with. . . so I've really put it off. So, I do want to get back on it, but will have to talk to him about long term use. It seems to be very helpful in at least helping me to get a deep and then a REM and rotating the two instead of my deep interrupting my REM or my REM interrupting my deep, or not getting much if any of either, or whatever my brain decides to do at the moment. He said that higher than 3 would actually hurt me long term.

And will talk to him about my other meds - didn't think of that before, but I read that on the bottle of one of the melatonin bottles last night.

[quietmorning]

If you have any medical problems aside from OSA, I would check with your doctor before you start Melatonin. Most people need less than 1 mg, but most stores only sell 3-5-10 mg tablets. Higher doses may conflict with other meds.

My sleep doc told me that 3-6mg of Melatonin probably wouldn't do anything, he recommended 9 or more. Even at 9 I don't see a difference so I quit.

That was before my first sleep study and CPAP. Tried a 6 and 9mg a few times on CPAP, still no discernible difference.

Just for the sake of seeing what it will do, would you consider taking a 1mg for a few nights to see if it might act differently?

[quietmorning]

Check this page out.

http://www.sleeping-with-a-sleeping-dis ... ments.html

Thanks synaptium, will read it when I'm off of work this afternoon. . .or at lunch.

[quietmorning]

oops, my error. thanks julie

And I need to keep the melatonin level as close to 1mg as possible. . .may not have mentioned that . . .(and I'm not awake enough to remember).

[quietmorning]

I regularly take melatonin and honestly can't tell a difference from the time released version and the regular. I take two of these and it works just as well if not better than the 5mg TR version I used to take.

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Made-Melat ... =melatonin

I tried the regular Melatonin without time release, and while it will put me to sleep, it stops regulating my sleep stages about half way through the night. . .and since I don't have trouble falling asleep, but have a lot of trouble with regulated sleep stages, I really need the time release. But thank you for the suggestion.

[DreamStalker]

I just tried Unisom's Natural Nights, though I think the B6 kept me more awake than asleep. I really like the idea of a slow release Melatonin - that helps you all night to regulate sleep cycles.

Is there a Melatonin - JUST MELATONIN (no B6) out there that is slow release that you have tried and would recommend?

Thanks!

Why do you feel you are deficient in melatonin?