I love melatonin

[dingster1]

3mg with either ambien (workdays) or Unisom off days

 

[norseamd]

you guys ever try celestial seasonings sleepytime?

you can also try pure chamolile tea

 

[BurnItDwn]

Melatonin is awesome. It works awesome for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

I sometimes drink chamomile tea and I have had sleepytime. They are tasty.

Melatonin is the only thing that ever really works for me.

Without Melatonin (the first 32 years of my life ... )
Hated school every day starting in 1st grade (I had "afternoon kindergarten", which was ok.)
Worked nights/evenings starting my 16th birthday.
Worked nights/evenings through college
Worked night/sevenings until I was 21.
Then I got a day job in a help desk type setting. Worked days for about 6 months. On average was tired and usually got to sleep by 3 and then up by 8. It sucked really bad.
Once fully trained, I volunteered for overnights. I slept better, but, still messed up sleep cycle since it was a "7 on 7 off" schedule, and after having just worked a 77 hour week for my 7 on, I mucked about during my 7 off.
After that I got into 2pm to 12:30am schedule, and kept it for a couple of years. That was the best schedule/hours I'd ever had. I would kill to have those hours again. I slept well every night/morning. I went out and had fun almost every night after work. Life was awesome.
Since then, I've been working starting at 9am, (though I did do a stretch of working 6:30am-3pm ... but that was even more miserable.)

Anyhow ... without melatonin, I am horribly tired and burned out and worn out every day of the week since I am sleep deprived since laying down while awake does not count as "sleep." I sleep 3-8 or 3-7:30, and only wake up at the latest possible second to get to work on time.


With melatonin, I can take 3-4mg at midnight, and usually I'm asleep before 1am. If not, at 1am, I take another 3-4mg and am always asleep by 2am.
That gives me around 7 hours of great sleep. I've gotten my body mostly used to the hours, so I don't generally need to take the melatonin every day any more even.

So, for people who have a schedule that does not accommodate their circadian rhythm, melatonin can be a VERY powerful and magnificent life improving tool.

 

[z1ggy]

I usually just wack off. Works decently.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I usually just wack off. Works decently.

That doesn't work if you have a problem with your circadian rhythm. It just helps to make you more physically tired.

 

[momeNt]

Does this have to do with all the non-24 hour disorder shit I hear on the radio?

I can't see them because they are on the radio but they can't see me because they are totally blind. I think we can't see each other because its a fucking radio chief!

 

[SlitheryDee]

I like melatonin, but it makes me a little bit more drowsy the next morning than I normally would be. I seem to go to sleep at around 1 AM whether I take it or not, so lately I haven't been taking it

 

[Ban Bot]

When I worked nights I used 0.5mg sublingually. iirc While 3mg is the standard smallest pill it is too much and you build up an eventual tolerance, hence why I used drops. Worked ok, not a miracle aid.

 

[mrjminer]

I used to grab a bottle every once in a while. It worked pretty well for me, but I think the one I grabbed was 5 or 10mg. Gives you some fun dreams

 

[Bill Brasky]

When I worked nights I used 0.5mg sublingually. iirc While 3mg is the standard smallest pill it is too much and you build up an eventual tolerance, hence why I used drops. Worked ok, not a miracle aid.

I buy bottles with 1mg tablets at Walgreens all the time. Just FYI.

 

[OverVolt]

LOL you guys and your sleep problems.

 

[Ban Bot]

I buy bottles with 1mg tablets at Walgreens all the time. Just FYI.

Cool. Last time I used was in 2004 and I had a hard time finding <3mg tablet.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Cool. Last time I used was in 2004 and I had a hard time finding <3mg tablet.

I used to take a 3mg and break it in half. I still built up a tolerance. Eventually I got up to breaking 10mg pills in half. I could probably go back to the 3mg now though.

 

[slag]

I used to dread trying to go to sleep and never felt rested once I finally fell asleep. Now that I use a cpap, I only need about 6 hours of sleep a night and I feel rested. I can go to bed at 11, watch tv for an hour, put the mask on, and at 6 am, be well rested and ready to go. Don't understand how I ever lived without it, really.