I have been taking 30-50 MG of melatonin a night, for 4 months...I have some questions

The thing with brain hormones is that your body makes as much as it needs. Like with any kind of brain altering medication or drug, the more you put in, the less it produces. Take recovering heroin addicts as an example ... often they deal with "serotonin sickness" because they have been overproducing it with a synthetic drug, and their brains stopped producing it naturally. The brain doesn't know this is bad for you, it just runs like a well oiled machine. If it doesn't have to work as hard to get the job done, it won't. That's called efficiency. So it's likely that in taking such a high dose of melatonin for so long, you've told your brain you don't need his crap, cause you've got this covered. Now you sleep cycles are relying on added melatonin, and when it runs its course in your body, your brain isn't making any more to keep you asleep.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by pressure

So I have been eating 30-50 mg of melatonin a night.

I started taking it because I like the way melatonin puts me to sleep.

I stared taking 50 MG of melatonin a night, because I saw this on wiki

Dreaming

Some supplemental melatonin users report an increase in vivid dreaming. Extremely high doses of melatonin (50 mg) dramatically increased REM sleep time and dream activity in people both with and without narcolepsy.[101]


so I found out melatonin can destory ebola and cancer and its non toxic.

so I have been eating it for 4 months.

I notice I wake up always at like 5 AM, refreshed and not being able to fall asleep. why is this?

why do I wake up wide awake at 4 or 5 am all the time now

---

I currently take 23mg Melatonin (Time Release Tablets) for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder which causes me to act out my dreams; where my body does not paralyze itself during REM Sleep (the dream stage). My physician has no problem with me taking the 23mg which does help in treating this disorder.

I currently take 23mg Melatonin (Time Release Tablets) for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder which causes me to act out my dreams; where my body does not paralyze itself during REM Sleep (the dream stage). My physician has no problem with me taking the 23mg which does help in treating this disorder.