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(Message started by: heprat on Dec 8^th, 2004, 3:06pm)

Title: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by heprat on Dec 8^th, 2004, 3:06pm

I am going to try melatonin. There seems to be a wide spread range of prices at one of the sources I checked out. In addition, I read in an article ...
"If one brand of commercial melatonin does not work another should be tried because the true amount of melatonin in various over-the-counter brands varies widely."

Can anyone recommend a brand?

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by E-Double on Dec 8^th, 2004, 3:35pm

"Nature's Bounty" is the only one I've used.

I'm not sure about brands making a difference but some people use "regular" and time released.

Hope it helps ya catch some ZZZZZ's

E.

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by heprat on Dec 8^th, 2004, 4:05pm

on 12/08/04 at 15:35:46, E-Double wrote:

Hope it helps ya catch some ZZZZZ's

meeeee toooo...last two nights were spent huffing O2 from roughly 11PM to 4 AM. I've gone through two e bottles in as many nights. Thanks I'll look for that brand.

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by don on Dec 8^th, 2004, 7:15pm

I use Natrol. Works well for me in and out of cycle.

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by Sophie on Dec 9^th, 2004, 1:46am

When you are out of cycle, what amount do you take?
I'm out of cycle now, but thought I felt better when I took melatonin (except for a rash/itch)----I have wondered if I could take it regularly or save it for the CH only. Sophie

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by survivor13 on Dec 10^th, 2004, 5:01pm

the brand i use is (SCHIFF).

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by heprat on Dec 11^th, 2004, 3:46pm

I've been taking 9 mg of the melatonin 45min before bed for the last 4 nights and no luck...not even the promised highly detailed erotic dreams I had hoped for ;)
Still getting 4-5 attacks a night between 11PM and 4:30 and now waking up with a woping hangover. Should I assume it isn't for me? keep trying? adjust the dose?

All I can say is I love my Apria O2 delivery man. I've sworn off the trex and am surviving on the big green bottles of beast be-gone.

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by survivor13 on Dec 11^th, 2004, 3:52pm

so now i know where the dreams are comming from!

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by heprat on Dec 11^th, 2004, 4:09pm

on 12/11/04 at 15:52:39, survivor13 wrote:

so now i know where the dreams are comming from!

:D seriously, during my research I read that somewhere along the way..."bonus" I thought :D

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by thomas on Dec 11^th, 2004, 4:54pm

on 12/11/04 at 15:46:45, heprat wrote:

keep trying? adjust the dose?

try using some time-release meltoin, see if that helps. mix it with the regular, take about 3mg of normal melatonin and about 8mg of time release.

Title: Re: melatonin brand recommendation
Post by survivor13 on Dec 11^th, 2004, 6:16pm

it took two weeks before i noticed any different, but no doubt it's helping!