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Disclaimer: I am not a medical expert

Melatonin is naturally produced by your body and is very safe. However, I treat these as I would any other sleeping pill in that I only take them as needed (i.e., shifts in sleep schedule, jetlag, insomnia, etc.).

Dosage affects everyone differently, so I recommend cutting the gummy in half (starting with ~1mg) and adjusting as needed. Short term side effects are grogginess or a slight hangover feeling. Try and get as close to 8 hours of sleep when taking to reduce side effects. I would avoid taking if getting less than 6 hours of sleep as I might feel worse than if I was just tired.
These are intended for children, hence the cutesy label. I made it into my 50's before I had to turn to Melatonin supplementation occasionally to get a decent night sleep. Melatonin production gets worse as you age and even though there's no chemical habituation effect, I still find that it's harder to get to sleep the first couple days off it until you learn to sleep without the additional melatonin levels.

I would be very cautious about putting a child on these without a doctor's input.

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11-15-2022 at 07:31 AM.
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We will see how these compare to olly
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11-15-2022 at 10:53 AM.
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That is a lot of melatonin. I guess I'll be cutting these up into smaller pieces because anything more than 1mg at a time makes me groggy in the morning.
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I would need 4 of those to fall asleep.
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Question for the experts, any long-term or short-term effects from using these? I can Google, but would like to hear from real-world users/experts.
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Great deal! The coupon is only good for one bottle I believe.
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Quote from TekkenLord :
Question for the experts, any long-term or short-term effects from using these? I can Google, but would like to hear from real-world users/experts.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical expert

Melatonin is naturally produced by your body and is very safe. However, I treat these as I would any other sleeping pill in that I only take them as needed (i.e., shifts in sleep schedule, jetlag, insomnia, etc.).

Dosage affects everyone differently, so I recommend cutting the gummy in half (starting with ~1mg) and adjusting as needed. Short term side effects are grogginess or a slight hangover feeling. Try and get as close to 8 hours of sleep when taking to reduce side effects. I would avoid taking if getting less than 6 hours of sleep as I might feel worse than if I was just tired.
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Quote from yojimbo :
Disclaimer: I am not a medical expert

Melatonin is naturally produced by your body and is very safe. However, I treat these as I would any other sleeping pill in that I only take them as needed (i.e., shifts in sleep schedule, jetlag, insomnia, etc.).

Dosage affects everyone differently, so I recommend cutting the gummy in half (starting with ~1mg) and adjusting as needed. Short term side effects are grogginess or a slight hangover feeling. Try and get as close to 8 hours of sleep when taking to reduce side effects. I would avoid taking if getting less than 6 hours of sleep as I might feel worse than if I was just tired.
Appreciate your comment.
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These are intended for children, hence the cutesy label. I made it into my 50's before I had to turn to Melatonin supplementation occasionally to get a decent night sleep. Melatonin production gets worse as you age and even though there's no chemical habituation effect, I still find that it's harder to get to sleep the first couple days off it until you learn to sleep without the additional melatonin levels.

I would be very cautious about putting a child on these without a doctor's input.
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11-15-2022 at 02:16 PM.
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This came to $6.72 for me after 0.00 tax
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11-15-2022 at 02:48 PM.
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Does melatonin work? usually I just have been taking 100 mg of magnesium glycenate pill before bed
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Don't take more than 300 mcg of melatonin at a time.
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Quote from TekkenLord :
Question for the experts, any long-term or short-term effects from using these? I can Google, but would like to hear from real-world users/experts.
Like yojimbo, I am also not an expert (and this is not medical advice!), but thought I'd weigh in a bit here with some citations. Everything they said is pretty spot on as far as I'm concerned.

tl;dr: generally considered very safe, appropriate for use in low dosages to correct sleep patterns, should not be used as a daily supplement

Melatonin is a natural hormone produced in small amounts by your pineal gland (gland towards the center of your brain) in response to light to regulate your circadian rhythm, and encourage you to adopt a sleep rhythm in accordance with day/night cycles. The specific neurological pathways involved there thankfully aren't necessary to know just for the sake of supplements.

Your body naturally produces under 1mg per night (varying on age and other circumstances), and is usually pretty good about that. If for some reason there's a disruption with your circadian rhythm, melatonin supplements could help with that, and like they said, it has a good track record for safety (as opposed to something like common OTC cold/fever medications which can be extremely dangerous in excessive quantities). However, the studies we've conducted on melatonin supplementation to originally establish its efficacy are generally at dosages similar to what our bodies naturally produce (less than 1mg), and often supplements are massively in excess of that (up to 10mg or even higher in some cases); and even then, the average improvement seen in those studies was statistically significant, but not necessarily clinically significant (as in, it does help, but maybe not as much as we'd like to believe it does).

Melatonin has developed something of a cultural definition as a safe, natural, healthy sleep remedy that will fix every sleep problem and just guarantees sleep, which isn't really accurate. Anything that's labelled as "natural" tends to be immediately considered "safe, healthy, and can do no harm" in our culture (USA), which is also misleading. That cultural association tends to preclude the thought of any caution or discretion in usage of melatonin supplements; to make matters worse, supplement manufacturers tend to sell melatonin in huge bottles that are oriented towards daily use, and at increasingly high labelled dosages as a means of selling their product as the "strongest" or "most effective". But supplements are functionally non-regulated, and the actual dosages in melatonin supplements can vary wildly from what's labelled on the package (containing anywhere from one fifth as much to five times as much melatonin as it claims to - how's that for a margin of error?).

The medical community generally seems to recognize melatonin as mostly safe, but they also tend to recommend that it be used appropriately - that is, as a means of helping correct a sleep schedule, and not as a magic sleep pill, and also not as a nightly sleep adjunct to be used indefinitely. I have personally found melatonin to be occasionally helpful for me (working night shift and having to swap my sleeping schedule around frequently), but more often than not it's just disappointed me in terms of efficacy. If you have chronic sleep issues, melatonin is likely not the solution you are looking for; if you are temporarily re-adjusting your sleep schedule or something similar, it may help, but it's at best a gamble. I would personally avoid taking it chronically or in dosages greatly exceeding the range that it tends to occur naturally in people.

Some further reading/sources:
https://slate.com/technology/2022...ption.html
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.6462
https://www.healthline.com/health...ectiveness
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