Re:Had another attack last night

[Guest guest]

Dahlia,

Wow, amazing that I've been taking 1 mg of melatonin in the midst of

all my sleeplessness and wondering why I'm jolting awake at night with

pounding heart. It never used to do this to me, but I guess our

bodies change.

Do you remember the source that said that it lowers cortisol? I'd

love to read it.

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> If you take too much melatonin, you may experience the following

effects:

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> * Drowsiness upon arising

> * Wild, not just vivid, (bad) dreams

> * An excess of the thyroid hormone (T3), resulting in waking up

> nervous, sweating, and with palpitations

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> Hi ,

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> You can add " lowers cortisol " to the possible effects of melatonin--I

> can't unfortunately find the source for that, but it was discussed on

> this board about 6 months ago.

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> Dahlia

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[Guest guest]

>>Dahlia,

Wow, amazing that I've been taking 1 mg of melatonin in the midst of

all my sleeplessness and wondering why I'm jolting awake at night with

pounding heart. It never used to do this to me, but I guess our

bodies change.

Do you remember the source that said that it lowers cortisol? I'd

love to read it.

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I know exactly how you feel re: the melatonin. I too thought I was

helping myself and have had much better sleep since I stopped. Also maybe

it's your cortisol levels which are presumably changing and normalizing

that account for the change in your reaction to melatonin?? Don't know.

It was a university study (maybe from Yale??) and I may have saved it; if

so I'll post it, otherwise, it's hopeless, I'll never remember. One

thing I do remember is that study authors advocated the use of .03 mg

max--I don't even know where you'd find that low of a dose.

btw, I've recently been experimenting with Passion Flower for sleep and

loving it--it makes me pleasantly drowsy and peaceful and no hangover in

the morning at all. I find it works if I take it about an hour before I

want to go to sleep, but it doesn't help at all if I wake up in the

middle of the night and take it.

Dahlia