Re: Had another attack last night - melatonin

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Hi Nicola, 3mg of melatonin in this formula and the other one that I

was taking when I had my other bad attack. I woke up the same way

night before last but it wasn't as severe and I fell back to sleep,

but had to get up to eat at 4AM. If I have been driving down my

cortisol by taking this stuff, and bringing on these attacks, I feel

pretty stupid, but I'm glad to have found the answer if this is it. I

do better on Lunesta and Klonopin as sleep aids but was trying to

avoid becoming dependent on them so I was supplementing with the herbals.

>

> My endo told me that melatonin drives down cortisol, so this may

> explain your panicky awakenings. If the melatonin is reducing

> cortisol, you may be having an adrenalin surge...

>

> What dose of melatonin are you taking? My endo told me to take no

> more than 1.5mg, sublingually. This would avoid this problem, and

> the hangover feeling you get from a " horses' dose " of 3mg.

>

> I eventually gave up on melatonin for the cortisol reason. I

> couldn't face waking up and wondering why - whether it was due to low

> cortisol, or not, etc. Then I went on sleeping meds, but that's a

> whole other story.

>

> Best

> Nicola