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Fee1Senior Contributor
Hi all, new to the Forum. Just wanted to see if anyone has had any problems taking melatonin. My doctor prescribed it to help me sleep but it seems to have reacted rather badly with my meds. I have stopped taking it and feel much better. Guess the proof of the pudding....
Has anyone else had any experience like this?
thanks
Fee1
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Hi @Fee1, I answered you in the 'introduction' thread too. I've had long standing sleep problems. I only briefly tried melatonin and had a similar experience to you. These days I'm helped by an antihistamine recommended to me by my psychiatrist. I take it every night. It is not addictive, and can be bought over the counter. I take it for the drowsy side effect it has. It hasn't solved my rather extreme sleep issues but it has helped improve things. I can't state the name of the medication as it is against forum guidelines to mention medication names, only descriptive generic terms. This medication I am describing also has no discernible interractions with the three other psych meds I am prescribed. It was a bit of a 'last resort', after my doctors had already suggested other options. Wishing you well in your journey towards better sleeping.
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Fee1Senior Contributor
Hi @Mazarita, thanks for that, very interesting. My mother takes an antihistamine when she cant sleep. Maybe I will give it a go. Funnily enough sleeping well at the moment. Best, Fee1
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Unknown userMember
Hi @Fee1- I'm not sure I've said hello preoperly yet, so hello! 🙂
Welcome to the forum. It sounds like the melatonin was prescribed by your GP, have you had a chance to visist again and let them know about the reaction you had? Great to hear you felt better again after stopping taking it but I think it's always good to check with doc too if you can.
Pebbles 🙂
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Fee1Senior Contributor
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Unknown userMember
Hi @Fee1 🙂
I'm not sure if you have seen this page but there's lots of great information which can be found here.
As for an explanation of the different titles. Forums moderators work behind the scenes reviewing posts. Within that link above you will find a discription of SANE forum language such as Community Guide etc. I've copied some of it here for you too.
Member – a user of the SANE Forums who has registered. Members can post, reply, like and favourite posts and have their own user profile on the site. Each member has a ‘rank’ depending on how many times they have posted:
New Contributor – 0 posts
Casual Contributor – 3 posts
Contributor – 10 posts
Senior Contributor – 30 posts
Community Guide – Volunteer long time members who are instrumental in maintaining a productive and supportive community.
Hope this helps a little 🙂
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MazaritaSenior Contributor
Hi @Fee1, good to hear you are having improvements in sleep.
I'll just add to @Former-Member explanation of the different forum 'titles', that I and a few others have been given the title 'community elder', which just means we are 'retired' community guides.
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