# Post your experiences with melatonin

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-experiences-with-melatonin/767206>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 29, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-experiences-with-melatonin/767206 "2016-09-29T15:00:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-experiences-with-melatonin/767206/41 "2016-10-03T16:51:29Z")

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I tried it over the weekend and… it may have helped? 😛

I slept ok, certainly no miracles, but it was also under unusual circumstances (out of town this weekend) so the fact that I slept even ok is pretty good for me. I will continue for now and see how things progress.

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-experiences-with-melatonin/767206/42 "2016-10-03T21:38:14Z")

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My experience with Melatonin is that it makes me feel a bit sleepy in a 10-20 minute window after taking it. If I don’t fall asleep in that time period, I’ll probably be up for the long haul. The other part of my experience with it is that, after sleeping really well for 4-5 hours. I will come wide awake again for an hour before falling back asleep for another 1/2 to 2 hours.

I took it for several years but discovered diminishing returns on the effect when I went into depression so I stopped. The antidepressants I eventually went on made up for it. I’m all good now and I just count myself lucky.

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