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Jonathon's avatar

I think the problem with melatonin is that it is effective and is a competitor for prescription medicine.

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Eugene Rodgers's avatar

I am 83 and live in a retirement community. Doctors here tell me that medications often act differently in the elderly. For example, I took Tylenol PM for insomnia and found that the antihistamine in it made me exteremely fatigued. So I started taking small doses of melatonin--1.25 mg--every night. Soon I noticed that I was brain-fogged the next morning, and day by day the fog kept lasting longer. One evening, as I was on the way to a restaurant dinner and was thinking about the day's events, I realized some of the events were actually from my dreams the night before and hadn't really happened. When I got to the restaurant table, I looked at the menu and wondered, "What is this for?" I must have stared at it for 15 seconds before I remembered what it was and that I was supposed to select my meal items from it.

I do not have Alzheimers or any kind of dementia, so this frightened me. I was completely back to normal the next day. I’ll never take melatonin again.

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