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Using 5mg time released melatonin nightly for sleep for months now, its starting to not work as good. now what, increase it? all tests are normal.
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Take a holiday: The body can develop a dependance and medication can loose effectiveness sometimes if you stop takeing for a while then restart it may work again.
Answered 9/4/2013
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Melatonin: Melatonin at doses higher than 3 mg have not shown more efficacy, understand the stressors and please look into short term Ambien (zolpidem) like meds or cbti is best.
Answered 4/30/2016
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