When Enough Is Enough

[glynis]

@hoper ,
Would miss your great sense of humour and that is a great gift and stops tinnitus taking away your smile and laughter....keep your funny pics coming...lots of love glynis

 

[hoper]

@hoper ,
Would miss your great sense of humour and that is a great gift and stops tinnitus taking away your smile and laughter....keep your funny pics coming...lots of love glynis

i thought of something funnier than 24
it was 25

...lots of love glynis

 

[noisebox]

Telis, sleep is a huge problem. Always has been since T started. I wish I could overcome the sleep issue as that would help me feel better. I took half a sleeping tablet yesterday and slept a bit so today was better than yesterday. I guess one day at a time and try to not to have catastrophic way of thinking. Just feel so rubbish a lot of the time though.

Can I say I'm in the uk and know how silly Drs are here about melatonin. I did not want sleeping pills so I got melatonin, low dose, via a friend from Majorca. I now only need a quarter of a pill, about 0.50mg. This works very well.

 

[linearb]

Can I say I'm in the uk and know how silly Drs are here about melatonin. I did not want sleeping pills so I got melatonin, low dose, via a friend from Majorca. I now only need a quarter of a pill, about 0.50mg. This works very well.

the disparity in this US vs UK is silly. It does sound like it's overly hard to get melatonin in the UK, but I think it's probably too accessible here (every grocery store). It's definitely a psychoactive drug, and given that it's a hormone which is intimately connected to the pathways that produce serotonin, n,n-dimethyltryptamine and other fundamental molecules of human consciousness, I think people should be a little wary about just gobbling tons of it all the time.

That said, I once spent a weekend taking pretty obscene amounts of it to see what would happen, and I don't think anything bad happened to me as a result. That experience definitely sold me on "melatonin is a drug", though. If you don't believe me, go take about 500mg over a 72 hour period...

 

[glynis]

My hubby as been put on Melatonin help him sleep but says it keeps him awake more so not taking it no more ...lots of love glynis

 

[valeri]

My hubby as been put on Melatonin help him sleep but says it keeps him awake more so not taking it no more ...lots of love glynis

Sometimes small amount is far more efficient than taking larger amount that can keep you awake.

 

[noisebox]

the disparity in this US vs UK is silly. It does sound like it's overly hard to get melatonin in the UK, but I think it's probably too accessible here (every grocery store). It's definitely a psychoactive drug, and given that it's a hormone which is intimately connected to the pathways that produce serotonin, n,n-dimethyltryptamine and other fundamental molecules of human consciousness, I think people should be a little wary about just gobbling tons of it all the time.

That said, I once spent a weekend taking pretty obscene amounts of it to see what would happen, and I don't think anything bad happened to me as a result. That experience definitely sold me on "melatonin is a drug", though. If you don't believe me, go take about 500mg over a 72 hour period...

Oddly here in the uk it is given to children with autism and allowed in the over 55's on the NHS. They do know production slows with age so at near,y 54 I qualified in my opinion.
I take 0.50mg and that suits me.
Why on earth would I want to try 500mg, that is foolish. I'm not in the market for taking risks. At some point I hope to stop, I've used it 3 months now. When my life is on track, maybe T gone again, I will try stop it.