Originally Posted by
JakeWasHere
I’ve used melatonin for years to deal with delayed sleep phase disorder and the best advice I ever got was not to use it like a sleeping pill. It doesn’t work by making you drowsy like ambien, it works by readjusting your body clock. Take a much smaller dose than 5mg (after years of spinning my wheels I found success with 300 micrograms) a couple of hours before bed rather than right before bed. If you take it right before bedtime you need to take much more to speed up the effects and that’s how you get the early morning drowsiness. Depending on your sleep schedule maybe take the dose right after training, then spend the next chunk of time winding down before you actually go to bed. Experiment with dosage and timing but less is more with melatonin if you’re worried about next morning drowsiness. Hope this helps!