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Thanks for the advice - do you use melatonin every night or just nights where you know youre going to be restless?

Not OP, but I've been using melatonin every night, no exception, and it's been very helpful. I use a much lower dose (between 0.3mg and 0.5mg), and it's worked completely fine, so I would suggest that you start very low and only increase if you really need it.

+1 to 0.3mg, larger doses can lead to nightmares and other issues.

It also may take longer to have an effect than is commonly said. For me, it's ~3-4 hours. I'm a natural night owl but 0.3mg melatonin at 6pm has me falling asleep on the couch at 9:30-10pm.

That's interesting. For me it takes 30 minutes, give or take, to start to feel sleepy, and I'm also a night owl :-)

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