Jacob (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) on 01/01/2021

I also increased my vitamin d, c, and zinc intake daily as well.

Before I knew I had the virus, I had a pretty bad headache, a bit of a fever, and had some chills and heat flashes. My stomach was slightly bubbly as well. That was the first 2 days. By the afternoon of the second day I found out I had covid. So that is when I started taking megadoses of melatonin. My headache and fever started to leave.

The next morning, I woke up virtually symptom free. I could feel it just a little bit in my lungs and would occasionally cough up a little bit of phlegm but that was it. I continued with megadosing melatonin and taking extra c, d, and zinc for the next 2 weeks or maybe a little bit longer.

Then I tapered everything down gradually until I got back to my normal routine. Now I just take 20-30 mg a night before bed. I really believe that the melatonin increase basically made me asymptomatic almost immediately.

I used several different brands of dissolvable lozenges that were between 2.5 and 12 mgs a lozenge.

Replied By Art (California) on 01/01/2021

Wow, Jacob, that is amazing! I am very glad that your recovery was so quick and smooth!

Thank you for coming back and giving this update as it is useful for any of the members who may get Covid.

Your results pretty much mirror what Dr. Neel has seen in his over 1,000 Covid-19 patients. Once full dosing is initiated, improvements are generally seen to begin the very next day. In the symposium he recently attended about using melatonin as a treatment for Covid-19, the doctors who attended were asked what if any dose may act as a preventative. Their answer was that is not yet known about melatonin, but they felt that if there is a dose that may act to prevent Covid-19 from getting started, it would be 20mg minimum.

Thank you again for your update, Jacob!

Art

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Replied By Amy (IA) on 01/03/2021

I am so sensitive to Melatonin. Maybe the MTHFR gene mut factor. But I'm on day 52 of covid, some days good but fatigue and breathlessness happens. Eating low histamine as I know it's inflammation.

Do you think I should up my melatonin even though as small as 5 mg keeps me awake and sometimes jittery. Would you if it were you? I have people saying to do 30 mg just to get over this.

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Replied By Art (California) on 01/03/2021

Hi Amy,

Some people simply can not tolerate melatonin and that may be the case with you based on how sensitive you say you are to it.

What you can consider and ask your doctor about is Xlear nasal spray which may be helpful. Here is a link to a post I wrote about it :

https://www.earthclinic.com/xlear-for-covid-recovery.html

This is a fairly non invasive approach that showed benefit in a few Covid-19 patients. There are currently 95 other Covid-19 remedies listed on EC. It may be worth looking at some of those here:

https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/coronavirus.html

Art

Replied By Lynn (California) on 01/23/2021

What happens when you take Melatonin?

I'm curious because a few years ago I realized I could not take Melatonin even at super low doses of .25 mg but can NOT remember what side effects it caused that made me quit using it.

Replied By Jiggy (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) on 01/15/2021

Glad I could share with you guys. One more thing I forgot to mention was I let the melatonin lozenges disolve under my tongue for maximum absorption. I read that taking tablets, pills, and capsules are not quite as effective because your digestive system doesn't absorb it as well. So putting a disolvable or sublingual form under your tongue gets the maximum amount in your system.

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Replied By Art (California) on 01/23/2021

Hi Lynn,

Some side effects of melatonin that I am aware of are diarrhea/nausea, but there is often a delay to get to diarrhea that can vary from person to person to as little as a few days or as much as a few weeks. Other side effects are sleeplessness, vivid dreams, nightmares, daytime sleepiness which usually diminishes with daily use over time. Headache is another symptom that sometimes also goes away with daily use as the body adjusts to increased melatonin levels. Dizziness is another which for me was transient and went away completely with daily use. There are others, but these are the main ones that I am aware of. In studies, scientists and doctors consider these to be minor side effects and generally rate melatonin to have minor side effects and a very good safety profile.

I still feel that even though melatonin has a very good safety profile, I believe that some people are not able to tolerate it and should avoid using it, but the great majority of people are able to tolerate and use melatonin regularly.

Art

Replied By Cheryl (Prescott ) on 01/09/2022

Hi Art,

I was wondering if one of the side effects of melatonin would be lowered blood pressure. I once took melatonin a couple of hours after taking Tramadol and almost passed out a few times the following early morning. My blood pressure has always been on the low side which is normal for me.

Replied By Art (California) on 01/09/2022

Hi Cheryl,

Tramadol is used for pain, but melatonin can increase the known side effects of Tramadol.

One of the common side effects of Tramadol is a lightheaded feeling like you might pass out! Sound familiar?

https://www.drugs.com/tramadol.html#side-effects

I would advise against that combination to be sure!

There are other drugs that should not be taken with Tramadol and alcohol is a definite NO! Your pharmacist can advise you everything to be careful of with Tramadol.

Art