Elaine (Millerstown, PA) on 03/17/2021
I just finished reading your interesting article on melatonin. I know you can't prescribe, but could you suggest a dosage that I could begin with? Any recommendation would be helpful as I do not have medical coverage right now.
Replied By Cynthia (Killen, Alabama) on 03/17/2021
Replied By Elaine (PA) on 04/23/2022
Cynthia, I just realized that I never responded to your reply. Thank you so much for your reply!!!! I have osteopenia and I am 65. Again, I am so sorry that I did not reply. I am not very tech savvy. God bless.
Replied By Art (California) on 03/17/2021
Unfortunately, not being a doctor, I can not give dosing suggestions, I can only tell others what I am using and what some doctors are using or suggesting. Dr. Neel is using 1 mg of melatonin for every kilogram of body weight for his Covid -19 patients. I am using 106 mg of melatonin per night as a preventative. Dr. Shallenberger said he suggests 180 mg of melatonin in his patients and suggests over 300 mg per day for his stage 4 cancer patients.
In Cynthia's post in this thread, she cites her use of melatonin at 30 mg/day to get rid of a lingering Covid-19 cough in a week. She suggests starting low and working your way up on dosage to make sure you can tolerate higher dosing. At my current dose, I had a similar response to a cough I got from the flu that had been lingering for months and it was gone in about 3 days after starting HDM (High Dose Melatonin). I have worked my way up on dosing when I first started melatonin to make sure I could tolerate HDM similarly to what Cynthia described.
In a 2020 study, they used 10 mg of melatonin in Parkinson's Disease patients that produced modest benefits in patients.
In Manila's Doctors Hospital, they used dosages of 60 to 72 mg to treat Covid-19 patients successfully, but Filipinos are generally smaller people so their dose may be fairly close to what Dr. Neel is using for his over 1,000 Covid-19 patients.
In another post in this thread, Dana reports a study where they used just 3 mg of melatonin per night to get a positive response in COPD patients.
I always keep in mind that some people can not tolerate melatonin as reported on EC by others, but the majority of people are able to tolerate melatonin as shown in multiple studies.
Art
Replied By Elaine (PA) on 04/23/2022
Art, I just realized that I NEVER responded to your reply. Thank you so much for your reply...I guess better late than never. I am taking 20 - 30 mg of melatonin at night. My naturopathic chiropractor, however, told me that it interferes with one's hormones, etc. and he definitely does not advise the use of melatonin. Well... I am taking it and I am able to sleep almost the entire night waking only once, not three and four times a night! I had not had a good night's sleep in almost two decades. :(Also, I am 65 and I was diagnosed with osteopenia. Again I am so sorry for responding just now. I am not real tech savvy.
God bless you!
Replied By Art (California) on 04/23/2022
Elaine,Thank you for the feedback on melatonin and your sleep!
It is very good to hear that melatonin is improving your sleep so much. Good sleep is important for maintaining health and wellbeing.
Newer studies are clearly showing that melatonin has health benefits that your chiropractor may not be aware of. Ask him if he can link you to a newer study that definitively shows that melatonin interferes with your hormones. I would like to read it.
Art