hormone melatonin seizures

Melatonin is the hormone that controls your body clock. Normally, your brain produces melatonin during the night to help you sleep. Your body starts to make melatonin when it gets dark, and stops when it gets light. The melatonin that's sold as a treatment is a man-made version of this hormone. We found one good-quality study a randomized controlled trial), which looked at how well melatonin worked for children ages 6 through 12 years who had sleep problems.

Has anyone had any luck with decreasing seizures with melatonin.....My 17 year old son has intractable epilepsy, and I just came across an article that this had reduced seizures...maybe worth a try????? Anyone out there tried this???? Thanks for any input.

Long term use of indomethacin can result in gastrointestinal adverse effects. Melatonin is a hormone secreted by pineal gland and is very similar in chemical structure to indomethacin without the risk of gastro intestinal side effects. That’s the reason melatonin is now being considered as an effective treatment option. Patients with history of severe allergies are advised not to take melatonin in general. Hope this answers your question!

Hello there, You can try melatonin which can be bought from a food supplement store. Melatonin is basically the ''sleep hormone'' it it produced naturally from the pineal gland in your brain and light and darkness have the most influence on it's production. More light, less melatonin, dark = more melatonin produced to induce sleep. It also have powerful antioxidant effect, boost your immune system and can prevent ischemic damages.

i study in school about it.. it really is just a hormone that your body creates on its own. given that said it should be fine to take it. ask your doc first though. thats jus my opinion of knowing what exactly it is.

Melatonin is a hormone that's produced naturally by the pineal gland in your brain. People buy this OTC to help with insomnia and jet lag. It's thought to be more effective with the latter of those two. Some folks here swear by it, and more power to 'em. For others, including myself, it didn't do a thing. It can produce a nasty side effect of vivid and disturbing dreams for some, but I say, if sleep is a problem for you, you might as well give it a go.

I just wanted your thoughts and experiences with melatonin. Has anyone been given the OK to take it? Or told not to? I figured since it was a natural hormone that it would be safe. Still waiting to hear back from my doctor. Just trying to find ways to help me sleep better. I'm 21 weeks. Thank you in advance.

I have not got my thyroid checked but after taking melatonin I am starting to think that there is a sure link between the thyroid and melatonin ( research also shows that melatonin suppress the appetite and is linked to the thyroid, and also shows that it fights cancer. ). For a week now I have been taking melatonin supplements (6 mg) and I have gotten the best sleep in life.

t know of any data regarding melatonin interacting w/ thyroid hormone but any pill has the potential to interfere w/ absorption of thyroid hormone. Might be worth trying to separate these by an hour or so.

I am tired of relying on psychotropic drugs to get some sleep and I think that Melatonin could perhaps help me regulate sleep. The truth is that there are several types of Melatonin and I am somewhat clueless about how much dose and what type of Melatonin to take. I hope someone can help me. Thank you!

I have taken Melatonin for about 20 years and I am now trying to taper off. It is a hormone and I don't think it is healthy for long term use. My standard does was 3 mg but one doctor had me on 20 mg for the antioxidant effect for a while. Funny at that dose it does not caused any sleepiness. I've taken the mcg's and up to that 20 mg and the small doses did help me sleep.

Hello and hope you are doing well. Melatonin will not show immediate results. Melatonin is a hormone naturally present in everyone's body that helps regulate when we go to sleep. Melatonin is sometimes given to help insomnia (along with other melatonin agonists) but they generally only provide a relatively small benefit. That said, they're probably pretty safe (though sometimes expensive).

Does melatonin give you all three stages of REM or is it mostly to help with the most superficial phase, the dream phase? I understand that melatonin is a hormone secreted at night, and how it is not a drug, but I am just wondering if there is a link between dreams and melatonin.

Melatonin however it never worked for me. Melatonin is also a natural sleep hormone our body produces.

You can't take sleeping pills but melatonin is a hormone and it is totally safe cause your already producing it in your body.

No it is fine it is actually good it contains NO caffine which is good and melatonin which is a naturally created hormone to promote normal sleep, Enjoy

Hi, welcome to the forum, there are hormones and neurotransmitters and receptors which play role in sleep and wakefulness. Melatonin is one such hormone and it appears to be the primary sleep-regulating hormone of the body. It is secreted in relation with normal day/night cycles. It affects sleep itself, decreasing sleep latency, increasing sleep efficiency, and increasing the total sleep time. Melatonin acts on the melatonin receptors.

This pro-seizure effect on the brain is not well defined, other than to say that it is believed to be a direct action on cerebral cells by thyroid hormone. Seizures have also been reported in patients who were previously “controlled” on a stable dose of anticonvulsant when thyroxine replacement therapy was initiated (Neurology. 1996;47:605-606). It is thus not clear that thyroxine “suppresses” antiseizure medications in a direct way.

Does it seem to help lower stress, anxiety, supposedly by lowering stress hormone cortisol ?? If so, a little or lot ?

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