I stopped taking the melatonin last Wednesday. I had determined that it was causing some sort of daily rebound headache/migraine that my usual migraine meds couldn’t seem to work on. As my mother pointed out, I was kind of damned if I did and damned if I didn’t since I was getting really excellent sleep results with the melatonin, which turned out to be 3mg not 1mg, but was making my migraines worse as a result.
Unfortunately I have not slept at all well since. I have been waking up at 3am and having what I call waking-sleep from 3am to 6 or 7am every morning since abandoning the melatonin treatment. Waking-sleep is where you are mostly staring at the wall or the clock or the dog with a few moments of dozing off here and there. The rest of the day I feel unrested and fatigued. I have been going to bed around 9 or 10pm.
The worse part is that I know that I could probably go back to sleep about 6:30am and sleep probably pretty well until about 9am if I let myself — or if I didn’t have to go to work.
The whole experience is very frustrating. This morning I wanted to cry about it when I climbed out of bed to get ready for work, but frankly I was too tired to make tears.
I emailed my GP about it after I got to work, but with her current track record this year, I don’t expect to hear back from her. I may have to find another GP.
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