Melatonin IR/XR 120 Capsules - Immediate & 7 Hour Extended-Release - Night Time Supplement - Supports Staying Asleep - Non-GMO, Gluten-Free

This is the best melatonin product I have found. My go to. Most brands are IR or SR/XR but this kind is both. Helps you start feeling sleepy before bed and helps you sleep better at night. Also inexpensive which is a plus. And I like that it comes in 1.5mg. Most brands are 3mg which is too much if you want to take it daily. It's better to let your body do some of the work and produce some of it's own melatonin so low doses are good. Doctors don't recommend taking 3mg doses long term. As someone with pretty bad insomnia this helps me get ready for bed before I take my sleep meds.

Trying the Bredesen protocol for my dad with dementia. Dr told me to use an extended release Melatonin to help him stay asleep. We were using regular melatonin before which would get him to bed but then he would wake up. This has helped let him sleep through the night. Love the dose as well. Been very hard to find lower doses of melatonin. Your body naturally only makes about ~0.3mg of melatonin. Happy with this product so far.

I’ve been taking a 5mg rapid release for years but have been waking around 3-5 am almost every night and staying awake 1-2 hours. After doing research I purchased this to try. 5 nights of uninterrupted sleep since starting it! So far - Amazing! It is life changing. The lower dose ir/er was just what I needed!

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I have ADHD & intermittent insomnia. Without melatonin I usually stay up past 1 am most nights. I wanted to get on a better sleep schedule, but after using instant release melatonin I would still wake up at like 4 am and couldn’t always go back to sleep easily. So I bought this to help with that since it’s an extended release formula. This works well for me, BUT I have to pair it with my other 1.5 mg chewable instant release melatonin. The first night I tried the IR/XR pill on its own, the instant release just wasn’t enough I’m guessing because I felt nothing & didn’t get sleepy. I almost threw these away, but it dawned on me one day that the IR in these couldn’t be 1.5 mg because it’s time released. It’s like 1.5 mg spread out over several hours, so be aware of that. I was used to taking 1.5 mg instant release, so this just wasn’t enough to get me to sleep. This does not work for me unless I pair this with my other brand. It helps me stay asleep all night when I use it that way. I’m very sensitive to everything, so usually any melatonin formula over 1.5 mg leaves me groggy, but I guess this is such a low XR dose that it doesn’t impact me like it would if I took 3 mg instant release melatonin. If you normally take 1.5 instant release and only want to take this formula, you’ll probably have to go up on the dosage. Probably to at least 3 mg. Maybe more.

This seems to work well. I've had trouble staying asleep and these help. They don't leave me groggy the next day like ones with a higher dose.

This supplement definitely helped me sleep, but it also made me groggy throughout the next day. I am 79 years old and thought that 1.5 mg would be low enough for me. At first it was fine, but after a few weeks of use, I noticed unusual daytime sleepiness, fatigue and dizziness. I started cutting the dose in two, which is not easy to do accurately because it's a capsule. I have stopped this product and ordered Life Extension's lower dose 300 mcg, 6-hour timed release tablets. I hope they'll help me sleep without so many side-effects. I have one other item of note for folks on heart meds. I take Clopidigrel as a blood-thinner and my dose (75 mg per day) works well for me. It causes a small amount of easy bruising, but not bad. Unfortunately, Melatonin can thin the blood too. This 1.5 mg dose was enough to result in more bruising for me. I hope that the lower dose will balance better with my blood-thinner Rx.

Started using this almost four years ago when the children’s hospital sleep clinic in Denver recommended it for my son who was struggling with sleep and anxiety. Now we both use it. No side effects. Easy to slow without taste. Great value relative to benefit.