does anyone find with melatonin....

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That some nights it works and some it doesn't??
Dd2 2.5yrs is on 3mg quik release. Some nites it only takes 40 mins to work other nites she's still awake 2 hrs later!

Same here.

Some nights ds falls asleep after exactly 20 minutes. Other nights he's still wide awake at 11pm and then goes to school with big dark circles under his eyes.

Glad its not just my child then :)
I guess it depends on their frame of mind that evening perhaps

I have always put that down to it being a natural hormone as opposed to being a sleeping pill, so it is possible to fight it, just as 'natural' sleep can be fought against.

yes. 90% of the time within 30 mins of being in bed (1 hour after taking tab) he is fast asleep. but other times (when he has a distraction usually, a toy he wont put down, forgot to take computer out of his room) it can take a couple of hours.

also on the subject, DS has been on them for a few months now..2mg, and he has started to wake in the night. before he struggled to get to sleep, so once he was asleep (could get to 1am ,,,) it was usually through till morning. now he is gone by 8.30 but waking anywhere between 1am and 5am, He will go back to sleep eventually, but i was wondering if anyone had experience this? xxx

my dd has kidnaps melatonin, it works for her, we tried all the others and they would sometimes work but she only slept 20 mins, i researched the melatonins with a pharmacist as he had been told by a few parents this was happening to there dc, we found that kidnaps had a very small amount of alcohol in it, others don't. i also found if dd had been on the computer,or game console before bed it wouldn't work, as she couldn't switch off to relax enough to sleep.

Thanks guys. Littlemiss you have a good point there that its prob due to being natural

yes!
if we go out it doesn't work at all for whoever is babysitting

Hehe cornsilk it doesn't in this house either :)

We still gat the night waking, DS has 3mg slow release in yogurt before bed, getting to sleep is no problem, but he will wake up at around 1am, by 2am I give him 3ml quick release,(kidnaps) which may or may not work.
But even if it does work he'll wake up at 4am, 6am (usually takes about an hour to get him back to sleep at this time) then when the alarm goes off at 7:45 he opens his eyes, looks at me to say, turn it off mum, then goes back to sleep!
This has been going on for 3 years!