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MonsterCrack
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25 Sep 2015, 10:38 pm

It's 11:38 pm where i am, and im having trouble sleeping... im 16, and about 195 pounds, and 5 feet 7 and a half inches tall.... i took 5 mg of melatonin, and i need to go to an event at 5:00 pm tomorrow, until 8:00.... did i take too much?



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25 Sep 2015, 10:49 pm

i often take 6 mg. of melatonin at 10:30 pm and get up at 7:45 am. i wake right up and function well all day. i think you'll be fine.



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30 Sep 2015, 10:04 pm

Typical doses of melatonin can range from 0.3 mg all the way up to 10mg. Even then the effect of melatonin is going to be long gone by the time 5pm the next day comes.



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30 Sep 2015, 10:18 pm

I need more than that pretty often and I'm almost 80 pounds lighter.


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