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Wandering: What kind of warning system works?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: 6 days ago | Replies (14)Comment receiving replies
This is so interesting about how others are using melatonin. I give my husband 5 mg melatonin and 200 mg L-theanine at night about an hour before bedtime. Still, at least once a week, he has been up in the middle of the night- fully dressed with his shoes on "ready to go...." I get him back to bed but I am exhausted. I am going to increase the melatonin to 10 mg.
The problem is, If I don't catch him, he turns the bright bathroom lights on and that shoots the melatonin. I then wonder if I should give him a dose in the middle of the night.
I have not seen the latest research on melatonin. It was always to go "low and slow".
Thank you all for such wisdom.
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I don't know if this is true for everyone, but strangely, I had been using Melatonin, 10mg which wasn't working very well and someone suggested a lower dosage. I tried 3mg and the 1mg, and the 1mg was best for me. Not sure it makes a lot of sense, but that's my experience.