@looplu79 These responses are interesting to me, a non-expert with no medical training but who, with age and sleep disruptions, has done a fair bit of personal research into ways to improve sleep. Many of the articles say 3 mg of melatonin is about the most anyone should take, but I see that neurologists often recommend, or actually prescribe, two or three times that much. So, the science seems to be a little 'all over the place' on this, with individuals being the lowest common denominator....the patient is the one who gets to figure out what works and what doesn't do so well.

@looplu79 , I've found that if I go in 1/2 mg increments using a pill splitter and multiple tabs of different doses, that any recurrence (at least for me) is mild, allowing me to increase again without serious incedent.
My goal is to use the minimum dose necessary to keep any side effects at a minimum.