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I’ve had PMR for year and a half and have thankfully tapered down to 4 MG/day over the past month. I found I wasn’t sleeping well due to a combination of random insomnia and occasional shoulder pain, so I took 10mg of melatonin two nights in a row and slept great! Unfortunately by the second day I was in so much shoulder, wrist, back pain I felt like I was back to square one with my PMR. Thank goodness for this discussion thread!!
I didn’t take melatonin last night and I feel 100% better even before taking my prednisone this morning!
Many many thanks to everyone who contributes to these discussions you’re keeping me sane!
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Hello @jmcc - A high dosage of prednisone for Giant Cell Arteritis made it so difficult for me to sleep. I ordered some melatonin - then saw the warning on the bottle not to take if you have an autoimmune disorder. PMR and GCA are autoimmune disorders. I did a little research that confirmed that so did not take the melatonin. I did find that lemon balm herbal tea worked pretty well helping me get back to sleep. Good luck.