Melatonin and headaches

Interesting question.  I have also had some occasional mild a.m. headaches, and thought it was from chicken, which I eat very little of these days.  But after reading your post, I wonder if it was from the Melatonin I was taking but have now stopped.  Hmmmmm...

As far as changing brands, why not try it?  Most places that sell supplements will accept returns if you're not happy with a product.  So it seems like you would have nothing to lose.

By the way, I decided to stop using Melatonin because of a comment posted somewhere on BCO in the past couple of weeks (maybe on the Natural Girls thread?) about Melatonin not being as good for us as many of us believed.  I'll see if I can find it, but it made me stop and think that maybe I didn't really know enough about its long range risks/benefits to be using it nightly.     Deanna

Melatonin is famous for headaches. Have you tried valarian root instead? I find it very effective with no a.m. side effects.

This is so interesting!! When I saw melatonin, I just had to chime in.

Last week, my DH was waking up every morning with a bloodshot eye. This went on for about a week, so he went to the eye doctor and they found the pressure in his eye to be above normal. It really scared him/us because that is a sign of glaucoma. He's 50 years old and figured anything was possible. So....he made an appt at another eye clinic in a larger city for the next day. They did extensive tests and found his pressure was down to about normal. In the meantime, my husband did some research and found that Melatonin could cause this. He mentioned it to the doctor and the dr had not heard of this, but was going to do further research. Seems there's so much we have to be careful of  nowadays. Who would have thought Melatonin could have caused this........the doctors still think it could be the very early EARLY stages of glaucoma too. Anyway----no more melatonin here:)