Research Highlights: A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin for at least a year found they were more likely to be diagnosed with heart failure, require hospitalization for the condition ...
My anecdata of about six months trial of melatonin just made restful sleep more difficult. I was tired for the first hour or two, then the wakefulness returned. Sometimes I would dose another round of melatonin but it just made me so sleepy the next morning I was prone to making boneheaded mistakes at work because I just couldn’t shake it off. That alone was enough to leave the bottle of melatonin unfinished, let alone dying of heart failure jfc I just wanna snooze
Benadryl is my go-to for knocking myself out. I do feel drowsy the next day but when I absolutely need sleep, I’d rather that than another 5 hour (or less) night.
Benadryl makes me irritable and I’m not sure why otherwise I’d be taking that honestly. It’s cheap, like under two bucks for a hundred tabs, and it worked, but I was really really crabby the day after, dependably.
fully anecdote but yup same, i had to stop using it as a long term insomniac.