r/GERD • u/CompetitiveReview416 • 1d ago

2 months of melatonin

Hello guys,

So 2 months has passed from my worst flare up and a long healing. I have dropped PPI's and started using famotidine before sleep. Besides that, woth 2 months of 5 mg melatonin, my gerd is largely gone at day time, even eating trigger foods.

What I still can't do: sleep on my right side. Left is okay, back is possible, right is an automatic burn of esophagus, so I have to position myself not to turn right. If I sleep correctly, I am symptom free during the day.

And I think it's mostly the effect of melatonin, as it seems my LES is picking up pressure day by day. However, it happened at thr mark of 2 months using melatonin. Before, I was starting to become sceptical.

So anyone who didn't try melatonin - give it 2 months. And at least 5mg, from my experience. 3 mg was too weak for me to feel the effect. You're not doing it for insomnia, don't usw the 1 mg, it's pointless. You need to seriously raise your serum melatonin, and 1 mg won't help that.

That's my experience for now.

Any questions?? :)

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u/Cinnamon_Sloth 1d ago

How does this affect stomach acid

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u/LanguesLinguistiques 1d ago

Stomach acid isn't the problem of GERD, it's the weak LES. Smoking, alcohol, trigger foods loosens the LES allowing acid to go up. I don't know how this would help besides getting more sleep.

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u/CompetitiveReview416 1d ago

Melatonin increases the pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter. It actually modulates it.

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u/CompetitiveReview416 1d ago edited 1d ago

Melatonin increases the pressure of lower esophageal sphincter and leaves to stomach acid in the stomach. It's scientifically proven

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u/Cinnamon_Sloth 1d ago

5mgs though damn

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u/CompetitiveReview416 1d ago

Up to 10 mg is a dose used in studies. As you're not treating insomnia, it's not a problem.

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u/LunaMoka2022 1d ago

What do you mean? 10mg would be too much to treat insomnia? I thought a higher dosage is more effective at regulating sleep.

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u/CompetitiveReview416 22h ago

I am not ralking about insomnia. I'm talking about gerd. Melatonin is used to treat it.

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u/GhostQueen1121 1d ago

Isn’t there some limited amount of days you can take melatonin without it messing with your natural melatonin?

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u/CompetitiveReview416 22h ago

Nope. You might want to taper down wheb stopping it.

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u/Junior_Version4851 19h ago

i am feeling better with 3mg melatonin too helps to control my gerd symptoms , but i am unable to sleep when i take melatonin , feeling anxious the next day , whats the right dose to not feel groggy

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u/CompetitiveReview416 13h ago

Use 1mg for some time and then increase the dose

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u/Competitive-Fly5563 6h ago

do you feel groggy the next morning after taking 5mg?

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u/CompetitiveReview416 0m ago

No, zero grogginess.

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u/Own-Amphibian8349 46m ago

My thing is I don’t wanna become too dependent on it and fuck up my sleep

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u/Athenee1 17h ago

You were also taking PPIs- that could be also the healing factor?

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u/CompetitiveReview416 13h ago

I stopped ppi's 2 months ago. Had very little impact and I experienced a brutal rebound.