Melatonin for 7 year old son

MCasD said:

my son is due to start melatonin as soon as I collect his prescription. I was just looking for some reassuring advice as I am terrified of giving him a form of medication even tho I know it is naturaly produced in our body already. I'm scared of side effects or not noticing side effect quickly or that somehow in some way it will change my little boy (it's crazy I know coz it only helps him sleep) His father is against all Meds so I havent even told him yet & am trying to find a way to break it to him & stand confident that my son is safe taking it.

please share your stories. Thank you.

We are in the same boat as you were and wondered how you are getting on?? 

Our son who is nearly 7 has just started on Melatonin this weekend. Unfortunately for us he is not very good at taking medication as will only have white medicine that tastes nice. He has previously been on tablets for bed wetting but we had to give up with them as he kept finding it in whatever we hid it in after crushing them.  We have been prescribed Circadin and are yet again having difficulty administering it to him. We unfortunately have to crush it to try and hide it but this then turns it into immediate release instead of the slow release he really needs. He has problems falling asleep and to be fair it has worked as he falls asleep really easy with it but as it is crushed it wears off after about 3hrs so he then wakes up and we're back to him being awake until the early hours but at least he has had an extra 3hrs sleep at this point. Meaning he wakes up a lot better than without it. 

We are definitely going to perservere with it as we can definitely see a difference already.

MCasD said:

my son is due to start melatonin as soon as I collect his prescription. I was just looking for some reassuring advice as I am terrified of giving him a form of medication even tho I know it is naturaly produced in our body already. I'm scared of side effects or not noticing side effect quickly or that somehow in some way it will change my little boy (it's crazy I know coz it only helps him sleep) His father is against all Meds so I havent even told him yet & am trying to find a way to break it to him & stand confident that my son is safe taking it.

please share your stories. Thank you.

We are in the same boat as you were and wondered how you are getting on?? 

Our son who is nearly 7 has just started on Melatonin this weekend. Unfortunately for us he is not very good at taking medication as will only have white medicine that tastes nice. He has previously been on tablets for bed wetting but we had to give up with them as he kept finding it in whatever we hid it in after crushing them.  We have been prescribed Circadin and are yet again having difficulty administering it to him. We unfortunately have to crush it to try and hide it but this then turns it into immediate release instead of the slow release he really needs. He has problems falling asleep and to be fair it has worked as he falls asleep really easy with it but as it is crushed it wears off after about 3hrs so he then wakes up and we're back to him being awake until the early hours but at least he has had an extra 3hrs sleep at this point. Meaning he wakes up a lot better than without it. 

We are definitely going to perservere with it as we can definitely see a difference already.