I'm not trying to be critical. It's just melatonin is supposed to be taken in sync with your body cycles when your body produces it naturally. So taking it at the same time a day is important but it really more important to use it with a more natural sleep cycle. It's better to do what you do than to take it at 5 PM one night at 8 another and 10 another but it's just ideally taken consistently at the time your body is producing melatonin which is determined by daylight hours (I think. Or something else that signals it is night). It's just not meant to be a sleeping pill. If it works for you that way it may be just fine but it may also throw your body off in other ways. The reason you need so much may be because it isn't in timing with your body's melatonin. I don't know; I just know my pdoc told e that 5 mg taken at some specific time (I don't remember as I never wound up taking it) would work.


It's ok to tell your doctor. They aren't going to get mad at you. They just need to know so they can best treat you. I don't know much about taking artificial hormones but I imagine keeping them in sync with natural ones would help make it most effective.