Same thing happened to me. I would fully wake up around 3 and not be able to go back to sleep. So far lavender baths help me rest the most.

Hey sweet thing. Your body naturally produces melatonin. It is not recommended by nutritional sources to take more than 10mg nightly. Drs may say different. The more melatonin you take, the less your body will produce on it's own. Try a time release 10MG and see if that will help you get a longer lasting result.

5am is to bad. You are up for the sunrise. You can stand out front and catch the morning paper as the paper "boy" throws it. I do that sometimes and it cracks them up! Thank goodness mine comes around 10am. Phew.

Love you, girly!♡♡

Agree with the above, check with your doctor, melatonin can be a funny one. Are you taking the tablets or the liquid?
I recently learned that the melatonin I had been taking was making my restless legs worse, it's a little known side effect of it, and my RLS has been off the charts in recent months. There is a time release capsule that would help keep you asleep longer if the melatonin is helping you, but maybe also start looking at some of the following that I recently learned from my sleep doctor:
- Are you watching TV or on a laptop before bed? Try finding some amber lenses to block blue light and wear them for at least 2 hours before bed, blue light blocks the body's natural circadian rhythm processes.
- Exercise earlier in the day, gentle exercise like going for a walk. Don't exercise right before bed.
- (From my own research) Certain foods are high in tryptophan, an amino acid which is converted to serotonin and eventually melatonin: Cheese, turkey, fish (shrimp are the highest I think), pumpkin seeds and legumes all contain high doses of tryptophan. The body cannot create the amino acid itself, we only get it through food, so have you stopped eating the above foods in your diet? There are probably others I've missed so maybe check it out on Google.
- Are you on a medication that is affecting your ability to sleep, ie. Tramadol or similar?
My body actually fights sleep, I can feel it, and my partner notices an almost seizure like phase that I go into every night before I successfully fall asleep. I was taking a whopper of a drug cocktail just to get a few hours of sleep not so long ago. Unfortunately it came down to my brain putting up a massive block against sleep that only meds were going to fix in the short term, I had gone so long without sleep that I was in a very bad way, so now I'm back on anti seizure meds (Neurontin). But I still use the amber lenses, eat cheese each day, and I still take a pain killer at night.
Good luck! I hope some of this helps.

I'm not sure. My bottle says 5 mg and when I took 2, it was taking me too long to go to sleep so I take 3. I get a max of 4 hrs smh

yes find an 24 hour pharmacy if you have one ! i don't mean anything by that ! it is just that i thought everyplace was like here around me and i am slowly finding out that it is not ! but yes sometimes the pharmacy knows more then the DR . of what is what ! love and peace with prayers always michele ! p.s i grew up the same way i thought every one lived like me , ! i did not know there was hungry people or people did not know how to read and this is the stupidest i did not know women went to jail or prison ! i was naive and sheltered ! except i did no what my father was doing was wrong ! anyways love to all you wonderful people I LOVE YOU ALL ! And thanks for no judgement always michele