i'm attempting to stop taking beta blockers and not immediately get floored from POTS symptoms because they're making my asthma worse, right? well i took my meds a bit ago, sans beta blocker, and noticed my asthma start getting worse in a way Really Similar to when i take beta blockers. however this week i made handful of other medication changes, including adding melatonin to my meds for the week (bc 3 day weekend means i caught up on sleep and now i need to fix my sleep schedule). the other changes involved meds ive never had bad reactions to.
i have consistently had weird vaguely shitty reactions to melatonin - mainly being extremely dehydrated (more so than normal), and it just generally not actually helping me sleep sometimes, so i suspected it was maybe the culprit. and yesterday upon googling to see if my suspicion of sleep deprivation making asthma worse was founded (it is), i realized that non-24 might actually be part of why my asthma is getting worse. i'm forcing myself to operate on a 9-5 type schedule to go to classes for college 9 months of the year, which means i'm sleep deprived for most of that time. so given exogenous melatonin barely works for me, i googled to see if there's a connection between melatonin and asthma.
Asthma sufferers generally find their condition gets worse at night. Now researchers may understand why. Melatonin, a sleep hormone that is
melatonin conclusively makes asthma worse. well, shit. no wonder it doesn't fucking work, it's making my breathing worse which also makes it harder to sleep.
and no one fucking thought to tell me that you're not supposed to take melatonin with: beta blockers, corticosteroids, antidepressants, or immunosepressants? ALL OF WHICH I TAKE OR HAVE TAKEN IN THE PAST? i was on fludrocortisone AND betaxolol and when i was directed to take melatonin by a sleep specialist! what the hell!
