l8tcandles# said:
Thank you so much for replying to me! would sleep medication or muscle relaxer medication affect this?
Sleep pills like melatonin are very dangerous. They change the chemical receptors in the brain, and make it very difficult to function normally. When the brain is flooded with synthetic chemicals that are not supposed to be there but they are used as hormones that go into receptors, the brain reacts by either building new receptors or getting rid of some of the ones that are there. And also by changing the amounts of multiple other hormones that the body makes. If the brain is flooded with too much melatonin, the likely reaction would be that it would destroy it's own melatonin receptors to make less of them, and also start producing less of its own melatonin because it thinks that it has too much already. Then whatever symptom you had of not enough melatonin like maybe not being able to sleep, it will be made very much worse. And this problem of messed up hormone balance and messed up number of receptors, and too much melatonin, this could cause the kinds of mental problems you described.
What is a muscle relaxer for? That is a very serious and strong kind of drug, it is not like a ibuprofen. A muscle relaxer might be fine in an emergency hospital if a doctor decides that it is best to use it and knows the exact amount to give, but I would be very afraid of somebody taking these pills home and having too much of them. What they do is paralyze the body so the brain is not able to tell the muscles when to contract. Which can cause you to fall on the ground and have no ability to move or get up. Or it can cause the heart and lungs to stop moving, which would cause death from lack of oxygen. Unless you have some kind of extremely rare and serious problem, almost all people should never end up eating a muscle relaxer pill in their whole lives.
If your muscles are too tight, there are ways to fix this that do not involve purposefully paralyzing yourself. Almost all people are deficient in the vitamin Magnesium. Magnesium is used in more than 500 different jobs in the body, and it is balanced against Calcium to create gradients that are used to move water between cells, and cause muscles to relax or contract. Also Potassium which balances in the same kind of way against Sodium, and is used for the same kind of thing. Too much sodium and calcium forces the muscles to contract too much and too tightly, and they require magnesium and potassium to allow them to relax.
But be careful and do not eat too much potassium at one time because it can cause the muscles to become too relaxed, similar to the muscle relaxer pill. A large enough dose of potassium at one time will stop the heart, and that is actually what is used in lethal injection executions.
You can buy Magnesium and Potassium supplements from any place that sells vitamins. Sometimes you can even get them together in one pill. And it will be measured in doses that are safe to take. And this will help your muscles to be relaxed. Also do yoga and stretching, a little while after you eat the vitamins when you can feel them starting to effect you. Yoga will help the muscles stretch and relax even more so that they will not go back to being as tight as they were before.