Well 0.89 mcg is a lot smaller than 100 mcg, that would make the 1 mg melatonin an even worse overdose. Ouch.
I also feel your pain about that situation. I met some woman in a drug store last year, she mistook me for an employee and asked me what the best melatonin is ... and long story short, she's been dosing her 17 year old son 12 mg nightly after reading some book by some celebrity doctor, and found a local doctor who will tell her whatever she wants to hear. She got took it very personally when I pointed out that the brand she thought was awesome was actually bullshit, and became argumentative when I suggested some Natrol 3 mg sublingual instead (only because it was the least offensive melatonin product in the store), asked me what books I've written lately and what my educational background was, other lulzy stuff. When I told her, she changed the subject.
Anyway eventually I talked her down and into getting the Natrol instead of that other awful megadose thing (I forgot what brand). But I couldn't get her to agree to give him only one or half of one, she wanted to give him two. Because apparently he has a "melatonin deficiency," of course diagnosed without any clinical testing. So she tells me he's gained all this weight, he has no energy, he broke out in terrible acne (after the melatonin, not just because of puberty), he's so depressed, he's failing out of high school, has a "glutamate allergy" (I literally had to turn away when she said that because I couldn't keep a straight face), and had to be on a high-protein diet because carbs are the devil, and the doc put him on an antipsychotic and antidepressant.
All that shit, after the melatonin supplements (which I bet started when that low-carb diet fucked up his sleep and probably mental state, academic performance too). But she was up on that religious high-horse people can get on with their diets and lifestyles, and her idols could do no wrong.
I wanted to put my foot up her ass. Fucking hysterical, narcissistic cunt. Amen to that, brother.
Edited by Duchykins, 06 August 2015 - 04:02 AM.