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The general consensus around here is that kava helps people sleep. I'm just wondering if anyone else finds they don't sleep as well when taking kava?
Even when I tried more sedating strains (Boroguru, Mahakea) I found my sleep was interrupted. I've never been a great sleeper, and usually take medication before bed. I've been on the medication for so long that I can't really sleep without it. But on nights where I drink kava, I don't want to mix it with psych meds, so depending on how affected by the kava I am, I will go to sleep without it, but then wake up a couple of hours later and be wide awake.
For example, I drank too much kava last night and was feeling sick, so I didn't risk taking sedating medication on top of that. I probably went to bed around midnight, and was wide awake at 3 AM. I took my usual dose of medication then, and slept for a few more hours.
It reminds me of the interrupted sleep I got when I was drinking alcohol heavily. I found alcohol to be a huge depressant. That's one of the reasons why I stopped drinking it, and I'm prone to depression, but today I'm kind of feeling the same sort of depressant effect, which worries me. I'm guessing it's lack of sleep. I'm just feeling generally dissatisfied and angst-ridden. Things in my life are going well, I have no reason to feel dissatisfied, but there's a big theatre festival in town right now and all I can think of is how I'm not a part of it (which must mean I suck) but in reality I just landed a job as a music director and am in charge of writing music for a show at my university, which is pretty big, not to mention PAID while the current theatre festival is volunteer.
I know the sour mood must be from lack of sleep, but it's disconcertingly close to how alcohol felt for me, minus the other hangover symptoms. Maybe I just shouldn't go so hard on the kava, and maybe stop a few hours before bedtime so I can take my usual medication.
Does anyone else find that kava DOESN'T help them sleep? I think I'm going to take a night off and try to get some decent sleep tonight.
Even when I tried more sedating strains (Boroguru, Mahakea) I found my sleep was interrupted. I've never been a great sleeper, and usually take medication before bed. I've been on the medication for so long that I can't really sleep without it. But on nights where I drink kava, I don't want to mix it with psych meds, so depending on how affected by the kava I am, I will go to sleep without it, but then wake up a couple of hours later and be wide awake.
For example, I drank too much kava last night and was feeling sick, so I didn't risk taking sedating medication on top of that. I probably went to bed around midnight, and was wide awake at 3 AM. I took my usual dose of medication then, and slept for a few more hours.
It reminds me of the interrupted sleep I got when I was drinking alcohol heavily. I found alcohol to be a huge depressant. That's one of the reasons why I stopped drinking it, and I'm prone to depression, but today I'm kind of feeling the same sort of depressant effect, which worries me. I'm guessing it's lack of sleep. I'm just feeling generally dissatisfied and angst-ridden. Things in my life are going well, I have no reason to feel dissatisfied, but there's a big theatre festival in town right now and all I can think of is how I'm not a part of it (which must mean I suck) but in reality I just landed a job as a music director and am in charge of writing music for a show at my university, which is pretty big, not to mention PAID while the current theatre festival is volunteer.
I know the sour mood must be from lack of sleep, but it's disconcertingly close to how alcohol felt for me, minus the other hangover symptoms. Maybe I just shouldn't go so hard on the kava, and maybe stop a few hours before bedtime so I can take my usual medication.
Does anyone else find that kava DOESN'T help them sleep? I think I'm going to take a night off and try to get some decent sleep tonight.
