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Kava Curious
Hello everyone, i just registered today and i would like to share my personal experience, but most of all to gather advice.
Long story short: i have been suffering from insomnia for two years during which the quality of my life lowered terribly.
I thought it was caused by depression, because i always woke up at 5 o' clock in the morning and i read that waking up at dawn is a sign of depression.
Anyway, take into account that, basically, i have always been an anxious kind of person so from time to time i believed that anxiety was somehow involved in my problem and that that too had an impact.
I tried many remedies because i am against benzos (i regard them as poisons and toxics for the body), and i noticed some kind of light relief only when i started taking hypericum perforatum. This fact enhanced my belief that depression was the cause of my insomnia.
Now my insomnia changed and i don't wake up at dawn anymore, i sleep eight hours but my sleep is never restorative so i wake up tired each day (this is probably due to the several awakenings i have during the night)
As for kava, unfortunately, i live in a country where kava is considered "not legal", and so it was quite difficult to get my hands on it but at last i found a shop where they imported kava from abroad so i managed to buy it.
The kind of kava i bought is this one:
http://www.lanaturals.com/item.php?item=1134211
The recommended quantity is 30 drops. Because i always want to start gradually, i took just 10 drops with water and then i went to bed.
I woke up after a couple of hours whilst experiencing a nightmare (i was driving a jeep trying to climb a steep mountain with it but the vehicle couldn't go on any further so it stopped in the middle of the ascent and i feared it was going to fall backwards).
I was hot (though i was not sweating) and i had to put off my pyjamas despite it's almost winter. I also felt a feeling in the stomach (though i would not call it a stomach ache) that lasted for a very brief time, it just felt like my stomach was in turmoil. My heart was beating faster.
I sat down and calmed me down. After twenty minutes i went back to sleep and i slept like a baby, i can frankly say that i had my best night in two years, since my insomnia problem began. I woke up at seven o'clock sleeping a total of eight hours. I felt fresh and energetic the whole day, something that has not happened to me in the last two years.
I was flabbergasted by the effect and i was almost moved to tears by the joy of having find the solution to my problem.
Now, the point is: in december i am going to be checked by a neurologist and she'll surely prescribe me sleeping pills or some benzos (also because i made an exam recently that highlighted i have more than ten awakenings during the night. I surely can't talk to her about kava, i doubt she knows what it is and she has faith only in the power of benzos (i know it, i already talked with her on another occasion when i explained her that i was trying to solve my problem with the help of ayurvedic medicine, and she was very skeptic).
Now, it seems that i am very sensitive to kava (i just took ten drops and they fixed almost "magically" my problem), i would like to ask if any of you tried or have opinions about the kind of kava i tried (LA naturals).
I do not know what it fixed in me,if its effect was on depression or on anxiety or both, but the result was amazing for me and i'd like to try again.
Long story short: i have been suffering from insomnia for two years during which the quality of my life lowered terribly.
I thought it was caused by depression, because i always woke up at 5 o' clock in the morning and i read that waking up at dawn is a sign of depression.
Anyway, take into account that, basically, i have always been an anxious kind of person so from time to time i believed that anxiety was somehow involved in my problem and that that too had an impact.
I tried many remedies because i am against benzos (i regard them as poisons and toxics for the body), and i noticed some kind of light relief only when i started taking hypericum perforatum. This fact enhanced my belief that depression was the cause of my insomnia.
Now my insomnia changed and i don't wake up at dawn anymore, i sleep eight hours but my sleep is never restorative so i wake up tired each day (this is probably due to the several awakenings i have during the night)
As for kava, unfortunately, i live in a country where kava is considered "not legal", and so it was quite difficult to get my hands on it but at last i found a shop where they imported kava from abroad so i managed to buy it.
The kind of kava i bought is this one:
http://www.lanaturals.com/item.php?item=1134211
The recommended quantity is 30 drops. Because i always want to start gradually, i took just 10 drops with water and then i went to bed.
I woke up after a couple of hours whilst experiencing a nightmare (i was driving a jeep trying to climb a steep mountain with it but the vehicle couldn't go on any further so it stopped in the middle of the ascent and i feared it was going to fall backwards).
I was hot (though i was not sweating) and i had to put off my pyjamas despite it's almost winter. I also felt a feeling in the stomach (though i would not call it a stomach ache) that lasted for a very brief time, it just felt like my stomach was in turmoil. My heart was beating faster.
I sat down and calmed me down. After twenty minutes i went back to sleep and i slept like a baby, i can frankly say that i had my best night in two years, since my insomnia problem began. I woke up at seven o'clock sleeping a total of eight hours. I felt fresh and energetic the whole day, something that has not happened to me in the last two years.
I was flabbergasted by the effect and i was almost moved to tears by the joy of having find the solution to my problem.
Now, the point is: in december i am going to be checked by a neurologist and she'll surely prescribe me sleeping pills or some benzos (also because i made an exam recently that highlighted i have more than ten awakenings during the night. I surely can't talk to her about kava, i doubt she knows what it is and she has faith only in the power of benzos (i know it, i already talked with her on another occasion when i explained her that i was trying to solve my problem with the help of ayurvedic medicine, and she was very skeptic).
Now, it seems that i am very sensitive to kava (i just took ten drops and they fixed almost "magically" my problem), i would like to ask if any of you tried or have opinions about the kind of kava i tried (LA naturals).
I do not know what it fixed in me,if its effect was on depression or on anxiety or both, but the result was amazing for me and i'd like to try again.
