I've begun taking a small amount of CBD in the form of an edible a few hours before going to bed (a quarter of a 5 mg gummy), and I have minimal sleep issues now.
I don't think either of us have insomnia. Both of us do have other mostly-managed health issues that occasionally cause us to stay up with racing thoughts, but the two phenomena aren't really associated with each other. (Also, I think it happens to my partner more because they use unfiltered screens late at night. If I accidentally use a device without blue light filtering it's much more likely for me to be unable to fall asleep. So not "real" insomnia.)
If it doesn't help, you're out twenty bucks, if it does it could literally add years to your life.
> “Rhinomed Mute” Snore Stopper Nasal Dilator for Snore Reduction
For my spouse I highlighted the cracked windows and the house shifted on it's foundation. I tried using circles under everyone's eyes but she insisted those were from food allergies.
Have you ever been evaluated for sleep apnea? That's how it used to feel to me: I would feel like it took me 45-minutes to an hour to fall asleep.
Once I started using a CPAP, I fell asleep almost instantly.
I'd like to but that much money doesn't live in my pocket. It's on the list of stuff I hope for >62.
US
> but any country with public healthcare (most of the first world)
You may not be familiar with US healthcare but the US both does and doesn't have public healthcare. It generally depends on which political party dominates the state gov.
> you [someone else] can do a sleep study free or low copayment.
How nice!
> A basic CPAP you can usually rent,
Not without a Rx.
> and you can switch off call home functions on all the ones I've seen.
That's cool but we're talking about something different - collecting data not blocking it. Specifically, the data collected by CPAP that's used to lower AHI.
CPAP makers like ResMed lock their data behind proprietary formats. The software that can read proprietary CPAP data is federally limited to Drs.
For YEARS I've wondered why I get a buzz from CBD, when it's "not psychoactive".
It's incredibly affirming to know I'm not the only one.
As for flower, I feel "full" while others have more, although I'll feel like more before they do (as they've had like half as much again as me).
The big thing is different ppl seem to have different sensitivities to different cannabinoids. This probably means something about the relative densities of CB1 vs CB2 receptors
I've long considered manufacturing and selling something that does that, but I think the homeopathists have the market sewn up.
Similar to CBD, IIRC, one would have to take very large amounts of CBD to produce any statistically significant effect on one's sleep, and CBD gummies are not the most bioavailable CBD there is.
My guess is it's placebo rather than anything else.
This has been my experience with melatonin too.
I usually wake up after 3-4 hours and find it hard to get back to sleep after. I have no issues getting to sleep the first time.
Taking melatonin in the evening before I sleep (even a high dose of a few mg) doesn't affect whether I wake up, but if I take it immediately after I wake up, it helps me to fall asleep again for the rest of the night.
My sleep issues seem to be caused by stress, so maybe CBD would be good for me.
Seems to be RCTs that dispute that?
A 1.25mg dose of CBD is essentially homeopathic levels. Either you're confused on the dosage or experiencing a placebo effect.
And if that effect were satisfactory, as it sounds, why would that matter?
Would you even know if it was a psychogenic remedy to what was probably a psychogenic malady in the first place, rather than a peculiar, individual sensitivity that just hasn't been identified in the sparse research on CBD? (You would not)
Where is this number from?
This one too.
Homeopathic levels are a vanishingly small chance of their being a single molecule of the notional ingredient in a dose. 1.25mg is not even remotely “essentially homeopathic”.
1/4 "serving size" (if you will) isn't homeopathic, ~~and aligns pretty closely with the recommended dose of the only FDA approved CBD medication~~ (see edit below):
> Increase in weekly increments of 5 mg/kg/day (2.5 mg/kg twice daily).
Edit: I'm dumb and mixing mg and mg/kg. This would be 400mg/day for an average adult. Still not homeopathic.
https://www.epidiolexhcp.com/dosing/dosing-and-administratio...
Though the ~~recommended dose~~ (again, see edit below) for various activities does vary wildly:
> post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): 1.5 mg
> difficulty sleeping: 300 mg
Edit: Turns out that's just the dosage that was administered during one of the studies, not necessarily the recommended treatment dosage.
> Despite these early findings and data from two case reports in which CBD improved sleep quality in a single pediatric patient with PTSD and four patients with Parkinson’s disease, we identified only one randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, study with sleep as the primary outcome measure. In this trial, 27 healthy volunteers received either oral CBD (300 mg dissolved in corn oil) or placebo. CBD did not alter any sleep measures (e.g., self-rated sleep quality or polysomnography examinations) relative to placebo.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7880228/
We really need better studies of this stuff...