Well, sort of familiar with it. I have tried it but didn't have much luck but I will admit it was a limited trial and perhaps I needed to simply take higher dose.
Also a very limited trial with real marijuana in an extremely low dose....went to visit my daughter in Las Vegas a while back where recreational use is legal but I couldn't see it helped and I had some unwanted side effects from it so didn't really pursue it further. I am in Missouri which supposedly legalized medical use but while I could probably get a doctor to okay it for me...not sure I want to go down that road. It doubled my pulse rate and that was really uncomfortable for me and that was with the smallest dose the store in Vegas sold. Other stores might have had an even lower dose available as an edible but with covid I haven't been back to Vegas to maybe try an edible small dose....and not yet available here in Missouri legally.
CBD oil also seemed to increase my pulse rate at the relatively low dose I was trying. Not a comfortable feeling for me which made me not in a hurry to try more higher dose.
Now I have heard that it really helps a lot of people and just because it didn't seem to help me doesn't mean I will pooh pooh it off for others. Remember I know the cause of my poor sleep...it's pain...pure and simple pain and treating pain with CBD oil or real marijuana....is different from treating poor sleep in general.
I actually think anything that is legal is fair game to try to help us sleep.
I will admit to having a CBD oil discussion with a friend just a few days ago. I was thinking about another trial but was still in the thinking stage about it because I know I would have to up the dose which I have been afraid would also increase the pulse rate issues I had with the prior experiment with it.
Since the pain issues also affect my activities of daily living while awake and not just my sleep quality I prefer to try to address the root cause if at all possible. Hence my journey through various pain management options and a new one on the horizon. Your situation is a bit different than mine. You don't know your root cause and you may never know for sure.
Bad sleep is a bitch because it is so hard to figure out the root cause and deal with the root of the problem.
If you decide to try CBD oil be aware it isn't a quick experiment as you will have to probably try various doses and give it time. Also be aware that from my past research when I did try it that the CBD oil market isn't really regulated for quality control and consistency so research the company you are thinking about buying from for quality controls. Cheaper isn't always better deal and CBD oil gets very pricey. The higher the dose the more it costs.
If you personally know someone who uses CBD oil...start with them for which manufacturer is more trusted. People who swear by CBD oil are more likely to know who is a good manufacturer to buy from and who to avoid.
The RX sleep aid you have available....I don't like that sort of thing for chronic long term use because of potential for addictive properties causing even more problems. Short term random use doesn't scare me but it's not something I would want to take every night. I would save it for what I call emergency use only and only if it really helped which it doesn't sound like with you it does unless we find that with the changes to the cpap therapy it ends up working better for you.
If it does....I do think that maybe a chat with your doctor is in order about RX meds because there are other meds that are less addictive that might be a better choice for long term use.
I am currently trialing one of the newer sleep RX drugs right now that targets people like me with more problems staying asleep. I fall asleep quickly most nights but after my pain pill wears off in 3 to 4 hours is when I start having problems.
It is called Belsomra here in the US...VERY expensive if someone doesn't have insurance and even with insurance paying the bulk of it my cost is $47 a month. Not supposed to have all the addictive properties of other sleep aids but it isn't going to be something to make a huge difference in time slept. It won't make a 4 hour night into a 7 hour night. So far the jury is still out on it since I really have been on it only about 3 weeks. Overall at this point though...very modest help but at this point modest is better than none.
And a bigger plus...no unwanted daytime side effects with its use.An important thing to always consider when taking any sleep aid is the baggage it comes with....potential side effects.
In addition to potential addictive properties of a lot of those kinds of meds they come with unwanted daytime symptoms...hangover effect I call them. Daytime fatigue, drowsiness, foggy feeling, etc...and the half life of a lot of those meds is quite prolonged in many of them.
I always heavily research anything I try...be it medications or procedures. Nothing is perfect and everything has baggage...we just have to decide if the baggage is worth it or not.
Be it meds, or OTC stuff or therapies like cpap or off the wall stuff like CBD oil and if legal even marijuana.
Nothing is ever perfect and we just have to look at the risk vs rewards for everything.
And we have to have realistic expectations which is really hard sometimes. We all want an immediate fix with anything and sometimes life doesn't give us immediate...heck, most of the time it doesn't.
We expect medical care to be 100% fix and immediate and we don't have a lot of patience when it doesn't happen.
I see it all the time here with people complaining that cpap didn't immediately fix their problem.
"I have have been on cpap a week and it hasn't fixed my problem"
They want cpap to make them into superman or superwoman overnight. Can't say as I blame them for wanting but they need to accept the reality that often it simply is much more complicated than that. Often people are taking medications that cause unwanted daytime symptoms that they expected cpap to take away.
Often they say they are getting 4 to 5 hours of sleep on cpap and they still feel like crap....well duh...not enough sleep for one thing. Often people are like you...they probably had sleep quality issues that are unrelated to the airway that the best cpap therapy in the world isn't ever going to fix. .....but they sure expected cpap to fix it.
As for your giving CBD oil a try...IMHO anything is fair game to try. Will it help? Dunno that answer unless you try it.
It does involve a lot of experimenting with dosage though...so a huge dose of the "patience" pill will be needed.
