Don't know what your sleep issues are... but I"ll be interested in hearing your experience. I am not menopausal (hopefully nowhere near, I'm 29), so I don't know if that website is geared towards me. However, I've been having terrible insomnia for the past few months that's connected to anxiety. It's been really disruptive to my life and to my studies. My doctor gave me a three week precription for Ambien. She gave me the weakest strength. It works ok, sometimes I still wake up at 3 and can't get back to sleep. The bigger problem is that a three week prescription isn't really going to do much for me, I'm either going to need to use it continuously for a while or find something that replaces it/does a better job addressing the root problem.

I've considered trying kava. Next time I see the doctor (next week) I'm going to see if she objects strongly to this.