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Does CBD oil help you with your depression and/or anxiety?
I am curious to know if anyone has had success with CBD or Hemp oil helping with depression/anxiety? I’ve been reading a lot about it and am curious.
I've been reading about this and am very interested but would like thoughts/opinions from anyone who has actually tried it or knows someone who has. TIA
Thank you,
Laura
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Thanks much ! Did you start out with a drop or two and build up ?
Taper off any meds you choose to, just don’t go cold turkey. I just got off Ativan and Seroquel and am using CBD tincture from Lazarus which I ordered. I suffer from severe panic and extreme daily anxiety. This is helping me a great deal and I am so far just using a 1/4 dropper which I am sure I will have to increase in time. I think you should at least give it a try. You can order a small bottle as it can be costly
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1 ReactionI started with 5mg gummies once a day for about 10 days, then did 10mg once a day for about 1 week, then jumped to 25mg capsules once a day, now up to 50mg once a day. I choose this over liquid because I have heard that some, not all, taste terrible and this is more convenient for me. But yes you start low and build up.
I started with a few drops, I also started with Charlottes Web Hem Oil and it helped. I think the Lazarus CBD oil will work better for me, at least I am hoping. I’ve been suffering with this for 7 months now since withdrawing from a Lyrica. I’m also thinking of vaping the oil as it works much faster. Good luck in your adventure I think it’s worth a try. So many prescription drugs out there that control you as I found that out coming off Lyrica
Hi there. Do you think that coming off Lyrica is about like coming off Gabapentin? I have been as high as 3600 mg of Gabapentin, and I can't seem to get below 1600 without getting anxious and depressed with extreme insomnia. Thanks.
Thank you very much !
Well, the CBD did help. For now it is not a possibility. Back to battling harder for now. In that thought mode that trying it may not have been the thing to do. At least no nasty withdrawal physically. Kind of bummed knowing it did help. Mayhap ignorance is bliss. It wasn’t a high rather that black cloud was more of a gray. Not feeling sorry for myself nor am I in one of those seemingly intolerable funks. Relieved to know there is something that can help with no of the wretched side effects.
I think my brain was beginning to learn how not to be as depressed so I will continue on reminding my mind it can feel better either way. 🙂
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1 ReactionDid this work well for you?
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1 ReactionMay I ask why you stopped the CBD oil if it worked?
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1 ReactionI do think it’s very much alike. I had to do a slow withdrawal from Lyrica. I started last October and finally took my last dose in March. It did a number on my, severe anxiety, spdepression and agorphia. I lost 33 lbs but only weighed 128, so I am in my 90’s now and I don’t love me my look. I was in the ER for dehydration and severe nause, IV and nausea medication given which. Still take when I can’t stand food. I was on 300 mg BID for 5 years and decided to stop it because I lost 6 teeth, my implants have not been cheap! So your tapering is showing me the same as I went through and still am. Therapist says it can take up to two years before you start feeling better. Tr7st. E I’ve thought man6 times I don’t want to live like this especially when I have an awful day which are more then not