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Does medical marijuana work for chronic pain?
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Chris, I just wanted to thank you, belatedly, for your incredibly helpful and equally inspiring message. Thank you for sharing your routine and experience. I especially loved hearing about semi-adopting those girls. 🙂 Your story helped me feel less alone on the path of navigating lifelong chronic pain.
I had one last question about your dosage experience. You mentioned having to increase your dosing from a half to a full eyedropper, but would you be able to share the increase in the actual milligrams of active ingredients? It should be on the label of the tincture.
To answer the last question on the list, I've been using a 50 mg CBG tincture, Lazarus Naturals, which is THC free. It really does help my pain, but I really do have a terrible rebound reaction when I stop taking it or try to taper down.
For example, it really helps the GI nerve pain that was interfering with sleep, but what used to be 3-4 level back pain goes up to 6-7 when I stop or taper down. I had hoped to take it intermittently, but it seems like that's not going to work for me. But I may still choose to take it all the time, because nothing else helps the GI pain. Still working it all out!
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@erin123 -
I totally appreciate the desire to take less medication; I smoke a lot of cannabis, mostly due to pain (including GI pain!) and anxiety. I watch the research that's coming out now about cannabis, and so far it seems to me that most negative stuff is old and/or clearly not based on science.
So far, they have not found any correlations that I can find between cannabis and early mortality or disease.
Cannabis is a tricky one, because doctors don't know much (a result of the federal ban on researching it, , but I know people who have been using cannabis for 50 years and are doing just fine. So, it's just tricky.
Google "CBG NIH." There is an interesting paper from 2021 that came back from my search results. I'm not sure I buy the assertion that "natural" CBG doesn't work like synthetic CBG - sounds like pharmaceutical positioning to me, so I'm skeptical!
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Hi there @erin123, good morning. You just "made" my day,, my month, and my year! And you are correct,we are both on the path of navigating lifelong chronic pain. It is an amazing mental challenge as well as a physical struggle, I have the eye dropper in my hand, and here is what it says: a full dropper is 1 ML which is CBD: 16 mg and THC: 8 mg. Does that help?
The following MLs are shown on the dropper....25ML (1/4 dropper), 50ML (1/2) dropper, 75 ML (3/4) dropper, and then 1 ML (full dropper). And to make it easy, I take two droppers at 50ML because it is difficult to fill the dropper completely. When I first started I used strains and the young man at the little dispensary recommended Indica. He was my very kind "teacher". Guess you can tell I never played with marijuana in high school. Who did that in the '50s? Not me, especially when my Dad was a principal and superintendent in the district. He used to remind me not to do anything that put his name on the front page of the newspaper.
I have spent a great deal of time trying to sort this all out. It used to be that 25ML of 1:1 CBD/THC would do me in and I would have to sleep it off. My tolerance has increased evidently. Just be careful and go up the dropper slowly. I don't want to waste my pain-free time sleeping. So that shows you how our bodies accommodate the product. I have been working on this for 10 years. Finding the balance point is always a challenge. What site or sites do you use for information?
Please stay in touch.......
May you have happiness and the causes of happiness.
Chris