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Does medical marijuana work for chronic pain?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Apr 8 10:05am | Replies (640)Comment receiving replies
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
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Thank you, Chris--very helpful! I have to use the full 1ml dose of CBG for effect, which is 50 mg, so it seems much higher than your CBD and THC dose. But they really are different substances, so that may be why?
I'm still pretty new to the field (and with no experience prior to these last few months). I don't really have a specific site that I go to for information; I searched widely for what research I could find on CBG after learning about it from one of these discussion boards for nerve pain. I tried it out of desperation and was surprised by how effective it was.
I'm still really curious about how it works and what it says about the sources of my pain, that it resolves some as it does (GI, larynx, pelvic floor) but not others (back, shoulder, feet). I guess the first set are more nerve pain related, and the second set are more mechanical. But it all comes down to pain messages carried by nerves, so I don't really fully understand... just grateful for some relief.
Happiness to you as well, and everyone else on the journey!