Wake up everyone and before you do anything else smoke some really strong pot and see what it does for you. I don't know about any of these other products and I don't know if pot eases other people's pain. My drug contract keeps me away from it and oh yea, I do have just one lung so smoking msy not be the best way to go. I'd love to go to Colorado and try some edibles perhaps. they actually classify marijuana in the same group of illegal drugs as heroin. What a joke. It's the culture wars still going on from the 60s. The guys who fund the four Martini lunch want to make sure that you don't have the one joint dinner.

Before moving to Texas about 8=months ago I had been using the oil for about 3 yrs. Did not need any pain meds at all. My blood pressure was perfect. My sleep pattern great. I had energy to spare. I had along with my Dr, removed nearly all of my heart drugs. My Dr who is a full on MD signed me up for the Marijuana oil. Since moving back to Texas, I am back on heart drugs and anti depressants. Come on Texas get with it.

@cognac, here is also a discussion that centers around chronic pain and medical marijuana. There may be some posts in this discussion you may find useful, https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/chronic-pain-2bd75e/.

@gailb, Where do you buy your oil? On-line? Amazon.com? Health Food or Natural Herb stores? Regular pharmacies? Thanks.

@cognac Hi there, If you are talking about the tincture that you can either put under your tongue or in a cup of tea, then these come in a relative ratio of CBD to THC. I currently use 3:1. A dropper full for me is 75 mg. You can also get it 4:1. There may even be more options. After using tinctures in morning coffee for a couple of years, I have been using tinctures sublingually for a only a few months, but so far, I am pleased with them for both anxiety and pain control. I may move up to 4:1 and try less in the dropper. I take all of this experimentation very carefully just as I would conventional RX.

@cognac

Sorry it's taken so long to respond to your question. I just now saw it. My husband gets my CBD and THC from a dispensary here in southern California, where both are legal. He uses THC vaping for pain. I use tincture only. It's not cheap, but they work. I also like the CBD Living Water @$5 a 16 oz. bottle, which is 2 doses. The CBD water makes the effects immediately available in your body. Very mild.

GailB
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Lucky guy. Tell him I'll be over in 30 minutes for a little vaping.

@wsh66 LOL. Yes, my husband is a lucky man. We lived for 20 years in rural Missouri where we owned and operated a bed & breakfast inn, and for awhile we also had a restaurant and a miniature horse ranch. There was a lot of physical work involved with all of those things, and we were both were office (brain) workers before moving to Missouri. Needless to say, we were unprepared for the demands on our bodies. I was carrying trays of food with plates for up to 6 people and bent over washing dishes for hours in commercial sinks that were too low for my height. My back hurt so badly all the time, but I kept going anyway because I had to. This was our only source of income and we barely broke even. Taking care of the horses was another hard time. I was living alone on the farm for nearly a year before my husband could join me. The 20 acre farm plus 16 miniatures, 3 quarter horses and 20 chickens took their toll on me.

A year and 1/2 ago I had a laminectomy for my L5-S1 disk that was impinging on my spinal cord, due to acute pain and needing a wheelchair. The outpatient surgery eliminated my left side pain, but the right side was still debilitating. My surgeon said the L4 pain relief would require rods and pins, so he recommended that I try everything else first. I tried all the usual things, PT, massage, acupuncture, exercise (when I could). Then I read about ART, Active Release Technique, on this Connect site. I researched it and found a qualified chiropractor locally. Dr. Todd Andrews said it would take 6 sessions, 2 per week for 3 weeks to work on the muscles and nerves that were bound together. He was right, and to my complete amazement, I was pretty much pain free at that point. I can walk, climb stairs, swim, and do pretty much anything I want without back pain now. I continued to go for monthly sessions for a year. He worked on my shoulder pain during that time as well. Since returning from my vacation, I haven't needed a session. I do still have some pain at night, but it doesn't keep me awake and it's tolerable. I am very careful not to do things that will reinjure my back now. When my osteoarthritis pain gets to me, I use the CBD or THC tincture. My husband uses it daily for his arthritis pain, but he won't go to the doctor about the pain. He's right as they will just tell him to take Tylenol or Ibuprofen, which he already does. He does OK with the THC, but it's too powerful for me.

I really hope you are able to use CBD, as it's accepted in nearly all states now. I may have said before that it also helped me withdraw from Tramadol 50 mg. I was able to handle the withdrawal symptoms when they got bad, by using 6 mg of CBD oil subliminally 3 times a day.

Gail
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