Marijuana

[monkeybus]

I have posted something similar to this before, but I'll expand on it slightly. I used to love smoking weed back in the day. Loved it, couldn't imagine life without it. I always saw the whole "medical marijuana" as just a cop out for people to get stoned.

Then I stopped for about 18 years. But the whole American decriminalisation thing was happening and really picking up towards the end.

Anyway, in 2017, I returned from a long stay in Singapore and just out of curiosity, I had another try on the damn dope. Made me sleepy, hardly enjoyable, I couldn't understand what I ever saw in it. But, it did 100% wipe out the neuropathy, and it dialed down the spasms from the usual 11 to a 3. For that alone, it was worth sucking down all that smoke,

Then I went to China, I am no fool, no dope for me over there.

But I flew to London in January and promptly got back on it. I took my time this time, played around with dosages, frequency, etc, and I have to say it's excellent. Far, far superior to gabapentin, and it wipes the floor with Benzo's.

Gets me really, really stoned though. So what? I watched two seasons of The Crown in as many days. Thoroughly enjoyable nonsense.

i have given a lot of thought as to why it works, and it could be a straight up medicinal action. Could be.

Or it might just twist up my mind so I just don't care about the pins and needles, achy legs, spasms, pain, et al.

Side effects. Better get used to them. At least with the Modafinil, it just gives me a dry mouth. Baclofen was like electric shocks running through my body, gabapentin gives me diarrhoea in hefty doses, Lyrica turns my legs to jelly, benzo's turn me into a zombie. All things considered, the side effects of dope aren't too bad.

Anyway, I'll be back in Singapore soon. No more wacky baccy for me. No desire to end up on the six o'clock news.

I tried some cheap CBD from Amazon a few years back, I might spring for some, more higher-end stuff. May be a decent compromise.

Dope is pretty mainstream in the MS community, but then there are so many people with that disease. No real consensus with AMN.

[tieaknot]

I am a middle age wife and mother who never liked weed when I tried it in college. Well maybe a little bit at a concert or watching a movie but I don’t like the feeling of being “out of it” in any way now. I rarely even have more than one glass of wine or a beer. Just saying that because I can 100% respond saying that the medical cannabis draw, for me at least, is not in any way related to wanting to get stoned.

At the beginning of this year I started getting desperate for some relief. 3 doctors had recommended I try it and I kinda laughed because I thought what you did...yeah...I’ll sit home stoned, unproductive, and eat chips while the kids are at school. Of course it will help pain...so will sitting around doing nothing I bet!

Enter in cannabis extracts from good dispensaries. High CBD levels. Low THC levels (some super low). The TCH helps the CBD effects and they work together and balance. The CBD oil I got years ago from an online store didn’t help so if you have access to medical formulations where you can see the CBD:THC levels and also I’m using ones with raw THCAand CBDA mixed in (supposed to be super antioxidants!)

I’ve been playing with dosages and ways to take it. I use one type in microdoses as drops under my tongue morning and night. That way, I don’t have any impairment of my mind and I can be functional. Another type at bedtime. Makes me a little sleepy. Took too much (actually the recommended dose) once and got a little dizzy. I’ve used a vape pen (again high CBD low THC) at the onset of a migraine aura or during one of them if really bad and then go to nap and wake up headache free! No other med has done that! (That one does make me a little “off” but so does the migraine so...maybe time will help the side effects...again I don’t like feeling even a little bit “stoned”... so I just try to sleep.I get very anxious but that is improving.

Here’s the amazing part...I have recovered some feeling in my legs since starting it! Temperature sensations are improved! I can feel the carpet with my toes! I can stand on my toes again!!! My balance is improving (I am practicing) and I think it’s due to better proprioception and sensation. The deep burning, gnawing neuropathies Pain and buzzing feelings have definitely lessened. I am having fewer migraine/auras. It has taken 2 months for me to really notice this. It wasn’t a “get high: pain goes away” kinda thing. I don’t seem to take enough to help my spasms in my back (from my neck down to my low back it’s miserable) or acute pain but maybe I will be able to work up to a higher dose without side effects as time goes by.

This nerdy housewife is a believer! 🤔😉

[monkeybus in reply to tieaknot]

"I’ll sit home stoned, unproductive, and eat chips while the kids are at school" - So far, so good.

It being illegal in the UK, I wouldn't have a clue where to get extracts, short of flying to America. What you said about migraines, I always suffered headaches, since I was a kid. Wake with a headache most mornings. from when I was 11, right up t now. I am convinced it is some neurological component of my AMN, though, as my wife is fond of telling me, I blame everything on AMN. A good point.

Anyway, they stop the days I smoke weed. Psilocybin and LSD, in sub-hallucinogenic doses have been shown to stop migraine and cluster headaches as well. I'd be fist in line if I was suffering regular migraines

Turning into a recreational-drugs-are-nothing-but-genuine-medicines thread, but, interestingly, when I was in Japan half a decade ago, tranquilisers aren't considered drugs of abuse out there. I was even prescribed Rohypnol one time. Doctors hand them out on demand, likely because most people there are just the right side of a nervous breakdown. And, in Russia, Baclofen is a highly abused drug. Haven't even got around to Saudi Arabia yet.

[Aaron98 in reply to monkeybus]

Cannabis was also recommended to me by a few of my doctors. THC edibles just made me incredibly paranoid, and didn't help with pain or spasms, that I noticed. Not a pleasant experience at all. I tried CBDPure, a 100% CBD extract, but it didn't do anything.

What brands of CBD have you tried, tieaknot?

[monkeybus in reply to Aaron98]

Aaron98 , did you try smoking it? Route of administration may well be a factor. Though, paranoia may well come as part of the whole game.

[LessThanRich in reply to monkeybus]

Vaping it* Smoking is bad.

[LessThanRich in reply to Aaron98]

I use a homemade tincture. I am still testing it, but I think it works..

[tieaknot]

Just wrote a really long reply...and it got deleted. Will try again later.

[Jamelle]

Smoking indica vape at night has a calming effect for both my legs and mind. It’s sedating so I just smoke in the evening. It seems to be a little helpful. The only side effect I’ve experienced are munchies.

[LessThanRich]

I make a propriety oxidised cannabis liquid which is about 80% less strong than weed, but all the medical benefits. Seems to work good, still testing...

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