Oh no, this is NOT a cancer thread.
This is a chronic illness, healing from most issues thread.
Please keep posting. ...
For your issues,
My opinion would be to use a topical ointment, salve, tincture to stop the chronic pain as well as dosing with the oil.
If you need a recipe for a topical application, let us know.
I'm dealing with much the same issues as cvhovey.
Advanced degenerative disk, bone spurs, fractured vertabrae... all that fun old fart stuff (-:
I've been smoking high CBD, Indica dominant strains (anxiety is me middle name) and up to this point the most benefit I've gotten has been a good nights sleep.
No complaint with that mind, but I am hoping to realize functional relief during the day....
Thanks
cajuncelt ... and I sure hear ya
olderthandirt. Let me see if I can condense my 'fun old fart stuff' into 25 words or less ... nah, lets try for 25 pages or less.:
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Advanced degenerative disk, LOTS of bone spurs, severe disc hernia et al did their stuff for around 7 years until I could get a medical practitioner to believe there was a problem with my back and then do some x-rays that figuratively dropped their jaw as to how bad things were. Surgery 'fixed' the severe disc hernia and follow-up surgery was done from L2 down to S1 to deal with many bone spurs that were pinching nerves. By that point, tho, lots of nerve damage was done, so add in neuropathic pain.
Obviously I don't want to rely upon the opiate + muscle relaxant + anti-inflammatory mix of meds. The fine print on some of that stuff includes
sudden death from either heart attack or stomach/intestinal perforation. Yeah ... NOT!
Topicals so far have been of
limited benefit even when I make my own. A SPECT scan done recently showed my lumbar spine looking much like some raging beach bonfires during (college) Spring break. [SPECT scan: nuclear imaging to create 3D image with radioactive tracer gravitating to 'hot spots'.] Some of my worst spots are on the interior side of the spine, not readily accessible to topicals.
Although some of the tinctures, coconut oil canna-caps or e-cig vape 'juice' I make help a bit, they are of shorter duration than RSO. Everything else I've tried to date I've gotten about 4-5 hrs max sleep before pain makes it impossible to sleep more. Fortunately a (CBD?) 'Critical Mass' RSO I recently got from a dispensary (THC 67 / CBD 24) shows promise for a FULL night of sleep. So I'm going to be (legally) growing some similar Indica dominant strains / CBD Indica to make my own nighttime RSO.
However, daytime I'm still trying to find something that works. One perk of old fart-hood is not having to clock into a job or be concerned about drug testing. Yet I still want to be out-and-about daytime without acting like I was whiffing laughing gas or something. A Cannatonic RSO (THC 36 / CBD 43) that I thought would give pain relief daytime seems to make me tense/anxious so instead of getting pain relief, my back ends up hurting a little more from this RSO. And I agonizingly wait for the unpleasant affects to wear off over a span of around 8+ hours. Similarly a "Sativa" RSO (unknown strain at THC 85 / CBD 0.3) isn't much different than the Cannatonic.
If I can find some strain(s) that work for daytime use without mind-bending, couchlock, increasing my blood pressure (already on b/p meds) or increasing anxiety/tension, that would be great. Then I'd grow a couple of those strains ... but right now I'm batting 0.00 when it comes to daytime choices. "Advice" from dispensaries is about useless since all the suggestions I've gotten to date are based on what they have on their shelves if they even have any clue at all (or just what is most profitable to them).
Any suggestions for daytime choices considering the above?
