Hi daddy's,
Sorry so late a reply. I've been lurking about with a camera to enter the plant of the month. The prizes are awesome this month! The only way to get the whole plant in the photo would be to cut and paste two pics. I went with the middle of the plant. Lol this is the monster i have been making all my hash from. She will last until next fall's harvest.
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Has your wife tried real hypnosis too? Does she have her own biofeedback machine or is it only in a clinic? Bi-polar sureley must be difficult to treat, especially without setting off the opposite effect. Even the wrong strain at the wrong time could make it all worse! I have been to hypnosis a few times for pain and sleep, but it is so expensive I can't get there on a regular basis and the treatment gets little chance ro work. I knew right away when I was hypnotized and recognized the feeling as exactly what happens when I brown out or black out. I a, convinced my mind and body go into self hypnosis on their own when my pain spikes are longer or more than I can bear. Maybe knowing this will help me prevent this happening in bad places... Like while driving or out of my house. I can feel it happening and have enough time to pull over or get to a safe spot and ask for help, but I can't control when the Isolde will stop, be it several days or several minutes. Anyway, it was an eye opener.
I have several brain wave apps, a white noise machine, and a few recordings the hypnosis guy made, an ex cop. Lol!! The one that worked the best was similar to the biofeedback. (which I've not had because it involves a $100 taxi fare several times a week to get there) the guy put these goggles on me with flashing lights while the headphones had an atonal pattern playing in rhythm behind a voice. That time, I was out like a light and unaware of what the voice was saying. I woke up with vertigo (normal) but found the pain unchanged and sleep just as difficult. For the first few months, the regular recordings worked for sleep. Now, they don't. The light machine is several thousand dollars to buy, out of my budget!
Is this anything like what your wife has tried? What side effects does she get? I'm not bi-polar, but am a believer in hypnosis. The sessions are $90 each. Ouch! The machine is only $25. I need to get there for that more often! I don't think it will do squat for pain control, but sleep and anxiety yes. Depression, see no changes. I look forward to trying past life and childhood. I bet there's all sorts of weirdness in both. Lol I wish I could afford a real psychiatrist that would do this, not just some retired cop with some fancy machines and the ability to keep his voice in the correct range and speak with the required emphasis and pauses for hypnosis. It's been facinating... Anyone could do this.
You have me hooked on these oils and tinctures. So, is there a difference between how an alcohol tincture and glycerine tincture works? I will make a tincture with vodka and heated hash now, you have me convinced i can deal with the alcohol taste long enough to mix it into a drink. Under the tongue would be so much better, but I can't stomach it that way.... Thus why I love this glycerine tincture.
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Have you heard anything about extracting the essential oils using an herbal oil distiller? There is a thread of how to use this to separate the alcohol from the oil in a tincture, but nothing about tossing some weed itself in the still. I would guess if it was possible, then people wouldn't be making hash oil with solvents and other methods, they'd just buy the $100 essential oil distiller.
I am hooked on this glycerine tincture I bought.... It's good stuff! I have been using it day and night, every time the pain gets to the point I'd normally take a pill. It is leaving me with few side effects. Last night, I found a great combo. I took one of my 1/4g hash pills (no oil this time) waited an hour, then took a dropper of tincture, fired up the volcano and took two bags. They vapes made me sleepy, tincture so I could lay in bed without the pain wherever my body touched the bed, and pill, enough relief to last most of the night. It was 6 hours before I woke and needed more tincture. I intend to replace the buds with hash in the volcano and make the pills better so I can add oil and not have it kick in 12 hours later.
I should have said this long agao, but forgot. The pain I am targeting is the breakthrough pain, the ones that my Fentanyl can't handle. Fentanyl is 100 times stronger than morphine and is amazing in a patch which eliminates the ups and downs of pill taking. I have little hope to ever replace this patch. It has made life livable! It's the hydromorphone (Dilauded) I am struggling to replace. This is what the tinctures, pills and cookies are for. The vaporizing is for the sleep and anxiety.
I guess I should give those firecrackers a try.... The edibles I have bought in dispensaries all taste like blockes of pure weed, horrid, not potent. Eating it quickly on a tiny cracker would be less offensive, of course I'll use hash too.
) How long was that in the microwave? I remember my first try of edibles, before ever looking anything up on the Internet. I tossed a few grams of buds into some cookie dough. They were useless and Impossible to dose. Individual crackers make more sense! Ty for reminding me.
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Thanks for all the great info! You don't know how wonderful it is to hear that at least ISO oil or hash carries all the terpenes and CBNs along with the THC. I still can't find squat on methods like dry ice hash, keif, or bubble hash... The methods made by first separating the trichs from the leaves, then processing. Are those terpenes and CBns only in the plant material, or are they part of the trichs too? I hope this makes sense... To me the answer is very Importent!!! ISO and solvents, budder and oil made from the buds of leaves should then carry all the same properties, as the extraction method deals with the entire leaf and bud, but just the trichs.
Ty for all the help.... I have a ton of new ideas to try. There's always more hope with more things to try.
Part of that may have been the bipolar before meds. Tonight it was run home and work on the truck It's pizza for dinner now. I'll be on tomorrow longer after trip #2 to the cardiologist.