Pain

Pain sucks – but the positive part with cannabinoids is at least you clearly know if its working. Unlike some other conditions like neurodegeneration, it’s easy to know if they’re effective because you either feel better or you do not.

As always, the advice with cannabinoids is start low and go slow. Let your body get used to the cannabinoids, let your endocannabinoid system get charged up & make sure they agree with you. But after that, don’t be afraid to go high & fly.

Take 5 or 10 milligrams of CBD a day in a full spectrum hemp extract for a few days. Any of the normal ingestion methods like oil, gummies or capsules are fine & work about the same.
(I recommend the products from CV Sciences because I worked there & I know they have high-quality products. Whoever you buy from, make sure they have third-party testing results for every batch. It’s a jungle out there & testing is the only thing you can trust)

If that low level of CBD doesn’t give you the relief you’re looking for, every four days, double the amount you are taking. Some people find the sweet spot at 20 mg a day while for others, they might need 100 or 200 mg a day. It’s safe to take that much & the main side effects to watch out for are upset stomach, insomnia or psychoactivity from the small levels of THC in hemp. If you experience any of these, lower the amount you take below where you feel those side effects. (CV Sciences has Max Strength Capsules that make it easy to take 50 mg at a time)

During these CBD experiments, you can also try using hemp topicals to work on your pain from the outside. Topicals tend to be quite effective for some people – but the relief tends to be shorter – so you might need to be applying them multiple times a day.

Now that you’ve tried CBD – and it might have given you some relief – it’s time to incorporate THC. With THC, the ingestion method is more important. THC edibles can take up to two hours to start working – but their pain relief can last many hours. Smoking cannabis flower or using THC vape pens work almost instantaneously. Some people use both of these methods: a gummy twice a day & then smoking or vaping as needed.

As always, with THC, start low & go slow. Especially if you are not into the psychoactive effects of THC. That being said, people with chronic pain tend to find that the pain “eats” the psychoactivity & they don’t quite as high as they do feel the relief. Plus, CBD acts as a protective blanket from the anxiety of getting high with THC & tends to make people feel less of the psychoactive effect. If you are not in a legal state, these Reserve gummies are an excellent way to get a good starting dose of THC: 2.5 mg

If you’d like to learn more about using CBD & cannabis for your health, book a session with me today…