Jim: Cannabis, Diabetes and PTSD
Jim: Cannabis, Diabetes and PTSD
Ailment: Diabetes & PTSD
Ingestion Method: Smoke, eat raw and bake.
Bio: I’m a disabled veteran that has suffered from many conditions all service related. The VA gave me many drugs to control my pain and sleep and other problems. It was all killing me!
I read a little bit about how Marijuana could help and so I started to use and grow it myself.
No more pain from my diabetes; goodbye to Neuropathy Pain!
Say goodbye to sleepless nights. Say goodbye to that wheelchair because I can walk now.
Say goodbye to most of my PTSD conditions. I can sleep and dream again. Pleasant dreams!
I feel better now than I have in years. I also have been enjoying making juice out of the leaves and mixing it with apple juice. This way I can use during the day and not feel any effects of THC as it’s in it’s Acid form raw. THC-A will not get you high and it only turns into THC after you heat it.
So if you don’t want to get high eat it or juice it without the heat and you can take as much as you like without the effects of getting high. Also, no side effects or strange things going on with this.
I’ve been able to quit taking all my pain medication.
Natt: ‘CBD Tinctures Helped with Symptoms of my Stroke’
Natt: ‘CBD Tinctures Helped with Symptoms of my Stroke’
Ailment: Stroke
Ingestion Method: Tincture
Bio: 49 year old male. I had a brainstem stroke in the medulla when I was 46. I Lived with many deficits; balance and vision problems, chronic fatigue and chronic debilitating headaches among others.
2 and a half years after a Stroke, I began researching medical marijuana, the main hope being it could help with headache pain (Paracetamol wasn’t helping enough).
The more I learnt about it, the more I considered it might help with my neurological condition. CBD products seemed the safest option regarding finding a source to be sent through the post. Also finding organic, lab tested products seemed a good idea.
Well now I do feel it has helped! It has seemingly dampened the severity of the pain. I have continued researching the endocannabinoid system and become more convinced it makes sense that it is helping me – the modulating mechanism of homeostasis of CBD calming down activity in the brain.
So I have lost some of the pain, but am yet to regain much functionality day to day – I still have to limit activities to avoid headaches starting, but when they do arrive they are more bearable and I feel I can calm them with rest, and CBD. I would really like to regain more function though.
Also, I am pleased that my self medicating is mainly CBD based, as I feel THC may overwhelm my ‘compromised’ brain! My balance problems involve the cerebellum in the brain which I read has a high density of endocannabinoid receptors and I think again may be overwhelmed by THC! Whereas CBD may be modulating the problem.
So I’ve been given some hope which I am really thankful for. Some light at the end of the tunnel…