Thumper
04-03-2022, 09:38 AM
Early yesterday morning, my right hand started hurting and as the day progressed, it got worse and worse until it was almost totally debilitating. I couldn't even pick anything up without dropping it. It was a pain I'd never really experienced before and I really didn't know what to think of it, but it reminded me of my mom who had arthritis and sometimes had the same general symptoms. The odd part is, I had not strained or injured my hand in any way that I'm aware of. I remember once having pain in my elbow and my VA doctor prescribed some arthritis pain med which seemed to take care of it at the time, so I washed one down and waited ... and waited ... and waited. Zip, nada, nuttin'! The pain continued and got so bad at one point, I told Lynn she may need to take me to the ER for some sort of relief. Note: I'm no wimp when it comes to pain and am extremely tolerant when it comes to things like this, but it got to the point I couldn't stand it.
It was then, Lynn remembered that while we were visiting my son for Christmas, she had a bout of pain from her sciatica. One of my son's friends had suffered a bad back injury and was taking some sort of edible CDB for her pain. She gave a couple of these candy looking things to Lynn and told her to try them. Lynn was skeptical and just slipped them into her purse, then took her prescribed meds for the sciatica pain, but they make her goofy as hell and she hates to take them. She dug the cdb thingies out yesterday and I decided to take 1/4 of the "dose" just to see if anything happened. She'd told Lynn it would take about 15 minutes to take affect. I watched the clock and I swear, it was EXACTLY 15 minutes later, when I started feeling the pain subside. Within the hour I couldn't feel any pain at all and was completely back to normal after suffering for the past 9-10 hours. Today, still no problem. TBH, I have absolutely no clue what the problem was and am simply guessing arthritis of some sort. I'm also assuming the relief I got yesterday was no coincidence and was a direct result of that CDB product I took. My problem is, I know absolutely ZILCH about this stuff. I'll admit, I'm an old hippie era pot smoker, but I always figured this "medicinal" stuff was some sort of b/s. Right now, I'm a firm believer, but all of my medical issues are handled through the VA and they don't touch this stuff. Maybe someday in the future, but nothing yet (I asked).
I suppose I could start researching on the internet and educate myself, but I'm wondering if anyone here might have experience with this stuff? I will also need to contact my son and see if he can get some info from his friend on what exactly this stuff was. I mean, I assume there are different strengths available. And is it a "one" product does all? Or are there specific CDB's for specific ailments? A green one for headaches, a red one for joint pain, a yellow one for back pain, etc, etc. You get the picture. I'm really interested as I was hurting so much yesterday, I look at the results as a small miracle. I might add, I had absolutely zero side affects and other than the pain going away, I'd have never known I'd taken anything. If you can't tell by now, I'm in awe with the results I experienced.
It was then, Lynn remembered that while we were visiting my son for Christmas, she had a bout of pain from her sciatica. One of my son's friends had suffered a bad back injury and was taking some sort of edible CDB for her pain. She gave a couple of these candy looking things to Lynn and told her to try them. Lynn was skeptical and just slipped them into her purse, then took her prescribed meds for the sciatica pain, but they make her goofy as hell and she hates to take them. She dug the cdb thingies out yesterday and I decided to take 1/4 of the "dose" just to see if anything happened. She'd told Lynn it would take about 15 minutes to take affect. I watched the clock and I swear, it was EXACTLY 15 minutes later, when I started feeling the pain subside. Within the hour I couldn't feel any pain at all and was completely back to normal after suffering for the past 9-10 hours. Today, still no problem. TBH, I have absolutely no clue what the problem was and am simply guessing arthritis of some sort. I'm also assuming the relief I got yesterday was no coincidence and was a direct result of that CDB product I took. My problem is, I know absolutely ZILCH about this stuff. I'll admit, I'm an old hippie era pot smoker, but I always figured this "medicinal" stuff was some sort of b/s. Right now, I'm a firm believer, but all of my medical issues are handled through the VA and they don't touch this stuff. Maybe someday in the future, but nothing yet (I asked).
I suppose I could start researching on the internet and educate myself, but I'm wondering if anyone here might have experience with this stuff? I will also need to contact my son and see if he can get some info from his friend on what exactly this stuff was. I mean, I assume there are different strengths available. And is it a "one" product does all? Or are there specific CDB's for specific ailments? A green one for headaches, a red one for joint pain, a yellow one for back pain, etc, etc. You get the picture. I'm really interested as I was hurting so much yesterday, I look at the results as a small miracle. I might add, I had absolutely zero side affects and other than the pain going away, I'd have never known I'd taken anything. If you can't tell by now, I'm in awe with the results I experienced.