Carolrose, thanks for reminding me of Equilibrant - I've been trying the K-Pax formula and have been worse than ever. It's too bad the Equilibrant is so expensive. I've been thinking of trying Charlotte's Web CBD oil because it is now readily available from the Stanley Brothers here in CO but am questioning how it would help - how did it specifically help you - was it with sleep, pain, energy, a better feeling of well being? I tried THC when it became legal here and had a terrible reaction to it.
Hi. I use the CBD non-psychoactive tincture. A dropper of liquid under the tongue at bedtime right now.
I will not use the THC version. Brain fog is annoying enough without giving uo any more clarity! I will not smoke because of my lungs and throat problems. Did not know about the tincture until two years ago during my endless researching. Then that became a possibility.
My maintenance level was fine tuned with a cocktail of medications previously worked out and then things changed. Surprise - not. New areas of pain started causing major problems. Thought it was arthritis kicking into high gear because suddenly my meds were not touching these.
Turns out it was more fibro areas. Meds starting to not work? Or what? I figured if after 18 years of constant and progressively active changes that had finally gotten to a maintenance level were now not going to work I needed to look beyond the pharm further and try to get off as many as I could for my future needs.
The tincture kicks into my new pain within 15 minutes. It works for three hours. I sleep three hours a night. It is more like I go comotose for three hours. It does not feel like sleep. BUT the pain is measureably diminished for 3 hours. Even if I took more tincture for pain, my sleep does not come. If I could afford more tincture I would take it throughout the day. I still take Ultram 300 ER once a day and Armour Throid.
Cymbalta, Topomax and Flexerall have all been stopped within 2 month period. NOT the way to get off meds! Bad bad crash and burn followed. Could be that a major flare or viral component rather than withdrawal was the cause. We are still trying to determine that.
For the past two months I have been on Equilabtant and an anti-viral to see if that gives any answers. The anti viral was just stopped. See Dr Chia for blood results in two weeks. See where we go from there.
My pain level is down to about a 7 1/2 but I certainly would like to get back to a much lower number.
Hope this helps. Carolrose