Pain or Chronic Pain… It might be time to try something new!
It’s obvious that physicians have been over prescribing opioids, with the soaring rates of abuse cascading to all age groups. As an MD, it’s obviously to me that it’s time to find a new solution.
Drugabuse.gov says that between 8 and 12 percent of users will develop a use disorder (with an estimated 4 to 6 percent actually transitioning to heroin). Those are huge numbers. In fact, it is a problem of epidemic proportion.
And this epidemic cascades all ages, demographics and sexes. But, what choice do patients have when pain becomes part of their daily lives?
There are certain things you can do, such as changes in nutrition and lifestyle, but there are also alternative therapies, such as medical marijuana and premium CBD oil products (definitely avoid the cheap CBD you can get at your local grocery or sometimes even your gas station!).
In fact, some who use CBD have even been able to replace opioids completed, or at least decrease their need for opioids, thus reducing their exposure to chronic opioid abuse.
There’s a powerful study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology that showed cannabis as an effective treatment for chronic neuropathic pain syndromes. This research study consisted of 18 individual studies that looked at management of pain with cannabis. Out of the 18 studies, 15 of the studies showed improvement in pain. It’s worth noting that patients also reported improvement in the quality of their sleep and no serious adverse effects. (The effect of sleep on pain reduction and overall healing is well documented.)
When you begin to add cannabis, I would suggest that you go with something high in CBD, or perhaps even JUST a pure CBD product.
This will very likely help relax the muscles and also improve serotonin levels, and in addition, the CBD will potentially reduce the pain associated with neuropathic disease.
Whether your chronic pain is from nerve injury, cancer, chemotherapy, trauma or just the simple act of degenerative aging, CBD and THC products have been shown repeatedly to reduce pain with the highest reductions in those with severe, opioid resistant pain.
Medical marijuana is not addictive in the traditional sense, and there is no risk of overdose, so it may be an effective add-on therapy, in any case, in the treatment of pain disorders.
Titration questions are common — always start at a low dose, increasing the dose as appropriate.
And, for more information on CBD, cannabis or medical marijuana, please visit https://cbdandcannabisinfo.com/
