CBD for Fibro?

[sunkacola]

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Whatever.. one and the same.

Not the same at all, actually. As @30 plus years says, anti-inflammatory medications are for the most part ineffective for fibromyalgia pain unless there's some other condition causing inflammation. I, for instance, rarely have inflammation, but I always have pain. And when I have some inflammation it is generally in my hands, where I have some arthritis. To say that pain and inflammation are the same is simply not accurate.

 

[Harpy]

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Not the same at all, actually. As @30 plus years says, anti-inflammatory medications are for the most part ineffective for fibromyalgia pain unless there's some other condition causing inflammation. I, for instance, rarely have inflammation, but I always have pain. And when I have some inflammation it is generally in my hands, where I have some arthritis. To say that pain and inflammation are the same is simply not accurate.

Oh you got that right, nothing seemed to help my fibro pain. I do have complicated spine issues and the anti inflammatory meds help some what, I have got the most relief from the prednisone I take each morning for my polymyalgia and mm oil.

 

[Kitkat57]

Hi sunkacola
I have also been taking cbd with thc in capsules, I was also taking them only at night and I was having good sleep, but the last few days they have not worked and my source has told me I have built up a tolerance to the capsules. I have only been on them a month.

He has said try not to take them every night, which I did and now I just feel like I am laying there with my eyes closed but no proper sleep, I don't understand as people with cancer take it every day or night to cope with there symptoms.

Is this correct that you have to increase the dose which cost more as not available from GP in uk but this is a family friend so I completely trust him but I'm confused after one month of using and felt much better after having decent sleep.

Take care and try to keep as well as you can.

 

[sunkacola]

@Kitkat57 ....I don't know about building up a tolerance for CBD or THC, especially after only one month of using them. I have used both CBD and cannabis for years to help me to sleep and I have found that most of the time they will help and sometimes I don't sleep well even if I have taken them.
I don't think that there is anything that works 100% of the time, and I personally find it unlikely that the body would build up a tolerance for something in only a month. BUT...I have no medical training, so what do I know?

The thing is, there are probably dozens if not hundreds of factors that go into how well we sleep and if we sleep at all. Short of taking a drug that knocks us out, we cannot be certain of which factor was affecting us the most that night. There can be things going on in your body or your brain or your subconscious mind that you are not consciously aware of. Thousands of things are going on all of the time within our bodies and the vast majority of them we don't even know about on a conscious level. There could be a noise that you cannot hear but your body feels, or a vibration, or other outside influence. I think it's more likely that some thing, or combination of things, is interfering with your sleep right now than that the CBD/THC capsules are no longer working for you due to tolerance build-up.

But that's just my opinion.
You might want to just keep taking them and see how it goes in the near future. Sleep, like everything else in our systems, can go in cycles of being better or worse.

When something changes in our bodies we have a tendency to attribute the change to whatever we recently were doing or not doing. But that's not necessarily what has happened. I always remember that correlation is not causation.