Not to pry but also a chronic pain sufferer who got hooked bad on pain pills from 2002-2008, then went through the wringer being loopy as shit on alternatives like gabapentin and lyrica....

I would lay in bed writing in agony in my legs and back muscles mostly, for hours unable to sleep. I tried Kratom which worked briefly and I started going down the tolerance route very quickly, to where I had deja vu from pain pills and said nope fuck this not again.......

Weed is too psychoactive for me but the “calm “ brand is stacked more CBD with a pinch of THC ... this is NOT a plug for a brand , like anyone who does not like psychoactive effects from THC , there’s probably other brands that are like 75% CBD and 25% or less THC. It does help with pain and it does not make me so fucked up I can’t even get across the room lol.

I was in school to be a drug counselor , decided it wasn’t for me , but yeah, reactions are anywhere from euphoric to nightmare world and you can’t predict who will be who.

After years of misery and barely managed pain with legal and or legalish medications , there’s something called a “theragun” massager that changed my life. 10 minutes of it on my legs and the muscle cramps and pains are gone for the night.

So like no, drugs necessary for me.

I had a medical card in Arizona, but weed is not legal in my current state and I own a firearm, controlled substance users are actually ineligible to own / possess, ya know, say what you want about that but it is what it is. I opted out of using the calm brand stuff because of ... weed being illegal in my state, and the fact that I now own guns. I do follow laws even if I think they’re dumb.

The theragun actually works quicker and better than any of that shit short of being roasted on oxy and roxy all day. Crazy that for as high as I was all the time, on that shit, the feds are still like mmm weed is bad mmkay

I tell this story enough, with enough specifics that I don’t want it in my regular comment history but I did want to mention it to any other Pedes who might be laying awake writhing in pain , and on and off any of the aforementioned drugs / meds and still suffering anyway.

Not to pry but also a chronic pain sufferer who got hooked bad on pain pills from 2002-2008, then went through the wringer being loopy as shit on alternatives like gabapentin and lyrica....

I would lay in bed writing in agony in my legs and back muscles mostly, for hours unable to sleep. I tried Kratom which worked briefly and I started going down the tolerance route very quickly, to where I had deja vu from pain pills and said nope fuck this not again.......

Weed is too psychoactive for me but the “calm “ brand is stacked more CBD with a pinch of THC ... this is NOT a plug for a brand , like anyone who does not like psychoactive effects from THC , there’s probably other brands that are like 75% CBD and 25% or less THC. It does help with pain and it does not make me so fucked up I can’t even get across the room lol.

I was in school to be a drug counselor , decided it wasn’t for me , but yeah, reactions are anywhere from euphoric to nightmare world and you can’t predict who will be who.

After years of misery and barely managed pain with legal and or legalish medications , there’s something called a “theragun” massager that changed my life. 10 minutes of it on my legs and the muscle cramps and pains are gone for the night.

So like no, drugs necessary for me.

I had a medical card in Arizona, but weed is not legal in my current state and I own a firearm, controlled substance users are actually ineligible to own / possess, ya know, say what you want about that but it is what it is. I opted out of using the calm brand stuff because of ... weed being illegal in my state, and the fact that I now own guns. I do follow laws even if I think they’re dumb.

The theragun actually works quicker and better than any of that shit short of being roasted on oxy and roxy all day.

I tell this story enough, with enough specifics that I don’t want it in my regular comment history but I did want to mention it to any other Pedes who might be laying awake writhing in pain , and on and off any of the aforementioned drugs / meds and still suffering anyway.