My pharmacist told me that he sells a lot of full spectrum CBD cream and lotion to older folks who use them for things like arthritis, back pain, and nerve pain
Some medications are effective when administered directly to the skin. Lidocaine is a good example. You can put lidocaine into an adhesive patch and stick it to your skin in the place where you’re feeling joint or muscle pain. When doing this, the lidocaine can absorb directly into the affected area. Drugs like ibuprofen or acetaminophen take a lot longer to kick in, and there’s no guarantee if they’ll actually relieve pain in specific places in your extremities. I have had a lot of positive effects from lidocaine patches for this reason, but I wouldn’t try to use one to fix a stomach ache. There are other medicines being used as topicals, some old and some new. For years there has been benadryl cream for allergic reactions, but nowadays you can actually get cannabis in topical form. They come in creams, lotions, pastes, and patches. Just like with any other topical medicine, the idea is to target a specific place of pain. If you have a patch, you can do slow absorption over a long period of time. Just like with THC enriched cannabis topicals, you can also find hemp and CBD filled topical products. My pharmacist told me that he sells a lot of full spectrum CBD cream and lotion to older folks who use them for things like arthritis, back pain, and nerve pain. He says that of them swear by it and attest that there is nothing else like it for relieving their chronic pain. I would have had no idea that CBD topicals were so popular with senior citizens, but it makes a lot of sense to me in retrospect.