I always feel really bad for my family members that have chronic health problems, especially those with chronic severe pain.
My uncle has spinal damage from an accident he sustained being in the marines during the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, his experience with the pain has only worsened in recent years. Now he’s receiving cortisone shots on a regular basis and is writhing in pain whenever I see him. It’s saddening because he’s such a nice man with an otherwise healthy outlook on life despite his hardships and adversity. I know that he would be completely different if he wasn’t in so much pain all of the time. He started using high doses of CBD at the behest of his doctor and he’s finally getting some needed relief that he hadn’t experienced before. This led him to using traditional cannabis and now my uncle is a renewed man with a totally different demeanor with his pain reduced as much as it is. Unfortunately, his son has gone through his own set of hardships being a former opiate addict and having finished rehab recently. I asked my uncle first and then recommended that my cousin try CBD to help alleviate his opiate cravings. We were all keeping our expectations low, but the CBD has been a fantastic addition to my cousin’s life. His anxiety and depression levels are the lowest they have been since before his addiction started, which is a huge sign of improvement for him. I’m so happy to see my cousin doing better just because of adding CBD to his daily regimen. It’s no surprise after it was so beneficial for his father’s physical pain.