Marie's story: Fibromyalgia and CBD

Today, Cali Weed presents a testimonial received by email from a 54-year-old woman wishing to share her experience with CBD. As she wishes to remain anonymous, we will not reveal her full identity.

"My name is Marie, I am 54 years old, I live in Brittany, and I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2007. The first symptoms appeared in 2004 after both my parents fell ill. I was treated by Dr. Baron in the Côtes d'Armor region, who was at the time the leading specialist in fibromyalgia and chronic pain in the UK.

After taking antidepressants, undergoing six months of morphine treatment, and then taking painkillers, I was lucky enough to be admitted for a three-week treatment program at the Trestel Functional Rehabilitation and Re-education Center, located in a beautiful part of our region and well known for treating injured elite athletes and people with severe physical disabilities following traffic accidents, strokes, etc.

This allowed me to regain some control over this damn disease, but I remained fragile and dependent on medication.

At that time, CBD did not exist, and on the advice of a friend, I started using weed. I knew it was illegal, and I didn't consume it excessively, just a little in the evening before bed, but I didn't really like it from a moral standpoint.

Despite everything, this solution really helped me, and I was even able to gradually wean myself off painkillers, which often cause other long-term health problems.

Thanks to weed, I was able to exercise regularly, which helped me regain my self-confidence. I then took a course in organic market gardening, and this physical work helped me even more to break out of the vicious cycle of pain.

But the THC in cannabis has psychoactive effects (a high, if you like), which I didn't like, even though I only felt them in the evening when I consumed it. The other problem with THC, which is detrimental to fibromyalgia sufferers, is that it doesn't help you achieve psychological balance, and my hypersensitivity remained, which meant that every time I faced a challenge in life, I relapsed.

So I stopped taking THC because my pain had really decreased and I thought I was ready to live without medication or other substitutes.

After a few days, the effects wore off and my pain returned. When I talk about my pain, I am of course referring to all the symptoms that go with it for me: feeling like my brain is foggy, difficulty with memory and concentration, severe fatigue, sometimes a feeling of imbalance, the famous pain in the cervical spine and shoulders, which causes tension headaches, etc.

So I started using THC again, then CBD arrived in the UK. I replaced the weed with sublingual CBD oil, but it had no effect, so I was back to square one. I started looking for more information about CBD. This molecule was being used by people suffering from pain related to cancer, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia.

So I started taking CBD oil alongside the weed, then gradually reduced the weed each day while increasing the oil. And it worked. I read online that the brains of THC users don't initially respond to CBD alone because they are used to high concentrations of THC and not CBD, which is only present in tiny amounts in illegal weed, which is why I needed to make this transition.

My brain is now used to CBD, and goodbye to weed and all the problems that go with it. I consume CBD in flower and oil form. I started by taking one drop of 20% Full Spectrum CBD oil (for best results, the presence of a tiny amount of THC is recommended), and I gradually increased the number of drops until I reached the dose that suits me, just 4 drops in the evening.

Please feel free to share my story and experience, which I hope will help people in similar situations. I wish you all the best for your website: cali-weed.fr."

Marie C.