Marie's story: Fibromyalgia and CBD

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

"My name is Marie, I'm 54, I live in Brittany, and I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2007. The first pains appeared in 2004, after my parents had both fallen ill. I was treated by Doctor Baron, in the Côtes d'Armor region, at the time the leading specialist in fibromyalgia and chronic pain in France.

After antidepressants, a 6-month course of morphine and then painkillers, I was lucky enough to be taken on for a three-week cure at the Centre de Rééducation et de Réadaptation Fonctionnelles de Trestel, located on a magnificent site in our region, and well known for its treatment of injured top-level sportsmen and women, as well as people severely physically affected by traffic accidents, strokes and the like.

This enabled me to get back on track a little, but I was still fragile and dependent on medication.

At that time, CBD didn't exist, and following a friend's advice, I started using weed. I knew it was illegal, and I didn't use it to excess, just a little in the evening before going to bed, but I didn't really like it from a moral point of view.

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

Thanks to weed, I was able to exercise regularly and regain my self-confidence, and then take up a training course in organic market gardening, and this physical work helped me even more to get out of the vicious circle of pain.

But the THC contained in weed has psychoactive effects (highs, if you like), which I didn't like, even if I only felt them in the evening when I was using it. The other problem with THC, which runs counter to those of fibromyalgia sufferers, is that it doesn't help you achieve psychological equilibrium, and my ultra-sensitivity remained, which meant that at every trial in life, I fell back down.

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

After a few days, the effects disappeared, and my pain returned. When I talk about my pain, I'm obviously including all the symptoms that go with it for me: a feeling of having my brain in absorbent cotton, very difficult memory and concentration, severe fatigue, sometimes a feeling of being off-balance, the famous cervical spine pain, shoulder pain, which leads to tension headaches, and so on.

So I started using THC again, and then CBD arrived in France. I replaced the herb with CBD oil in a sublingual, but it had no effect and I was back to square one. I started looking for more information on CBD, as it was being used by people suffering from cancer-related pain, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain and fibromyalgia.

So I went back to CBD oil in parallel with the herb, then gradually reduced the herb each day, while increasing the oil. And it worked. In fact, I've read on the internet that the brains of THC users don't react to CBD alone at first, because they're used to a high concentration of THC and not CBD, which is only present in minute quantities in illegal weed, which is why it took me 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. 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 gradually increased the number of drops until I reached the dose that suits me, 4 drops only in the evening.

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

Marie C.