I’m sure my UK readers just sang that 🤣

So I recently tried CBD gummies, I got a small trial bag from Orange County CBD, just 16mg, to try them out. You see, I take baclofen 4x a day and Dantrium morning and night for spasticity but I STILL wake up in the night poker straight and in fucking agony. Often that’ll be it for sleep as to bend my legs I have to get out of bed into my knees and force them to bend under my body weight. Usually 4-5 hours is the best I can hope for in terms of sleep each night. So I thought I’d add CBD in as well to see if that helps. At that low strength I had to take 4 gummies a night – not a huge deal as they are super yummy! So I figured I’d go up in strength and quantity – my next order was for 100 gummy bears at 48mg so I only take 1-1.5 a night.

I have been recommended Indica Gummies but these aren’t legal in the UK as they contain THC so they’re not easily obtainable. I will ask at my referral appointment (when I eventually get it!) about Sativex, a cannabis spray available on prescription but notoriously difficult to get hold of. Sounds about fucking right 🙄 in the meantime these scrumptious little bears are gonna have to do. I just have to resist eating them like sweets!

The results aren’t perfect, I still wake up BUT when I do I am able to (manually) bend my legs and reposition myself and subsequently go back to sleep. So that itself is an improvement. I’ll take any little win I can get! Plus in other good news we had a great viewing on our house this morning and it looks like, all being well, we are sold so one step closer to living in a single story bungalow and actually going to bed with my husband at night rather than sleeping on the sofa. Now that would be a real win!