I've got lymphoma, a fairly nasty variety that until recently was pretty much a death sentence. (The same evil shit killed my dad.) Fortunately the treatments have advanced a LOT in the last 5-10 years, and as of the last month it looks like we've got my case under control.
But I've been hitting it with everything I could, and before I started that treatment I was looking into RSO or similar. The logistics of making my own RSO were daunting, but Colorado is a legal state so I just hooked up with a local extraction business. I picked up half a dozen 1ml syringes of 75% THC and 40% THC / 25% CBD and started trying to build up tolerance.
And good God I am useless when I'm high. I've smoked on and off for 47 years, and I've enjoyed the edibles/etc we can get here in CO. But that was generally a "party" kind of thing, where I didn't expect to function in normal life. With this RSO-type approach I'm supposed to work up to one full syringe a day!?? That's like 750 mg of THC for the 75% oil!!
I started taking it orally, but that just got me thoroughly f*cked up. I can't do that all day long because I'm worthless for anything more challenging than scrolling through yootoob videos for hours. So I tried some suppositories (oil in gelatin capsules) because that's supposed to bypass the liver and avoid the high. I was able to tolerate a much higher dose that way, but still nothing close to the 750mg/day I'm supposed to take. After working up from smaller doses I took one dose that was maybe 100-120mg or so, just before bed. Slept through the first 8 hours, damn near fell on my face when I got out of bed, and staggered and stumbled through my morning. I was loopy and stoned until about 2pm -- 18 hours on a single dose. And I'm supposed to take 6-7 TIMES that much!? I gave up after that, because I have to be able to work, drive, etc.
I enjoy having a few drinks and getting a bit tipsy, but I don't like getting sloppy falling-down drunk. Same with weed -- a bit of a high is fun, but falling-down baked, all day long, is not good and not pleasant. How do people tolerate the therapeutic doses? Do you just resign yourself to being a basket case for the 3+ months of treatment, get a sabbatical from work, get somebody else to drive you if you need to go somewhere, ...?
But I've been hitting it with everything I could, and before I started that treatment I was looking into RSO or similar. The logistics of making my own RSO were daunting, but Colorado is a legal state so I just hooked up with a local extraction business. I picked up half a dozen 1ml syringes of 75% THC and 40% THC / 25% CBD and started trying to build up tolerance.
And good God I am useless when I'm high. I've smoked on and off for 47 years, and I've enjoyed the edibles/etc we can get here in CO. But that was generally a "party" kind of thing, where I didn't expect to function in normal life. With this RSO-type approach I'm supposed to work up to one full syringe a day!?? That's like 750 mg of THC for the 75% oil!!
I started taking it orally, but that just got me thoroughly f*cked up. I can't do that all day long because I'm worthless for anything more challenging than scrolling through yootoob videos for hours. So I tried some suppositories (oil in gelatin capsules) because that's supposed to bypass the liver and avoid the high. I was able to tolerate a much higher dose that way, but still nothing close to the 750mg/day I'm supposed to take. After working up from smaller doses I took one dose that was maybe 100-120mg or so, just before bed. Slept through the first 8 hours, damn near fell on my face when I got out of bed, and staggered and stumbled through my morning. I was loopy and stoned until about 2pm -- 18 hours on a single dose. And I'm supposed to take 6-7 TIMES that much!? I gave up after that, because I have to be able to work, drive, etc.
I enjoy having a few drinks and getting a bit tipsy, but I don't like getting sloppy falling-down drunk. Same with weed -- a bit of a high is fun, but falling-down baked, all day long, is not good and not pleasant. How do people tolerate the therapeutic doses? Do you just resign yourself to being a basket case for the 3+ months of treatment, get a sabbatical from work, get somebody else to drive you if you need to go somewhere, ...?
