Help for medicating my mom - Osteoarthritis and Sjögren's syndrome

Hello all!

I need some help for ways to medicate my mother. She has Osteoarthritis, and the medication she is taking for that is causing her to have high blood pressure. She is in pain all the time, and worse at night.

She also has a pretty rare thing called Sjögren's syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjögren's_syndrome

So she can't handle smoke at all.

I let her use my vaporizing pen, and it irritated her throat.

So - edibles and tinctures will be the way.

I eat cookies, because I like them. But they are a little hard for her to chew because everything sticks to her teeth. And my cookies end up being too strong for her (she has zero tolerance for THC currently).

I would like to make the medicine in pill form.

What's the best way to do this? A butter? Make hash and put that in the pill?

I need to start very small with a dose for her.

I gave her a cookie about a month ago that was good for my tolerance, but evidently too much for her. She was stuck on a bean bag for 4 hours. She doesn't like being "high".

I have a strain that is about 1:1 THC:CBD.

Any suggestions anyone might have for the best way to get this medicine inside my mom, would be SO GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you!

Yessica...you can infuse coconut oil and fill capsules....and then refridgerate them...since the oil liquidates at low temps...My son makes me some infused olive oil I use on salads ..so I eat an medicate at the same time...what about hard candies,,you may need to find her a hi CBD strain low THC..since she buzzes out on the THC...when my son gets home i will ask him what is best..he makes a killer lemonade...it was a hit at the Secret Cup this year....I have Lyme Disease from a tick bite and my body feels like I was run over by trucks all day....and some of the stuff he makes takes pain away real good...its more of a body high than a head spacey high....fully functionable...he even made some ice cream once for a party we had here...was a hit...

tyson53 said:

Yessica...you can infuse coconut oil and fill capsules....and then refridgerate them...since the oil liquidates at low temps...My son makes me some infused olive oil I use on salads ..so I eat an medicate at the same time...what about hard candies,,you may need to find her a hi CBD strain low THC..since she buzzes out on the THC...when my son gets home i will ask him what is best..he makes a killer lemonade...it was a hit at the Secret Cup this year....I have Lyme Disease from a tick bite and my body feels like I was run over by trucks all day....and some of the stuff he makes takes pain away real good...its more of a body high than a head spacey high....fully functionable...he even made some ice cream once for a party we had here...was a hit...

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Totally what I'm looking for!!! Thank you!

I just don't know if I need to just infuse the oil, or add other things so that it will be easier for her to digest.

I have a strain that is as high CBD and low THC as I could find, about 1:1.

I'm thinking if I make each pill to contain about .25 g of the buds (or what would work out to that) it would be a good place to start.

A tincture would be perfect, but we will need a lot longer for that to work and I was hoping to find something that I could make today.

Yessica... said:

Totally what I'm looking for!!! Thank you!

I just don't know if I need to just infuse the oil, or add other things so that it will be easier for her to digest.

I have a strain that is as high CBD and low THC as I could find, about 1:1.

I'm thinking if I make each pill to contain about .25 g of the buds (or what would work out to that) it would be a good place to start.

A tincture would be perfect, but we will need a lot longer for that to work and I was hoping to find something that I could make today.

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Yesss, that honey and oil recipe from your 'baked' thread that I put up is a really mellow way to medicate. You could dissolve a teaspoon or two in tea/coffee in the morning or have it classic honey and lemon drink or green tea. My friends mum found it helped when she was in the final stages of cancer. She used a tincture I made too but when people are ill alcohol is not always advised eh? My mum takes hemp oil for her rheumatoid arthritis which u can get on line instead if her cod liver and whatnot as I haven't managed to get her head round actual THC. I'll speak to a friend if mine who has severe chromes disease, although she smokes she has spent so much time in and out of hospital that she's a meds ninja.

Ishrahnai said:

Yesss, that honey and oil recipe from your 'baked' thread that I put up is a really mellow way to medicate. You could dissolve a teaspoon or two in tea/coffee in the morning or have it classic honey and lemon drink or green tea. My friends mum found it helped when she was in the final stages of cancer. She used a tincture I made too but when people are ill alcohol is not always advised eh? My mum takes hemp oil for her rheumatoid arthritis which u can get on line instead if her cod liver and whatnot as I haven't managed to get her head round actual THC. I'll speak to a friend if mine who has severe chromes disease, although she smokes she has spent so much time in and out of hospital that she's a meds ninja.

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Awesome - thank you!!!!

Awesome! I am glad you are getting such great replies Yessica The salad dressing is a great idea. Hope you find something to help your Mom

vostok said:

Honestly this is tooo serious an issue to mess THC in her diet, at least until she is stabilized, once she is on the mend(?) then you may dilute her meds, but again not enough info out their with regard to the effects of cannabis and OTHER drugs, on one unbalanced system ..chill for now allow those docs to do their job ..this is serious!

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This is something that her doctors support. Her rheumatologist thinks it could really help her, he just doesn't know enough about using cannabis as medicine to tell her what will work for her.

We are going to start slow, and experiment.

Anything that will help ease her pain is good in my books.

EDIT: there is no "on the mend" with what she has. Osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and primary Sjögren's syndrome are progressive. They will only get worse with time. She can manage the symptoms, but she cannot just get rid of them. Here to stay unfortunately.