maybe both but definitely the first.

They both help, after I get over my altitude sickness on day 3.

I've been using MMJ for a short time and have tried several different methods. One basic difference is that anything that goes through the stomach (edibles, drinks, pills) is going to take close to an hour at least, to start working. Here in WA state it's a work in progress to standardize dosages in edibles, but our medical MJ system is much less regulated than in CO.

The immediate-acting methods that I've tried are smoking, vaporizing, and sublingual. My pain is not constant and comes on abruptly, so I need something quick-acting. First I tried a tincture, which is put under the tongue to absorb and acts almost immediately. I wasn't able to find out exactly what was in it but I had no mental effects at all, just pain relief. The downside was that it tasted vile. Just what you would imagine ground-up marijuana in glycerin would taste like! I was told that flavoring dilutes the tincture so it doesn't work as well. The downsides of smoking or using tincture are taste, harshness, and messiness.

Vaporizing has been the best for me. You buy a special "pen" to which you attach a vial of oil. No fuss, no muss, acts within a few minutes.

The trick with vaping, for me, has been getting the correct balance of the pain-reducing component, CBD, with the psychoactive component, THC. I've been able to get oils with relatively high amounts of CBD but also high amounts of THC. So I get the pain relief but also the high. It's not too bad for me since I just use it at bedtime and overnight. If you can get the right ratio (approx 2:1 CBD to THC) they are supposed to complement each other and give pain relief with very little psychoactive effect. This type of product does exist but is in high demand and short supply in my area.

I've also seen listings for waxes, concentrates, and patches but don't really know any details about them.

dogwalker---sounds like i need to take a trip to Wa. it's prolly easier to get there from ny than colorado.

pretty sure ny wouldn't permit vaping. but i can try it when i visit Wa.!:icon_biggrin::icon_biggrin:

I noticed in the link provided by Kitt that NY "would allow patients to inhale vaporized extracts of pot's active ingredients or to eat them in food, but prohibit smoking of marijuana itself." You still have a long time to wait, though! :(

Cbd isn't working for me now. 😔
 

I started taking it two weeks ago and I didn't have any temporal lobe seizures after. But then I drank a bit on New Years Eve and the next morning my husband recorded me having seizures around 2 am and at 4 am. He recorded me on his phone and when I watched it...it scared me! It was as if I was watching outside of my body and I don't recall anything as usual. I have not drank alcohol since and I had a seizure yesterday morning and after I got up this morning according to my husband.

I'm so scared...I refuse to take pharmeceutical prescriptions for seizures because tramadol gave me very bad side effects. I was lethargic and couldn't move all day, vomiting and nauseated as well. I don't understand why the medical marijuana spray was working up until I drank. I'm terrified of having these seizures because I don't recall anything that's happened nor do I know these seizures are even happening. 😔 I want to find a neurologist that won't push his drugs on me and force me to take something without listening to the side effects of these drugs that have caused me to be very sick. I'd rather go through seizures than to suffer the way I do when I'm on the prescription drugs I was given. I just...don't understand why The CBD spray isn't working now.

Hello, you may also find information on our Epilepsy forum-
For support and discussion about Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum11.html

Welcome Maribel1. :Wave-Hello:

just a few days short of a year...1/1/16. that's good news in kitt's link!!

There's a thread for that