It can be mild or excruciating—like knives slicing through your insides, your lower midsection and back gripped in pain.
That kind of targeted dulling of the pain is what I find in cannabis.
“We don’t even have enough studies to show that CBD gets through the skin, for example, into the bloodstream,” said Dr.
Cannabis’ main active ingredients—THC and CBD—interact with nerve cell receptors to mellow inflammation, pain, muscle spasms, and balance mood.
Concretely, I’ve been using cannabis for this sort of pain relief for about seven years, constantly asking for new product suggestions at dispensaries.
They didn’t have them but the guy behind the counter suggested this—he told me his girlfriend uses it for cramps.
I had a 60 ml bottle that lasted well over a year, and I can get multiple uses out of it during one menstrual cycle.
He often treated patients suffering severe menstrual pain or even endometriosis, he said, targeting “really tight muscles, muscle tension, lower back pain, and abdominal discomfort” through stretching, spinal work, and other chiropractic treatment.
The brand also has a PMS cream available, which Kerklaan said his wife helped him develop.
“One good reason why I think cannabis can help with menstrual cramps is, for example, what causes menstrual cramps? Often it’s the prostaglandins produced in the pelvis.”These lipids are produced during menstruation, and a higher number of them has been associated with inflammation and more severe uterine contractions, as explained in a study published last year in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.“The prostaglandin pathway shares a lot of similarities with the cannabis pathways.
This is my go-to when my cramps are super extreme—when Advil, smoking cannabis, a warm shower, and a heating pad is all just not cutting it.
If you have a tolerance on the lower side, or just don’t want to be feeling too high, you should probably opt for the 1:1 CBD: THC ratio, said Sara Kern, a brand spokesperson.
Dispensaries around Southern California, where I live, sell it for around $13 to $20.
In my experience, shopping at dispensaries in SoCal, this transdermal patch is typically around $2 to $5 cheaper than the Papa & Barkley one.
The THC patch contains 20 mg of THC compared to the 30 mg of THC in Papa & Barkley’s 1:3 THC-rich Releaf Patch.
Nevertheless, this still works better than a lot of other things I’ve tried, just not as well as many of the other products on this list.
In fact, it’s roughly the same cost as two Papa & Barkley patches but you get a lot more than just two uses.
Flowers, fruit, flesh, and a constant stream of masturbation memes make up much of Foria’s Instagram grid.
More than once, I’ve been told by a dispensary employee that I just have to try them.
To be honest, the idea of inserting something vaginally during my period is just not appealing.
And I have to say—it did release some tension in my lower abdomen after about an hour .