Been smoking like a gram(rough est) of d8 a day for the past week and hardly needed any short insulin, I may even need to lower my levemir dose a bit.
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woah man, 40 years of diabetes here. I wouldn’t go so far as to make a claim it could affect my blood sugar. What I really find, is it lowers your blood pressure, hell yah. Exercise is the number one way to increase insulin effectiveness but also losing weight due to the decrease in insulin resistance.
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I’ve not changed much I exercise pretty regularly and am kinda skinny. The only difference has been the crapload of d8
I don’t recall the name but I started a thread on this topic a while back. My grandmother was on the pump since the invention of it and had diabetes since the early 70s. She was one of the types that had very large rapid changes in blood sugar levels. After taking high grade real deal CBD oil for six months, she stopped taking insulin and has not had it since. I won’t make any claims but that information should speak for itself.
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Diabetes is a cluster of disease covering a few different things that happen. Gestational, pancreas just gave up, excess body mass, and sometimes even temporary diabetes that goes into complete remission. I challenge you to actually come up with cause and effect for cannabis and diabetes. You do know, I have enough cannabis here to euthanize an elephant, but have yet to see any link between the progression of my disease and the cannabis I ingest. Believe me, it would be far too simple to rip some rosin then test my blood glucose levels.
I recommend anyone who has been diagnosed with this serious disease to go see the specialist. Don’t sit at home smoking weed because you think it’s going to cure diabetes - instead you’ll probably die.
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Anecdotes are not, and will never be, data. With health and medicine especially, please do not go with anecdotes. That causes a LOT of problems.
It gets grey when the licensed medically community hands are tied with what they can research as we all know there are use cases that are not officially supported but there doesnt seem to be much of a connection from cannabanoids and blood sugar.
IF you are positive it works at least consult your GP before going off prescribed medicine so they can monitor your health as you try different medicines/strains. Keep them informed of what you are trying, get regular checkups as you experiment. I would advise that for any condition.
Im not saying youre wrong, it just scares me when someone sees correlation and decides it must be causation with something as serious as diabetes and insulin. I am just worried is all, dont mean to be a dick even though I am kinda being one. Correlation is how we got patent medicines and snake oil.
No offense meant to anyone who uses weed as a medicine for anything and it works for them regardless of what mainstream science says since the damn US federal gov at least wont even let most do research. Thats the real bullshit. Allowing research would make this thread moot if they could double blind study some of this shit.
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Obviously not saying anyone should try weed as a cure, it’s just something I’ve noticed with my own consumption recently.
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Weed has a big impact on Type 2 diabetes, Type 1 is very different.
Important to distinguish between the two types of diabetes when talking about it.
As far as I know Type 2 can be reversed through diet and cannabis. (Ideally you eat the cannabis, “let food be thy medicine”)
Type 1 is something you have since birth?
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I developed type 1 at 25. Type 1 is an autoimmune disorder that attacks the pancreas shutting down insulin production type 2 is a resistance to insulin the body creates by constantly being flooded with glucose.
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I am assuming you are referencing Delta 8 when you say D8? I think it is pretty important to distinguish whether you are seeing results from consuming an isolated form of delta 8 or whole plant medicine.
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Yes I am. Just got this stuff to hold me over till harvest, I smoke to much to pay street prices for bud.
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Despite what people say, nobody actually has a clue what causes “type 1” diabetes. I asked my specialist who is also diabetic.
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the wifeys numbers came way down when we started smoking here. We think because of anxiety .
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Spot on, those of us who are interested in cannabis as plant medicine are waiting for the federal government to finally get their shit together and reschedule cannabis to a more reasonable federal schedule. I would advocate for perhaps schedule IV which would place it alongside some of your common benzodiazepines like xanax and lorazepam. I think it could be confidently said that cannabis is safer, and likely less habit forming than these medications, and should be scheduled at or below this level.
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Stress raises your body’s cortisol levels. Cortisol is your body’s natural steroid. As cortisol levels rise so does blood sugar. It would make sense that lowering stress could correlate with less spikes in blood glucose levels. Unfortunately with our challenges in getting real research we can’t make a real connection yet.
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While we could offer no proof, we both reasoned it to be anxiety, her bp would also temporarily come down, and its her main reason to smoke,stress reduction. Thanks for the info!
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My new conclusion, lower blood glucose not from delta 8 but from eating way less in order to fund grow 
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lol! I have a laundry list of complaints…
you never get a vacation from:
- the hospital
- specialists
- cortisol attack
- drivers medical licensing
- companies preying on your suffering
- almost dying sometimes.
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