We get our dog, who has been battling Valley Fever, CBD from Your CBD Store. Without it, he tends to vomit. He gets .75 twice a day. I use a stretched out pill pocket so he gets it directly in his mouth.
- Kelly Lynn
July 13, 2024
Me and my husband decided to walk in Sunmed as a last resort for our 14 month old daughter. She was born at 23 weeks and has had a life full of medical procedures. At 12 months she was diagnosed with 2 forms of epilepsy. One is tonic seizures, which cause her body to stiffen and her eyes to roll to the side or back. It is a scary thing to see. She was also diagnosed with Infantile or epileptic spasms, which come in clusters and cause severe brain damage and delays. She is already delayed due to her early birth. We were devistated. After everything she has made it thru and how far she has come we were regressing. We were both heart broken.
We started her on a medication for her tonic seizures as well as a pretty invasive steriod to try to stop her spasms. After 3 weeks she was still having episodes 4 or 5 times in a 24 hour period. Every episode we knew was causing damage. We went online and read and read. Her neurologist decided we needed to be more aggressive. We weaned the steriod and the specialist decided the next route was going to be a three medication treatment. One of these treatments vigabatrin caused potential peripheral vision loss as well as retina damage. The chances of this was around 32% and our daughter has gotten every side effect from every medication she has been on since birth. She is just really sensitive. That on top of the side effects of the other two medications was heart wrenching. We where having to damage her body to heal her. It was like picking between her brain or her sight, or her brain or her personality, her being awake, her being able to progress her cognitive skills. I just couldn't get past it.
I had read about CBD and I knew it worked for some patients with both tonic seizures and infantile spasms. I brought this up to the neurologist and she said our daughter was to young.
The only potential side effect was some abnormal liver readings. I didn't understand why she didn't want to just try it. It was a less harmful potentially helpful treatment.
We had some issues getting her other prescriptions because they have to go thru specific pharmacies and our insurance only approves certain distributors. So, while we waiting, I did some shopping around.
I found Clara, at Sunmed on Wilmot Road in Tucson AZ. From everything I had read, I knew when Clara started talking she was well educated in CBD and seizure usage. She was comfortable giving a water solvable CBD with no THC to my daughter at 14 mo. So was I. She recommended starting at 4 drops and waiting a few days before raising by 2 drops at a time. I did just that. I started at 4 drops, went to 6, by thus time she was having one episode a day. Then to 8 drops, and we have been at 8 drops for 13 days. My daughter has been seizure and spasm free for 13 days.
I called her specialist of course and told her my findings. She refuses to concede that the CBD is effective. I did get all of my daughter prescriptions filled, just in case, bit told the doctor I am holding off until it is necessary. We are sticking with our Sunmed 20mg per ml water soluble CBD. Clara has reached out personally just to check on my little girl. I am so thankful I found this place and I am now a complete believer in the healing powers of CBD.
I have even referred friends with similar issues to this place. If you are a mom and you are on the fence with trying CBD, I say to take the chance. We are so happy we did.
Thank you Clara! You have been absolutely amazing!