I will give you my wife's experience based on recommendations from her doctors. Her medical condition is not yours (I hope) but she had a sleep problem and she used pot edibles for that, per the recommendations of her pain doctors who are anesthesiologists. In the USA, you see a "pain doctor" if you need to be maintained on opioid pain killers. A year or two before the pandemic hit, our medical establishment (CDC) finally admitted that some patients must be so maintained, but it is still a rocky road for pain patients dealing with non-specialist physicians and with pharmacies. Every patient's goal is to get their daily dose below the equivalent of 50 mg of morphine. 50 mg is where the statistical curve for accidental death and suicide begins to go vertical. The more you sleep, the less pain killer you need. That is how my wife's pain problem became a sleep problem, and her goal was 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night.
Per her anesthesiologist pain doctors, THC is what works and chocolate bars are by far the best way to take it. My wife's average weight is 100 pounds, and they recommended 20 mg of THC at bedtime. You need to use common sense with this, because your appropriate dose of any daily medication can vary with the weather. In hot weather you sweat, you lose water and body mass, and the effective dose of your regular medications becomes higher. If you're dehydrated, a regular dose of your blood pressure medication can put you into hypotension.
In our state, edible pot is sold in 100 mg chocolate bars divided into 10 segments. There are different mixtures, but most people use 100% THC bars and the dose is 10 mg per segment. A popular U.S. manufacturer nationally is GTI in Colorado, both for quality of cannabis and chocolate. Legal cannabis in Illinois must now be grown and processed in state, but GTI has a subsidiary here and their Illinois bars are sold at our neighborhood dispensary. My wife's experience with the Colorado bars was positive. She was able to reduce her daily pain killer dose from 60 mg to 45 mg morphine equivalent, and the sleep aid from her cannabis chocolate bars made her withdrawal less painful. In the end, they proved too effective as a sleep aid. Thanks to three kids and tubal ligation, she has reduced bladder capacity. She began pissing the bed and finally had to give up pot!
I satisfied my curiosity about reefer and lost interest 55 years ago, when it cost $100 per kilo. GTI's chocolate bars are much more expensive for recreational users and I haven't tried them. I read a review of their Colorado bars online, by a man who said he weighed 150 pounds. He said 50 mg gave him a long-lasting high he could function with and do other things. With 80 mg he was totaled and fell asleep in a few hours — much to his disgust, since he took it to get high!
