With each injury and surgery, there are always narcotics prescribed. These a clearly necessary for the short term, but not for the long-term pain that can take years to resolve. The result is years of NSAID ingestion which are hard on the liver and kidneys, don’t target any specific area, and are often just ineffective.

Again, to say I have tried every kind of topical cream just willing to spend the money hoping something other than a pill would help. This list of prescription and over-the-counter creams I have tried is endless, and nothing has ever really been effective. But I still try anything new so I can avoid taking a pill.

As the years have passed, I have also watched my parents become arthritic, have joint replacements, and gain the pain of old age. It’s also been hard to manage their pain because the other medications involved with aging can be negatively affected by pain medications. I’ve seen steroids prescribed to help with arthritis, then seen the long term effect of the resulting suppressed immune system. It’s horrible.

It was the failure, or lack of pain relief, of a CBD cream that inspired, ACHE BREAK. I realized that though the CBD may have benefits to the body, I wasn’t getting a quick enough response that after a few days, I gave up an quit using. I had enough and started thinking about what I would make if I were to ever make a topical cream. (Ironically, this is when I started to remember my backround in science as a chemist, microbiologist and semi-conductor quality control engineer. I had spent 20 years removed from industry that I had never considered I could use my education to create something for me.)