Consider These Factors When Calculating Dosage

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There are a large number of factors affect the size of the dosage that will work for you. The quality and potency of the CBD oil will certainly affect what you feel, but other factors to consider include:

  • Your weight
  • Your metabolism
  • Your diet
  • The condition being treated
  • The severity of your illness
  • Your tolerance to CBD

We’ll provide some general guidelines regarding weight and suggested dosage, but keep in mind that your weight may change. This can cause the amount of CBD you need to change as well.

If you lose weight (because of a decrease in anxiety, depression, or psychosis), the CBD dosage may go down. If you gain weight (because of regaining your appetite or no longer being nauseated), the amount of CBD may increase. That’s why it’s crucial to record your progress so you can adjust things accordingly.

Other factors are not so easy to adjust. Metabolism doesn’t really change unless you make a drastic alteration in your habits (going from a sedentary lifestyle to an active lifestyle, for example). In addition, you can’t quantify your metabolism (assign a number to it), so it can be tricky to gauge the speed of your digestion. But, from experience, you probably know whether you have a fast metabolism or a slow metabolism.

Similarly, your tolerance level can have a major effect on the amount of CBD you need. Tolerance is particularly stubborn and often requires weeks, months, or even years to change.

All of these factors should be considered, tweaked, and recorded as you work through the CBD dosage calculator.

Dosage Suggestions

Below, we’ve produced a table of dosage suggestions based on your weight and the severity of your ailment (pain level). Use these as suggestions as a starting point and adjust your dosage up or down accordingly.

CBD dosage calculator table

With these suggestions in mind, let’s move to our CBD dosage calculator.

CBD Dosage Calculator Method
Each CBD oil product will have a different dosage amount and a different percentage of CBD per dose. Thankfully, all it takes is a bit of simple math and you can use these numbers (along with the starting dosage recommendations listed above) to find how much CBD oil to take to get the right amount of CBD. Here’s how to do it.

First, read the label of your CBD oil of choice to find the serving suggestions. It will probably say something like:

Serving Size: X drops

Elsewhere on the label will be listed the amount of CBD (in milligrams) per serving. With that information, you can use our CBD dosage calculator method to find the dose that’s just right for you.

To help you in this regard, we’ll walk you through calculating your ideal dose using a hypothetical CBD oil.

Sample Calculation

Below is the serving size and amount of CBD per serving for our hypothetical CBD oil:

Serving Size: 10 drops

Amount Per Serving: 25 mg

From that information, we can write the following equivalency:

10 drops = 25 mg CBD

Now, let’s say you are a 180-pound male with mild pain. Your starting dosage per the chart above would be 18 mg. Rather than take too much too soon, we can figure out how much CBD each drop contains by dividing 25 by 10.

25 divided by 10 = 2.5

So each drop of CBD oil contains 2.5 mg of CBD.

Now, we can take our starting dosage from the chart (18 mg) and divide it by 2.5 mg to find out how many drops we need.

18 divided by 2.5 = 7.2

It takes 7.2 drops to administer 18 mg of CBD. It’s going to be nearly impossible to give yourself 0.2 of a drop, so round this number to 7. If the number after the decimal is five or higher, consider rounding up instead of down.

So all you need to do is:

Find the serving size for your CBD oil (in this case, 10 drops).
Find the CBD in milligrams (mg) that serving size contains (in this case, 25 mg).
Determine the suggested starting dosage for your weight and condition.
Do a little simple math.
No complicated formulas. No fancy tools necessary.

General Guidelines

To find just the right dosage for your situation, we highly recommend starting small. Remember, the least amount of medicine you can take to feel relief from your symptoms the better.

Experiment with a certain dosage for three days to give your body time to react to the medication. Adjust the dosage up or down accordingly for the next three-day period. If you feel any discomfort from a dosage, decrease it immediately the next time you take the CBD oil. You can always increase gradually from there.