Last March after a discussion with a guy pulling his shirt open in the
cold to show me surgical scars from tumor removal. He was going on
about the curative value of pot. This guy is legal, licensed by Rhode
Island. And at that moment, to me, the guy was nuts. Desperate is my
situation with pain and pain meds. Two years ago I was on 3 times as
much narcotics as today.

Peripheral Neuropathy does not respond well to narcotics. OTC's
failed me many years ago. I researched pot and low and behold there
were credible studies endorsed by the US Dept of Health and
researchers in the UK which found smoked cannabis reaches receptors in
the extremities where PN pain is and it decreased pain effectively.
Stop pain with POT! Don't I wish.....

Personally, having watched my father suffer, I do not want to smoke
anything. I stuff most of my dosage into a gelcap . The seed oil is
healthful too.

Why then had I given this product up since I was familiar with it in
my high school and college daze. Today I sense the dysphoria and have
learned to moderate my dosage. I do not pack the gelcap as tight as I
first did.

I do feel different. By shear absent mindedness I have cut my morphine
useage in half. All these pills were left over in my
SevenDayMedServer. I don't fool around with my SSRI med, Cymbalta. I
don't think I missed any, but I am not 100% sure. Dysphorea is a nice
description of the mood when it becomes overbearing. Bummer. It is
nice to feel different.

My day now, instead of doing household chores with a vibrating
intensity followed by a glazed nap I seem to float to it at a slow
pace. I feel a little more relaxed and think I am sleeping better.

A few days later

I was very sick with my neuropathy and it seemed to go beyond the
brain and or the flesh. They were like clouds of pain suspended over
me. It was a bodywide migraine, the trigemital, TMJ pain in every
joint and along my spine. Using the device I got called a vaporizer I
was able to find a level of relief by using about 3 times the doseage
I had been using until now.

I remember the stuff lasted less long in the days of my youth but I
had friends to share with back then. I don't feel goofy, stoned or
high I am just searching for pain relief and a reduction in narcotic
usage.

Tonight there is a statewide meeting for MariMedical Card Holders. I
tell you how it goes.

Al