Research promotes medical marijuauna

[Sandel]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201332.html

[kathy d]

Sandel,
Funny you should write the email about marijuana because on my soap "General Hospital" there was a scenario about a lady that had cancer and was using it and her ex-husband found out about it and tried to take their child away from her. The drama is still going on in court but it really made me think about others in the same situation and myself who go through constant pain with nothing working. The lady got relief from smoking it and could take better care of their child too. Interesting huh? It really makes you think about other meds out there.

I had an insurance nurse tell me last month that the FDA in the U.S. had not approved Ketamine as a treatment for RSD so she didn't want me to try it to see if it would work. I told her "The FDA approves almost everything so the drug companies can make all their money and then in five years they pull the medicine because they find out it causes some illness." She was stunned and could not even speak. She said she couldn't believe that I was even thinking of doing it then I told her that she couldn't even imagine what pain I was going through each day and how I had no life. She has seemed to quiet down lately though. Funny...when you go up against these insurance companies and give them things to think about they look at you in a different light I think. Just my thoughts. Thanks for an interesting idea.
Kathy d.

[Sandel]

I just recieved a perscription for Nabilone a synthetic THC derivitive of marijuana from my mew chronic pain specialist, I started out by explaining to her that mariwanna has been the only thing that has realy helped me consistantly, and that I had told both my doc and the WCB dork.. oop doc and they didnt seem to care.

She said that she felt very strongly that it should be legalised and explained to me that the marijuana that is given out so called medicinaly is mabie only 20-30 % of the THC found in street marawana. She explained to me that she could help me get a script for it but she felt in light of the above fact it would be more work than benifit, but I think I will want to go that route in the future.

The Nabailone works almost as well as smoking it medicinaly did, but without the lung crap that comes along with putting anything into our lungs, another way that works well for pain relief is marajiuana baked into cookies or brownies, (as butter) that works more like the pain relief I get from the Nabilone pills I am taking now. takes the edge and the pain noise down a few notches and I can breath and relax a bit through the pain when it's bad, and it also relieves the nausia that I usualy get quite alot.

She also perscribed me Lyrica.. and wrote a note to my regular doc and the WCB dor.. err doc that is just awsome in suport of an other rumatoligist doc of mine that blasted WCB last month, and she said she agrees with her diagnosises and the seriouseness of this condition fully..
This is what I realy needed right now to help me with WCB apeals .. talking to this doctor was for me was so .. cant think of word empowering sort of and like comeing home, she totaly understands what I am dealing with.. I am just not used to that..

Both perscriptions are working I an backing off the gabipentin (gab) as I take the lyrica, eyes are fuzzy but they are with the gab too so we will see if it recedes a bit as I go down on the gab. And I have been dreaming odly we shall see how this goes.. I usualy do not like to start 2 new meds at once.. ohh well.

Big huge soft hugs, I will try post more tomorow I am so happy to hear from you and thank you for your response, I hope people can understand and not judge marijuanat it is no more a bad drug than any other medicine, its uses and abuses touted a little moren others but it has been around for as long as we have and it works for me bettern any med and with less interactions with my other meds too.

See too much venting ohh well I get to send you more hugs now,
Sandra

[Sandel]

I am very hapy to see how you delt with that insurance person.. you go girl!!

[WellLovedMom]

I would think that most of use here shouldn't have any problems ethically with marijuauna, as most of the medications that we are on are far stronger, but often don't really do the job, or have terrible side effects. I think it is SO SILLY that they haven't legalized marijuauna yet. It truely does have great medical possibilities, but some bureaucrats got to it before the medical community, and there went any hope of helping people who truely need help!

I have seen the darker side too, as the neighbor kid sold from his home for a few years (middle-class neighborhood and all!) with drug runs from 11 p.m. to 2-3 a.m. nightly, but I'm still an advocate for medical marijuauna. My only complaint with the neighbor kid was the element that came into our neighborhood and the vandalism to my car. Also, having my kids learn what a "buy" looks like wasn't a life experience I thought they needed so young, but it did teach them about people making poor choices in life. Medical users are not that element. The truth is that the two groups are apples and oranges.

I have a SEVEN page spread sheet of medications I have tried and failed (image the expense, not to mention the damage to my body) due to terrible side effects. Marijuanuna isn't one for me (image, I had side effects :rolleyes: ), but it can helps so many others who can't tolerate harsh narcotics.

[RoguePixie]

Is Nabilone available everywhere ?:D

[Sandel]

I am in BC and my little village pharmacy had Nabilone stocked, it is also called Cesamet. There are other brands but this is the only one I have tried and it seems to realy help.. expecialy with the nausia and that sence I get of being off ballance.. it seems to equalise me a bit which is realy great cause it's a problem for me right now. *she says less dizzily*

I haven't continued with the Lyrica because my doc put in a request to WCB for coverage and they did not get the fax?? so after being on lyrica for over a week and weaning my gabipentin down to half at 400 mg all the sudden they are not covering the lyrica. :(

So I had a nasty week going back up on the gabipentin before burning to death... ya ya so I am exagerating but man I didn't know my meds were controlling that much nasty hurt.. I must remember to whine less as it can always be worse *laughs at self:rolleyes:*

Hugs friends
Sandra