Boy, where to start with this one. The old saying that if I knew I would live this long I would have taken better care of my body applies here. I have broken 22 different bones and some more than once. ACL repair on one knee, degenerative cartlidge in both knees. Dislocated both shoulders, concusions, surgery to reattach my bicep, too many screws and plates to count. To say I have chronic pain is an understatement. Medical marijuana is a godsend for me. I can actually sleep at night without having to resort to Vicodine, Oxy, Valum, Demerol, etc. I have a medicine cabinet full of that garbage. None of them do for me what MMJ does and no nasty side effects. Applying for my card now.
OMG you are Me are the same when it comes to a medicine cabinet of useless meds. I was struck and dragged by a truck myself well to be exact Just before the impact I saw his mirror coming straight at my face so I lifted my arms by instinct alone ,but as he had the type of side mirrors you see on pickup trucks towing horse trailers,( the extra long ones made from tube steel) My one arm went between the tubes and my weight basically locked me in place I couldnt get free (the driver who was drunk which I could tell when he finnaly stopped) didnt notice I was caught up and continued along at around 25-35 kmh but so close the the front bumpers of the other cars in the lot dragged me across the hood of 5 cars and when the hood ran out on each I was swung off the hood at which point my lower back and hips would impact on the Front fender of the next car over and over untill I finally got free, oh I should also mention I was cut up pretty bad from the hood ornaments. But after all this happened not one person came over to offer any assistance the drunk wouldnt give me his license and insurance info but did flash a badge at me ,(turns out he was a metro toronto fire fighter) anyways after arguing for his information for 15 minutes I managed to hobble over to the pay phone which was only 100' away from where I was by the time I reached it however he had left and i was able to get his license plate but as there was snow on his bumper that last digit which was a X Was blocked enough that i believed it was a K so 2 weeks later they catch up to him inform him as to why they were there and what my allegation where . He told the police that I had informed him that he had struck me and dragged me but he didnt believe he had so he left when i went to call the police which he also informed them I had told him that I was doing it. Police at this point inspected his 1973 pickup truck and couldnt find any damage or bending to the mirror poles, (which were the stock larger size option and available seecond hand in a great many auto wreckers and with the 2 weeks he had there is a great likely hood he just went and bought the same model from a wrecked truck and they would look just like the originals) so they didnt charge him with anything including leaving the scene of an accident . Because he wasnt charge with anything over this accident my insurance company only offered me 3000$ to help cover cost of physiotherapy and that was the end of it as far as they were concerned. As a side note I found out about a year later that this man Was an ex metropolitan toronto police officer who had to retire due to shaking hands making him unable to safely fire a gun ,he then was retrained at the toronto fire academy and became a criminal Fire investigator so you would think that with his training in law enforcement and safety habits. Sorry rambled a bit there but wanted to let you know what led up to the current useless medication I have had to take .
So over the past 9 years my medications have been
a.) oxycontin 40mg 3 times a day but due to tolerance build up was increased to 60mg 3 times per day
b. for breakthru pain I was prescribed 120 percocets a month taking 2 -4 per day ,these were also for chronic severe migraines
c. Paxil for depression and anxiety
d. Amitriptyline 25mg x2/day for stress and its supposed to help with pain from fibromyalgia
e. Clonazeapam for anxiety ,stress and chronic insomnia
f. Cessamet for nausea and to promote appetite (this is basically a synthetic form of Marijuana)
g. Toradol for muscle spasms
h. Methadone 100mg/day presently as my doctor changes me to this from oxycontin whenever my tolerance to the oxycontins get to high I.E when 50mg 3x per day plus the 2-4 percocets/day still leaves me with a pain rating of 3-4 out of 10. He puts me on Methadone to offset the sickness that comes with a decrease in opioids and then weans me down to so that When I resume oxycontin treatment he is able to put me on a prescription 30% weaker then the amoount I Last started with usually after 9-12 months of methadone I am able to get effective pain relief from 60mg oxycontin and may need 1-2 percocets at most for breakthrough pain but my main problem with opioids isnt the tolerance I build up but for some reason it really affects my ability to concentrate i have been told I fall asleep mid sentence and wake up within 2-10 minutes and continue on with whatever we were talking about, or sometimes when asked a question I answer but not the actual question the funny thing is sometime when asked a question Ill answer but the answer will be based on whatever i was thinking about and not the question for example If i was watching Stargate sg1 and getting right into the program if someone asked me a question about anything I have given answers like just Dial the DHD and we can get going home , But when I can afford to have it I smoke 3.5-6grams /day smoked and another 3-4 grams ingested my pain rates 1-2 at the most 90% of the time and if I should say stumble and get a sharp shooting pain it usually is about a 5 out of 10 . But with oxycontin and percocet the does has to be fairly high i.e 100-150 mg plus 4 percocets /day to keep me at a constant pain level of 2-3 with breakthrough pain reaching a 7 or 8 out of 10, But even worse then the constant pain is when I have gotten muscle spasms while coming down my entrance steps that has gone as high a 8-10 and causing my legs to give out and fall down the stairs ,so in the last year I have had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance 7 times because of Falling down the stairs causing even more damage to my spine which at this point consists of my L3,4 and 5 disks are herniated,bulging and mis-shappen from the damage which is degenerative last mri was taken 4 years ago so my present pain doctor estimates that damage that was immiediately apparent has increase about 35% and the damage that wasnt visible on the mri at that time have become as bad the original injury, And what makes all this worse is due to the medication I am forced to take just to be able to live with constant pain level of 4 also effect my sex drive and at this point My wife is beginning to feel as if though she no longer turns me on and is causing us extreme marital ,In fact I believe if I cant get the pain ,muscle spasms and other problems like the nausea and fatigue under control she will divorce me due to lack of intimacy in the marriage. But in contrasts when I have the money to be able to use 6-8 grams per day 3-4 smoked and the rest ingest in food or Drinks my pain level hardly if ever gets past a 3 if I do something to aggravate it severly, Depression is virtually non-existent, anxiety is ats though it never existed, migraines become extremely rare, sex drive has increased to the point where my wife has had to turn me down. And the cessamet which is a synthetic form of marijuan for nausea I no longer need as with the MJ my appetite is excellent I enjoy food that I usually never would have eaten like broccoli, spinach ,artichoke and many other vegetables befor Mj I would only eat carrots ,corn ,potatoes,peas, tomatoes ,lettuce and cuccumbers. This is why I call Marijuana a broad spectrum treatment of great potence and enjoyabilty mainly because when I take all the other meds I am on there is no way I could eat very much before nausea would set in and turn me off from eating. So to sum it all up I feel and seems My DR agrees with me Me that marijuana treatment is the most natual and effective way to go for me in the fact that all the individual pills and opioid/synthetic opiod treatment just isnt for me anymore as I had no choice at the time of my accident to even consider marijuana if it had been I feel I probably would have been out of work maybe (8months - a year) instead I havent been able to work in about 9 years because of the pain and my profession before the accident Was as a pc tech support/repair technician at IBM.
So now you know my background leading up to my requesting Medical Marijuana I am gonna list my diagnosed health issues and if anyone has smilar conditons can you suggest a strain for each one ( name of the bud and if you know what seed bank supplies it)
1.Chronic pain/muscle spasms from spinal cord injury
2. chronic insomnia
3 chronic fatigue
4 fibromyalgia
5 Sleep apnea
6 Nausea
7 chronic migraines
8 Anxiety/depression (most likely caused from the years of pain and not being able to really go out and join life I guess i am getting a bit stir crazy)
For my grow my doctor is recommending about 9 grams per day 3-4g to smoke and about 5grams to ingest so according to the Canadian MMAR MY PUPL or personal use production licence will allow me to have 45 plants growing and able to stor 1800grams so my plan is to keep 4-6 mother plants and then have the rest on My 4 X 4 Ebb and Flood under a 1000w hps hortilux. Of course my clones will also spend about 3 weeks under 4 55w 6500k flourescents at 18/6 before going to table for an addition week of 18/6 before i cut light to 12/12
So lets have some opinions on what type of plants I should keep for mothers I do know that I want to have plants with a average thc % of 15%+ preferably 18%+ but also wanting cbd around 1% and cbn aroung .4%
