Dory,
Thank you!!!! Please, be wordy. Your description was incredibly helpful! I am dealing with similar pain issues from MS. The muscle spasticity and pain make it hard to sleep. During the day, I have all sorts of symptoms that interfere with daily life. Some of which are difficulty with pain, balance, holding items, temperature sensitivity, bladder spasms, shooting nerve pain, and brain activity similar to seizures but mine originate in the brainstem causing all sorts of issues. Prednisone is their go to drug to help the inflammation in my nervous system calm down, but we all know how awful that stuff is. Ugh.
The tegretol, tramadol, soma, hydroxyzine cocktail for bedtime is one I would relish throwing in the trash. So it is incredibly helpful to hear your report on the the alcohol based tincture. Burning of the mouth does not sound like fun. The oil is where I think I will end up for steady relief, with some edibles for long-lasting sleep help, topical cream for pain (and the feet - yes!), and vaping for breakthrough pain and brain activity.
Again, thank you. Your post was just the kind of thing I need.
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Thankfully, I am far from an addictive personality and have never had issues. In fact, I swing too far to the other side where I will take less than needed to deal with the pain, because I hate the side effects. So then I end up with breakthrough pain and have to play catch up. I'm not the best patient sometimes. :
But more than anything, I wish the public had not been systematically misled by the government on cannabis. I'm convinced I would not be in the position I am today if it had never been looked down upon.
You always have 420 minutes from the original post time to make an edit. One of my favorite quirks of our system.
Most people don't understand the biology of addiction. With opioids it's not a matter of being an addictive personality, it's that opioids cause a biological mechanism to activate that makes the drug you're taking something that you must have or your body's incessant cravings will drive you out of your mind, quite literally. Then there's that quirk they have of suddenly causing more pain than they were treating.
The pharmaceutical companies have been aware of this from the very beginning.
Cannabinoids can shortchange the mechanism that causes those cravings, offer its own, safer and more natural alternative to pain reduction and also deal with the attending inflammation that caused the pain in the first place. Then it cuts the awlful reaccuring memories of the pain and brings you back to now. No memory of past pain dogging you, and removing the fear of future pain, now that you found a natural substance that speaks to your own healing force instead of hammering it's way into the cycle.
Healing on your terms, not on theirs. Too much of the pharma industry became about profits. Looking at the dismal state of Huntington, WVA will convince even the most hardened among us that the companies are complicit in the epidemic we're working so hard to counteract.
For me....in my limited cannabis experience (5 strains)...the Alaskan Thunderfuck has worked the absolute best....even on muscle spasms after hard sessions of physical therapy. Chemdawg 4 has worked well for night time....but isn't as strong of relief. The ATF isn't a real common strain anymore...and it's unlikely that what I have is the real old school strain, but whatever it is, it works.
