Good Morning SweetSue!
Wow you have so much good content, thanks so much.
I haven't had a chance to read too much yet but am taking some time today to read your thread on opiate tapering.
I suffer from PTSD, Bi-Polar, Anxiety and Depression. Along with chronic pain from a congenital deformity in my spine that causes nerve pain/sciatica.
Many years of hardcore opiates led to me ending up on Methadone for the last 9 years and it was cannabis that gave me hope that I can get off it. I have tapered from 245mg day to 90mg a day so far and counting...it's slow but before I would be so uncomfortable even a few mg a week would make things unbearable. Night sweats, no sleep, fibromyalgia/hyper sensitivity to pain...ya the air hurts lol. Try explaining that to someone
(BTW if someone is suffering the above night sweat issue and is into essential oils my wife has a recipe that is amazing. It doesn't stop them but lessons frequency and severity tremendously...Shoot that and a hit of some good indica and i'm back to normal in minutes)
Here's the thing, I wouldn't touch cannabis with a 10 foot pole until about a year ago. Not having smoked since I was younger I thought it would make my symptoms worse as I remember anxiety from weed and that's one of the worst parts of opiate tapering.
That has all changed. I had a favorite as a kid, it's likely northern lights but that is the one strain I remember from childhood that I would have called medicine. Now we have so much medicine and so many ways to treat with cannabis it's amazing.
Also hoping to reduce/stop the pharmaceutical anxiety pills as they are taking my mind and memory from me.
Since returning to cannabis another crazy thing has happened. I have lost 75 pounds. I mentioned this on PW thread.
When someone asked how I lost it, I think my metabolism reset. I am normally 165 pounds and 5'9 so when I started methadone I skyrocketed up to 230 in a few years and stayed until miraculously and painfully for my digestive system it all started coming off, I wasn't as hungry all the time etc.
Anyway hope that you all have a great day and hopefully I can help in some way. I will shut up and read up
Thanks again!