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06-18-2013, 11:56 PM
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I finally got my medical marijuana card. By using a high CBD cannabis I was finally able to get off the opiates after 10 years. My Oxycontin script was 160mg plus Roxicodone as a breakthrough. The last few years it was all Roxi (90mg every 3 hrs). (+Valium & Neurontin) It took almost a year of tapering off to 30mg...then 15mg. I tried withdrawing 3x from 15mg and my spine pain was awful after 3 days. The doctors put me on Suboxone which was way worse than Roxi. Suboxone made me high and stayed in my system longer so we stopped that. The past few months I was on 8mg Roxi then 4mg and have been totally off for a month now. It's a lot of cannabis to use to make up for the opiates but the first 2 weeks are the worst. I'm taking vitamins & supplements, getting massage, TENS unit, using massage chair. If I can get off opiates, anyone can. I've had doctors tell me there's "no hope" and I'd be on opiates & anti-depressants the rest of my life. A year ago I almost believed them, now I know better. Get off the opiates and get a medical marijuana card and high CBD cannabis. I still have the same chronic pain, I'm just dealing with it differently.
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06-21-2013, 06:37 PM
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I am so happy for you. Congrats. That was a lot of opiods you were on. I am not ready yet to go the marijuana route, but your news is very encouraging. I work, (one evening a week) for a research endocrinologist . He had just reviewed an article on endocrine problems do to opiod meds and just shook his head and said it effects a lot. I have hypopituitarism , but for like 10 years about 5r ahead of opiods. But just last week got diagnosed with a cortisol deficiency. Now i am back to taking steroids, sure sounds like taking marijuana is better for my body.
What form do you use? Are they pills? Thanks again judy
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11-06-2013, 04:46 PM
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re medical marijuana
Judy,
there are various forms that can be utilized now and much more dose specific from what I've heard.. it's much more of a science now supposedly. I was just talking to someone the other day that told me he used a vaporizer and that way one doesn't smoke it and gets a more profound dose with less of the substance. This is a person who works full time and owns his own business and uses it for pain relief as he doesn't want to take opiates/other drugs. I've been on opioid medication now since 2001 and am concerned as well about long term use. I have not increased my dose however in all the years taking it.
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