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@marycdickens01

I’m just curious ; could you adjust your cbd dose (I’m sure you do not need to have this suggested to you , but I’m curious as to what your experience with CBD has been ).
I use a lotion form of CBD that I buy from Whole Foods . It doesn’t affect me mentally.
It seems so unfair to live with the terrible pain and dysfunction of neuropathy without some sort of relief .
I have neuropathy , but I’m on lyrica and a small fentanyl patch for other reasons . But when my patch is not changed or I have been out of my meds , my feet really start to hurt so badly and it’s in such a weird way also . I don’t know what I would do if I could not take those meds . Perhaps we need to return to some of these meds in a very controlled fashion instead of allowing people to just suffer . I have been in so much pain before that it superseded anything else in my life and being told to do breathing exercises or imagining my favorite place doesn’t cut it . I came to a place where I thought I just didn’t want to be here anymore ; I didn’t want to kill myself, but I didn’t want to be here, either . So my pain has been basically relieved by the big ole bad opioids that medicine has forsaken . And I don’t apologize for that . It is the only way I can participate in this life at all . So do know that I understand how you feel and I have been there but that I also have found some relief . I will always have a certain amount of pain , but I can pretty happily (no euphoria ) exist this way . I hope and pray you find some help - don’t give up , keep asking .

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Yes, those terrible opioids are a reasonable treatment. Luckily, my primary has me on Lyrica plus low dose time release morphine. He is a physician not afraid to use medication when appropriate. The majority of the medical profession begins to shake in their boots at the mere mention of opioids. I don’t know what I will do when he retires.