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I was addicted to opiates for 9 months. Don't like being addicted to anything--never smoked when it was considered SOO uncool in my generation not to.
Please don't dismiss CBD (non THC marijuana) if you haven't tried it. We're not talking about your youthful toking here.
I have had "juvenile " arthritis for 60 years. Degenrative discs at both ends of my spine. Every joint in my body hurts. Botched knee surgery that caused my leg to break and have to be put back together with plate and screws and never fully recovered. A hernia that caused my stomach to migrate up against my lungs and had to be moved and anchored. And four colon surgeries with removal of a length of the colon PLUS sepsis in the hospital and now a tortious colon that can spasm and give me sudden pain. I've been dealing with pain and searching for relief all my life.
CBDs work. You just have to find the right one and the right dose. They were the only thing that allowed me to get off the opiates.(That and my caring doctor who kept writing prescriptions as I tried to find the CBD products that would help.)
As I detailed another place in Mayo, I currently use Tommy Chong's Night and Day formulas. Tinctures that you take orally. Nothing in them gets you high--just nano technology that offers relief and the best sleep I've had in years. I also use Nightingale Remedies CBD Relief Cream--topical, no THC, but includes MSM to cross the skin barrier quickly and also a dozen natural herbs that offer pain relief. And because some studies have shown that CBD actually works better with a little THC, on very bad days I use Gron gummies. I don't take this if I'm going to drive but on bad days I mostly want to stay in bed anyway.
I tried dozens of CBD products before I hit on this combination that works for me. But I couldn't live without them now--my quality of life so much better than it was.
Hopefully there are others who want to take a less passive approach to finding pain relief, so it isn't helpful to dismiss CBDs. They work well for some of us.
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I don't dismiss CBD or any particular drug and I wouldn't. I was onlybaddressing the difficulty doctors are having now in legitimately prescribing any drugs that 'might' (by the government) be considered possibly habit-forming. I had mycoplasma pneumonia and whopping cough and, in order to prescribe 48 hours worth of hydrocodone, the doctor's office manager had to file paperwork to 4 different government websites. And the prescription could not be called into the pharmacy. It had to be printed and taken, by patient no less, to the pharmacy. And we had to try 11 different pharmacies to find one that had it in stick. So, there I was, with a fever of 104, taking my feverish self to a pharmacy that did not have a drive-through window, exposing everyone to the germs I was carrying, just to be able to get a cough-suppressant so I could maybe sleep through the night. I had been sent to the ER earlier in the day but the hospital lost the admitting papers and sent me home, with a then-temperature if 104.5.
The state's prescription laws made unnecessary work for the physicians, intolerable inconvenience for patients and loved ones and have so far not dented the illicit drug trade. I feel for people in chronic pain whose access to life-saving pain help is being restricted by stupid laws passed by those not suffering themselves. I read a comment once wherein a physician referred to 'the tyranny of the healthy' who don't always understand the lives of those who aren't so lucky. I think that policy makers and politicians can be guilty of that myopia.