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Good evening @peggioh, thanks for responding. Let's see where we are in our sharing and where we may be able to go from here.
About those nightmares, are you being attacked or injured? Are you attacking someone yourself? Do they always start the same way? I haven't done any dream analysis in ages so I am not confident about the causes in the first place or the reasons that they exit. I was beaten by my husband at the time and ended up in the ER on several occasions. That may be why the nightmares took so long to leave me alone. Although I remember the issues, I have never had another dream.
So....let's uncover another option to consider and one I have been actively pursuing for 10 years. After being diagnosed with SFN, one of my nurse friends introduced me to Medical Cannabis. For example, I replaced the Nortriptyline with a tincture dosage composed of 2:1 CBD/THC. Taken about 45 minutes before bedtime, it helps me fall asleep and stay asleep until morning. No longer do my SFN symptoms keep me awake at night or wake me up early in the morning.
For daytime control of the numbness and pain, I use a 1:1 CBD/THC tincture. I also use either a 1:3 CBD/THC topical for acute discomfort on my hands, wrists, and sometimes feet or a 3:1 CBD/THC for the chronic daily situation with my hands in particular.
Have you tried any medical cannabis? Do you live where it is legally and readily available?
May you be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.
Chris
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Dear Chris, thank you for the insights. The nightmares usually involve a deadly pursuit of ME, but then occasionally a gory fight back From me. But even the regular dreams are painfully intense ("vivid"), so much so I wonder how much rest I'm even getting while sleeping! (Such as can't find-your-car-in-parking-lot scenarios, (2 night in a row), relationship angst, etc.)
I've never tried medical cannabis, but yes, it's legal in Massachusetts, and maybe I'll ask my doctor to prescribe some. Peggy
Hello again Chris. I'd like to ask my doctor for a prescription, for medical canabis, but what do people ask for? Is it pill form? (you certainly don't smoke it, I'm sure!) Is the CBD/THC you take a prescription also, or is that separate that you buy yourself? Any good brand? I'm desperate for SLEEP!!!!!
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I see that the cbd gummies with thc are being advertised in a newspaper ad here at a small WI town. It also covers MN so we don't know if it is only legal in MN or here as well. My kids have all warned me it is NOT legal here, while my older relatives say it has to be if it is in the newspaper. I ran it by my kids again and they said "don't do it, mom". I told my older relative that I'd have to hear it from a lawenforcement officer before I'd believe it. I'd love to not need non-natural pain relievers anymore. LOL.. kids still shaking their heads "NO" at me when I point to the ad.