@sandytoes14

I'm truly sorry for your troubles.

Jim

@contentedandwell

I take Generlac, which I suppose is another name for Lactulose, and have gotten to like the taste. I've found that if I eat a couple of bites of chocolate right before taking the Generlac, it makes it taste better.

Jim

What my friend gets doesn't have any THC at all. She says that it doesn't get her feeling stoned and that she can think clearly and walk fine--and she suffers from back pain and uses a cane to get around. She likes the kind that you can put under your tongue. She seems to use only a drop or two and says that that really helps a lot. She's also on pain meds but is, with her doctor's help, weaning herself off them. She says that the MM really calms down stressed-out muscles and is really pleased with the way it works.

Me, I've been losing my balance and falling over for most of my life! 🙂 I am a klutz. (I flunked elementary ballerina lessons when I was about 5 because I was so clumsy.) My primary care had sent me to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, some years back because she was concerned I might have multiple sclerosis. I didn't, but the docs said I should come back in a few years and be retested, just in case.

Speaking of klutziness: I was walking down the stairs from our house to the ground two weekends back when somehow my left sandal slipped off (they're the kind you have to grip with your toes; like Birkenstocks, but much cheaper), and somehow my toes got stomped under the rest of my foot. I've had problems with my left foot since 1968, when I had to have a benign tumor removed from a toe, and the foot's been operated on several times. My husband insisted that we go to a doc in the box--of course, these things always happen on the weekends--and by the time we got there, my toe was turning technicolors. Turns out that I'd broken it, but it wasn't a complete fracture. (This is only the second bone break I've had in my life. About a year ago, when our old dog was much friskier, she pulled me down the same stairs and into a post. That produced a hairline fracture in one of my ribs. Wow. I had no idea how much a rib fracture could hurt! If only one didn't need to breathe. . . . ) Anyway, the doc in the box suggested just taping that toe to the one next to it and keeping it elevated.

Hazel

I would have to read the Florida Statutes regarding this matter. I haven't done so. I'm sure the statutes vary from state to state, as they do on just about anything else.

Isn't this utterly absurd? The feds say no. The states, or at least many of them, say yes. The War on Drugs is so bogus. It should have been/should be concentrating on dangerous instrumentalities. But instead, we lock up far too much of the population over marijuana. Do we lock up people for possession of booze? (Well, OK, in some states, you can't have it out in the street unless it's wrapped in a brown paper bag. What puritanical nonsense.)

Idiocy.

Hazel

Thanks so much for this, John! I haven't even started researching MM in Florida. What utter craziness. I wonder who does the "full physical examination and assessment of medical history"? I get a complete physical every year from my primary care, and my psychiatrist is someone I've been seeing for umpteen years. But I'm sure none of that is good enough. Again, I suspect that it all boils down to $$$: BigPharma owns most of our legislators, and BigPharma doesn't stand to make money off MM, so it tells legislators how to vote. With enough money stuffed into their pockets, the legislators bow down and do BigPharma's bidding. (My husband's an attorney/bill drafter for the Florida House of Representatives, so I get to hear plenty about the making of bills, which is far nastier than making any kind of sausage you can think of, and I'm an attorney, albeit a nonpracticing one. Through choice and not through disbarment. 😉 )

I think chocolate helps EVERYTHING! 🙂

Hazel

@hazel I totally agree with you, Hazel. We are consumers who are choosing to spend our money at the doctor of our choice. I would fire the doctor! In actuality, he is an independent contractor who has agreed to do work for you. If you do not like the job he is doing, find someone else. As patients, we need to be assertive (not yelling or being harsh). We have a right to question our treatment and to go else where if we don't like the doctor. He or she will get the hint when their practice starts loosing patients. I find most doctors to be knowledgeable and kind. However, I have found a few that just aren't nice and even some that aren't that knowledgeable; and, I have left and gone elsewhere.

@hazelblumberg YES! Chocolate does help everything!!

Yeppers...definitely need to be your own advocate, learn as much as you can about your health concern and use the knowledge to ask questions of your doctor like you said respectfully. That should help him help you. Most doctors I've had through Mayo have been pretty good at helping when I asked questions. Only negative one I've had was at the Long Beach, Ca. VA Hospital after I got out of the Navy and had to go there for a follow up for unfinished dental work that was backlogged when I was discharged. He was ...well, don't have anything nice to say about him so I'll leave it at that.

John