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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
Marie @marield65, one time I had to stop a med, clomipramine, cold turkey, thus the incoherence. The hospital couldn't give it to me IV, and I wasn't supposed to take anything by mouth. It took 6 people to get me into restraints. It lasted several days. Another time, I reacted to Morphine IV, thought all the tubes and wires were snakes crawling on me. That wasn't as bad as the other.
Jim
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. 😉 )
In the whole long list of physicians who are "approved" in Tallahassee, I found a grand total of five. This is our state capital. Granted, it's not a huge city, but still.
You can bet that our legislators get all the drugs they want when they come to town. It was hilarious: when we first moved here, and print newspapers were more important, before the legislative session started, the ads for "escorts" and "masseuses" (as opposed to licensed massage therapists, who are completely legit) and "nude dancers" would SKYROCKET.
Any number of legislators would get picked up for driving under the influence of something or other. And then they'd get a little light slap on the wrist. (Football players also driving under the influence were usually just let go without even a wrist slap. Football Is God in Tallahassee. It is why Florida State University exists. Apparently.) Your average Joe or Jane got much worse than that.
I went to a meeting of the Tallahassee Bar Association a number of years back. To say that over 90 percent of the attendees got completely plastered before they drove home is to put it mildly. One attorney I knew had totaled her car twice after attending Tallahassee Bar Association get-togethers. I feel very cynical. Can you tell?
Hazel
I think chocolate helps EVERYTHING! 🙂
Hazel
It does pay to be cynical...not very much though ☺ (pay that is!)
Jim, this sounds horrible!!!!!
I was on some heavy-duty pain medication when I came down with Bell's palsy. The pain in my ears felt as though someone were repeatedly shoving a sharply pointed instrument deep into my ears. Yikes! I was told that I could take one or two of the tablets. I wish I could remember now what they were. One was fine. However, when I took two, I started to hallucinate: I saw a computer screen floating in front of me, with my hand in it, writing away on a yellow legal pad. My husband found me trying to shove the "computer screen" out of the way and muttering, "Why do I need a computer if I'm writing all this out by hand?" I NEVER took two pain pills again after that!
Hazel
If only I were paid for my cynicism, I'd be rich today!
Hazel