Hepatitis Forums
Hepatitis C Main Forums => Considering Hepatitis C Treatment => Topic started by: 11Points on June 18, 2018, 10:36:42 am
-
Have extreme pain issues, and I use a small amount of cannabis illegally to manage it. I've ran the gambit of ??? opiates, from Tylenol 3's to Oxycontin 80's (x3) and besides never working, they always, and I mean always led me eventually straight back to IV heroin use. On and off, I've been prescribed, over & under, anything and everything. The only thing that takes the edge off my pain and allows me to cope with daily activities without being an asshatto the world is cannabis. I currently find myself in Arkansas, and I cannot get my HCV treatment because I fail for THC. How crappy is that. 30-45 days is a long time to go in constant pain. I know putting off my hep treatment isn't a good idea, but geesh... it seems overwhelming.
-
I hope some US readers can help you out with your insurance question, but I have another question. What is the cause of your chronic pain? I ask because I suffer from chronic nerve pain in several parts of my peripheral nervous system, mainly hands and feet, but also a patch on the front of my lower left leg. This kind of burning pain is called neuritis. I take 2700 mg of Gabapentin each day, but I have always wondered if cannabis would help. At this moment, in Canada, it isn't legal, except medicinally with a prescription. But the new law is in the process of being passed. We're expecting it to be legal by July.
-
Car accident about 20 years ago that I never sought treatment for. I had my wisdom teeth out, got a Vicodin script, and my Momma ate them like candy... guess apples don't fall far because I got way hooked on opiates. So yah, when I did try to get treatment for my chronic back/shoulder pain, no one would prescribe me anything. Little bitty micro-doses of cannabis though sort me right out. It's strange how they will let people suffer before they will "save face" on the cannabis issue.
I haven't smoke recently, I'm really considring trying to abstain, deal with the pain, get the treatment and be done with it... but this disease is strange. I know I have it, I know it can and probably will kill me horribly, but since I don't feel anything every day, it's out of mind.
Out of sight, out of mind. I dunno. Maybe my Momma shoulda spanked me harder, lol. Or maybe I was dropped on my head ;)-
I need treatment, but they want clean urine. *shrugs* I'm so agains even the idea of someone putting laws "on my body" that even if I wasn't ingesting anything, I'd still tell them to go wank... but my life is literally on the line here... so torn apart from think about all this...