[MartyD19]

The Illinois Senate recently passed a bill legalizing the use of Medicinal Marijuana to treat only certain conditions. To my surprise, Peripheral Neuropathy was not included.

The specific conditions included in the Bill are: cancer; glaucoma; HIV/AIDS; hepatitis C; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Crohn's disease; agitation of Alzheimer’s disease; cachexia/wasting syndrome; muscular dystrophy; severe fibromyalgia; spinal cord disease; Tarlov cysts; hydromyelia; syringomyelia; spinal cord injury; traumatic brain injury and post-concussion syndrome; multiple sclerosis; Arnold Chiari malformation; Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA); Parkinson’s disease; Tourette’s syndrome; Myoclonus; Dystonia; Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD); Causalgia; CRPS; Neurofibromatosis; Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy; Sjogren’s syndrome; Lupus; Interstitial Cystitis; Myasthenia Gravis; Hydrocephalus; nail patella syndrome; residual limb pain; or the treatment of these conditions.

[januarybabe]

I live in Illinois myself and was wondering about this. I see chronic demyelinating polyneuropathy. Is that PN? I do have pain in many parts of body.

Thank you for posting.

[chaos]

That's horrible. It doesn't cover enough "chronic pain" issues. I assume they are keeping some of it off because they're afraid people will get a prescrip just because. Here in CA I know a lot of people who don't really need a prescrip who are able to get it. But I assume it'll be legal here as a whole in the next few years. Here is the list for CA
https://www.marijuanadoctors.com/content/ailments/index

This page indicates debilitating pain, so if this is true, then it would be covered:
https://www.marijuanadoctors.com/pen.../qualification

For me I haven't been able to find another medicine that helps the pain. I'm too sensitive to opiates. Even ibuprofen upsets my stomach. Plus I've gotten migraines since I was a teenager.

[glenntaj]

--or CIDP, is only one type of peripheral neuropathy.

It is often considered to be the slower onset form of Guillain Barre syndrome, and often follows a relapsing-remitting course; it's been likened to a multiple sclerosis of the peripheral nerves. Symptoms vary, but for most people motor symptoms predominate over sensory ones.

It is sad that more specific neuropathies were not mentioned. In my experience neuropathies that involve the small, unmyelinated fibers that subsume the sensations of pain and temperature are often the most painful, and the pain in these is unlike regular nociceptive pain--it is pain of damaged nerves sending erroneous signals and variously interpreted by the brain as burning, lancing, electrical jolting, involving phantom sensations, and the like. The sensations are hard to describe--my favorite way is to have someone imagine that they've received a bad sunburn and then had it rubbed down with steel wool.