Which delivery method are you using for the marijuana?

Vaporizing

Hi canagirl
Sorry to hear you're still having such a hard time with this. Thinking of you and hoping you find some relief soon.

Remembered another post I read which may interest you. It's about using Taurine to help relieve neuralgia/neuropathy symptoms. There's not a lot of detailed info there but it may be worth researching further.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread221688.html

All the best.

Added later: canagirl - I came across another website which you might find useful. It's rather long-winded but there may be something helpful in there.

Here's the link: http://www.holistichelp.net/dysauton...sfunction.html

Hi Canagirl,

I am very sorry for your discomfort and for your personal anguish. We are dealing with some truly difficult conditions.

I want to share with you: After 30+ years of trying to cope using both CAM approaches and allopathic medicine, seeing some great researchers, etc., I had resorted to trying medical marijuana. In my case, I was left with a lengthy fogginess and a deepened sense of hopelessness. That's how I had reacted. The temporary relief sense of "relief" was strange in sensation and was not worth the lengthy sense of a hangover. Just my experience.

My pain and other symptoms, and any related sense of hopelessness, also gets worse with stress, especially chronic stress. Is there chronic stress in your life? Acute stress?

Have you been treated for depression?
At one time or another, we all feel varying degrees of hopelessness and/or depression while trying to cope with chronic illness(es) and chronic pain.

I will share with you:

I just went through a couple of years of intensive/chronic stress. It was wearing me down more than I knew at the time. I finally hit a "breaking point" and could not deal with the stressor any longer. By the time I had gotten to that point, it had gone on too long! I should have been more honest with myself long before that time. I was able to put an end to the immediate stress, once I had realized the degree of stress involved and what it was doing to me. I have spent the past 6 months trying to recover from exacerbated symptoms, especially severe pain and an associated sense of isolation, as well as experiencing a fluctuating sense of hopelessness. Chronic stress exacerbates the whole picture, all aspects of the condition(s) and recovering often takes a lot of time.

I hope I have learned to more carefully guard against chronic stress.
I have enough to cope with without taking on additional stressors.

Individual and/or group therapy may be very helpful to you?
If possible, getting together with a group of like-minded people might also be helpful.

What's most important is:

What do you find helpful?

So glad you are writing with honesty and are reaching out!

I hope you will continue to reach out!

To our Healing!

DejaVu

DejaVu,

Thank you for sharing. You write clearly, with the wisdom of experience.

Dave.

Hi Dave,

Nice "meeting" you.
My intent is to be open and supportive/helpful.
I am glad you feel there is clarity. I've been concerned about clarity due to pain and related fogginess, etc.
I am happy to share here.
Hope to see you around the forum!

To our healing!
DejaVu