It was pretty surprising to me to see that our typical client is a Vietnam vet, over 60, with neuropathy from being exposed to Agent Orange. We do have young guys with chronic pain from being in bar fights, women with MS, and so on, but the Vietnam vets are far and away the most common.
I don’t know- sorry. I’ve never heard the doctors I work with counsel people to stop their Rx eye drops for glaucoma, so I assume it’s to be used with.
There are different kinds that are good for different conditions. I’ve had at least one patient tell me that smoking distracts them from their pain, if not lessens it.
Could someone with advanced diffuse systemic scleroderma be certified? My wife has chronic pain currently treated with morphine and dilaudid. She also has gastroparesis and patulous esophagus, resulting in vomiting, depressed appetite and weight loss. She has many other symtoms as well, but those are the ones that seem fit the profile of the patients that are approved.
New Hampshre has passed a medical marijuana law through one house of the legislature, and I am trying to find out if she might be eligible if the law is adopted and signed.