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I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired RANT...It's not about getting "high"....

5/16/2016

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I've shared some information recently on medicinal marijuana and thanks to a message I've received...I'd like to clarify a few things...

It's not about getting high! and if that's what you're using your medication for...you're using it wrong.
If you're avoiding your life so you can stay at home and get high...you're using it wrong. If you are not more active in your life because of your choices...you're using it wrong. (just my opinion)

No matter what medication you're choosing to use...its use is supposed to help you be as active in your life as you can possibly be...right? Isn't that what you're taking it for? To help minimize your pain so you can be involved in your life? So is that what you're doing? Are you more active in your life because of your medication choices? 

I've heard so many times...you just want to get high. NO! it's not that at all. 
I've been down the road of prescriptions and I almost lost my life because of it. BUT I still need help with my pain. I can't control it all the time and I need something that works for me. I found something that helps minimize my pain, the muscles spasms too, the nausea, the burning pain and more...I found something that helps. It's NOT about getting high! And I am really tired of hearing that. 

And I'm not here to push medicinal marijuana on anyone! But I am here to discuss what our options are and medicinal marijuana is a viable alternative. (whether you like it or not...and...) I do realize that this alternative is not for everyone...just like prescriptions aren't for everyone either. It's a personal choice. 

You may call me a pot-head and that's your opinion. Do you call yourself a pill-popper every time you reach for your medication choice? I doubt it. Don't label mine and I won't label yours. Deal? ​

For the last two years I've been encouraging you to find what works best for you...to prepare for and learn to manage your pain so you can be as active in your life as you're able. THAT is my message.

​Are we clear now? 
1 Comment
Bob L. Head
6/13/2016 03:41:18 am

For those of us who have spent years in constant chronic pain with what relief we can get by any means. whose family, friends & healthcare professionals believe due to recent "Opioid Crisis" that we chose to take these medications to get high are entirely wrong. There is an entirely different mind set between recreational use & Needing to take simply to function..
Get the government involved & with their limited thinking, they say NO Opioids for anyone, causing those who have been on them for years to suffer eve more because others are abusing, they are mis-prescribed, over prescribed, diverted for money, ultimately used by people who have no tolerance to them leading to O/D's. There is also the ? how many of the O/D's are intentional, as we sufferer's know there are times just going on is a struggle..
Only those of us who have suffered will COMPLETELY understand, while most of the population do not have a clue how life changing Chronic p[ain is.

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