Thank you Renata for approving my thread. I will underline 2 points that I make in my opening posting and they are firstly that this is prescription cannabis not street bought cannabis and secondly that it is smoked through a vaporiser and not mixed with tobacco. It is not set alight in a vaporiser.

I am keen to hear from anyone else who has tried this route successfully or otherwise.

Frank

Hello Frank

          reading through your post l can empathise with the effects of neuropathy. Having become one of the lucky recipients following Bowel Cancer treatment l can attest to the ever present effects of this blessing.

Now ten years on from the onset of this problem, l spent the first three years dropping everything and constantly falling over with unfeeling throbbing feet. l lived with kneepads to protect myself. What it did not do was deter me from getting back to where l was before

Your last sentence struck a chord insomuch as l fully understand what you are trying to convey. Where l would differ with you is the method of how you arrive at that position.

It took three years for my command centre, l hesitate to use the term brain, to finally give up the futile task of constantly informing me that l was in pain, since my mind was not open to hearing that message as it was not an option l wished to persue.

Now fully housed during the day, it restricts itself to letting me know that my feet are very sore at the end of a full working day, and informs me of the blissful relief from them as l climb into bed and the suggestion of pain evaporates within 30 minutes at worst

The pain will never go,but its how the information about it is controlled, your suggested route of numbing your command centre leads to not being able to differentiate between the information of what you need and what you don't. Whereas l prefer the option of training to allow the bad to get locked away leaving the remaining functions unaffected.

It took a time but the end result was well worth it, there were no shortcuts or aids as such, just willpower and determination, l view it as sticking plaster or cure. Each of us are different and l hope you are able to find your way of coping with it,

David

David, very many thanks for sharing your story.

Yes, dropping things and stumbling over have been part of my life for the past 3 years. I know exactly what you mean.

In one sense, prescription cannabis is meant to do pretty well what drugs such as duloxetine are meant to do. Duloxetine is said, by the Pain Clinic, to be the most effective drug for treating neuropathy but only has a postive effect on less than 20% of suffers. It was developed as an anti-depressant drug which interrupts the signals to the brain. But for me, and many others, it turns you into a zombie.  For 3 or 4 months, I was living in a fog until I said "no more".

I have accepted that the pain will never go away now. It is there every second of every minute of every hour of every day. The first sensation you feel when you wake up and the last you feel when/if you get to sleep. I have found it overwhelming at times.

Hopefully my "command centre" will get the message that yours has and allow me to lock away the bad as you have suceeded in doing.

Many thanks again and good wishes on your continuing journey.

Frank