I will definitely read up on rlcure.com
I didn’t want to go the methadone way.
7 back surgeries - 9 fused disc’s, chemo… was on liver transplant list… on many HARD drugs. Got off, won’t go back… I believe these drugs could have been a cause for my condition.
I do take a low dose med for Parkinson. Watch my diet, walk ALOT! Mild yoga, when I can.
But I too smoke ,dose allot of weed! Keeps me more normal.
What state is that good DR. In?
Funny thing, well not really that funny but remarkable nonetheless.
My father is the one with the neurological issues, and is the father of me and my brother but not to my sister.
My mother, also the mother of my sister of course, is neurologically healthy.
My sister, who is only related to me through my mother, who is neurologically healthy…
gets tramadol for the same condition I have.
Explain me that!
I’m in Europe.
And don’t get me wrong, he’s the best doctor in the world if you ask me, but when I came to his office barely able to walk getting lightning strikes through my spine every 2 steps, his reply was “sorry bud, can’t help you with this one, try not to shake too much on your way home!”.
That sounds awful when I put it like that, but he is brutally honest about it all because he doesn’t have time for the bullshit of telling it softly to people he can’t help anymore because there are sooooo many patients he has to see because he still can help them, including the cancer patients that get sent home from the specialist hospitals with a 3 month label stuck to their chest, so he also jokes about everything because life is too serious as is and too short not to laugh about whatever you can. He’ll smack you on the ass too as you leave the office, no matter your age or gender. And he’ll tell your wife to suck your dick more. Not kidding.
Oh, and believe it or not, I won’t care, he still works 14 hrs a day, goes jogging after, at his generous age of, IIRC, 74.
And I get not wanting to go the methadone way, I was the same, but considering where I was, it has turned my life around. I wasn’t even 30 years old when all of that was happening, I’m not much over 30 right now in fact.
And that’s exactly why I did choose a lifelong methadone “addiction”. Because if it’s methadone, it’s a safe drug that I will start off with 15 mg of, and it will increase about 10 mg a day, over 10 years. So when I’m 60, I’ll still likely be good with a dose of about 45mg methadone a day. That’s a very manageable dose, considering there are addicts out there taking double that in a single dose, and it won’t cause my body to know significant decline because of it. With the drugs they give for Parkinsons’, that’s a whole other story, and the thing with that low dose, is that most people start out on a low dose. I hope to God you can keep it at a low dose, but we both know tolerance is a real thing in all those drugs, so the longer you gotta live with those scripts, the higher the chance for ending up on doses that wreak havoc on the body.
So that’s basically an age equation everyone has to make for themselves. Everyone who is informed enough that is, because most aren’t even that lucky or strongwilled.
This should be from the 2020 list of information for your friend to look through. Lots of info!
My friend lost his fight about 6 years ago now. He seemed to smooth out best with indica, or indica dominate strains. He loved the sativa’s before his diagnosis, not so much afterwards. They seemed to not help with his balance issues. Man best of wishes for your friend.