The Irish government through the Health Board is not recommending treatment with cannabis because of the lack of data, but favours the introduction of a monitored cannabis treatment programme to run for five years.
The conditions are for spasticity assoc with MS, irretractable nausea and vomiting assoc with chemotherapy and severe, refractory epilepsy.
It has recommended against the use of the drug to treat chronic pain.
I do not sleep well because of pain, find it difficult to get out of bed at times. (I wear a lumbar support to help with this).
But I am a determined positive person, and refuse to give up.
The doctors are quite happy to feed me Nsaids which as you probably know exacerbate the condition gradually eroding cartilage which will one day completely cripple me. And opioids which are highly addictive.
I refuse to take Nsaids for the above reason, and resort to opioids as little as possible.
Many sufferers here have taken to either growing their own and risking jail, or else buying on the street (too expensive and not the grade we need). 🙁