Yes Angelia,

the early morning club or for me the never sleep club. One of many side effects of pain medication is restlessness and insomnia, more prominent as your tolerance grows as well. Usually I'd see Charm, Cookey and I online...good company really. If you are still feeling quite a bit of pain you may want to ask your dr for other options, fentanyl being the strongest.

Charm you did make a good point in the fact that most posters on this site tip toe around the medical marijuana options. I don't understand the taboo anymore really. I never did illegal drugs or drink in school due to athletics and even after competing was over for me I stuck to alcohol and had a negative view of marijuana.

Even a year after diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and all the way through tx and surgery I'd declined to try it, mostly out of ignorance yet I'd never "smoked" anyhing before and certainly wasn't going to start. Then my oldest brother, a chronic pain patient, introduced me to a vaporizer.

I had left my breakthrough meds at home and was experiencing pain and nausea...low and behold the vaporized "authentic" thc (not the marinol crap)eased my pain, settled my stomach, put me in a good mood, made me sleepy and extremely hungry. Um hello? Why the hell wasn't I allowed to have this during rads/chemo?

A drug, whose side effects are a blessing for cancer patients? Surely not!?! I've joined MPP.org (marijuana policy project) to help push medical marijuana laws in my state. I find it funny that our Dr's can push heavy opiods, benzo's, anti-anxiety/antidepressants, Ambien and a slew of other drugs with nasty side effects, yet vaporized (no carcinogens) marijuana is taboo. Blows me away.