Travelogue Special Edition

 Posting an Extra Edition Blog…

Thread by @marygerdt on Thread Reader App https://t.co/Ghe9br9r4x

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) April 21, 2022

Pain Is the other Vital Sign

 Pain

The final frontier 

On my journey to understand this severe unrelenting pain, I remembered being a nurse and hearing Pain is the Fifth Vital Sign.

Temperature 

Pulse 

Respirations 

Blood Pressure 

Hint: you can Measure these...

Pain, however, cannot be Measured 

It can be Assessed by Clinicians

Who will transcribe what they hear, the patient describing it

My pain is severe at times,

(I prefer Cannabis for pain.which was legal and available in Vermont.

Not here in Virginia. Guess they’re working on it. Wish they’d hurry.)

I attribute some of my pain to Gadolinium Toxicity.

11 MRI’s with gadolinium in 9 years.

I keep being told by Doctors that it’s not possible. That it all comes out after my test. A few people like me disagree. 

Funny, there are a few studies... How to tell my Doctors?

I’ll do my best, no expectations.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28495943/

Gnarly

Gnarly 

Pain is twisted

Torsional Forces

Twisting 

Torquing 

The Wrong Way.

Make it Stop

It Won’t 

It’s 

Unrelentingly 

Strong.

How can something be 

Horrible 

And

Still be Better?

Pain/Symptom Control and Medical Cannabis

Guten tag, there is your unroll: Thread by @marygerdt: I appreciate your gradual and cautious acceptance of #MedicalCannabis. There is research out… https://t.co/HmIxPcU46a. Talk to you soon. 🤖

— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) February 4, 2020

Comments to @FDA

Opioid comments...

My Pain Level is 15/10 some days. I don’t want Opioids. I have Multiple Sclerosis and am a Disabled Registered Nurse with 35 years of clinical experience. My Pain is Tolerable using THC/CBD. First it was illegal, stressing me out but I had no choice. I needed pain relief without all the side effects of Opioids like drowsiness and constipation. Then, as a Vermonter, legalized medical cannabis allowed my Neurologist to write a letter, every year to say I have intractable Pain from Multiple Sclerosis and Seizures. Then we moved to Virginia. I am unable to obtain Medical Cannabis. CBD is Legal but not consistent in quality and not as effective for my pain. I was so desperate I tried to buy some with bitcoin and a guy ripped me off for $500. I’m still desperate. Virginia has a Medical Cannabis Law, sort of. In this state, Pharmacy People are guiding. I got a license but my Doctor doesn’t know how to recommend me by explaining I have intractable pain from Multiple Sclerosis. Even if I completed the application process, there isn’t any available and Virginia has arbitrarily limited the THC and mode of administration. Please Deschedule THC/CBD, Allow evidence based research, Allow Compassionate Approval For THC/CBD for Patients like myself who suffer intractable Pain and do Not want Opioids.


For a link...

FDA seeking comments from those who have been affected by opoid prescribing limitations. Link in the article, search FDA-2019-N-1646. #opoidhysteria #spoonies #opoidcrisis #opioids https://t.co/IT13eAafUO

— Jessica Layman (@artemis_selena) May 17, 2019