Anyone EVER use or look into using medical marijuana for pain/nausea/appetite help?

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It’s might be a loaded question and if so I apologize. I live in CA where

medical marijuana is legal though I have no idea how to access it for my mil or

if it’s something that anyone has ever tried. This last week my mil has had

two occasions of pain that the pain medicines I have on hand were almost not

enough for. The episode last night especially was unsettling and I almost took

her to ER. She came into this mess allergic to fentynal and she is very

sensitive to other opiates. She tolerates vicodine (hydrocodone) but at small

doses it makes her extremely nauseas even with zofran and also I think maybe a

little agitated. At enough medicine to manage her pain last night she was so

sick to her stomach with a headache – another side effect from the vicodine.

I am told the next one to try is morphine and as I sat with her trying to sooth

her while the medicine was (hopefully) working, I wondered what if that

doesn’t work? What then? I have heard of two other patients with

Parkinson’s and dementia that morphine did not work for – it made them very

sleepy but they still had pain when they were awake. Only sleeping was a way to

be free of pain. Last night her body was shaking with the parkinsons and the

pain was unbearable. It took two hours to finally have enough vicodine and

mirapex to allow her to doze lightly but the pain was still breaking through

time to time. The medicines have made today miserable for her and have

diminished her usual great appetite considerably. She is constipated already

(despite double miralax) and sick to her stomach despite the zofran.

So I’m wondering if anyone has ever thought of or looked into or asked their

neurologist about or maybe even tried medical marijuana? Certainly smoking it

is out – however I understand it can be taken orally too – made into cookies

or a syrup and given that way? What I’m imagining is if I could obtain a

form of it in a syrup and then try a tiny amount at a time and see if it helped.

Thanks for the input

Dorothy