What were some of the side effects associated with other medications?
The side effects were not as bad on me as they would have been on other patients. I needed the substances, therefore I did get the pain palliation from the pain killers but the problem was because dilaudid is such a great pain killer I took a lot of it, my body needed it. But when you take it you don't feel things. I was always scared to do something because I could hurt myself and not know it. With these tumors everywhere. I stopped playing sports, I didn't play sports anymore once I started taking dilaudid and I took it for 19 years and so as far as my job there were times lethargy would set in. Where i had my own furniture business and so you know I was sitting there and the furniture business can be sometimes be very boring waiting for customers to come in so you know, it was, I was not a good person to be with as far as I was not as much fun. Because I was either in pain or I wasn't or I was scared to move I was worried about tearing a muscle or vein and it was hard dealing with it. I mean marriage, it affects marriage because you are trying to deal with pain. And then you are trying to fight a battle to get a drug that you know you need and yet you're labeled a criminal for trying to get it. And I've always said I didn't ask to get this bone disease you know someone doesn't say look if I could just get cancer and I could go through chemotherapy I could use medical cannabis to take away the nausea. Doesn't happen that way ok nobody asks what they have, when you have a disease it sucks but you just want the best medicine possible. It's all you can hope for.
