Picking the right strain and getting the help I need; two barriers, two questions

Top of the mornin' to ya all! I had a couple questions about medical marijuana, involving a couple complications to boot, and would be really grateful to anybody who could offer me some advice. So my two questions are:


1. I live in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. My question here is; how on Earth does anybody find a doc with a favorable attitude toward MM? I've suffered with very bad chronic pain for 6 1/2 years which started with injuries to my lower-right back, a very sore/tender vertebrae in my mid-upper back, and a nerve in my upper-left neck area that hurts like the bejeezes. The docs seem to be bouncing back and forth between a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and degenerative spinal arthritis, but this prolonged uncertainty has left them all permanently hessitant to give me an official diagnosis.

I've run the whole gambit of painkillers, but thus far the oxycontin I'm on right now is the only thing that even puts a dent in my pain, and it hasn't been working very well in the last several months anyway. Hence, I'd really like to find a good medical marijuana strian. I've brought this up with my regular doc, and a few others, and they all have a very negative attitude about it. They often just ignore the question, even if I bring up something like marinol, and just get a scowl on their face that I would even mention such a gastly thing. Honestly, I don't understand how trained medical professionals are happy to prescribe oxycontin, but terrified by the notion of a practically non-toxic plant with not half the addiction/dependency potential of opiates. Is there any registry, website, something that lists MM-friendly doctors?


Which brings me to question # 2.


Almost every strain of pot I've tried (which usually comes from somewhere in the Okanagan Valley) has no effect on my pain at small doses, and moderate-heavy doses actually greatly increase the pain. Strange, I know. BUT! There was a 2 month period where I lived in Victoria (Vancouver Island) where I got a strain from a dealer, I have no idea which, and it was a wonderfully effective analgesic. Every other strain exacerbates my pain, even stuff that comes from Vancouver or the US, but this one particular strain was a great painkiller through-and-through.

So would anybody have an idea what this might be, or a strain that might be just as effective? I know most would say "try an indica", but I've tried indica's and sativa's both with a bad reaction. Whatever strain would work for me, must be something very specific.

Ideas?

Check out Download a flyer for a medical marijuana study, they are looking for patients in chronic pain on your med (and other opiates) you will smoke/ingest medical marijuana 3 times a day to see if leads to less opiate use. It pays you $520 for a 5 day stay in San Francisco General Hospital. It is also listed on 420 Magazine but the mpp.org is the original. Good luck, I just detoxed off of 120 mgs a day of methadone. It took 2 years to get down to "0" mgs a day then another 4 weeks to stablize. Been there done that, kicked it. I do not want to go back. Peace...:smokin:

I've had great pain relief with Orange or Sugar Kush. Unless you are a MMJ Patient you will have to pay around $300-$370 an ounce. About $100 less if your a registered patient in California or Oregon where I've found to be the best, highest THC content (27% in Oregon.) Have you check the seed banks in Amsterdam, they will mail to your country but not the U.S. But check out the study in my first response, you are just what they are looking for. :smokin: