Medicine

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These are the main medicines I take. 

Pain Relief:
I take Neuronti to help reduce tingling (a type of pain common to people with Spinal Cord Injuries). When these don’t help, I smoke marijuana and it is like a miracle.

Leg Spasticity:
I have a Baclofen pump in my left abdomen that looks like a hockey puck. It's the same as a morphine pump that many have. Baclofen controls my leg spasms so I can go through the day without them jumping all over the place. It used to be a problem at night, but isn't any longer. Now, instead of taking 120 mg orally, I get 166 mcg directly to my spine where it works it's magic. That's .166 mg or <1% the prior amount and I don't get drowsy from the Baclofen.

Neurological:
I take Tegretol and Keppra to control seizures.

UTI relief:

I found this to be the best way to prevent Urinary Tract Infections (UTI's). I take 1 cranberry capsule (475mg each) 3 times a day and ½ tsp. D-Mannose powder. Since I've been doing this, I've gotten far fewer infections; I was getting an infection almost every month. The theory is that cranberry makes the bladder wall slippery so bacteria can't get a foothold, so to speak and D-Mannose (a simple sugar) attracts bacteria and flushes them out when you urinate.

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