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Opinions on Sativex?

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aneta parslow   

aneta parslow

Hello ,

I am a friend of a lady with Ms in Poland she would like any opinions of anyone who has been taking Sativex or any general opinions of this drug Please share your experiences Does Sativex help with pain? And what side effects do you experience? Aneta

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Nick

Hi Aneta,

Welcome to the forum.

Trail studies and development of the drug Sativex occurred in the area where I live and some of the neurologists involved do get involved in talks to people newly diagnosed in our town. I was at one of these lectures and heard a bit about it all. I don't use this drug myself as it is not easily available in our area. (Not on the NHS) I do however have a friend who uses it. My own feeling about this is that it can be a useful drug used to mitigate some of the spasms associated with MS. See here: http://www.mstrust.org.uk/atoz/sativex.jsp

Other than that it is probably best viewed as simply one of a number of useful drugs used in MS. It certainly should not be viewed as an kind of 'Mirical cure'

 

Hope that is useful

 

Nick

Just another Warrior...........

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Mod's Note - I've split the two posts above into this new topic, as they'd been posted into an older topic about a different treatment :hoop:

Marina

(belated DX in June '05, SPMS)

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