Weeze,
Thank you for clarifying you post, I appreciate it.
Quoting and requoting and replying to include all of those responses is tiresome and clunky.
I appreciate you going into a bit more detail on your previous post. You mention that you can’t credit any of the traditional treatment, did you take the traditional approach first and then try RSO?
By asking if you are qualified to make a claim, I was asking where you got your information, where you conducted your research, what doctors told you that RSO was the golden ticket. 2 cases of remission is a pretty stellar outcome, thank you for sharing your story. Our dog has a pretty high aversion to pills, she has learned to lightly bite into treats to check for pills, and she doesn’t like pill pockets. She will work the pill out of the pocket/treat and spit out the pill. Just like a human 14 year old and a total pain in the butt. She also dislikes the smell/taste of marijuana. Also being the test case for a therapeutic option for an old rescue, with a bad hip on one side and a partially torn ACL on the other. About 14 months ago she was diagnosed with transitional cell carcinoma and was given 6-12 months. She has a normal treatment of pills from the vet, but she was getting fairly constant spasms in her back legs, regular tremors, some loss of balance, discomfort, probably pain. @chickenman and I cooked up a batch of coconut oil and I started treating her sublingually with a tiny dose, and her tremors stopped, her appetite increased, slowed tumor growth, delayed timeline of decline, more active during the day and more restful at night. Her human as well.
Her story will not end with a cure but will be pain free, as much as possible. I too, saw improvements in quality of life and treatment of discomfort, and although she turns up her nose at a dose, after she gets her oil and a treat she’s happy as a clam, until she has to get up.
Thank you for explaining what you went through, it’s nice to see patients documenting their own treatments, and it’s interesting to see your experience. I apologize if I came across being disrespectful, but sloppy and not definitive are probably as much as we can ask for, right now.
Here, people will read more than one or two paragraphs, but they will bitch and moan for the next three pages about having to do so. It’s a fine line between being too wordy (me) and providing enough information to add to the discussion. Please don’t apologize for length of posts, as I will be apologizing to you for the same. I appreciate the discussion as this place has been a ghost town lately, and anything I can read about canine therapy is a plus.
It’s also interesting to me that you have good things to say about Kaiser. Usually people are complaining about how Kaiser killed their grandpa. They did a decent job positioning themselves to survive the ACA and whatever happens with this administration. Step therapy can be a bitch but Kaiser is a great fit for most of their members. I think you are making a great point about the delivery of healthcare, both problems of defensive medicine and an ugly system of incentives and reimbursements and bonuses. It’s rampant and disgusting and it’s one of the leading drivers of premium increases.
Whereabouts in that area do you hang your hat?