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Thank you for your thorough response… It’s a shame that the UK hasn’t had a better adoption of alternative medicines, but I realise that is the case and it is what it is. Thankfully for me, I’m a dual citizen, with a legal prescription in Australia, so I can always get the prescription filled over there, and bring it back into the UK on my Australian passport as long as it’s under what is considered three months supply. The below is a transcript I received from the Drug Import/Export Case Owner & Licensing Manager

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Thank you for your email.

You can bring up to 3 months supply of this medication (as it contains a controlled drug) if it is accompanied by a letter from the prescribing clinician stating the patient, medication prescribed, dosage, quantity carried and that it does not exceed 3 month’s worth of medication.

Kind regards

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Now, if my doctor says that my dosage is 1.5mL a day, that equates to 135mL that I’m allowed to bring into the UK with an accompanied doctors note. If a bottle of THC is 40mL, I can bring in 3 bottles. hypothetically, if my dosage is more like 0.1mL, then that’s about 1200 doses, or 3.2 years worth of daily medication.

I’m getting older, so my speed at picking up new tech is a little slower than it used to be, but I’m finding my footings.

From my limited interaction so far, I think what also happens is that there are lot’s of different servers to connect to, and each server can have it’s own “sub-reddit” which are called communities. For example, lemmy.world might have a “showerthoughts” community, but another server like “sh.itjustworks” can also have a “showerthoughts” community. When you subscribe to a community, you subscribe to that servers instance… so depending on which server community you subscribe to, might not be the most active one. at least that’s how I have pieced it together. Please someone correct me if I am waaaaaaaay off!

I’m glad they’ve made it more manageable for MS, epilepsy and chemo pain, but there really is a stronger push needed to get this moving. I have never enjoyed marijuana recreationally, and was very dubious of the prescription… but thankfully with THC, I don’t want to eat the end of a shotgun when I’m on the floor doubled over in sciatic pain.

Not illegal. Permission from home office states no more than 3 months supply is allowed for any internationally prescribed medication.

I have advice from drug and firearm in the home office that as long as I don’t have more than 3 months worth of medication, I’m free to bring it in to the country. I’m both a citizen of UK and Australia so deporting me will be a tennis match.

It just so happens that the amount that is prescribed to me as a single dose so happens to be 15 times my actual dose, so the 40mL dosage technically should last 35 days, but in reality it lasts 400.

Thanks for the link. I’ll have a read of it today and see if anything correlates.

I found CBD to not have any strong effect. It was incredibly expensive for a very minor gain. From my perspective, it did have some anti-inflammatory abilities, but a month supply I n Australia was about £200, and I found that if I did some tailored stretches, breathing exercises and dynamic movement, I could alleviate my discomfort enough to get on with my day.

Edit: upon reading that link, I have to say that the UK is miles behind Australia on medical cannabis, as the scope of being prescribed THC is so particular, and seemingly only available through specialist hospitals.

I guess it’s go down the path of returning to Australia to get my supply and bringing it back into the UK on me. At least until the laws open up a little for people with chronic pain.

And if there’s a meetup, it can be called a “lemon Party”… I don’t see anything wrong with that term!

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I had been using reddit daily for about 10 years for a multitude of reasons. It was a great place to waste time, an amazing tool to get help on niche subjects and a wonderful way to learn… but recently it suffered from it’s own success and generally felt more and more of a cesspool…

I am grateful of the events that transpired, because it has forced me to find an alternative, and evolve my knowledge on different options. I had no idea what Lemmy was yesterday, nor federation or anything… I was thrust into the option of stick with something that was getting bad, or figure out how to do something new that has the potential to be even better! I’m glad I went into uncharted territory.

It’s a little bittersweet that while lemmy does not have the scope that reddit had, resulting in less of a pool to get help from… the prospect of what might become with Lemmy is more than enough to keep me away from reddit.

I wonder if the declining user count is due to the influx of people trying to get on board, but with such a surge systems fell over. It’s good to see server count/comments and posts on the increase… that shows to me that people are starting to come. It’s the wild frontier days in terms of the mass migration of a lot of people… there will be a learning curve for people to understand, change habits, get used to the “new life on mars” so to speak… but I feel that it will happen. It’s really refreshing to be part of the budding beginnings of what hopefully becomes a new front page of the internet.

It’s impressive from my bystander perspective of how quickly people mobilise, and communities can work together to get something that feels similar to what life was like before the mass migration. It is also refreshing for my brain from the doom and despair of the world to be part of a small group (mainly by lurking) and watching things forge ahead.

Wefwef is working well for me on iPad. I was used to using Apollo to browse reddit, so this has been a godsend. I’m starting to feel more comfortable with using Lemmy a bit more as I’m figuring out what is going on! I hope that the youthfulness of lemmy (to me anyway) is a nice filter from the overwhelmingness of reddit… the downside is that it feels very niche so far, but as adoption becomes more apparent, it will be a budding new “front page” for me.

But if you’re an apollo user, I’d suggest maybe looking at wefwef, and use that to interact with lemmy.