types of pain??? Are you willing to have an operation and have the nurse hand you a joint afterwards?

chatting with a person who many doctors are amazed by my tolerance to pain.

you know what I meant......

also just get drunk.

well, not an effective one anyway.


My husband has herniated discs in his back and uses MJ in addition to his pain management meds, which he can take far less of.

icon lead to my remark, it was not appropriate. Glad your husband is allowed to use what he feels is best for him.

is easiest and cheapest way to use MJJ which many people who suffer from chronic pain also suffer from lack of funds. This why the law that they just passed in NY stinks.

... that deals mostly with the pain (and all those other goodies, of course).

- But the CBD does help. It does a whole lot of other great things too. Like curing cancer.....

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trade in your pain medication for pot?

I don't like pain meds but I like to function at some level except rolled up in a ball crying so I take the pain meds. I had to quit the pot smoking in order to keep the pain meds coming. If we had medical marijuana I'd drop the pain meds so fast it would make your head spin but we don't and probably won't in my life time. I really don't want to check out of this world in prison or broke so I gave up the pot.
Pot is a good pain med for Peripheral Neuropathy of which I have but don't tell the politicians that because they might have to rethink their stance on medical marijuana

and it really did nothing for my pain. Never mind the constant headaches I suffer from. Pot is not one size fits all and anyone who says it is misinformed.

Many people can't take them at all because of allergies and/or side effects.

People who are suffering from pain should take whatever works best for them. The government should not be in the business of preventing them from doing so.

thank you for the reply.

for me it sure works though. I've never had a head ache from smoking pot either

from Hydrocephalus AKA water on the brain which no one can tell me how it happened, perhaps being undertreated for pain???

I have a mess of stuff going on in my left foot and leg as a result of having shattered it 3 years ago- CRPS which is neuro-vascular, traumatic arthritis and nerve damage- not to mention the pain from from multiple rods, pins and plates.

not want you lose ANYTHING that might give you some relief, be it pot, opiates, Serotonin, Corticosteroids and Tricyclic Antidepressants which I have tried and the one with least amount of side effects was the opiate. For example Celebrex was one the first medications I took and within a year I developed a hiatal hernia. Never mind having to go to be tested for AIDS, Hepatitis and other diseases when my former pain management doctor was too cheap to use fresh needles. I may never find relief but I don't want anyone to go down the road I have traveled.

sympathetic nerve blocks to multiple drugs. For me, opiates, used judiciously, have been the most effective. But beyond that, I think exercise, diet and meditation have been even more important

they tried. Pot works on neuropathy very well, but special interests like the police, Big Pharma, and Alcohol Lobby's influence keep it illegal to make more money!

from quitting pain management and going back to using marijuana? You made the choice of giving up MJJ and go to pain management which IMO tells me that pot wasn't working too well at the time.

and I'm 66 years old too damn old to continue to worry with a bust and winding up in jail or losing what we've been working for these last 25 years.
I had to quit the pot to continue to get the meds.

so in the best scenario you would use both if the laws would allow. It's a crying shame.

Though in general, I prefer to simply tough it out. I remember after I had my appendix out, they hooked me up to an opioid-delivering pump and told me to press the button to self-deliver painkiller. I don't recall ever pressing the button, in part because I didn't want to get charged for extra meds.

But if I had chronic pain, I might be open to using 'chronic' as relief.

done that.

hard to tough it our for over twenty years. Studies show that when pain goes untreated it actually can cause brain damage. I toughed it out for ten years before I started taking ANY medication for the pain. Now that I look back it may be the very reason I suffer so much today.

between acute (appendix extraction) and chronic pain. If there's something out there that chronic pain sufferers can use that isn't an opioid, more power to them.

"For when a woman is giving birth or when a man breaks a limb."

If this can be used as an alternate for some people, fantastic.

I still want the nice, hefty painkillers available for use, however--never throw a valid weapon away just because it has some problems. And some people are not going to respond to pot, or tolerate it well, just like I don't do well on codeine for acute pain.

Right?


Right?

Crazy ain't it

Thats what makes this place so good. As we each find something of interest we can share it with our fellow DU'rs. In the end we're all better equipped to handle the days ups and downs, ins and outs.

From the article in the OP:

"However, opposed to the rest of America’s increased rates, in the 13 states that passed medical marijuana laws prior to 2010, opioid overdoses declined by 24.8%. Those states were California (1996), Oregon (1998), Washington (1998), Alaska (1998), Maine (1998), Colorado (2000), Hawaii (2000), Nevada (2000), Montana (2004), Vermont (2004), Rhode Island (2006), New Mexico (2007) and Michigan (2008)."

http://marijuana.com/news/2014/08/painkiller-deaths-drop-by-25-in-medical-marijuana-states/


From an article discussing an increase in heroin use in Michigan:

"Recent statistics from the Michigan Department of Community Health show heroin overdose deaths in Michigan increased from 271 in the four-year period of 1999 to 2002 to 728 between 2010 and 2012."

http://woodtv.com/2014/07/20/michigan-heroin-use-od-deaths-increase/

we also have one of the highest rates of painkiller abuse.

and this is why overdoses from prescriptions drugs are dropping.

Big Pharma must be in pain

I think MJ has an important rile to play.

However, this is a misleading stat. DOJ has been cracking down on oxy and the ilk. People are getting off pills and going to heroin. Thus, legal painkiller deaths go down, heroin deaths up.

The is not a cure for cancer. Or addiction. But MJ is pretty benign.

I'm not sure if my condition qualifies, but I also can't take most standard pain relievers, and frankly I'm just curious if medical marijuana works. Also my area just voted to make it free for for low income people. I find it kind of astounding that they don't address the housing crisis and the fact social services has no program to supply basic necessities beyond food, but they will pony up for free weed. But it is what it is.

I've never smoked or done any drugs beyond what has been prescribed to me. I've avoided both narcotics and opiates because I already have a lot of fatigue, and I didn't want to be sleepy during the day.

The neural-based medications I take now work somewhat, but not completely. I'd like to try something additional. Maybe there's an alternative to smoking and brownies. I heard in Washington, D.C. they mixed marijuana into some sort of drink...? Maybe there will be a weed cafe here, and I can see if those drinks do anything for me.