Medical Marijuana and nerve pain

jchebert1979 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-17-2009, 10:40 PM

I know nothing about various strains and all of that. I was just going to get some from my pothead cousin in college, lol. I don't think that it will be the route for me but at this point I am willing to try just about anything.

If it were to work well I would probably get one of those vaporizers that heat the herbs without burning them thereby lessening the toxic byproducts.

I did have a breakthrough last night/this morning. The burning was so severe and then all of a sudden my shoulder and arm violently spasmed. It was so violent that it snapped my head and neck. This happens all the time, especially when I am drifting off to sleep but this time was worse. I was able to go back to bed and when I woke up this morning I felt better than I have in a long time.

See there are pains that suck, but I could totally live with. Like the pain in my mid back that feels like I've been hit by a bat. It's a severe soreness, but I can live with it. If I had to live with the post op surgical pain I could do that as well. It is this severe burning, electrical pain that I cannot live with.

Oh well. I will try to enjoy the relief that I have experienced and hope that it continues.

JKDE302 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-18-2009, 10:39 AM

Vaporize it!!!! B/C: its not good to put smoke in your body if you have DDD...

Great drug for pain and stress...probally the best...

Maria · #3 (**permalink**) 11-18-2009, 05:08 PM

I know nothing of this.. is this like using a Hookah (hooka?).. I'm so behind the times here re pot tho there are tons of medical marijuana dispenseries around (and much controvery re legalities of dispensaries) and I know of a number of people that are using it for various reasons. I just *assumed* (you know what they say about that word) they smoked it in a joint/pipe.

jchebert1979 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-19-2009, 12:09 PM

I read about them a few years back and thought nothing of it because I don't smoke (tobacco or pot). You see them in the ad in the back of magazines but I've seen them advertised in more mainstream stuff.

Basically they heat the herb to the point that releases the chemicals (THC, nicotine, etc.) without burning it and chemically changing it.

It's safer, which is better, but I don't think it's completely safe.

JKDE302 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-20-2009, 01:22 AM

I know some guys that I grew up with that play in the NFL and use the Volcano Vaporizer for pain...I wish I had the heart to ask them to pay for my ADR surgery since they play pro ball....I feel so bad that my family wants to use the 401k for me to have surgery...

Anyway here is a pic...I used it before and it works great....

Maria · #6 (**permalink**) 11-20-2009, 01:54 AM

JKDE,
Now that made it crystal clear ~ thanks so much and glad it works so well for you.

Nihola and Bernard · #7 (**permalink**) 01-24-2010, 05:18 PM

Bernard has been using mj for a while now, thanks to the help of his physician and the great work of the BC compassion club, and it definately assists in making the day and night more tolerable in regards to pain. He's eaten and smoked it and both work. Smoking doesn't last as long, but begins sooner. Make sure that you have access to try a variety of types. Pure Indica strains are the only ones that help him, because the other strain, or blends, cause him to worry too much (he's a thinker). He also only takes a very small amount, much less than most people would use recreationly. Taking more just brings greater awareness of the pain. I'm not sure if this is true of all conditions, but for back and nerve pain, it certainly seems to be the case. It does make him less of a go getter, so we try to get something accomplished, however small, before he takes it. It does make him happier, because the body relaxes a bit and doesn't constantly tell him all about the pain that's going on. He's still on other pain meds, the max. daily's of Gabapentin, Ibuprofin and Acetaminophen, although often enough he can reduce the amounts now that he uses mj too. The other things we've tried this winter is a full spectrum light, just to try to keep depression from creeping in too much and causing even more pain. We bought a 10,000lux SAD light, and it does seem to help (but that's another story).

Good luck

jane1111 · #8 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 09:09 PM

I say try it, if it helps than good for you......I will be using it when they take away my pain pills, which they are already talking about, and with their pain meds I am still at a 6-7 on the pain scale, so once they let the federal government tell them how much pain meds I am allowed and abandon me than I will be going rogue and using pot, it has worked for me in the past, and I will fall back on it again when needed. If God did not want us using this plant then he would not have made it.....and I am sure that the pain meds are messing with my liver, which pot does not, so that is another plus for pot...so I guess I will be moving to one of the 11 states that have legalized medicinal use and try to live as pain free as possible, if I can not find any relief than my life won't me much worth living, so there it is......

Maria · #9 (**permalink**) 05-03-2010, 06:01 PM

In which the utilization of cannabis on regular basis is the norm.. and other plants as well that alter consciouness or work on the central nervous system.

I have to wonder about all the prescription drugs I've ingested with all the potential side effects and/or untoward effects as well as how they are metabolized in one's system and stay in the body for periods of times.

I wonder about my major organ systems and the prescribed various medications I take and then I wonder.. are we really looking at what is most healthy for the human body overall?

I dunno.. I don't think so when I put together my bottles of pills to ingest on daily basis tho I've come to think of them as my vitamin pills or BP pills or such.