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I have really bad leg pain, does weed really help with pain or do I need to try opiods?
 
rp1984 said:
I have really bad leg pain, does weed really help with pain or do I need to try opiods?
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Some cannabis strains can help you with certain types of pain, as mentioned above similar action as NSAIDS medications.

CBG has shown some potential in helping with pain someone i know of uses it specifically for knee pain

I would only consider cannabis a mild pain reliever though
 
rp1984 said:
I have really bad leg pain, does weed really help with pain or do I need to try opiods?
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Is this about « restless legs syndrome » or arthritis (etc.)? Is "cannabis" even an anesthetic? Which sounds reminiscent of some old « too stone to feel » abuse of language... Indeed, only proper physical examination by health professionals will answer those questions - if you ever manage finding one who's prepared to deal with it, that is! Anyway i never considered CBD to be acting the same as THC, IMO one is better suited for long-term applications while the other provides very different effects in a matter of minutes, and consequently we can expect their dosages just ain't the same neither.

What's clear, at least to me, is that there's very little risk in giving CBD a fair try. As a matter of fact, the joint UN/WHO declaration of December 14 2017 suggested it had no place besides THC on a schedule, or more precisely that cannabidiol hardly justifies being internationally scheduled as a controlled substance at all. Yet « more evidence is needed » (...), which is typical of the UN/WHO when talking about cannabis.

In my $a¢rifi¢ed canuck province a senior member of the CSAM-SMCA once compared it to a placebo, forgetting to mention its severe 5 mg restriction back then:

Les aliments contenant du CBD ont-ils de réels bienfaits? – L'épicerie (2021-Oct-21)​

Smoking being bad enough as a habit that leaves oral (sublingual) strips, still made of anything except CBD for the most part, while over-billed/over-taxed to deter use via economic punishment and despite an evident denial of the "buzz". Actually its main side effect is "dry mouth", only resulting from an awful chlorophyll taste i must add!

If it's having any effect i believe that would be by stimulating our endocannabinoïd system into self-healing, which means it may require a couple boxes, lots of ¢a$h and hopeful patience. YMMV...

There's a so-called « balanced » (1:1) alternative if you find out it helps better to get a vacation from yourself too, perhaps anxiety could happen to be a co-factor as well. At least it's no truly addictive opioïd like fentanyl.

Good day, have fun!! ☮️
 
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Not a painkiller at all imo

But it can be a useful tool for long term introspective management of many things including the causes of pain or the mental framing of pain.
 
Darksidesam said:
I would only consider cannabis a mild pain reliever though
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i would consider cannabis THE true painkiller.

maybe not for a gunshot wound or a lopped off arm.... but for muscle/ tendon/ joint pain, etc, nothing beats cannabis in my experience.

i had THE worst neck pain the last few days (like a pinched nerve all the time but with the feeling of severely bruised muscle from my temple down to my shoulderblade).

a few days ago i bought a small thing of kratom that i'm quite sure the sketchy gas station people supplement with some other opioid (cause of how it feels and how it overshadows a weed high, kratom NEVER overshadowed weed or much of anything)... it only helped a little at work, just to get me through the weekend.

well yesterday, and the day before, i smoked myself r't'rd'd the whole day and the first couple of hours after each smoke session?

THE PAIN WENT AWAY 100%!!!!

(and it's a consistent thing, especially with certain strains... smoke a chem 91 hybrid while i have muscle and joint pain? 100% bye bye pain/ discomfort)
 
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As you can kind of figure out from the answers so far. Pot helps quite a bit with certain types of pain and less so with others. And some strains are better than others for pain (An some are better at certain types of pain).

IMO, the answer is yes. You'll always get some relief. For my neck pain and the referred pain from it, it is indeed magic. I've had bad toothaches that it didn't seem to touch.

"Leg pain" is kinda non-specific. But, I'll guess that it's pain that would respond to marijuana.
 
i think it depends on how a person responds to marijuana whether or not it's going to help with pain, like if it relaxes a person, i think that person might be more prone to getting help with pain. some people get kind of nervous on weed, and that will probably bring pain out more, i'd think anyways.

i have a herniated disk and spinal arthritis that was causing me to get symptoms of arthritis, pain in the area of my back, pins and needles all over my body, and also headaches... i used to kind of hold my breath when smoking weed, taking really deep breathes and holding them in. this is totally the wrong way to breath, and if a person does that when they are in a lot of pain, they are going to probably not get any relief and maybe even feel worse. i wonder if the smoking actually caused more pins through out my body as well, BUT after a while i managed to alter my breathing pattern pacing how i'd breath in and out my nose, and this really helped get rid of the arthritis, pins, headache, and pain... i'd say the actual pain in the bones from the herniated disk might actually be helped by smoking weed too, definitely if i get in the right breathing pattern.. i think smoking weed throws some people's breathing pattern off for a bit and that can be problematic if you're in pain or experiencing anxiety.
 
nepalnt21 said:
i would consider cannabis THE true painkiller.
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Let's not exaggerate the subjective benefits of the drug.

If you read the literature, it can both decrease or increase pain perception.

It tends to help me with headaches (but can also cause them...) and general inflammation, but every time I take cannabis with physical or visceral injuries, it makes the pain worse and more perceptible.
 
Cannabis increases any type of pain I’ve ever had.

I’ve had a lot of chronic pain and i think cannabis makes me
More sensitive to it.

The only exception is a paradoxical effect where if I use cannabis the first time after being clean for a long time…it will work for very minor pain the first time or two.

Any regular usage of it makes my pain worse though.
 
LucidSDreamr said:
Cannabis increases any type of pain I’ve ever had.

I’ve had a lot of chronic pain and i think cannabis makes me
More sensitive to it.

The only exception is a paradoxical effect where if I use cannabis the first time after being clean for a long time…it will work for very minor pain the first time or two.

Any regular usage of it makes my pain worse though.
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opiates are or should be famous for this.. i have never seen anyone in more pain than a chronic opiate patient
 
Depends on the type of pain. For neuropathic pain like i have fuck yes. One of the best combos ive had for tthe pain i have is old school black hash along with morphine. I once nodded out into my dinner on that combo. I couldnt keep my head up lol
 
neversickanymore said:
opiates are or should be famous for this.. i have never seen anyone in more pain than a chronic opiate patient
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Not an untrue statement, and actually quite profound, but that's way more complicated and is a whole other interesting thread.

A lot of the pains from chronic pain patients treated with chronic opioids are born out of psychosomatic effects and hypergelsia, but almost always the former.

However, opioids do not increase pain perception during the acute effects of the drug, like cannabinoids can and often do.
 
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LucidSDreamr said:
No but on opioids you feel amplified pain AFTER it wears off.
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It's a powerful illusion. Because opiates both continue to "treat" pain but also increase it, due to tolerance to the substance, the chronic patient will still perceive the drug as working. It is technically still "working" but is only treating the pain down from the extremely elevated state it has caused; for a short time it seems to work and then the patient will be relocated to a much more severe pain level than if they never took the opiate as it begins to ware off. Given long enough, with no dose increase, a chronic use a patient will likely almost reach a state where the pain level experienced during the effective period of the dose would be the same as if the opiate was never taken while the withdrawal period is much worse.

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It's interesting that many people are reporting an increase in pain associated with cannabis.
 
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Quasimoto said:
Let's not exaggerate the subjective benefits of the drug.
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i wasn't.

obviously (as you picked up on, hence 'subjective'), i was speaking about my own experiences. and i stick by it, i consider cannabis the TRUE painkiller (again, for certain types of pain) rather than opioids (but i've never been shot or been in a battle with a knigit)
 
nepalnt21 said:
obviously (as you picked up on, hence 'subjective'), i was speaking about my own experiences. and i stick by it, i consider cannabis the TRUE painkiller (again, for certain types of pain) rather than opioids (but i've never been shot or been in a battle with a knigit)
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I understand, however "the TRUE painkiller" is quite an ambiguous phrase.

If I were to give examples of my idea of what that phrase means, I would say that endorphins, laughter, love, meditation, achievement, etc... are "true" painkillers.

If you were to say cannabis was the least harmful exogenous painkiller, I'd completely agree. Difference of words.

But if you take enough LSD you can break through all that psychosemantic blockage.
 
i mean i guess, but lemme be pithy:

debilitating neck pain? meet two bong rips of chemdog;

*dies instantly*
 
Quasimoto said:
Let's not exaggerate the subjective benefits of the drug.

If you read the literature, it can both decrease or increase pain perception.

It tends to help me with headaches (but can also cause them...) and general inflammation, but every time I take cannabis with physical or visceral injuries, it makes the pain worse and more perceptible.
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Felt this one.. ever smoke before getting a tattoo? Way worse… smoking after the tattoo is done on the other hand, can be helpful. But also sometimes makes me hyper-fixate on the pain if it’s too extreme. That being said i love me some good bud.
 
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