Can weed cure pain?

[daturetard]

I don’t know if this statement is in regards to weed or not but I just want to say I went through a lot 12 years of chronic back pain and surgery and disability and can say these days I am cured. I am super physically active now days and haven’t had back pain in about 6 years.

Drugs certainly helped me maintain a job for a while with all this pain until I was bedridden and it was too much and I went for surgery.

Drugs certainly played their role. They may have prevented suicide the pain was so extreme. They prevented homelessness and allowed me to finish graduate school in such extreme pain; so drugs work, for a certain extent. I was still in tons of pain but this would not have been possible without drugs. I was prescribed fentanyl eventually and it made a lot possible and minimized a lot of suffering.

But the actual cure came from
Surgery, followed by weightloss and lots of core strengthening starting very slowly.

Just want to give ppl hope that spine pain isn’t always a permanent thing like it is for some ppl.

Yeah, chronic pain has a lot of different contributing factors and causes for different people, I was talking about drugs in terms of 'thing's but yeah, surgery most definitely can be a godsend. They (drugs) certainly can allow one to push through and do things like keep fighting to live another day, or graduate, keep a job, any number of things, but after a certain point you will grow a tolerance to everything. And you will likely never find a drug that makes you not care at all about your chronic pain, and certainly not just a "cure" from a drug. I was not trying to discredit PT or surgery, sorry.

 

[Pissed_and_messed]

If it causes some sort of semi permanent hyperalgesia like opioids do

I can not say that could not possibly happen, but I recall reading some study implying that THC decreases the sensitization to pain-when one has got hurt tissue, over time surrounding healthy tissues can start signaling pain. And THC tends to prevent that. I can not remember exactly what the paper stated, but I am pretty confident I have not mistaken with these statements.

I have also experienced weed sometimes making pain worse, particularly in mental framework. Nowadays I am kinda accepting most of my pains even if I hate the pains, so I don't get that very often nowadays.

 

[emkee_reinvented]

Cure maybe ? Some say it can cure cancer. Pain it makes more bareable imo.
But its effects on Homeostasis are scientificly a fact.

Opiods do to, make it bareable, but also block painsignals and make you feel good, but addicting. Dissociatives would really help as they disconnect you from your body. But affects motor control to, so not that great.

Unless looking to be aneastized, small still be able to function doses work to ? Thinking bout the nasal spray.

And then there the Gabapentinoids that block Calcium channel transmission, related to nerve pain.

Thanks for the pointer P_a_M. Sodium = Natrium here like Pottasium = Kalium only Calcium remained the same. Confusing these electrolytes/ minerals are. Do they all have seperate channels I wonder now and what is their function.

Edit they do. though all different functions

 

[Pissed_and_messed]

Sodium channel transmission

*calcium channel. It has some other targets too, but could not find anything about sodium channel activity with quick search.

 

[crazyhairman]

If you live in a state where you can't get edibles reliably I think you can PM me and we can talk about it without it being TOS

 

[brokedownpalace10]

I take Echinacea and Vitamin C when I have a cold. I feel better.
Someone told me once that me feeling better was, "All in my head.".
OK.

 

[Esperighanto]

I've used cannabis for chronic pain for ~12 years, I find it far superior to mu opioid agonists though occasionally for specific issues GABA agents (benzos, carisoprodol, etc.) work much better.

Edit: Oddly enough, kratom can cover everything else without having any of the traditional downsides of mu opioid agonists for me, and 7-OH-Mitragynine does little if anything without also being mixed with plain leaf in my experience. I look forward to trying pseudoindoxyl mitragynine and speciotiliane, as high concentration mitragynine extracts already are fun but don't help pain very well.