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Can weed cure pain?

LucidSDreamr said:
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.
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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.
 
LucidSDreamr said:
If it causes some sort of semi permanent hyperalgesia like opioids do
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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.
 
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
 
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Kind of depends on the type of pain like if it's muscle, skeletal, also your pain threshold. Weed has been used for menstrual cramps as well as stomach issues for thousands of years.

But it is not going to do anything for a serious toothache. Also how you absorb the marijuana. If you're smoking it or vaping it you're going to have diminished pain results. It's not going to be as effective as concentrates used in edibles or tinctures.

I'll give you an example of myself personally. I've had a bad back my whole life I also have digestive issues. My back pain is both muscular and skeletal. Smoking weed does basically nothing for my back pain. It takes the edge off makes me feel happy. But it doesn't actually do anything for the pain.

I've started experimenting with low dose edibles with a one to one or two to one ratio CBD to THC. I also had great success with Delta 8 tincture.

Everything however is useful for my digestive issues. I get stomach cramps often and I treat the symptoms with THC, CBD, CBN in any form that could be smoking that could be vaping more often times it's a low dose edible or a tincture.

Opiates are a slippery slope. You know yourself more than anybody here. Me personally I'm against opioids for long-term pain. If you broke your leg and you need something short-term or you have a toothache opiates are the way to go. But long-term you are better off just dealing with the pain. Ultimately opiates stop working and you need to take more for the same pain reduction. They can also cause a whole bunch of other side effects both psychosomatic and physical dependency.

I'm not dogging opiates I was on them for 7 years religiously swore that I needed them attacked anybody who thought otherwise. But here I am I've been living opiate-free for the last 8 years and my pain has actually gotten better.

Just try to experiment with different cannabinoid compounds. CBD is often used in conjunction with THC they boost each other. So you can take 15 mg of THC and basically not feel anything but when you take 15 mg of CBD with it they amplify each other's effects.

Nothing I've ever taken has been as effective for pain relief as Delta 8 which just blows my mind. Plus the effects last for hours. My biggest issue with Delta 8 is it gives you the super munchies. So you have to actively lock your refrigerator because you will never fill up. Also Delta 8 is unregulated and illegal in a bunch of states you can still get it online but I can't tell you where you just have to find companies that use third-party testing to make sure you're not getting some bathtub chemicals.
 
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
 
Cuz I live in Texas and there is no medical marijuana program here and I consistently get hemp based edibles that are fully legal. The cool thing about the 2018 hemp farm bill is that you can skirt the regulations. THC from hemp concentrates are just as effective as THC derived from marijuana. That's the beauty of it is I can be in Texas or anywhere in the continental United States and enjoy hemp-based THC from real companies that pay out real taxes.

There's all sorts of options for people these days. But like I said my personal worst pain in my life remedy is 60 mg of Delta 8 at night. And I have all the experience with opiates in my life I have all the experience with other recreational drugs. I've got all the experience with marijuana for years and years and years. If there's something about how Delta 8 affects the pain receptors I mean I have zero pain when I'm on that stuff. One of the downsides though of Delta 8 is no one knows what the long-term side effects are it has such a short history of human consumption at these doses that I believe that up to you entirely.

I was on it for 2 years basically every single night and I stopped cold turkey thinking it was going to be just like stopping marijuana. And it was for the most part it was just I was sweaty for a couple of nights didn't really get very good sleep and I was kind of moody. But there was a brain fog that followed me for a couple of weeks. Now I just take it when I'm in extreme things which is maybe depending on my workload twice a week.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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