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Medical use of cannabis for M.S. and other medical issues.

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ok, i`m an asshat in the lounge but I`m being serious...
My mom has more medical issues than i can even list, but some are MS, lupus, eye problems, blood disorders. Some of these drugs have caused even more problems like osteoperosis... She can break a bone so easy it isn`t funny...
One of her doctors mentioned medical pot... Some of the others were against it. (she`s got probably 10 different specialists) one told her if he gave her pot, she`d get nothing else from him.
My sisters bf got her some cookies to try... She felt quite a bit better, ate better, but they`re gone.
Does anybody have much experience with medical uses for ms? Helpful or not?
Yes i can and have googled... Looking more for personal experiances for better or worse.
Any thoughts or comments?
 
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also, i read the guidelines now... Sorry bout that... But the other thread that got closed, was related to this for my mother, i just didn`t want to go into this much detail... But i facepalmed myself after i read all the stickies...
Thanks...
 
I just wanna say I suffer from terrible depression, Tourettes, and back pain from a car wreck. And POT helps and I was addicted to Dilaudid and Percs it suck ass. And if I run out of pot it easier to deal with it as if I ran out of the other pain meds the withdrawls were terrible. And pot also has that amazing side effect of giving one the munchies and I am able to gain weight...I have a thyroid problem that makes it hard for me to gain weight. So it is and I will testify to the moon and back a wonder drug for me. Sorry as I cant relate on the MS side but I have terrible back pain and migraines and with my body tics from the tourettes I can say it has truely changed me. And I am able to take care of my kids.
 
Cannabis is very well known to be amazingly helpful for many people with MS. It's one of the conditions you can get a license for medical cannabis for and in the UK it's the main condition you can get medical cannabis extract on prescription for the most easily. You can go from having dozens of different medications which turn you into a zombie and don't particularly help because medicine is unable to treat the condition very well at all to using just one medication with few medically serious side effects i.e. cannabis. The difference before and after is striking it really is.

Cannabis really is the closest we have to a medical panacea and it really is (in my opinion at least) a wonder drug. That's not to say you should get carried away but there really is no other drug that can treat so many conditions all at once and which is so physiologically non-toxic and which has such a well established safety profile compared to other pharmaceuticals. You will run into doctors that refuse to have anything to do with you because of your cannabis use because they're either pressured to do so or just because they're ignorant. A lot of them don't really understand cannabis very well and only see it rigidly through the eyes of orthodox medicine. Because some smoke it and because it isn't in a predictable standardized dose they think it's medically useless which couldn't be further from the truth. You can eat it, vaporize it and whatever the potency titrate your dose by taking a puff and stopping, taking a puff, stopping and so on until you get relief. So the action of the drug is unique and is different to many conventional pharmaceuticals.
 
Friends of mine who have MS do not use marijuana at all even though it's legal for med use in the one friend's state. They just take the meds they are prescribed.
 
Unfortunately some people just don't respond at all to the pharmaceuticals available, or if they do it's only a partial response. That's why I think medical cannabis should always be available as an alternative option to MS sufferers. Others still would simply prefer to take one substance, cannabis, rather than a plethora of drugs, some of which are simply used to counteract the side effects of other drugs and so on. At any rate, I think at least it's worth trying if one doesn't get adequate relief from what your doctor prescribes. A lot of the pharmaceutical drugs have the potential to short and long term toxic effects whereas cannabis, because it's had such a long term history of use, is a known to have a remarkably low pharmacological toxicity, especially if vaporized or taken as edibles.

Don't get me wrong you're completely right, it certainly won't be for everyone with its effect on the mind, but so many people get so much relief from it that it's certainly worth considering in some cases for some patients. If the psychoactive effects are not desirable one can always look into trying high CBD, low THC variety that doesn't get you high.
 
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wow... Thoughtful posts... Artifical emotion, it IS the side effects that she`d like to get away from... Seems like every month or 2 there`s a lawyers ad on tv saying "if you were on "x,y, or z" then call us now, you may entitled to compensation...blah blah blah" she`s been on alot of it... She just hates all the crap she puts ino her body... Thanks for the link too.
 
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