happiehippie
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Pain Medication or Cannabis?
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the_alchemist
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B"H
i suppose some risks are worth taking. plenty of people risk breaking the law to use cannabis. some risk the chances of rx drugs because their health is so poor. it is a gamble on both sides.
i suppose some risks are worth taking. plenty of people risk breaking the law to use cannabis. some risk the chances of rx drugs because their health is so poor. it is a gamble on both sides.
the_alchemist
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Re:spinal stimulators
it is important to know if you have any medical conditions with auto-immune implications, a spinal stimulator can be a real problem as your body will attack the foreign object just as it attacks your own organs and tissue from skin to major organs like your lungs or liver. make sure your doctor treating any auto-immune problems that may arise from your illness gives a thumbs up for the stimulator. in my experience with friends and/or acquaitances, people have either been thrilled with the results or absolutely miserable with the stimulators. it is really a case by case basis. one thing to note, once the stimulator is in, there are many procedures (pain management procedures like epidurals and facet blocks to name a couple) which a patient can no longer have. personally, i get facet blocks in the cervical spine to control my migraines which the spinal stimulator would not help control; however, it would impact my ability to get these procedures if i had a stimulator. i strongly advise to just make sure the stimulator is not going to have an impact on either of those fronts or any others by asking each specialist their opinion about the stimulator and its impact more globally. best of luck to your husband. i hope he finds the "cure" he needs.
it is important to know if you have any medical conditions with auto-immune implications, a spinal stimulator can be a real problem as your body will attack the foreign object just as it attacks your own organs and tissue from skin to major organs like your lungs or liver. make sure your doctor treating any auto-immune problems that may arise from your illness gives a thumbs up for the stimulator. in my experience with friends and/or acquaitances, people have either been thrilled with the results or absolutely miserable with the stimulators. it is really a case by case basis. one thing to note, once the stimulator is in, there are many procedures (pain management procedures like epidurals and facet blocks to name a couple) which a patient can no longer have. personally, i get facet blocks in the cervical spine to control my migraines which the spinal stimulator would not help control; however, it would impact my ability to get these procedures if i had a stimulator. i strongly advise to just make sure the stimulator is not going to have an impact on either of those fronts or any others by asking each specialist their opinion about the stimulator and its impact more globally. best of luck to your husband. i hope he finds the "cure" he needs.
tintala
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You got off the fentanyl patches? that's incredible, i quite those cold turkey about 5 years ago, the worse thing ever. But how did you do it? I would love to get off my oxies, just would like to know how ppl get off their meds using cannabis... don't get me wrong I have been using cannabis for 25 years, but I have not used it succesfully to get off opiates.
Howdy,
Anyone who has had to deal with this problem know first hand the meaning of true misery and i have the greatest of respect for you. I am on a pain management contract myself and i know this problem well.
Anyone who has had to deal with this problem know first hand the meaning of true misery and i have the greatest of respect for you. I am on a pain management contract myself and i know this problem well.
Hi, I agree with all of you. I am finally retiring so i am finally free to speak my mind without fear of retaliation. There are many professionals now who are going to be ending their careers and begin speaking out in favor of medical use of cannabis. For instance in cancer treatment the longer you can keep a patient off of narcotics the better they will work if/when you really need them. You all know how resistance works. I'm on a pain management program myself. My wife is eleven years younger then I am so I do not want to be on a heavy dose of narcotics at all. The least amount I can get away with taking the better. I would love to be only taking 2 or 3 vicoden a day. A person I know who has pancreatic cancer was on the fent. patches plus like 300 Dilauded a month and went from the 100 patch to the 25 one and dropped the amount of the d's by 75%. by smoking weed in combo with his reg. pain mgnt. The pain meds. have physical consequences like loss of sex drive and weight gain etc. so the lower the dose the less the side effects. If a person could be treated with cannabis during chemo, after wards there would be no physical withdrawal to worry about, no tapering of medication. It would really make a lot of treatments easier to complete. How many drugs including alcohol do you know of that don't have consequences after doing them for say two or three months every day? Speed has horrible liability, morphine? valium? alcohol? The only psycho active drug i know of that won't cause withdrawals or bad damage even after years of use is cannabis. If it's the only one there is, isn't it time to start using it as the miracle drug it actually is?
