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Great article SweetSue! Thanks for posting it
You’re welcome Shed. I’ve posted it before, but not with notes. I learn something new every time I read it.
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Great article SweetSue! Thanks for posting it
Glad they got the terminology straight!a shitload of other meds
I went from Methtrexate and other RX"s and being disabled from hip, hand and other joints pain, to returning to work a couple years ago, after dropping the Prescription meds and using Cannabis oral, dermal and inhalation! I even have been testing below the "RA" threshold for over a year now, when my PCP test me every six months! I still have pain, but less, much less and I cope with it better when I inhale some good bud! Joint swelling has gone! It may only be a temporary remission but I'll take it! The chronic pain from osteo type and old injuries is endured better, and as an old landscaper/laborer/farmer I have earned a bunch of pain from my efforts to support a family. It is twisted, blind, ignorance (for some "researchers") to continue to tell people like me, a senior citizen RA victim, cannabis does not help manage RA, pain,swelling and inflammation , when it has helped me with all! Then on top of restoring me to work, it also helps me deal with anxiety and rest better! I feel good! Is it evil or abusing a substance because it makes me feel good while curing/managing my medical issues? I would like to reset some of these experts titles. Perhaps, Professional Hack Researcher (for hire!) for disregarding patient welfare and comfort, would be a better title for the like of these "Experts"?Cannabis and pain - from a 2012 Oxford study, reported in Smithsonian Magazine:
To determine exactly how cannabis relieves pain, a group of Oxford researchers used healthy volunteers, an MRI machine and doses of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Their findings, published today in the journal Pain, suggest something counterintuitive: that the drug doesn’t so much reduce pain as make the same level of pain more bearable.
“Cannabis does not seem to act like a conventional pain medicine,” Michael Lee, an Oxford neuroscientist and lead author of the paper, said in a statement. “Brain imaging shows little reduction in the brain regions that code for the sensation of pain, which is what we tend to see with drugs like opiates. Instead, cannabis appears to mainly affect the emotional reaction to pain in a highly variable way.”
Read more: Cannabis isn't a pain killer, it's a pain distractor
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One of the reasons some rheumatologists are hesitant to endorse the use of cannabis is due to other drug interactions. The FDA has reported drug interactions with cannabis among people who took Neurontin (Gabapentin), a pretty common lupus and fibromyalgia drug. Other common lupus medications that might interact are: barbiturates, sedative medications (ambien, klonopin, ativan), antidepressants (prozac), muscle relaxants (flexeril), opioids and even warfarin (coumadin) which is used for the common lupus overlap disease Antiphospholipid syndrome.
Another reason why your rheumatologist may not be on board with you trying medical marijuana is due to the fact that the American College of Rheumatology published a five year study at the University of New Mexico in 2014, that indicated marijuana use in SLE was not associated with was not associated with reduced pain, use of steroids, use of narcotics or disease activity. In fact, the study showed that narcotic use went up, as well as, an increase in end stage renal disease and neuropsychiatric SLE. Sadly, the data they collected was not medically supportive of cannabis being used as a treatment method for SLE.
I think I want to see this report and see where they f*d up. Why am I not surprised? New Mexico is the state that held up the study on PTSD for veterans for years because the governor was a raving anti-cannabis proponent, likely getting kickbacks from somewhere.
Another report to chase down. This one should be done by now:
Dr. Jason McDougall, a professor in the department of pharmacology and anesthesia at Halifax University in Nova Scotia is using a three-year grant from the Arthritis Society to study how cannabis compounds can manage arthritis pain. Dr. McDougall is hopeful that by administering the cannabis like molecules to the painful arthritic areas, they will see improvement not only with dampening the pain levels in the brain but with the actual reduction of inflammation in the joint as well.
I went from Methtrexate and other RX"s and being disabled from hip, hand and other joints pain, to returning to work a couple years ago, after dropping the Prescription meds and using Cannabis oral, dermal and inhalation! I even have been testing below the "RA" threshold for over a year now, when my PCP test me every six months! I still have pain, but less, much less and I cope with it better when I inhale some good bud! Joint swelling has gone! It may only be a temporary remission but I'll take it! The chronic pain from osteo type and old injuries is endured better, and as an old landscaper/laborer/farmer I have earned a bunch of pain from my efforts to support a family. It is twisted, blind, ignorance (for some "researchers") to continue to tell people like me, a senior citizen RA victim, cannabis does not help manage RA, pain,swelling and inflammation , when it has helped me with all! Then on top of restoring me to work, it also helps me deal with anxiety and rest better! I feel good! Is it evil or abusing a substance because it makes me feel good while curing/managing my medical issues? I would like to reset some of these experts titles. Perhaps, Professional Hack Researcher (for hire!) for disregarding patient welfare and comfort, would be a better title for the like of these "Experts"?