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Hi,

Anyone using pot to help with the pain?

Love to hear about it -- what it helps, how you use it etc.

I've been on Celebrex, methotrexate and humira for 12 months and still experience high level of pain regularly.

Anne

Hi Annie, welcome to KA! As you live in California, the whole idea looks easier for you than most of us (at least me in Texas)... the most responded to thread we've had recently is at
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Cooking it is a pain, until you know how much and when it will kick in. I would use a vaporizer to protect your lungs and not miss out on any of the 'benefits'.

And yes, it helps me significantly. Not so much in the joints, but for the resulting muscle spasms I get. It is also the best night sleep I get (if you don't go over board), for me better than ambien.

Take care, share with us what you fin out (or find )
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I have always found that marijuana doesn't actually kill the pain, but it makes it easier to cope with, if that makes sense. I will now only use it if I get really stressed because of pain, which rarely happens anymore as my pain treshhold is pretty darn high after all these years.

It helps you to somehow see the pain as something that's seperate from your brain. I used to sit there just focussing on the pain, thinking about exactly where it was, what it felt like and very thoughtfully trying different positions and assess what effect it had on the pain, etc. It seems to take most of the emotion out of the pain.

Personally it doesn't make me sleep better. It makes me feel sleepy, but I wake up more often after I've fallen asleep.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to take THC as a tincture--? Anyone heard of this or tried it? I have no clue how to smoke! And I hate how any kind of smoke makes my lungs feel. But I've been getting migraines and am starting to wonder...
Thanks,
Jan

It seems to me Inanna does... you could pm her...

Thank you!

hi
i smoke it,it certainly chills me out when the pain makes me irritable and i never feel the pain as bad after i have smoked it. i interested to know bout anyone elses opinions
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Hi I've been smoking it for years but I have been smoking it for so long that I don't think it helps with pain anymore. These days I just smoke a joint before I go to bed as I don't want to go about wasted and it's not good for my mental wellbeing. It definately helps me to get to sleep otherwise I'd be awake for a good few hours so I'd recommend it for that if you have problems sleeping. Morv:)

I never thot smoking pot helped with the pain (helped me keep my meds down), but Marinol does. It's THC in a pill. It makes weed seem tame. That's coming from a long time user of pot. I can't drive on that pill, I giggle uncontrollably and never really know when and then there's the "Are you kidding? This is legal but a joint isn't?" thought process. However in the pill I have found it to kill pain in a big way. Marinol is legal in the whole US with a script. Even with the pain killing effects of Marinol I'd rather smoke some good medical marijuana. For my state that will be a few more years tho. Just passed but will get vetoed and go back to get over ridden so figure 2-3 more yrs here. Smoking helps a lot more with spasms than muscle relaxers w/o wrecking my stomach too. Peace&Light
Vaporizors r great 4 ppl who don't want to smoke. Water pipes remove alot of crap too, but remember no one is spraying radiation and adding chemicals to our weed yet so much safer than cigarettes even in a joint. Peace&Light

I was just prescribed Nabilone, a synthetic cannabinoid, for chronic neuropathic pain. I don't have experience with the real thing to reference to, but I hope it works well, without making me too sleepy. If any one has an experience with this one, please let me know! Thanks!