Pain Killers

[personified]

I was watching ABC news and one article came on about pain killers and the lose of hearing. I could not find it on their site so here is a differnet link.

Hearing Loss (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1840/a07.html?1478)

Man MJ sounds safer every day.

[Islandborn]

I feel terrible for people with ACTUAL pain managment probs......dr's are terrified of the DEA and what they order because of the rampant abuse going on in so-called pain management clinics......lines of people every morning in Houston....most dont need anything and look like college kids. And for those with terrible pain....the drugs are ADDICTIVE AS SHIT and the detox takes months and months of horrific withdrawls and mental troubles from lack of saratonin. My thoughts and prayers to all people suffering.

[moody420]

I was in a car accident back in january of 09. The jerkoff came flying off the freeway in his work van and decided not to brake at the red light thus spinning me out, totalling my car, and causing ongoing back pain for maybe the rest of my life.

My wonderful doctor (I say this sarcastically) prescribed me about 6 different pain pills/nerve pills (I had several pinched nerves). After about a month of me complaining that I wasn't feeling better and that I was getting depressed from just being told to stay home and rest....so he prescribed me an anti depressant and anti anxiety pills! Well, i'm not the type of person to take anti depressants but he didn't care about that either. So here you have a person who rarely takes an aspirin for a headache now on 7 different meds!

I really started to feel like I was going crazy. I wouldn't leave the house for days and my emotions were all over the place. I cried to my dr. that I was still in pain and i felt like he was ignoring the problem. Masking the pain with a mix of pills was not making my back any better. He told me I should just trust him and that the pills should help. I worried that something could be really wrong and he would ignore the signs!

After that day, I switched dr's., called medicann and got my med card. I had already smoked weed for years and knew the effects and knew that having high quality buds easily and legally available would help me with my back pain. That period of time took alot of out me and put me into one of the darkest places of my life. I will never let a dr. control me like that again. After doing a bit of research on my own, I discovered that 2 of the meds were never supposed to be mixed. The pain pills that were supposed to be helping me feel better made me so depressed i didn't want to live!

Since then, I have been off of every single medication (other than ganja), I go to my new dr. regularly, and see my chiro about once a week. I'll probably always have back pain. But at least I know I have my herbal meds to help me through. It helps me sleep better, relax more, relieves pain and I know it's not going to leave me crazy and crying on the kitchen floor (those anti depressants are awful!)

It baffles me that it's completely legal to put a patient through that kind of torture and face no consequences. but if I want to toke a joint after work to help relax then I'm a criminal!

This justice system needs help! It's time for change!!! Legalize it!! :jointsmile:

[personified]

Never forget boys and girls that the pharmaceuticals bribe the doctors in too many ways.

In addition the pharmaceutical drug designers like the fact that their product has side affects this way they can design more drugs for the side effects.

One pill makes you larger. And one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you. Don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall. -----Jefferson Starship----

[WashougalWonder]

Moody,
You know, I understand that. Not only from the pain side, but also from a cardiac standpoint. Damn doctors are killing me with medicines. Doc, this makes me sick --- well lets add this one and see if that helps.

Right now I have to take a medication (and I am considering just not taking it and suffering the consequence of death) that makes me hurt, depressed, suicidal, and completely lethargic. Cannabis has no effect on it either. So, they pour more medicines. Crap I could bleed to death from one, get an ulcer from another, maybe get a bowel obstruction from another one............all this to make my heart keep ticking????? IS it worth it? Especially when I live in fricking pain all the time anyhow.

I swear the pot is all that keeps me alive. Not because of it's medicinal effects, just because I love to grow it more than I love to use it. Getting way tired of living on the poisons the doc give.

[stra8outtaWeed]

i can totally relate to all of this being a recreational smoker for years staying incognito...then in a second life changes...bad skiing accident ends in spinal cord injury....all the docs do is throw meds to counteract meds....i started smoking a little after about 6 months of heavy duty narcs and found that i felt better using MJ than all of the shit docs prescribed....so i got my script and started to grow and it actually pulled me out of my depression being able to start to things for myself again...but unfortunately i married to a religious bitch and she thought i had to act like a leper growing and could not associate with other growers to learn...so the new battlefront was on...the strange part was that my parents who do not drink or smoke anything could see the improvements and help that using MJ for pain and therapy in growing...i was able to quit on my own MS-Contin, Dilaudid, Lexapro(the hardest due to side affects)and many other meds although i do have complete support and approval of my use of MMJ from my doctor from years of monitoring me now...i would consider my self a heavy smoker...1 oz+ per week and my blood pressure is 105/60 on average and i am almost 46 years old and smoking for 26 years now...and not using any heavy pain meds other than ibuprofen once or twice a weak when the back muscles are really sore!

hey personified...i hit your skype back...give shout when you can! :thumbsup:

[moody420]

thanks WashougalWonder....I can relate. You gotta do what you feel is right for your body. I'm not saying all modern medicine is bad, but you have to do your own research and listen to what your body is telling you. And most pharmaceuticals have side effects that are worse then the ailment it's trying to fix! Not really sure the bonus of that!

MJ is not for everyone....but for me and clearly thousands of others on this board, it's making a significant difference in how we live our lives. Having pain relief without the side effects of depression, anxiety, anger, nausea, etc....well, that's enough for me! Why would i choose pills that cause more problems, when I can smoke a doobie and feel no pain?

I don't know why this is so hard for so many to understand! Legalize it!:jointsmile: