anti-inflammatory purposes?

[myselfandi]

Hello,

A few years ago, when I was around 18, somehow I got a pinched nerve in the socket of my hip. It gets quite painful, usually rendering me sitting or laying. I was prescribed anti-inflammatory medication, and it shortly thereafter went away. Now, today (age 20) it came back, and I no longer have medication for it, again rendering me useless. Now, before I could just lay around, but now I have to work and actually do things lol. To the point, I read on some post on this site that some chemicals in Cannabis worked well as anti-inflammatory medication. What are they? Does anyone have something I could read? Are there any certain ways I could use or prepare my Cannabis to enhance this particular effect?

Thank you,
MyselfandI

[daima]

Hello,

A few years ago, when I was around 18, somehow I got a pinched nerve in the socket of my hip. It gets quite painful, usually rendering me sitting or laying. I was prescribed anti-inflammatory medication, and it shortly thereafter went away. Now, today (age 20) it came back, and I no longer have medication for it, again rendering me useless. Now, before I could just lay around, but now I have to work and actually do things lol. To the point, I read on some post on this site that some chemicals in Cannabis worked well as anti-inflammatory medication. What are they? Does anyone have something I could read? Are there any certain ways I could use or prepare my Cannabis to enhance this particular effect?

Thank you,
MyselfandI

Take the bigger fan leaves, let them soak in rubbing alcohol for 10-15 minutes, and then lay the alcohol saturated leaves over the parts that are causing you pain. Many Mexicans still use this practice after a hard day in the fields, usually on hands, wrists, elbows,knees, ankles, etc etc. They have used this practice for centuries.
Ernest;Abels,... Marijuana, the first twelve thousands years, is a great book to research, as are world book encyclopedias, and old medical books.

dai*ma:stoned: sfca

[smokinbass]

i suffer from a pretty bad back/neck/spinal injury and have found the more "couch lock" indica strains work better to relieve inflamation and pain (or maybe after a few puffs i just don't care anymore?)

But no, really, i think the relaxation stops my body from being so tense from the pain and allows the inflamation to subside.

unfortunatly... i live in a state that does not recognise med. maj. so things r tough (like now)

[daima]

i suffer from a pretty bad back/neck/spinal injury and have found the more "couch lock" indica strains work better to relieve inflamation and pain (or maybe after a few puffs i just don't care anymore?)

But no, really, i think the relaxation stops my body from being so tense from the pain and allows the inflamation to subside.

unfortunatly... i live in a state that does not recognise med. maj. so things r tough (like now)

Here in San Francisco you are in our thoughts.
As for cannabis "not" making you care anymore? I have never experienced that by using cannabis, but i have had that same feeling because of depression. Feel free to share your thoughts and your feelings with me anytime. I am no PhD, but i did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night.

dai*ma:stoned: sfca

[pastor420]

i suffer from a pretty bad back/neck/spinal injury and have found the more "couch lock" indica strains work better to relieve inflamation and pain (or maybe after a few puffs i just don't care anymore?)

But no, really, i think the relaxation stops my body from being so tense from the pain and allows the inflamation to subside.

unfortunatly... i live in a state that does not recognise med. maj. so things r tough (like now)

Smokinbass,
I have an arthritic condition, Ankylosing Spondylitis, which produces much inflammation and pain in the legs, hips, back, shoulders, neck, etc. I too have found that the Indica strains help to relieve and relax things which can help break the cycle of pain as it were. And I too live in a state that has yet to realize the benefits of MM.

[smokinbass]

[QUOTE=daima]Here in San Francisco you are in our thoughts.
As for cannabis "not" making you care anymore? I have never experienced that by using cannabis, but i have had that same feeling because of depression. Feel free to share your thoughts and your feelings with me anytime. I am no PhD, but i did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night.



Hi daima,

no need to take me so seriously, when i say a toke or two helps me to not care... i meant it helps divert my attention from the pain to whatever i am doing... and well, it also helps me watch cartoons

[daima]

[QUOTE=daima]Here in San Francisco you are in our thoughts.
As for cannabis "not" making you care anymore? I have never experienced that by using cannabis, but i have had that same feeling because of depression. Feel free to share your thoughts and your feelings with me anytime. I am no PhD, but i did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night.



Hi daima,

no need to take me so seriously, when i say a toke or two helps me to not care... i meant it helps divert my attention from the pain to whatever i am doing... and well, it also helps me watch cartoons

sounds good to me. i was just checkin up on ya. we dont want to lose any good members or possible future cannabis farmers due to neglect:thumbsup:

I am wayyy ahead of you on the cartoon therapy. I throw some goo over a little cannabis, plug in my ol' Bullwinkle& Rocky videos, or my Felix the Cat Videos, and nothing else matters. Plus i get to turn my grandkids on to some neato classic cartoons.

Peace,
dai*ma:stoned: sfca

[smokinbass]

Thanx for carin'

just so u know...

Both complete collections of "Pinky and the Brain" and "Animaniacs" have just been released on DVD....

... and i just got pain for a gig i shot... woohooo, now if i could only find a little imagination lubrication.. or uhm... meds... i'd be set

[BlueBear]

Hello,

A few years ago, when I was around 18, somehow I got a pinched nerve in the socket of my hip. It gets quite painful, usually rendering me sitting or laying. I was prescribed anti-inflammatory medication, and it shortly thereafter went away. Now, today (age 20) it came back, and I no longer have medication for it, again rendering me useless. Now, before I could just lay around, but now I have to work and actually do things lol. To the point, I read on some post on this site that some chemicals in Cannabis worked well as anti-inflammatory medication. What are they? Does anyone have something I could read? Are there any certain ways I could use or prepare my Cannabis to enhance this particular effect?

Thank you,
MyselfandI

Is there a particular reason that you do not want to use the prescribed anti-inflammatory medication? The reason that I ask is because having a back ground in muscle and nerve related disorders I find that anti-inflammatory are reasonably a good trade off for the problems that they can resolve. They are not a narcotic, or a problematic medication that has the dangerous side affects of other prescriptions.
The reason that you were probably prescribed the anti-inflammatory is because your muscles are becoming inflamed do to over use, stress, dehydration or some type of irritation and the muscle, or muscles are compressing against the nerve or nerves. The anti-inflammatory allows the capillaries and veins to slightly increase and the blood to thin a little in order to carry the needed oxygen and nutriance to that inflamed area, allowing the toxic build up in the muscle which is causing a large part of the swelling to subside by restoring needed oxygen to the area in turn allowing the muscle to stop applying pressure to the surrounding nerves.
Hope that this helps some.
As far as the joking matter of depression and smoking. I found a interesting smoke report by a guy on IC mag and he stated how this commercial weed that he picked up in his area totally zapped him of his motivation, energy and more. It made him feel like a bum in short. He is a experienced grower and he did this as a test. He was trying to show how people do have to be careful about the MJ that they smoke. It can become perverted to the point that it can become a millstone around the neck of people, and this is where allot of those stereotypical commercials come in showing people who are high on MJ and are unable to function and have no desire to do anything.

[myselfandi]

Is there a particular reason that you do not want to use the prescribed anti-inflammatory medication? The reason that I ask is because having a back ground in muscle and nerve related disorders I find that anti-inflammatory are reasonably a good trade off for the problems that they can resolve. They are not a narcotic, or a problematic medication that has the dangerous side affects of other prescriptions.
The reason that you were probably prescribed the anti-inflammatory is because your muscles are becoming inflamed do to over use, stress, dehydration or some type of irritation and the muscle, or muscles are compressing against the nerve or nerves. The anti-inflammatory allows the capillaries and veins to slightly increase and the blood to thin a little in order to carry the needed oxygen and nutriance to that inflamed area, allowing the toxic build up in the muscle which is causing a large part of the swelling to subside by restoring needed oxygen to the area in turn allowing the muscle to stop applying pressure to the surrounding nerves.
Hope that this helps some.
As far as the joking matter of depression and smoking. I found a interesting smoke report by a guy on IC mag and he stated how this commercial weed that he picked up in his area totally zapped him of his motivation, energy and more. It made him feel like a bum in short. He is a experienced grower and he did this as a test. He was trying to show how people do have to be careful about the MJ that they smoke. It can become perverted to the point that it can become a millstone around the neck of people, and this is where allot of those stereotypical commercials come in showing people who are high on MJ and are unable to function and have no desire to do anything.

It isn't that I didn't want to use the medication. It was just that I don't have any left (was only given a single bottle), and it was hurting like hell.

[smokinbass]

I had to stop my anti-inflamatories.... they were wrecking my stomach

[beachguy in thongs]

Here are some things to read. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=12532323&query_hl=26&itool=pubmed_docsum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16375684&query_hl=26&itool=pubmed_docsum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=14963641&query_hl=26&itool=pubmed_docsum

Also, another one, that I can't access, is " Joint Bone Spine
Volume 71, Issue 1 , January 2004, Pages 7-8

Cannabis: the analgesic and antiinflammatory medication of the future?

Serge Perrot