Quote Originally Posted by 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
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.