Quote Originally Posted by mrdevious
When I was telling my doctor about all the things I've tried to help my chronic pain, I said at the end "well.... and I use, cannabis". All he said was "yeah that'll work pretty well" lol . I like my doc, he's a really smart guy that's always going to international seminars and the such to expand his knowledge, and he just spent 6 months in the Doctors Without Borders program where they work pretty much for free in foreign countries.


On the issue of telling your doc though, I wouldn't recommend it. I told my doc and one other, and I'm sure that having such a thing on my file is part of why doctors still won't give me oxycontin (rather than lame-ass tramadol), since I'm a "drug user" and would therefor only want oxy to "get high"
Man get a new doctor, if you been having serious chronic pain you should be referred to palliative care. I don't know your exact pain, but pain control is a fine art form. Doctors don't want to give too much to dope you up, but enough to make you comfortable. I mean you don't want to give a guy oxycontin to a guy for example sprained his ankle. Doctors would prescribe you the necessary drugs if you truly need them. They gave me high doses of fentanyl, pretty much the ultimate opiate out there other than heroin. I gotten prescribed fentanyl methadone, oxycontin, percs, dilaudid, morphine. My admitted pot use had no bearing on what they dispensed to me.

But god, I'm so sick of taking opiates. It's triggering some weird flashbacks, they aren't even psychedelic, when I close my eyes, it's like watching a scanner darkley that keeps changing images constantly, every 10 seconds. I swear, the amount of opiates I had in a the last few days could kill a dozen of human beings. I wish marijuana was legal, especially for medical patients. Opiates shutdown your digestive system, constapating you if you take it consistantly. Marijuana doesn't, none of those side effects that cause more problems than it relieves. It absolutely a fact some potent indica strain would do a better job at killing pain than any opiate out there.