Ron.Shaw@f7.n374.z1.fidonet.org (Ron Shaw) (04/24/91)
Index Number: 15126
[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference on Fidonet]
I've had cronic pain since 1972 and have tried it all. from DMSO to
Nerve stimulators. The nerve stimulators allowed me to continue on my
job as an engineer for about 5 more months, only because I had the
sucker on 24 hours per day. Finally I became immune to it, started
wearing a heating pad to work & pluggin it in at my desk. This worked
for a month (of which I probably missed 3/4 of work time). As a last
resort after numerous medications including valium, percodan and the
like, I resorted to smoking pot. Naturally being illegal I had my
druthers, but wanted to continue to function in society. Well THe Pot
decreased the pain from the backaches, reduced the muscle spasms &
cramps, but it does not allieviate completely the pain either. Only
de-sensitizes your brain to it. Now after not smoking it for a
considerale length of time, I no longer can function outside of my 3
room apartment. My doctor has prescribed Pot, but the hold up is the
DEA. They don't care what condition you are in, they just want to
hinder anyone in pain from getting anything that may help. Although
Pot is not a cureall (and if you can stay away from it, by all means
do), it does not give you the side effects of other medications which
include SUPER stomache problems, shaking & dizziness, going out of
your head, deep depression (as valium), and other disfunctions. my
vote is for pot to help cronic pain (but not to be completely
legalized. Have any of you tried it? Robert Randall of ACT (Alliance
for Canibus theraputic) was the first able to legally obtain
Marijuana, and I have been legally able to obtain it since december
of 1990 (although with the Hinderance of the DEA I have of yet to
recieve a shipment). They also have a synthetic form of marijuana
called Marinol. This is a joke. It is very expensive (a bottle of 25
capsules-liquid filled 2.5 mg) is 55 bucks. and lasts for about 2
days. Normal doses of pot consists of a bottle of marinol at 10 mg
strength which costs around 181 bucks for 25 pills. Unlike pot, you
can not take a toke or two, put it out for later use. One sever side
effect of the Marinol is chest pains, shit it makes you feel as if
you are having a heart attack.
BTW my problem (well one of them) is Post-Polio syndrome ,PPS or
polio mylositis. For the past 7 years I have been completely confined
to my apartment, and 18 - 23 hours per day to my bed (under a heating
blanket to slow down the muscle spasms and cramps)
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