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Does medical marijuana work for chronic pain?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Nov 18 8:13am | Replies (701)Comment receiving replies
If one medication has stopped working and the Dr. puts you on something different, why are you still taking the first one? That doesn’t make sense. I went that route with different pain medications - found out which ones I was allergic to. Each time I was prescribed a different medication, I quit taking the one I was currently on.
From the list of pain meds you are taking, a lot of them interact with each other. And yes, the medications can quit working because our system becomes immune to it. That’s why your pain level is through the roof.
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Drugs are used in many combinations to achieve the same thing as say a singular opioid, if you're allergic it. Can't help you understand if you don't listen. My pain is in control, and I was talking about past experiences with Tramadol. Everyones source of pain is different, so what works for your toes, may not work for someone with back pain. Don't try and tell others why their pain is through the roof if you don't understand something. Nothing is comparable here.
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Ok, I was put on like 5 of these meds at the same time after fighting for my life for 4 months after a botched routine surgery. Next thing I know I have a 30 cm hernia. Took 2 years and many operations to me back together. I imagine I was on them all for pain. I am not taking anything now except xanax, 1 mg a day, and my Cannabis. You do not always get off a medication before starting another, it doesn't work like that with pain meds, you can die from withdrawals, at very best it is extremely painful. Some may or may not interact depends on the person. With pain medications I agree, you should be almost off one drug before starting another. I followed my doctors instructions to the letter seeing he was a pain management specialist. Never assume you understand the pain level a patient after massive major reconstructive surgery. For 5 years I couldn't feel most of my stomach and chest area due to these operations and nerve damage. A square foot of mesh is holding me together. I agree with your advice that these meds can cause pain in time taken together, that is why I insisted I lower and removed all of them for Cannabis. My doctor treated me for massive acute pain, and chronic would soon add to the equation. These drugs may have saved my life as physical trauma, and pain from stress, anxiety, emotional trauma, and other factors could have taken a toll on all my major organs that had failed during a one month induced ICU coma. I should be dead. But old fishermen never die, they just smell that way!