What are the benefits of cannabis for you?

[trebor]

Assuming effective cultivars have been found for my needs, I use MC for a range of issues, it helps with:

Pain: as a result of arthritis in many joints. Damaged L5 disc going back 50 years causing sciatic nerve inflamation and pain including referred pain. Broken bones, sprains etc pain from surfing and skateboarding in the 70s were self treated with cannabis, hence realisation that MC would do the trick.

Accident 25 years ago resulting in surgical leg pinning and plate causing poor circulation, scar tissue, severe pain etc. Offered opiates,I refused. Cocodamol stopped on my request.

I would not be able to function without the painkilling capabilities of cannabis.

Inflammation: in many part of body including vagus nerve, brain stem, muscles in limbs caused by MCAS as a result of Long Covid. Arthritic swelling in joints inc hands. Swollen legs caused by damaged leg vein valves. Many more areas too. No treatment available or offered on NHS.

My medical Cannabis reduces my inflammation, my legs have been the most improved problem, used to have "champagne bottle" efect legs from oedema. . that has in the past 2 years reduced a significantly. No other treatment has been used.

Mood: After over 20 years of leg pain, decades of back pain and 5 years of the untreated MCAS/CFS/PEM combo there have been times I have struggled to be positive, I know that the right MC cultivar can lift my mood if needed.

Insomnia: Sometimes the correct cultivar can help me sleep. Sleep is key, with no deep sleep cellular renewal and "taking the rubbish out" is slowed down or stopped.

Hello fellow old bloke,makes you wonder why these clearly intelligent medical practioners who have served your needs over the years couldnt pass on the obvious benefits of Cannabis,to the NHS, for review and peer testing,when patients such as yourself and myself,are finding non NHS treatments that work and make life worth living again.

 

[OldBloke]

Hello fellow old bloke,makes you wonder why these clearly intelligent medical practioners who have served your needs over the years couldnt pass on the obvious benefits of Cannabis,to the NHS, for review and peer testing,when patients such as yourself and myself,are finding non NHS treatments that work and make life worth living again.

Welcome & hello It's my belief it all started when we stopped importing hemp on a huge scale to make rope for our fleets of sail battleships. Then we cut down all the oak. Then the jolly Victorians decided that cannabis tincture was good for everything. Then that it wasn't. Stir in a bit of Opium Wars in a few centuries and that ties it up for me.

Then continue in the same vein until today with deeply embedded stigma. . I'm poking fun at the issue as usual but I'm serious

 

[S.O.H™]

keepz me's saine in da membraine

 

[ChroniclyChronic]

Bio:
male 54,
Vascular Disease, Advanced COPD/Severe Emphysema (smoked since 6-7 ), Kyphoskoliosis, Chronic Sciatica, several damaged disks
Meds: Pregablin3x100mg a day, 4-8x 50mg tramadol, 6x 200mg ibuprofen, 6x500 paracetamol, nebulise saline and a ventolin 4x perday.

It helps by masking/ distracting sciatic and rheumatic pain, stops it from presenting so badly in the first place(Not carrying myself so tightly) and lessens my needs for opiates dramatically. Regarding my COPD it stops a breathlessness attack turning into a fatal one due to my anxiety spiking and it turning into a breathlessness/panic attack (not a good combo), lungs and muscles in general are more elastic and flexible. increases my appetite and generally I'm a lot happier and relaxed a person due to it. I'm not lying down constantly, tightly wound up in pain and unable to even think of a sentence let alone string it into actual words. Sleeping better and better at sticking to a pattern. No longer doing the Dance of Death with the Black Market.

Just my experience and others WILL be different.

 

[S.O.H™]

The Dreadded Dance of Death with the Black Market

 

[S.O.H™]

Good way for me to hyperfocus and spend all my time and money consumed within this disfunctional MC Roundabout.

 

[Bilbobaginz]

It makes the world
and the people
in it more tolerable.
No offence intended to present company of course, you lot are dead on ✌

 

[S.O.H™]

It makes the world
and the people
in it more tolerable.
No offence intended to present company of course, you lot are dead on ✌

turns down the vol

 

[Bilbobaginz]

Good way for me to hyperfocus and spend all my time and

turns down the vol

it does indeed❤

 

[Hazy-Haze]

So I have thought about this question a lot and I wasn't going to post this as it will probably trigger some people, but....

It makes me feel dumber, which is good. It smooths out life and makes me consider less, what could have been.

I want to be dumber. I think being intelligent is a curse. I see people around me, married, wife, kids and I never achieved that. Maybe because I was born with a scrambled head and no social skills. What is the difference between the vast majority of them and me? 20-30 points of IQ, is mostly the answer (and yes I know people who are super happy with a great wife and kids and they are dumber than pile of planks).

PS. Not looking for sympathy or anything else, it's just reality and it can't be changed. I know others have the same issue and I know some have it far worse. But the reality of cannabis is it smooths out a shitty life and makes it slightly more tolerable for some of us who really hate it. I put on a brave face and I am a master at masking, so everyone thinks I am super happy and they think i have been super happy my whole life, but reality is reality and when I am alone I don't fake it as it's pointless lying to yourself.

So the real answer for me is, the main benefit of Cannabis for me is it makes life liveable, makes me care less, think less about the past and all the missed opportunities I had to maybe have the family side of things (quite a few in the last 30 years). One day when my time is up, it will help smooth out that part of the journey too.

I hear you @S.O.H™ on "turning down the volume". that is probably another way of seeing it. I like it way down or off completely.

 

[S.O.H™]

'dumber than pile of planks' Hazy-Haze MedBuddies™ power-play quote of the day

I'm so dumb I hadn't heard that paraphrase before. Hazy-Haze, everything you said I and many many others if not all of us MedBuddies can relate too in our lives! I really dnt think what you've wrote should trigger anyone, I'd be surprised if it did and I would also 100% stand in solidarity with you on this 247/365!

I spend so much time on my own, I need company and weed is my friend, end!

What we're feeling here, I think or what I'm feeling here more to the point might be social awkwardness as a direct result of high intelligence (Too quick for people)? I'm currently dealing with, poorly I might add, a fairly recent neurodiverse/divergent late in life diagnosis and these so called reasonable adjustments at work. And, I work for the NHS, its still taken them, my employer (1 of the biggest organisations in the Europe) nearly 2 years to put in place the list of adjustments in place inc work coaching where I'm learning even more, as instructed by the DWP. I'm nowadays often referred to as being disabled and I am categorically most definately not disabled or even if I am I'm on the spectrum as I believe we all are anyway, extremely high functioning and moderately successful to an extent a (BSc Occupational Therapy Degree at Brunel University 2007 - 2010) skilled person who works in allied health, (Work for NHS Community Neurorehabilitaion Team) and actually see most, if not all, of my divergencies as a powerful master tool and a fundemental foundation of my underlying skills, if and when properly accessed and utilised by myself and just to add, medicating does really really help to relax and wind-down and shake your body-down in London Town after an intense day at work too.

Then, there's this community forum. Another good reason!

Big up all the massive and crew
MedBuddies™ ROCK THE BLOCK
And, I'm crying again dnt tell me mates, oh no I haven't got any for you to tell! That's not actually true! I sam slightly retract this comment!

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Time for a SUPRSD BBY PRP, Peace & Love (uckin' 'ell, only got 2 big buds left already)...I've battered it pmsl

 

[S.O.H™]

P.s I always have to double-check the spelling of the word and its correct usage, does / dosen't etc. Is that normal, I ask you?

 

[Hazy-Haze]

I do, it's probably one of the better reasons for the internet. the ability to query a word and meaning in real time without having to finger through a dictionary. Apparently I mix their and there all the time as well. So I kind of boiled it down to one pertains to a person and one pertains to everything else. It's probably wrong, but meh.

I also have this typing dyslexia, probably because any dyslexia from writing is non existent due to not writing. I type out a sentence and forget words, jumble (just typed jumple ) letters and just generally echo my own dysfunctionality.