[theshackleford]

I find CBD about as useful as a sugar pill for pain treatment.

THC amongst its most minimal side effects increases my pain, not decreases it.

I would suggest everyone try everything that is open to them, but cannabis is not a miracle cure for every ailment.

[varispeed]

Are you talking about THC isolate? I found high THC full spectrum oils to be life changing. They don't "cure" pain, but fade it into the background noise. You can still feel it if you focus on it, but pain no longer consumes your attention. I found this to be the most debilitating problem, not being able to do anything because pain just constantly grabs your thoughts and imprisons you. Medical cannabis removes that aspect almost completely. Now, I found oil to be individual thing - I had to go through a half dozen of them before I found one that is actually working for me. It was discouraging at first, but I still had hope and once I found the one... I got my life back! I've been taking it for many years now. I don't have any side effects. I don't feel "high" etc.

[theshackleford]

> I got my life back! I've been taking it for many years now. I don't have any side effects. I don't feel "high" etc.

That's fantastic! It's pretty much the goal for all of us right? Haha, so glad to hear it. I'm still on that road a little myself, but it is what it is.

> Are you talking about THC isolate? I found high THC full spectrum oils to be life changing.

I have tried it in pretty much all its forms. Flower, oil, lozenges, wafers, vape etc. If it has THC in any form, pain goes up. But it's not just pain, it induces within me sinus tachyardia and heart palpitations, no matter the strength or presence of other cannabanoids.

However I have just had surgery again, which should relieve some pressure on my central nervous system, so it's likely ill try again at some point in the future. There has been some suggestion that my nervous system has been misinterpreting the affects of cannabis as a "threat" effectively. But i'm very early in the stages of recovery so probably not going to diddle with it for a while.

[cracoucax]

I've always found strange all the talk about using cannabis to manage pain. I've smoked alot of weed, well before all those talks promoting THC for this.

It was my experience, and common knowledge in my circles at the time that THC made pain way, way worse, at least in resin form.

Probably simply because you'll tend to isolate things and focus on them very strongly when under the influence, it makes you notice pain more. I remember toking some days after a knee surgery and regretting badly having done it. So much pain I hadn't noticed...

[theshackleford]

> Probably simply because you'll tend to isolate things and focus on them very strongly when under the influence, it makes you notice pain more.

This is a very strong contender for why it increases my pain I think, and possibly why it induces some other side effects. I'm ok with my injury and how its changed my life for the most part, but when using THC i'd laser focus in on the pain, then from the pain to the cause and from there to "how unfair it is etc."

Its hard to explain, but the work i've done to be ok with this disability is undone when I go near THC for some reason, and is when I tend to break down and lose my ability to be "stoic" about it for lack of a better word I suppose.

[incomingpain]

>I find CBD about as useful as a sugar pill for pain treatment.

Same.

>THC amongst its most minimal side effects increases my pain, not decreases it.

I had green card before canada legalized and thc was my main go. Higher potency just meant less smoking needed.

Alcohol was what increased pain for me.

>but cannabis is not a miracle cure for every ailment.

For me, I cant do cannabis at all anymore; but you'd be surprised how effective it is as a medicine for a lot of people.

[theshackleford]

> but you'd be surprised how effective it is as a medicine for a lot of people.

Nah, I mean even for me, it had some positive impacts, again, allowing me to eat for instance. So i'm not blind to its capacity to be a positive force for many conditions.

The problem is that it's really not a miracle cure without side effects for everyone which a lot of people are not willing to entertain. There are people who simply refuse to accept that cannabis is not always the best, or even a workable choice.

In my case for instance, despite the positive of an increased appetite, it increased my pain, it gave me heart palpitations, it gave me sinus tachyardia, etc. Despite this, cannabis users will argue with me and tell me I "must have been doing it wrong" or various other statements along those lines, rather than accepting that like any drug, the reaction and utility of it is down to the individual.