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- ganjadude4391, on 05/04/2008, -10/+44and the best cure for minor pain? Marijuana
works within seconds, lasts for a few hours - wukillabee, on 05/04/2008, -9/+38actually chronic relieves my pain
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -4/+31Masterbation solves all that ails you.
- sparkmonkeyz, on 05/04/2008, -4/+31My pain isn't chronic; my medicine is though.
- dkapuchino, on 05/04/2008, -7/+29Shame the study hasn't been able to link the poor nutrition in America to the ammount of pain and health problems you have.
Don't blame people's paychecks, blame the cheeseburgers and fries. - przemeklach, on 05/04/2008, -5/+27I wouldn't be surprised if a large factor in all this pain is dehydration. If you're not hydrated your body doesn't work, period. Also, the crappy diet that most people have add to the problem of hydration, drinking pop and coffee. I drink alot of coffee but I also drink alot of water. On days that I don't drink enough water I feel like crap.
- kl78229, on 05/04/2008, -0/+15The only pain I have is from the same tired joke beating beaten over my head again and again.
- bensone1, on 05/04/2008, -2/+14i hope i dont start a battle between pro/anti pot advocates but you should look at the benefits of legalizing pot instead of wasting tons of money on tylenol, advil, and the others like it. it would be a much cheaper and safer alternative to those not wishing to swallow a handful of pills that can lead to liver, stomach, and intestinal issues.
just one man's opinion - serend, on 05/04/2008, -6/+17
People like you are why other people can't get help with their problems. - inactive, on 05/04/2008, -0/+10Shut up you homophobic retard.
- serend, on 05/04/2008, -1/+11I for one am one of the unfortunate with my lowest vertebra (L5) sliding forward about 1/2 an inch on top the sacrum (spondylolisthesis) putting pressure on the nerves in the legs With two bulging disks in the two above (L3,L4) Marijuana can only help so much. Nerve pain is a bitch.
- kong27, on 05/04/2008, -1/+11It can work the other way around too. The more pain you're in, the less you're able to work and the less money you have.
- glowfood, on 05/04/2008, -0/+9People don't seem to understand that pain is your body's way of letting you know something is wrong. The worst thing you could do is silence headaches or joint problems with medication (or marijuana). Figure out the problem - Don't cover the symptoms.
- tresorArt, on 05/04/2008, -3/+11chronic stress can create pain. Acute pain with high stress can actually produce analgesia of other pain.
Psychosomatic is misleading, but pain is processed in a region that can in turn project to the amygdala, a region people have probably have heard of before and related to emotion.
A lot of the pain stuff I can see how it's economic. People can't afford proper care etc. But I agree that part of it might be biological and self-perpetuating. blahblahblah blah blah - kong27, on 05/04/2008, -0/+8Maybe for minor pain. But when you have to deal with excruciating pain 24/7, to the point that you can't even get out of bed some days, I think it's a whole different story.
- oxdeltaxo, on 05/04/2008, -1/+9Not to mention vicodin is far more addictive than marijuana.
- edwartica, on 05/04/2008, -0/+8Plus the fact that studies show those with chronic pain are more apt to have chronic depression.
- jordan314, on 05/04/2008, -1/+8My sister's in pain so much that she can't work and vomits most days.
***** you. - DaDrake, on 05/04/2008, -1/+8dugg down for being a vegetarian.
- Midtowner, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7Poor people in America typically have poor nutrition. It goes along with being uneducated and having such easy and inexpensive access to unsafe and unhealthy food.
- Kronos6948, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7You don't think manual labor has anything to do with pain?
- cvrefugee, on 05/04/2008, -1/+7Did you just leave your jihad meeting to post this comment on digg?
- MJDub, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6Except lack of women.
- user5124, on 05/04/2008, -3/+9..which means medical marijuana is an enormous threat to pharmaceudical companies. Especially seeing as cannabis is cheap and can't kill you, like prescription painkillers can.
- wisammy, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6This article hits right at home for me.
I suffer from Fibromyalgia. My body creates pain signals. On top of that I have broken my back twice. I take the most powerful pain killers available to manage my pain.
I'm on 150 30mg Oxycodone a month, 15 Fentanyl Patches (highest strength)- Fentanyl is 100 times the strength of morphine. It's a patch that you wear and it slowly releases the medicine over 3 days, and I also get 90 of the highest strength Fentanyl oral lollypops, they are the equivalent of 300mg of oxycodone all at once.
My life is hell. I wouldn't be able to function at all without them.
There is such a stigma against chronic pain people. They automaticaly think you are a junky.
It sucks, but its worth it to be able to function normally.
I have the best most understanding doctor. - beloitpiper, on 05/04/2008, -9/+14I bet most of the pain people are feeling is psychosomatic. You have less money, so you're more stressed which manifests itself as pain and headaches.
- commenter01, on 05/04/2008, -1/+6I'm going to follow suit just like everyone else here and bury you.
- orbitn, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5MJ doesn't help mine. Actually, i have horrible experiences when the pain (i assume chemicals in my brain generated by pain) + the mj mix, i get the noids to a point that i can call them the fears.
Instead, i have to take a nice mixture of Vicodin, Duragesic and Cyclobenzaprine since surgery has failed - twice. I've been told by a few different docs that this is going to be a lifelong curse for me. I'd much rather smoke weed than take these opiates. The side effects, constantly fighting the tolerance, and the fear that a patch will come off at night and you'll wake up in withdrawal (if you've never gone through opiate withdrawal, let me assure you, it's hell on earth and you really don't want to do it. And to make matters worse, i've been addicted to opiates before, so there's a constant struggle there to keep my sobriety in check and sacrifice just enough pain control, to stay in control of my life. I'm very thankful that the government has started to let pain control doctors treat pain now without treating them like pushers, without them i don't know what i'd do. I didn't choose the stenosis and scar tissue. who would. so it's not psychosomatic, as some brilliant and dugg-down individual stated. i only wish it were.
With all that said, any diggers in the same position? Anyone had any luck with non-opiate remedies besides pot? - serend, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5I wonder why it bothers you so much? Also have you ever heard of the state Ohio?
- oxdeltaxo, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5ummm...nah I'd rather enjoy myself, you can go suffer in a corner somewhere when you get a migraine.
- Gir53457, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5Chronic pain = something is wrong and Americans are too busy with their lives to take the time to properly heal.
- edwartica, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5Don't feed the trolls all....
- erhanaltay, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4I can understand the first two... the first to calm your mind, the second to keep your body healthy, but the third? Over eating or eating poor quality meat is unhealthy, but the same can be said for veggies (though you would probably need to eat a LOT more veggies to over do it) If you think meat in general is just unhealthy, you're delusional.
- txtphile, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4Let me try (no weed jokes): The rich people are either high on prescription drugs their health insurance affords them or are simply living in neighborhoods where the cops don't hassle them so they can use all the street drugs (booze counts) they want.
- Kenzan, on 05/04/2008, -2/+6I realize that this was not the intent of the article, but I could not help but notice the bias of the author.
The article essentially made it look as though working class people are whiny, lazy, and a burden to the health care industry.
But then again, it's from Time magazine. - OpaqueMurdock, on 05/04/2008, -1/+5Actually it triggers headaches in me. I have migraines and the ever so pleasant cluster headaches... I can't get any where near someone smoking blunt without getting knocked on my ass. It was kind of tricky for years as I was a performing musician, kinda hard to avoid. heh.
- regression, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4jihadi's anonymous. Hello, my name is Steve and I am a jihadist.
- consonance, on 05/04/2008, -8/+11Buried as inaccurate, the study detailed in this article says nothing about the pain of millions of teenagers whose parents, totally uncool idiots, don't understand them.
/s - regression, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4Chicken-egg argument here. Did the chronic pain cause the chronic depression or did the chronic depression cause a psychosomatic pain reaction? It'd be an interesting study.
- edwartica, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4I didn't elect him. I voted for someone else.
- Y0tsuya, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3I get migraines whenever I'm not properly hydrated. Caffeine helps somewhat.
- ctrlfreak13, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4Actually, anything can kill you if you have enough of it. You can die from too much water if you drink enough of it in the span of a day.
- OpaqueMurdock, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3Respectfully, that is not the issue. I have had severe headaches for over 16 years. For long stretches of time I have headaches almost everyday. I am currently under the care of a neurologist and the preventive medication I am on is the same class of meds used to treat epilepsy.
I say all this to try to explain that chronic headaches are often not the same thing most people thing of when they think of "headache" actually calling them the same thing is sort of confusing. They are only similar in the fact that your head hurts. heh.
What most people think of as a average headache I consider a level 1-2 on my scale of 1 to 10. People often refer to cluster headaches as "suicide headaches" I will leave you to guess the reason why. : ) I hope this doesn't come off as overly dramatic, but honestly there is a huge difference. People tend not to understand and its hard to figure out ways to get them to understand.
Trust me, the mere whiff of it sends me running. I know I will get hit bad if I get a lung full. This has nothing at all to do with whether or not I think it should be legal. I see no reason it should not be legal frankly and as a musician, I of course know tons of people that partake. Many times I have been exposed to very high quality smoke and its no different... its a trigger. It may not effect everyone this way, different peoples headaches get triggered in different ways. But for me, pot is a big thing to avoid. - woody56292, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3yuke, u have obviously never had chronic migraines.
- e2superman, on 05/04/2008, -2/+4How about not be fat and excersize. Being fat and out of shape leads to poor posture and then to back and other issues.
- geobay, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Indeed, life would not be worth living if I had to bear that pain consistently.
- ganjadude4391, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2my intent was not to belittle you or your weed sorry if i came off that way
I am sorry to hear about this and I agree, I do not have chronic headaches so i do not understand, Only state that I use chronic to cure the headaches I do get
I hope you find something that works soon man - nicktheawesome, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3I don't approve of G.W. Bush more than the rest of you, but listening to people like you almost makes it worth it that he is our president.
- SwedishNinja, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2And a sore Jack Johnson.
- MrTulip, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2only a few 'pains' are caused by an inflammation...
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