Posted by bleauberry on January 10, 2011, at 13:12:20
In reply to Percoset or Medicinal Marijuana for Acute Pain, posted by BearNCrow on January 7, 2011, at 22:43:57
Medical marijuana wins in my opinion. No contest.
The bigger question is, what is causing this pain? I ask this question because of one phrase that jumped out at me...."I wake up everyday with fierce flu like body aches". Ok. That means something. What does it mean to your doctor? Probably nothing except a question mark. What does it mean to me? Well, I'm not a doctor. But what I see as targets that need to be hit without even an attempt at diagnosis or confirmation are....inflammation and infection. Lyme is suspect for sure. If not Lyme, there are plenty of lesser known devastating bugs that are difficult or impossible to identify. That's why just do it....treat it whether you have it or not....so as to rule it in or rule it out. In your case, I would favor a handful of plants that are astounding at both pain and inflammation and some have potent antimicrobial activity as well.
Basically if you study the book Healing Lyme by Stephen Buhner, you will learn a ton. A lot more than you would learn about those topics in med school. And you would learn which botanicals to consider and their mode of action. Plants are medicines, and some of them are more potent than meds, and all of them are more multitasking and multibeneficial than meds.
My Lyme specialist become one by accident. He was a pain/fatigue specialist. Somewhere along the line he noticed that most of his chronic patients got better when they were on antibiotics for some other unrelated reason. From there he grew into an infectious specialist. But his primary treatment for pain patients remains the same....antibiotics with or without a diagnosis of any infection. Why? Because they get better. We may never know why or how, only that ABX is a underused and underappreciated weapon in the war against pain and inflammation.
And of course where there is pain and inflammation, it is common to find stubborn depression. Which is why I have many times mentioned antimicrobial meds and herbs in the treatment of depression. Many Lyme patients, for example, who have depression as their primary symptom, don't get better on antidepressants but do get better on Tetracycline. Just gotta go with the flow and not fight against logic.
Logic...what cause morning flu like aches? Inflammation. What causes inflammation? 1)Infection; 2)a confused immune system. In either case the treatment is the same, but is distinctly diffferent than a life sentence to pain pills. There are potent plants out there that could amaze you.
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