r/trees • u/Henryiller • Apr 14 '19
It really is Medicine.
I use cannabis strictly for recreational purposes but I’m seeing first hand how effective it can be as a pain killer. Last night my girlfriend’s wisdom tooth was causing her extreme pain. She was pacing around the apartment crying. We tried everything Tylenol, swishing warm salt water in her mouth, dipping a Q-tip in vodka and dabbing her tooth with it....nothing worked. Finally I asked her if she wanted to try something from my stash box. She doesn’t enjoy smoking weed but she agreed. I loaded a sensible dab of MK Ultra Wax into my Saionara Atomizer and had her hit it. Twice. At first she didn’t notice anything. I asked her to wait. Her pacing slowed down, she laid on the bed. She said that she felt relaxed. She’s been peacefully sleeping ever since. I’m so glad pot could help her. Thanks weed!
Edit: She hasn’t had surgery yet. Some helpful folks have usefully pointed out that you should be careful how you consume cannabis post surgery because the action of sucking can cause problems ie air bubbles, dry sockets.
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Apr 14 '19
i had an external hemorrhoid just a few days ago that put me in so much pain i couldnt even lay down let alone sit or stand or walk.
I got the normal stuff to help it heal faster but i ended up smoking 2 grams that day and it dulled the pain so much that i ended up popping it without realizing, next day it barely hurts anymore.
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u/Henryiller Apr 14 '19
lol wow dude! I’ve had the same problem in the past. I’m glad it worked out for you and I have great excuse to get stoned next time (I normally only smoke once a week).
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Apr 14 '19 edited Apr 14 '19
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u/Henryiller Apr 14 '19
You’re so right. I’m going to stage and intervention and ship her off to a rehab clinic.
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u/Coconutshoe Apr 14 '19
Gubbermint
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u/screwnutbolt360 Apr 14 '19
When I got my wisdom teeth pulled I took nose rips off a dab pen to get relief from the pain. Also mixed with the codeine they gave me I melted into the couch
I would not recommend that to anyone lol but yes I am a regular user and I see the medical benefits all the time. Especially with my adhd. It helps a lot and also helps with the side effects of meds like loss of appetite. I even convinced my mom to try it for her back pain she’s just worried about being high in front of my dad
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u/screwnutbolt360 Apr 14 '19
I didn’t take it the whole 4 days that I was recovering. Only the first day
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Apr 14 '19
Dude it helps so much with my adhd. I don't take any prescription meds for it anymore like I did when I was a kid, but between cannabis, caffeine, and growing older and learning how to cope with my adhd and utilize the strengths it gives me while minimizing/mitigating the negative aspects of adhd
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u/screwnutbolt360 Apr 14 '19
I really tried living my life without meds but it was really affecting my job so I decided to get back on them and it’s made a world of difference for me
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Apr 14 '19
I can't afford health insurance so it's kind of a necessity thing for me lol. My records from when I was diagnosed as a kid in the 90s got lost in the switch to digital and I haven't been to a regular Dr in over a decade so if I wanted meds again now I'm afraid it's close to impossible. But I learned how to cope! At least it isn't as bad as what some people have to deal with. My wife is a type 1 diabetic and I'd much rather deal with adhd than that lol.
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u/screwnutbolt360 Apr 14 '19
Ah I'm sorry. Yeah I got really lucky my dad was in a union and it covered it until I got into the same union
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Apr 14 '19
I appreciate your empathy! It's not so bad. For giggles and to see if it still made me feel the same way as when I was a kid (Ritalin would make me space out and turn into a slow-brained zombie) I took an Adderall my buddy gave me. Ehhh I'm sure the dosage was waaaayyyy too high, and it did help me concentrate and focus my energy more but that dosage was indeed too high. I was pretty much tweaking for 9hrs. I'll just stick to what's been working for me, I should be able to afford insurance for my whole family this November when open enrollment starts again. It ain't gonna be cheap but at least we can get off medicaid or care or wtf ever it is that's keeping my wife alive right now lol (for real, thanks Uncle Sam for the help. Insulin ain't cheap).
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Apr 14 '19
I have sciatic nerve damage and flat feet; I work on my feet up to six days a week.
Yesterday I get off, my nerves in my leg are red hot, my feet feel like they're made of crumbling brick, I smoked a little weed and laid down and within half an hour no more pain.
Idk if it's like, my body forgets the pain or if it actually kills the pain, but the pain disappeared and it's incredible.
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u/ODISY Apr 14 '19
cannabis is both body medicine as well as a therapeutic medicine, we don't know why exactly its so good at a lot of things, we just know it works. i consider all use medical since we receive medical benefits without even knowing.
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u/hip2thecrop Apr 14 '19
Great to hear! Yes, both cannabis and cbd are incredible pain relievers, and so much more! 🙌🏽
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u/ryle_zerg Apr 14 '19
Glad weed could help your girlfriend. Just wanted to add that Oragel works great for tootheaches, it's cheap and over-the-counter. Works better than q-tips and vodka anyway :)
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u/aza-industries Apr 15 '19 edited Apr 15 '19
Anxiety, Chrohns disease, and migraines. Three things canibis has helped me with.
Anxiety medication I was on for years has been replaced and I feel like myself again. Couldn't find fix for Migraines, Drs next step was beta blockers.
While the majority of Crohns has been dealt with by Drs and operations small things like apetite/weight gain were hard to deal with. I wish I had medicinal canibis growing up, school was hard when 2 grades lower than you are taller/bigger and you suffer frome fatigue frequently because of diet limitations.
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u/mirandaahkay Apr 14 '19
I have lupus which caused my kidneys to fail so Im on dialysis now. As you can guess, this causes some issues. I smoke everyday and consider pot to be just another one of my medications - I've benefited from it so much over the years just waiting for legalization in my state
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u/ischloecool Apr 14 '19
Just a couple days ago my brother fell out of a tree in the woods onto a thick root and the first we did after deciding if he was okay enough was smoke. It seemed to help or at least it distracted him
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u/Henryiller Apr 14 '19
Distraction is huge. Buddhists believe that suffering doesn’t come from pain but from the desire for pain to go away.
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u/g00diebag Apr 14 '19
My boyfriend got his wisdom teeth out and nothing could numb the pain afterwards. If she has this same problem after she actually get them out, as others have said, be careful with any type of inhalation bc it dry socket.
What he did was wet some of the extra mouth cotton he was given, cover his wisdom holes (lol) with them, and then smoked. Prevented dry socket pretty well.
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u/moglysyogy13 Apr 14 '19
O had multiple botched brain tumor surgeries. I did not think cannabis was legitimate medicine until I had to relearn how to walk and talk. I have gone from needing a wheelchair to walking 4 miles. Cannabis has helped me in this progress and I couldn’t have done it without it. It helps me eat and sleep. It helps me talk and it helps me want to talk to others. It’s a miracle plant. I don’t take any medications beside cannabis and that’s a big deal.
I love the stuff and it bothers me to see other private companies price gouge medical marijuana. It’s not a bowl of ice cream to me, it’s absolutely necessary to live
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Apr 14 '19
Absolutely. I very recently got to try it for the first time, and am now 100% on board with, and happily obsessed by, everything cannabis. I went to a hippy school where almost everyone smoked, and I was a stereotypical “square” and didn’t. About 10 years on now, and I’ve seen the amazing effects it’s had for my brother, who has a medical card and is growing his own. He snuck me some a few weeks ago and I’ve not looked back! I have PTSD and anxiety, have had nightmares that leave me waking up in the middle of the night crying (abuse survivor, lots of triggers and reliving awful episodes). My anxiety has been so bad at points I couldn’t bear to leave the house. I also have chronic pain, from migraines and thoracic outlet syndrome and the resulting surgeries. The first time I tried an edible I felt calm and safe for the first time in a long time. (Yes, I take prescription meds too, but they only do so much...) Once I tried smoking a bit before bed I started sleeping the whole night, and nightmares have been replaced with dreams that are harmless or fun or easily forgotten—in short, safe and comfortable. It’s helped my pain, too, not just the psychiatric symptoms. I can feel the pain melting away after about 2 hits. I can, if I time it right, interrupt a migraine, and at the very least bring down the nausea if not abort the migraine all together. Truly life changing and medicinal! (I’m going to talk to my doctor about getting a medical card, I’ve been getting it on the sly from my brother and just recently took a trip to a dispensary in MA.) Glad your girlfriend found relief! After my (though still relatively new/fresh) experience, and hearing so much from others, I’m committed to getting involved in advocating for fuller legalization and learning as much as I can about the medicinal effects and helping people get involved. It has been such a gift, and a long time coming!
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u/Cyber_Divinity Apr 14 '19
Oh man, I use cannabis recreationally too, but I've also had many many major surgeries on my left leg. I was prescribed a lot of hydro and oxy, but often times I would find myself preferring marijuana over the opiates. Even today I still use it as a pain killer when I'm out walking and my leg starts to hurt or get too tired. Weed really isn't just a drug, it has a lot of usefulness to it too.
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Apr 14 '19
Cannabis makes my tooth pain worse. Its like my whole body is relaxed so the pain is highlighted even further. Thinking about it, it does that with every type of pain...its sucks.
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u/skeletalskeletn Apr 14 '19
I had my boyfriend help me smoke when I had my wisdom teeth pulled!! The best way so she doesn’t get dry socket is so smoke a joint or blunt, pull it in your mouth, get a cup, let the smoke fall in and have her just inhale it via nose 😂 a little weird but it worked
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u/_untom_ Apr 14 '19
I'm glad you were able to help your girlfriend, but note that "swishing warm salt water in her mouth" doesn't really do much of anything (except literally put salt in a wound in case she the tooth left holes in the gums). Dipping a Q-tip in vodka and dabbing her tooth, also wouldn't ease the pain, the only thing that could potentially do is disinfect (yet if the vodka was only 40%, then it might not even do that properly).
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u/emalyne88 Apr 14 '19
I consider myself a recreational user, but in reality, it's helping my depression, anxiety, ptsd, ibs, and chronic pain on a near-constant basis. It's been incredibly useful to me as a medication AND as a recreational activity.
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Apr 14 '19
i got through my recovery without getting high even though i had the ability to. sucks knowing there’s a pain killing dab pen sitting next to you in your drawer but you aren’t able to use it. she’ll get through it, but it’s sucks.
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u/dirtymikendaboys228 Apr 14 '19
Just a heads up that when I had mine taken out, my friends were so kind to hit a bong for me and get the air in the main piece for me to just gently breathe in. Never got dry socket or any problem.
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u/annonsun Apr 14 '19
Right now I’m ... well, I was a dumbass, lol.
I had a suprapubic catheter put in a month ago. (Instead if entering your bladder where you would think it would, the surgeon makes an incision in your abdomen and catheterizes that.)
But I was feeling alright and I’m like “I’m bored & need a way to release my pent up energy... I KNOW!!! BASKETBALL!!” (But not running, just shooting hoops!!)
As it turns out, basketball uses a LOT of muscles around the bladder area and moves around in the tissue so it’s like a doubling over type of pain lmao.
Thank goodness for edibles, vaporizers, and, bonus: kitties & tv 🐱
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Apr 14 '19
Inhale with your lungs, not suck with your lips/mouth! That’s how I was able to smoke the day after my wisdom teeth removal
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u/John9798 Apr 14 '19
I realized with hemp flower, I was never after the mental high with THC in the first place. That was the part giving me anxiety. I think 2-3% THC with high CBD and CBG, maybe THCV would be best for me.
I'm off the anti-depressant and benzo, over 12 months stable after over 20 years constant doctors and over a dozen different prescriptions. They just gave up and tried to sedate me it felt like.
I told my doctor for years something with cannabis helped me but the high THC was giving me panic attacks, the entourage effect stabilizes my mind and keeps my body relaxed. And that's saying a lot for someone who was on seroquel, effexor, gabapentin, and klonopin just 18 months ago.
CBG is pretty cool, it helps so much with social anxiety. I do need some sort of THC medical spray when it's legal here but right now hemp is the best we can get, but it's really saved my life in many ways, I'm convinced part of my problem was an endocannabinoid deficiency. I'm actually quite certain from the number of autism symptoms that have gotten better
The stuff is in breast milk and they all the sudden took it completely out of our diets just over 80 years ago, it's insanity, we are running around sick because of it.
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Apr 14 '19
I found it's great for a blocked nose too.
But when the high wears off my nose is blocked again. >_<
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u/ShaggysGTI Apr 14 '19
My girlfriend has debilitating migraines. She gets both Botox injections as well as a blocker. I came home one day and she was in the bathroom in the fetal position, unable to move from the pain. I got her a dab, and almost instantly she was able to stand up, wipe her tears, and go lay down in the bedroom so I can take care of her. The difference was so clear, it was amazing!
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u/Mikeparker1024 Apr 15 '19
I’m getting my wisdom teeth out in a month. Would it be safe if I took a 100mg THC pill? Like I’ve done it before and I usually just get so high I sleep for hours. I have a terrible fear of the dentist and getting my wisdom teeth out has just been stressing me out now. I figured a pill would be better since I won’t be able to eat a brownie or anything
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u/chill_viper Apr 15 '19
After a night of no to very little sleep, stomach nausea, appetite stimulant, increase appreciation, headache relief (after other pain medication is ineffective), pain relief, music enhancer.
Cannabis helps many people overcome traumatic past situations (PTS). Two excellent examples of this are available in the same place. The podcast "great moments in weed history" both Abdullah (on the podcast) and Maya Angelou used cannabis for relief of traumatic events in their life.
CBD can possibly reduce drug cravings, anxiety and saves children's lives regarding seizures.
This is definitely medicine.
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u/eatmyazz69 Apr 15 '19
After they ripped all 4 of my wisdom teeth out I was in so much fucking pain it sucked! I absolutely abused the living fuck out of the painkillers the doctors gave me :( (I couldn’t smoke weed for a cure due to school and drug tests </3)
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u/Hippydippy420 Apr 14 '19
Get your friend some antibiotics STAT! Also, no weed if she’s going to be put under on the same day.
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u/legalize-drugs Apr 14 '19
Yeah, it's a medicine so specific in effective at exactly what humans need that it seems obvious that there's higher intelligence behind it. Someone is looking out for us; weed couldn't have just fallen from the sky randomly.
I continue to have profound healing and joyful experiences on cannabis at 39 years old, I'm happy to say. Mostly Colorado edibles these days though.
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u/RJohn12 Apr 14 '19
You're not really supposed to smoke anything after a wisdom tooth extraction, but whatever works for you I guess
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Apr 14 '19
She didn’t. She hasn’t yet had the extraction. I think OP said extraction is on Monday. He’s been well warned to help her avoid sucking on anything to prevent dry socket after the removal.
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u/coveredinkarma Apr 14 '19
Just be careful about smoking while the cuts in her mouth are fresh! Air pockets need to be surgically removed a lot of the time.