Pain Symposium: Cannabinoids in Arthritis



Pain: Relief is within Reach Symposium Presented by the Arthritis Society November 3, 2018 Dr. Sana-Ara Ahmed, …

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  1. I'm a 53 year old woman from Ohio with Chronic pain & other conditions. I've been using CBD sense 2017. My liver & pancreas was swollen with cysts. It was pushing on my lower rib which made me go to the doctor. They couldn't figure out what was wrong. I finally started CBD on my own. 6 months later they did more test. They told me my liver & pancreas was all down & no cysts. If I run out of cbd & thc it starts to swell. And well everything goes haywire. You are a amazing doctor…. 💚🌱
    With me a lower dose works better.. 5 to 20 mg.

  2. Love your lecture, answered a lot of my questions. I’m suffer chronic pain daily from arthritic & post op surgical fusions cervical & lumbar fusions & joint replacements.I find in my situation finding a doctor locally to advise me is very hard.so at 72yrs caring for a disable husband & trying to keep up my home & such, here in Canada I joined Bodywork’s which is a organization that contact doctors in Toronto (to recommend usage & dosage) provide zoom appointments to provide information to me,After submitting my medical records to them. Thks for your input & keep posting your understanding & findings regarding this crippling disease, also push for more education for doctors to learn more about canabis usage in med schools.

  3. I have been suffering with arthritis for a long time. No mater what pain killers I’m given, none work without side adverse side effects. I am now taking concentrated cannabis oil. It is perfect for me. Within an hour of taking it, it works and I am almost pain free. I would gladly agree that it works for me and am willing to have any test put to me.

  4. I have been using cannabis for over 35 years and it is such a blessing. I have congenital arthritis. I am now 50 and have zero plans on stopping, helped legalize it in the 90s and want to wish you all a happy 4/20.

  5. Interesting the bit where you showed the decreased electrical signals crossing the joint plane… I wonder, is that equivalent to saying the disease activity is reduced? Or just the pain? My confusion is the difference between pain/ active disease. I suppose because it’s hard for me to tell what pain is from existing damage, and what pain is from ongoing damage.

  6. Bad parts… if smoked the lungs will fill up with soot and resin components after that… coughing up flem blood? Carbon monoxide? Addictive? Cost. ? Source? Chemical? Ss still try it and see.

  7. Skeptical… lock and key? Not proven… the plant is natural… vitamins both water and oil solvent, and natural sugars. This plant needs lots of vitamins and thus holds lots of vitamins that our body can take apart and complete substances that aren't available from other sources. Think anything used is used by the whole body. Try rubbing pure isopropyl extracted oil on your feet. Try it.it works.

  8. Excellent coherent and honest presentation. This is what’s needed to lessen bias and stigma. Thank you very much for helping move the needle for moderate skeptics like myself.
    The more I learn about CBG, CBD, and CBN, and how they relate to each other, the less I’m concerned about intoxication. There’s so much more going on with this plant other than THC.

  9. Its just really deflating knowing that in maybe 30 years, THC should at least be decriminalised if not commercially available. But for 12 years now and even till today im constantly looking over my shoulder, and dealing with shady people just to have access to the only true relief I've found so far.
    Even my family shuns me because they trust "the law" even at the expense of their own flesh and blood, so as long as I smoke they dont want much to do with me. And my "friends" from school were all quite religious so they've "mysteriously" vanished from my life as well. I cant hold on to relationships because women don't want to try and build a life with someone who could get in legal trouble at any time with no notice.

    Im not a bad person. Im not violent, im not irresponsible behind the wheel of a car, I work as hard as I can all the time… is it too much to ask that I be allowed to live a normal life like everyone else? Or at least as close as I can get in spite of my chronic inflammation? What have I done to other people's lives to deserve social exile? Im exhausted, im lonely, im always in pain from when I get out of bed to when I lie back down in it at night, my brain feels fried from 2 decades of stress, anxiety, depression and being made to feel like my problems aren't real by people I thought I could trust… I just wanna catch one break… just once

    Its really not fair 😪

    (PS i live in Australia, where possessing even 0.5g of cannabis is still completely illegal. In NSW the police hunt down users and prosecute them more often than not because it reflects better on their stats)

  10. What an amazing speaker and with such incredible knowledge! Bravo!!! I’ve learned so much. I’ve been trying CBD but haven’t found my sweet spot as yet. Of course I can’t get CBD with THC because my state hasn’t legalized this as yet. I’m desperate to be able to use this legally instead of getting it from another state and bringing it home illegally. But I’ll do it for my health. Thank you so much for this amazing talk.

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