Medical-marijuana user says pot lets him 'have a life`

I am 26 years old and am in constant pain caused by Central Pain Syndrome Fibromyalgia and multiple other illness’s. I know saying that I am in constant pain is a simple statement to make and many people may say it, but most people don’t really have any comprehension of what pain means.
I became ill at 12 years old first with Lupus then Kidney disease soon followed. The Lupus later turned into an extremely painful form of Fibromyalgia. My health has been complicated to the extreme. Now because of the Central Pain Syndrome, probably caused by one of numerous spinal taps I had at 16, I cannot go under fluorescent lighting, when I do I feel as though I am being burned by burning hot oil. I scream. I have been to pain clinics and been told that there is no longer anything they can do for me. That is one of the scariest things you can ever hear.
I know many people think that other medications besides medical marijuana can be used to treat pain, in the last 8 years we have tried many medications a few offhand are Vicodin, Percocet, and Methadone, but the only one that actually worked at all was Dilaudid. Throughout most of my college years I would have to go to the hospital at night to get an IV of Dilaudid and be up all night in the emergency room and then go to classes all day while being in horrible pain. I still got high grades and went to one of the best schools in the country. In the last 2 years my illness has worsened significantly I went from taking 2-4mg of Dilaudid every 6 hours to 16mg just to keep from screaming even when I wasn’t under the lights. Dilaudid no longer has any effect at all. My Doctors have all said there is nothing they can do for my pain. I tried marijuana because I was scared and desperate and it worked. I do not get high. It simply takes my pain away, but I am afraid because I have to do something wrong to get it. I am not at all the kind of person who would ever do something illegal but when your being tortured by your own body you have very few options. I’ve never become addicted to any medication which I know is the fear about medical marijuana. I also do not smoke it. I didn’t want to take any risk with my lungs, there are completely safe ways to ingest it eating it or using a vaporizer. There are many people like me. We are unseen but we are here. Please don’t forget us just because you can’t see us. I look completely healthy. It seems as though the medical marijuana debate is being fought mostly by people who really don’t understand the desperate need for it.

To each his own.

I believe him.

thanks for sharing Sum,

I have OCD and it used to take me hours and hours to get ready and leave my house every day. Since i started smoking, im showered and in my car within 30 min.

Originally I had gone to my doctor and i went through four different meds before i decided that pharmaceuticals are a bane on humanity. One of them did nothing, and the rest of them consisted of insomnia, panic attacks, and suicidal thoughts. So I then decided to take matters into my own hands.

It's truly been a life-changing experience, I have a whole new lifestyle and ability to think more rationally about my complusions and stop myself from carrying them out. Marijuana is an awesome and powerful medicine and if i were a different person i would call it a godsend.

it helps alot of people.

when i went to rehab they kept putting me on anti-depressants. they would tell me to take them and if i feel better its the right drug. If i didnt they would give me another anti-depressant to try. they made me feel sad to suicidal to homicidal and i did not like them. I had allready done years of my own experimentation. I know marijuana makes me feel better. It doesnt hurt me or anyone else to self medicate with marijuana. JAIL is marijuana's only bad side effect ! GREED IS THE ENEMY. Jason Lauve shouldnt even be gowing through this bullshit. The courts should have to follow the hypicritical oath also.!!! First cause no harm..this will cost time ,money,voting rights,and the right for him to protect himself with a firearm.For What?>GREED< it is disgusting to still see this when our leader clearly ran on a pro-patient platform.

man this is bullshit. jury nullification, or lack there of there will be i bet >:/

And a large percent of marijuana users just needed it as an escape

I personally never thought of marijuana as a pain reliever, but then I have never had to use it for one either. I wonder, if because of different brain chemistry, marijuana may help some with pain and not others.