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TheDude0306

On the left side my shoulder and entire left pec (boob) muscles are severely inflamed. From the 10 years of using a computer, not sitting correctly.

A few months ago I went to a doctor, they gave me a shot of cortozon right into my shoulder. Amazingly the shoulder pain was gone a week later.

4 months later still no pain, but the left pec muscle (boob) was not fixed. It is still inflammed. The doctor told me to do these special excercises, but they have done nothing.

I begged him for another shot because the last one worked like a miracle, he told me they cannot give cortozone shots that close to the heart.

Well tommorow I am going to make another appointment with him.

THE MAJOR PROBLEM IS, when I smoke up (good nice mellow indica) the symptons are magnafied atleast 100X, the pain is so intense, I mean it hurts normally, but when I smoke up the pain is unreal.

The weed is of the highest quality, so it is not the bud.

Is this normal? Regardless I have to get this problem fixed, but untill then I just cannot smoke anymore.

Thanx.

 

Shaman

Well normally I would say it wouldn't affect it, but the location of your injury sounds like it might hurt to inhale ammounts of smoke into your lungs. Have a brownie ;-)

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lillifterchick

From what I understand, MJ is an antiflamitory

SacredNaCl

Certain pain conditions may actually become intensified. Cannabanoid receptors are spread throughout your body, they do a wide range of functions, it's quite possibly in your body that they would increase the pain. There is enough genetic variation out there to create problems in medicine called paradoxial reactions - a very minor sequence of a gene, a minorly different grouping of receptors - and drugs can have very different effects in this population than in the majority. It's also possible that in this particular type of pain cannabanoids have a normal effect that would work to increase the pain. I've talked to a few people who have TMJ, and several of them have told me that marijuana made their TMJ pain worse even though it stopped the muscle spasms.

An example or a paradoxial reaction: Approximately 1:1000 people who take morphine will have severe hallucinations long before they get any kind of pain relief, no matter how low or high the dose is. When they looked for the reason they found that the receptors they had for various Mu's were shaped just slightly different enough that it didn't bind fully to it, and it allowed the morphine metabolites to float around unbound in the CSF and get to places they would not normally get to and partially bind to receptors there. Another example, several asthma medications have been found to actually invoke asthma attacks in a small segment of users rather than relieve them.

If it's making your pain worse, knock it off till the condition heals. You also might want to have them run a full blood work panel on you to see if there is maybe a cause for the inflammation other than overuse, perhaps an appointment with a Rheumatologist would be in order if they find anything.
If this is something that has become chronic, it's quite possibly not just overuse.

Buttski

When we carry pain for a long period of time, we get used to it, i.e. our pain threshhold increases. Marijuana, heightens our senses, temporarily making us aware of how much pain we have in our body, which can be a good thing as we can then take steps to deal with it. Serious computer users develop pain in their shoulders, arms, etc.; this pain often originates from neck problems in the form of pinched nerves (if your computer screen wasn't positioned at eye level). A disk problem in the neck will easily masquerade as a problem in the shoulders, arms, and hands. Before going to extremes, i.e. cortisone shots, you might first try going to a chiropractor, to see if they can help. There are charts available to check which disk level can be involved in creating pain in your pec--I think it is C-4. C-3, and C-4 are the shoulders/chest/upper back muscles.