Patients with MS have deal with muscle spasms, tremor and pain. Anecdotal reports suggest that medical marijuana may be helpful, but controlled studies are scarce.
A recent study conducted had 51 multiple sclerosis patients smoke 0% or 4% THC medical marijuana cigarettes daily for 3 days.
The level of spasms was reduced by as much as 32% and pain reduced by 50% after smoking medical marijuana, compared with 2% and 22% reductions after pretend cigarettes.
Five members withdrew, saying they felt too high, dizzy or fatigued.
Other studies in patients with multiple sclerosis used a cannabis extract that can be taken orally. In a 2007 European Journal of Neurology study, nearly half of'4 patients experienced at least 30% improvement in muscle spasms.
A Neurology paper published in 2004 contradicted these claims by stating that there was no reduction in measures of arm tremors with the cannabis extract, although five out of- subjects reported feeling improvement.
These reports could have been from the mood altering effects of the drug or from some aspect of tremor not measured.
The participants mentioned feeling buzzed, yet the effects varied among individuals. Medical marijuana also affected thinking, shown as problems with tasks of memory and complicated reasoning after the strongest medical marijuana cigarettes were used.
As problematic as this could be, the effects were tolerated by subjects as no one opted out of the study because they couldn't think straight.
it's important to have a choice of treatments because not everyone responds to or can handle the available medications and drugs.
Antidepressants are used for neuropathic pain but cause dry mouth, constipation and urinary problems, and must be avoided by people with conditions such as glaucoma.
Some patients are allergic to aspirin-like drugs. Having an alternative compound is always good. These three pain studies all concluded that smoked marijuana can bring relief to sufferers of neuropathic pain comparable to other analgesic drugs.
Just like other pain medicines, you have to keep taking it.
A recent study conducted had 51 multiple sclerosis patients smoke 0% or 4% THC medical marijuana cigarettes daily for 3 days.
The level of spasms was reduced by as much as 32% and pain reduced by 50% after smoking medical marijuana, compared with 2% and 22% reductions after pretend cigarettes.
Five members withdrew, saying they felt too high, dizzy or fatigued.
Other studies in patients with multiple sclerosis used a cannabis extract that can be taken orally. In a 2007 European Journal of Neurology study, nearly half of'4 patients experienced at least 30% improvement in muscle spasms.
A Neurology paper published in 2004 contradicted these claims by stating that there was no reduction in measures of arm tremors with the cannabis extract, although five out of- subjects reported feeling improvement.
These reports could have been from the mood altering effects of the drug or from some aspect of tremor not measured.
The participants mentioned feeling buzzed, yet the effects varied among individuals. Medical marijuana also affected thinking, shown as problems with tasks of memory and complicated reasoning after the strongest medical marijuana cigarettes were used.
As problematic as this could be, the effects were tolerated by subjects as no one opted out of the study because they couldn't think straight.
it's important to have a choice of treatments because not everyone responds to or can handle the available medications and drugs.
Antidepressants are used for neuropathic pain but cause dry mouth, constipation and urinary problems, and must be avoided by people with conditions such as glaucoma.
Some patients are allergic to aspirin-like drugs. Having an alternative compound is always good. These three pain studies all concluded that smoked marijuana can bring relief to sufferers of neuropathic pain comparable to other analgesic drugs.
Just like other pain medicines, you have to keep taking it.
About the Author:
For overthree decades, Dr. Julian Reindhurst has studies the medicinal powers of marijuana. He has a blog that gives the perspective of how nirvana seeds benefited other civilizations. He hasa website site that looks into the medicinal positives of the nirvana seeds.
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