Transcription: An image of a man slightly hunched over, with one hand pressed on his lower back. The text says “I’M HERE, I’M QUEER, AND MY JOINT PAIN IS MODERATE TO SEVERE”
Transcription: An image of a man slightly hunched over, with one hand pressed on his lower back. The text says “I’M HERE, I’M QUEER, AND MY JOINT PAIN IS MODERATE TO SEVERE”
Tell me you’ve either never smoked or recently quit without telling me.
Pain is a signal that something is wrong with your body, so you should be ideally figuring out why something is wrong instead of ignoring it if it’s consistent.
And while you’re figuring it out, involuntarily tensing up and favoring other limbs because of pain can exacerbate the problem or cause new ones.
Just because the ideal is solving the underlying issues doesn’t mean that pain management while you do that isn’t beneficial to prevent not just discomfort but also further damage.
Meanwhile I’ve got two friends with glaucoma, where weed is one of the best solutions to delay it.
Throw me another downvote will ya?
Any eye doctor will tell you that eye drops are superior than marijuana for treating glaucoma. Marijuana is a painkiller but doesn’t help as well with the elevated intraocular pressure that damages your vision. Anyone who wants to pretend that marijuana is one of the best solutions is lying. Recreational marijuana is already legal in many places, you don’t have to pretend to care about medical excuses anymore.
Yeah, guess what? I literally know two people with glaucoma. It’s not a painkiller at all, it just helps delay the effects.
They literally tell me there’s no pain either way, they’re just trying to preserve their eyesight as long as they can.
And I had glaucoma AND went to medical school. Your anecdote is useless and false.
No it doesn’t. Glaucoma causes progressive vision loss starting with peripheral vision and spreading to central vision, because the pressure damages retinal cells. Marijuana does nothing to delay that in any meaningful way; you just go blind almost as fast with less pain.
American Academy of Ophthalmology: Does Marijuana Help Treat Glaucoma or Other Eye Conditions?
I absolutely never said I had glaucoma, so please STFU. Please learn how to read words before attempting to quote them.
I said I have two friends with glaucoma, and they claim no pain. They say it’s helping extend their time with what vision they do have…
https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/glaucoma
Your “friends” are anecdotes. Go back and read what I said more carefully next time.
Also, how can you claim you had glaucoma if it’s a progressive disorder/disease?
If it has no cure, then you didn’t had it, that’s past tense. If you had glaucoma, you still have it, only in a more advanced stage.
I’m sorry for you my friend, but you don’t need to spread false information about glaucoma. So far there’s no reversing glaucoma, so there’s no such thing as “I had glaucoma”…
Nice that you’re talking down to a doctor and still wrong. You belong on the confidentlyIncorrect Lemmy. And FYI I eventually had surgery to correct it; there are laser treatments and surgical peripheral iridectomy options and not just pharmacologic therapies. You’ve been wrong every step of the way here, want to keep digging?
Interesting. Well I stand corrected then.
I guess these procedures are well out of the affordable range for the average ape though, marijuana happens to be a whole lot cheaper.
Thanks, I’ll try it.