Medical marijuana?

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

Forget weed. I just got a medical hot tub. Mmmmm.

Be sure to hire some nurses to supervise your treatment.

[chumly]

Just talk to some high school or college student, they usually have the best stuff anyway.Keeping weed illegal never kept it away from them for the last 40-50 years. When Co. made it legal the use dropped among teenagers by taking away the forbidden fruit aspect. Different strains have different effects, some are good for pain and some are better for other effects.

[Cobb]

Id agree with the pain later that day or the next if that was my daily regiment. Thats an example of the miracles of the medication. Normally it hurts to get out of bed or lift my feet off the floor.

Medical hot tub? I think when I was in high school I recall a stainless steel tub that was filled with ice the foot ball players would use. Ive often thought about filling the tall commercial garbage can with water and ice and take a dip off the porch into it on my hot sweaty days.

Ive tried a TENS unit. Ive wondered if a good charge from a stun gun of the effected area would do any good? Hard to find someone you trust to do that and doing it yourself is rather difficult.

Originally Posted by jamesqf

You don't see the cause-effect relationship there? I don't have major back problems, but if I go out and do six straight hours of yard work, then my back & shoulders will ache, and I'll be shuffling around the next day.

Same with overdoing ANY physical activity I'm not in shape for. If I try to ski all day the first time it snows, I'll be crippled up for the next 2-3 days. If I ride the horse 10 miles or so the first time we're out in the spring, we'll both be crippled up, but after a few weeks of gradually increasing activity, that same ride is a pleasant afternoon out for both of us.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Cobb

Ive tried a TENS unit. Ive wondered if a good charge from a stun gun of the effected area would do any good? Hard to find someone you trust to do that and doing it yourself is rather difficult.

Dad had a TENS unit. I did not care for it, but I did not have a bad head, while he had a bad back.

Hey, do electrocutions affect memory? I am not positive that he applied it directly to my forehead...

I like puppies...

Cobb, if I could, I would fly to where you are to test your theory, but only if we could get it on video.

I once heard a farmer talking about farmers' wives using cattle prods for electrolysis. I saw ads for Electronic Muscle Stimulator units and it kind of makes sense that it could work, but that seems too easy. Dad says that he never developed muscle in the affected areas.

Warning: Cursing and suggested violence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDj5hpVsVV0

Fat for the win!

[Cd]

I never thought I would be reading about this topic on a car forum.
The topic made me laugh actually.
But ...
I have extreme anxiety, agoraphobia, OCD, depression, etc. etc.

It has completely destroyed my life, and I have no one to blame but myself.
But I can't just 'snap out of it' like people think.

I could care less about getting 'high', since I even avoid alcohol. I don't drink. which is totally legal and actually encouraged.

I'd want to know if pot will help with anxiety. I would actually prefer it in a pill form and without the 'high' since I like to feel as though I am in control of what is going on around me.

I have tried talk therapy, hypnosis, as well as paxil, zoloft, and three or four others.

Some made me 'happier' at times, but not a one did anything for my anxieties.

As idiotic as it seems, some of my anxiety is from the fact that I worry about what is in the legal medicines, and so I quit them. This is why I would prefer something natural.

I want my life back ( now that it's nearly over - i'm in my fourties )
I want to go out to social events. I want friends. I want to go to college without the usual fears, and I want to be rid of my driving anxiety especially.

But most of all I want to find someone that loves me, and sitting in my apartment on ecomodder is not going to solve that.

As far as the NSA monitors, go ahead and monitor me ! I guarantee to bore anyone to sleep with the data they glean from me.
They would probably put me on a suspicious list, since " The guy never even leaves his apartment or watches TV like a normal person. He must be doing something suspicious ."

I also have several fused vertebrae in my spine and am half deaf, yet I work as a stocker for Lowes lifting things all day.

( I live across the street and walk there every morning )

I think this goes to show how that mental handicaps are a lot harder to overcome than physical ones.

[Cd]

I have a TENS unit. It helps my scoliosis pain, but I worry about what effect it is having on the rest of my body - like my heart !

[Cobb]

Thanks, yeah the taser thing should be done while Im face down on the floor with some towels under my mid section.

Im not sure the TENS puts out enough power deep enough to effect your brizzle, just your muscles. Yes, I have one, it doesnt go high or loud enough and sucks through 9 volt batteries. Maybe a cow prod is the next logical step?

Thats how I feel Cd. I just care that it works. One of the medications I was taking is used to treat arthritis in dogs, but will kill cats. Many of these drugs seem to have worse side effects than cures. Other cases they dont seem to know, so they list the typical laundry list of possible side effects to CYA incase you get hurt from them.

Ive always thought Im part autistic as I am more interested in cars, motors and stuff than girls or social situations. Growing up I made it a point to read the encyclopedia we got from Food Lion, then the cd rom version at high school.

Yeah, Im glad I have a ramp to my home and parking spot where I work. Just 12 feet and Im in the car, home or job site.

[Cd]

I obsess over strange things. I would always go for the specification information on things I was interested in. The more specs the better. I still remember the wingspan (to the inch) of my favorite plane from childhood, the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second ,the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy in light years , the exact speed of mach one -659 point 78 miles per hour etc, yet have a terrible time remembering simple things such as something my boss tells me. I will even repeat it back, walk away and forget it thirty seconds later. My mind is always racing thinking about complete nonsense.
I always look for the drag coefficient when reading about cars. I spend hours and hours in the aerodynamics section of this site.
I have had in the past several of the same magazine pictures Aerohead posts on this site.
Sometimes I will even sit out in the rain watching cars drive by so i can see what size wake they form with the mist kicked up behind them.
My dad has a similar trait. He has studied religion... religiously every day since the age of 18 or so, yet was surprised when i told him the Buddha died of food poising, because he is so focused on one thing and one thing only that he is interested in.

[Cobb]

I thought it was 186,282? Now through wire electrons travel up to 75% of the speed of light or in best case 139,711.5 mph.

Originally Posted by Cd

the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by Cd

...the exact speed of mach one -659 point 78 miles per hour...

Except that it's usually not :-) Mach number is the ratio of speed to the speed of sound in a material. The speed of sound in air varies depending on temperature, humidity, & pressure. At standard sea level, it's 761.2 mph.

...yet have a terrible time remembering simple things such as something my boss tells me. I will even repeat it back, walk away and forget it thirty seconds later.

I don't think that's unusual. I remember almost everything I read, but the spoken word tends not to be moved out of short-term memory, So it annoys me no end when I go to the doctor, for instance, and the doctor (or more often the nurse) spends several minutes talking about e.g. when I'm supposed to take the pills, and it's gone before I'm out the door.