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Message: <blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 2216197" data-attributes="member: 277">so, as i've posted before, my wife has had an unexplainable and untreatable headache for the past four years (in august). This is an all day, every day, no day off headache that varies between dull and throbbing to sharp and stabbing. We've been to every type of doctor you can think of, including four at the Mayo clinic. She has been on everything from anti-depresants (they give those for headaches), to beta blockers to anti-convulsants to you name it. Nothing has helped relieve the pain and some have done some seriously messed up things to her head/emotions. One drug she was on has helped, but it also made her blood pressure shoot to 190/x, which is damn high for a 35 year old woman who runs 4 miles a day. Her most recent doctor (a pain specialist at a hospital in memphis) put it best. He pointed out that all of the drugs she has tried to 'fix' the problem are worse for her in the longterm than the headache and that maybe it was time to test other pain management drugs. The one he suggest is basically synthetic weed. The active ingredient is the same as in pot. So, we get her prescription filled, $12 for the bottle and our insurance saved her ~$595. But because it was created by big pharm, it's gotta be safer than the stuff that grows in a field, right? I never really cared one way or another about medical pot until all this started. The drugs they've tried have made her more stoned than the new prescription, has done really messed up things to her appetite, emotional stability, blood pressure and many other things. You can point to the 'ruined families' all you want, but if something natural can provide her with even a bit of relief then i am all for it at this point. at least for me, from a medical perspective, marijuana laws are increasingly stupid and harmful</blockquote>

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