Benifits of Marijuana while suffering from Kidney stones.

[bashbashing]

I'm from Quebec Canada... And I guess I should get this started.
I suffer from multiple stones, one in my bladder, and 1 in each kidney, both partially obstructing. Walking any kind of short distance, or doing any kind of exercise is excruciatingly painful. I have been home bound for the past week because of it, awaiting lithotripsy therapy tomorrow.
When I smoke some dope, i cant tell if it nullifies the pain, or if I'm in too much of an uplifted mood to even care. I have spoken to several people who suffer from stones, and they too say it helps.
I am not a doctor, nor was I prescribed marijuana. But i recommend if anyone out there who is reading this, and suffers from this illness, just smoke a nice ice bong bowl. Savor the taste and the feel of the cool smoke grasping your lungs.
Cheers.

[Anto990]

I have suffered through 3 kidney stones now, packing a bowl really has helped me. The pain subsides for me when im high because i don't think about it and cause my body feels great. Dehydration is a problem to worry about with kidney stones and weed tends to give you that nasty cottonmouth which is bad since kidney stones are built up from not enough water. I smoked my friends tube packed to the brim with like 5 people and i took about 4-5 hits and my back was feeling so much better. I am not on medical pot but i do think it should be used to treat kidney stones. I use to be a every day gym kinda guy and now it has lowered my abilities to lift certain weights and work out since it hurts, try smoking a bowl and going to work out, it passes time and it relives pain, nothing better then playing some racket ball stoned out of your mind . Medicine is not a very good choice to treat kidney stones, addictions are usually started by people who take pain killers such as percocets and hydro morphine. I was sent to the emergency room from school because i had urinated blood which means the kidney stone is cutting the inside of your kidneys and makes it bleed. At the emergency room, i was pumped with a shot of morphine and it helped the pain but gave bad side effects after it was gone and my neck also felt as if it hurt more then my back when they gave me the shot.

Keep it real and i hope that shit passes by soon.
I plan to try to get a cannabis medical license for my kidney stones because my doctor said i could have kidney cancer in the future which can be treated by medical cannabis when im in pain.

[jezzbel]

Hey there!

So yeah, I'm 30 and I have passed over 100 kidney stones - mine are much smaller than normal, but definately still there. Most of these stones were between the ages of 18-21 - I was passing between 3 and 5 stones a month and IVP scans would show that I would have between 5-7 in each kidney at any time and they kinda float around causing a dull to sharp pain all the time. I was pretty much on hydrocodone and percocet all the time and was seriously starting to fear getting hooked. When I moved and told my new doc this, she recommended - off the record of course - that I try medical marijuana to manage my pain when it was low and keep the pills for when they are passing.

Not only did it help with the pain (and help me prove to myself that I wasn't a pill junky!), it also drastically reduced the amount of stones that I have had. Within a year of managing my almost daily pain with marijuana, my stones started slowing down. Now I typically pass 2 or 3 a year, and the last IVP I had showed 4 stones between the two kidneys. I know that people could argue that other factors could have been at play, but it is hard to deny that there is a connection.

Anyway, saw this thread and thought I'd share

[Storm Crow]

The hubby has kidney stones. Last year they were bad enough to require hospitalization. The most recent scan they did (last week) showed exactly one stone. We may be on to something here, guys! Anyone else get improvement?


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