Posted on 02/19/2008 3:00:45 PM PST by Kimmers
Feb. 19, 2008 -- Nabilone, a pain drug based on marijuana's active ingredient, may ease fibromyalgia pain.
So say Canadian researchers, based on a preliminary, short-term study.
The study included 40 fibromyalgia patients. First, they did three things:
Rate the intensity of their fibromyalgia pain. The rating scale ranged from 0 (no pain) to 10 (the worst pain imaginable). Their average rating was about 6. Rate their quality of life. The rating scale ranged from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating worse quality of life. Their average rating was 66. Get a check of their tender points -- parts of the body that are often sensitive in fibromyalgia patients. The researchers then split the patients into two groups.
For a month, one group of patients took nabilone daily. The other group took a placebo pill. The patients didn't know which pill they were taking.
After a month of nabilone treatment, fibromyalgia pain was less intense and quality of life had improved. No such changes were seen with the placebo.
Nabilone treatment didn't affect the patients' number of tender points. And it didn't cure fibromyalgia pain -- when patients stopped taking nabilone, their fibromyalgia pain returned to its former intensity.
Nabilone was well tolerated, but side effects were more commonly reported in the nabilone group. Those side effects -- which included drowsiness, dry mouth, vertigo, and movement problems -- were "generally mild," write the researchers.
Longer studies are needed to track the long-term effects, note the University of Manitoba's Ryan Quinlan Skrabek, MD, and colleagues.
Their study appears in the February edition of The Journal of Pain.
Seriously, we can only hope this will lead the way for finding relief for those that suffer with this disease....
Thanks for posting this.
Patients currently smoking pot for relief will continue to be arrested.... because pot is worse than cancer.
Patients currently smoking pot for relief will continue to be arrested.... because pot is worse than cancer.
“LOL! and a medically sound and great delivery system. Inhalation of burning hemp...”
You can use Hemp Oil instead.
“Seriously, we can only hope this will lead the way for finding relief for those that suffer with this disease....”
I watched a YouTube video called “Run From The Cure” yesterday that was pretty interesting. It’s about a guy in Nova Scotia who started growing Indica and reducing it to oil to give to cancer patients. He didn’t charge anything for the oil and helped a lot of people.
Pot really does help but I think I cured fibromyalgia. It is NOT a disease...
It is a deficiency in magnesium. If anyone has fibro, email me and I’ll tell you what to do. My husband has it and his symptoms are 80% gone.
Marinol is a synthetic form of THC. My end of life patients have told me that’s why they prefer the weed. I thought this was interesting.
Sad to say that I agree. The problem is with purity of the weed.
Or we could just let people possess a plant and cut the drug companies out of the mix. I vote for that solution.
I agree with you.....
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