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RE: sciatic nerve pain, SO FKN BAD! Experience sharing
Well... Cannabis can be bought without prescription, and besides strain, it will help take the process better and have antiinflammatories and anxiolytic effect. I do recommend antiinflammatories, but no painkillers, isn't the same. One reduces inflammation the other reduces the perception of pain. And corticoid is a strong thing but over use is really bad for your body
I typically do not give narcotics or steroids for sciatica so we are in agreement there. ibuprofen is a COX inhibitor so yes it is an anti-inflammatory. I have no problem with people using cannabis but I do not think it is a panacea. I recommend getting to the root of the problem which could be the back or glutes or somewhere in between. My personal journey with sciatica has to do with the piriformis syndrome and the best therapy for that I've found is stretching (yoga) so the nerve isn't compressed. My point is that cannabis is not yet fully mainstream western medicine (for better or worse)and is not taught in medical schools or residencies.
Well, yes absolutely true, tai chi chuan and yoga, also pilates are the best, not only for siatic pain, is good for everything. Movement is. Back to cannabis, here in argentina we have graduate students in medicine, here you can be a surgeon as you can be a cannabis doctor, mostly pain oriented. There is no tratment that is a panacea but as you recomend ibuprofen, I rather will give someone weed instead, aiming to painkiller dosage reduction.
My point is that the more you can do for your body, facing to better overall results, is the way to go.