Last question: in your experience, is there anything that does help with chronic pain? Opiates are a dead-end road. You just need more and more until there’s nothing left to help you.
Is there anything that helps?
Unfortunately there is no real relief for chronic pain. There are methods to lower the reference level, but nothing works like opiates in the short term.
Opiates are not free, in as much as there is the lowered cognitive function, and increased dose to the same effect over time.
Acupuncture helps some, but it’s only as good as the person administering it, and it can be hit or miss in effectiveness.
Ganga is not an analgesic by any stretch of the imagination. It can give you “time out of mind” but it will not lower the pain level and depending on “you” can cause an increase in pain perception during the “anxiety” phase of the effects.
I don’t view marijuana as anything more than a “recreational” intoxicant. There is no redeeming medical value in my opinion.
Good luck with you pain problems, I know that people get desperate for relief.