Recently I found out I had a ruptured disk in my neck. Yes, I’ve been in terrible pain. I have lost 98% use of my tricep in my right arm due to severe nerve damage. I have been in pain for about 10 years and have been misdiagnosed on several occasions. I would go to doctors and tell them I was in severe pain and that it was in my back behind my shoulder blade on my right arm, and that the pain was shooting down my arm. They would see if swelling was present, then send me to X-ray. Nothing would show up in the X-ray and no swelling was present. The doctors (every one of them I had been to see) would treat me as if I was a drug seeker. In other words, prescribe me crap like weak muscle relaxers and naproxsen (which is basically Aleve) and send me on my way.

I was unable hold a job very long because of the pain, so I never had any insurance. So I resorted in working at restaurants, mainly because no one else would hire me due to my work history. I had to file bankrupt twice just because of hospital bills. Well my wife of 7 years got a great job with the county with excellent benefits bcbs. And I got some crappy insurance through a restaurant I have worked at for a while.

Well mothers day this year we were very busy and I must have aggravated it. Not really sure though, it may have just been the straw that broke the camels back. I had 2 days off after mothers day when I began to have pain in my back and arm once again. It was the same as ever. I went to an after hour clinic and even with double coverage they still looked at me like I was some kind of drug seeker, wrote me a prescription of some crap that has never worked in the past, and sent me on my way to the pharmacy. I dropped it off - they said it would be ready in an hour. So an hour passes by and I return. When I walked up to the counter they rang it up and as I was reaching for my wallet the power went off and the refused to give me my meds or my prescription back.

Furious, I went back to the doctor and told him what had happened at the pharmacy and that I needed something for pain until the morning when I could get my prescription filled. With an aggravated look on his face he told me to take some Motrin. I am not the type of person to cuss someone out, but with the pain I was feeling I couldn’t hold back. My exact word to him were “you stupid son of a bitch that’s what i have been taking. If it was helping me at all I would have never came in here in the first place”.

The next morning when I awoke I noticed that my thumb, index, and middle finger were numb. I just figured I had just slept funny. when it was still numb at noon I became worried. My wife wigged out bad and said she thought I might be having a heart attack and made me go see another doctor. So I did. I told this doctor about my arm and under my shoulder blade hurting for the past ten years and how I cussed out a doctor the night before.he checked my eyes and stuff to see if I may have had a stroke. No stroke he said. He then had me look in different directions up…..does it hurt…no……down……ouch……..left…..no pain……..right……ouch. He looked at me and said it sounds like a ruptured or bulging disk. He sceduled me for an MRI. Results came back saying I indeed had a ruptured disk and a herniated disk as well. He prescribed me Loratab 7.5 and told me that there was no pain medication that could make the pain go away and made me an appointment with a neurosurgeon.

So now i have to wait until June 24th to have surgery. The pain has increased so much I can’t sleep. I was reading articles about pain relief and stumbled across a site about salvia having pain relieving effects like morphine without awful side effects such and breathing problems, constipation, and addiction. Only thing it was also a hallucinogenic drug.

I was in intense pain a couple of days ago and found a head shop that sold it. I bought some 5x extract being the weakest of all they had available. Later on that night I smoked some out of a corncob novelty pipe I had bought to make a snowman with this past winter. I took a drag from it and maybe felt a little strange for a minute but other than that nothing. Except my pain went away. For the first time in two weeks I slept like a baby - didn’t wake up once.

The doctor has told me I may have permanent nerve damage and will have to go to pain management. It will take over 8 weeks to recover from surgery but if the nerve pain is permanent I may hurt the rest of my life. I hope salvia isn’t made illegal because it has been the only thing that has touched the pain I am in.

Sorry about how long this reply is. I just want to let people know of the medical potential of salvia. I believe it should at least stay legal for its non-addictive pain relieving qualities.

Say what you want in rebuttal but I know I’ll never do that shit
again. And if you want to try smoking, go ahead. But don’t be mad
or suprised when you flip the fuck out. Sorry if I offend all the salvy
heads who read this, but I just want to warn the people who trye this
stuff before they have the expeirience I had.

yours truly
chosung

I now can be high on life just as the judgmental poster above stated because I understand my place in Life from a cleaned and refreshed point of view. In my case I finally can trust what I always wanted to trust which is that Jesus Christ and the Bible is right. I fought with that for years because of my scientific background. However, I now realize just how wrong most of the organized Churches are since I have experience the Glory of the Lord first hand. P.S. This thing we call Life is just a Game. One of Many. Thanks

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