I have been smoking weed for MANY years, Just recently, I have begun to have this problem with lower backpain/ spasms when i get baked on higher end weed (which is all i smoke). Just last night I smoked and began to have mild lower backpain. As it got a little later, my back just completely "went out". I had a terrible night's sleep with severe lower back pain through out the night.. When morning came, I could barely get out of bed. I have had typical recurring lower back pain from year of playing golf, but this was BY FAR the worst sh*t I have ever gone through with my back. It's happened a few times over the years. It's definitely WEED related. not sure what triggers it sometimes and not others -
Dude. I am 44 years old and I have played golf all my life, i have also smoked weed since i was about 16 years old. Every so often my lower back would, "go out" and I would spend 1-3 days recovering and everything would get back to normal. Lately I am noticing that when I get baked, I often experience severe lower back pain/spasms and episodes that seem to coincide with when i am smoking. A couple of nights ago, I had a few BH's and My back went out that night. I am still recovering. When I woke up the next morning, i could hardly move. my back pain has been the worst I have ever experienced. This is what led me to Google (Marijuana Back pain) and i have found that TONS of people are having the same experience.
I can relate to many in this thread. For me quitting smoking isn't a matter of willpower or "addiction". In life there are some things that are just beautiful, marijuana is one of them. If you're like me, you absolutely love it for a large variety of reasons. Overall it just makes me happy and knowing that I could never do it again would feel like a section of my life that i love dying.
This is how it happened for me. My tolerance had hit the roof so i decided to take a T-break for 2 months. I had started developing a medical issue a week before the end of it. They still don't know what it is exactly but I basically get a lot of chest pressure / pain, back stiffness (mostly sort of mid back), shoulder / neck pain, weird constantly changing pains throughout feet / ankles / legs. When i began smoking again these all became extremely intense. When it all started i do believe i was also have panic attacks in result. I have worked past that, I still get pain which isn't quite as extreme but still awful (not everytime but most). The biggest part of it I think is the chest / back pressure. It feels as if they are going to cave in. Might i add shortness of breath.
I'm just so mad i guess. Suddenly I have this illness that hurts and still has not been diagnosed after spending a lot of money at the doctors. All i want to do is smoke / vape some weed and apparently now I can't do this either. Assuming it isn't doing actual damage to my body, would it be possible to take pain meds and smoke and be okay? I really need to get some stronger ones for my daily pain anyways.
You're simply addicted, you can bend it how you like, but you are. Just be honest with yourself.
I think taking pain meds is a bad idea and you should only do it if there is no other way.
Did you ever consider all of this pain is caused by your mind (not imagined!)? Look for TMS on the web and see if it applies to you. Do it before you spend more money on something a doctor will never be able to diagnose.
ur an id**t and a prime example not to smoke let everyone trying to quit read your comments and they will make it with no problem
Where did you experience most of your back pain? Mine was in the middle to upper portion, right off the back of the rib cage....does this sound familiar? That totally make sense what you said above; you cannot prevent those stabilizers from relaxing when you get high, which would certainly make you over compensate with other muscles and tendons, as well as put stress on your joints and nerves. I took a 5 day hiatis and noticed that it went away on day 2, that happen to anyone else?
Keep the information coming. If nothing else, talking about it is helping already.....I just hate that the only fix right now is a permanent quit.......but I'm wondering right now if that's whats best for me.
I don't feel fake happy.. I feel stoned.. and happy all the time with or without weed..
Today I said enough was enough and I need to look into the pain I experience when I SMOKE. Thankfully I stumbled on to this tread and felt compelled to share my situation. I am an artist write music, so SMOKE has always helped me to fully open my mind to the flow of creative energy that gets locked down in everyday life of work and responsibility. First i would like to disclose my health. About 5 years ago I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia after a 3 year stint of extreme pain in my body and brain. I was tested for everything including bone cancer. In the end that stuck the name fibro on me.... which means..... THEY DON'T KNOW. .. I would say around 10 years ago I started to notice small pain increases when I would partake and from the beginning made me suspicious. For the last 10 years this pain has increased to the point of excruciating at times with extreme headaches, fatigue, facial burning, and lower back pain, confusion, and breath problems. This on top of my usual inconvenient painful day. I would feel safe to say now that i have been in denial for this time to hold on to the mental creative rush accomplished and attained with SMOKE. This next note has been something of major interest to me in observing this phenomena....
When I drink to point of buzzing then I smoke......I never feel pain, I am focused like never before and almost euphoric in nature. The BIG problem is ... I don't like alcohol. I do drink it on rare occasion in social obligation and have notice that EVERYTIME I smoked after a buzz I had no symptoms. I obviously don't want to drink just to smoke... so I am seeing that for now I am also reaching the end of the green trail........... EXCEPT when I am drinkin..... THEN LIGHT IT UP! good luck to u all and I pray peace and wisdom on your plight.
Wow! I am so glad to have found your posts and replies.
I just started to smoke m.j. after YEARS of not smoking it. In fact, I have only smoked it about 10 times in my life.
I commenced smoking it thinking that maybe, just maybe it reduce the excruciating back pain that I have. I had surgery for a bilateral sacroiliac joint fusion on May 9th, 2013. I thought I was in pain, severe pain, since January 2008. I have much pain from whatever was done when I had my surgery. When I started smoking, (about one week ago), I noticed a SIGNIFICANT increase in pain and I mean significant.
I did a search to find out if smoking week can increase pain. My gawd! Through reading what all of you wrote and having read information in a different site, I am convinced that m.j. is the cause of my SIGNIFICANTLY increased back pain. I used to be able to find a way to, at least, reduce the pain a tad. Now none of my medications, (Klonopin and Trazodone), are helping. The pain never lets up except when I sleep.
I guess this means no more smoking for me! At first, it helped, a lot. Not any more. I wish that I could continue to smoke, as there for a while, I, at least, had some pain relief. Additionally, I just bought a new supply! Dang it!
Thanks so much for posting your experiences! You have been a god-send for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I also got bad back pain when i smoke pot, but I think the problem is just a bad posure because I always lean back and never sit straight, and the pain goes away for a moment when i get up or change position or seat. It might be also because be first I have a bad back that I don't feel much when I'm sober and feel more when I smoke, but even for that problem, I would not stop weed and I love too much getting high. So, smoke up and just try to have a comfortable seat when you get high! :)
I learned a lot the last couple of month and it reinforced my opinion on what is going on here.
My back was really bad for years. I also smoked during that period. Since I stopped end of last year the back is 99% better. A couple of weeks ago I smoked again, just a little bit and bam, all kinds of pain in my upper back.
Now, you think, it is directly caused by the cannabis.. Nope, you're wrong.
I discovered that all of my complaints, and there were a lot, came from my stressed out mind. More and more the medical community acknowledges that focussing on pain makes the pain worse and chronic. It is called a psycho-physical disorder. When you focus on a pain or symptom, you will become stressed/anxious/angry about it. This triggers the fight/flight reaction in your body which sensitizes your nerves and cramps your muscles if it takes too long. Being in this mode for a long time isn't healthy for you. Sensitized nerves and cramped muscles again make you feel more pain or experience symptoms and you have entered a vicious circle. Important to add to this is that people can also enter this mode from long repressed emotions that are unconsciously triggered one way or another.
The role of cannabis in all this is that it easily makes you more focussed or sensitive and anxious. It can have a negative effect on this vicious circle and reinforce or trigger it. Also true is that when you are addicted you easily get stressed out or angry from not being high, having to face reality and experience rising repressed emotions, maybe even feel guilty and angry at yourself for smoking weed.
So what helps you to get out of this is calming down. You need to recondition yourself to not get excited from any pain or symptom and just float it. If weed calms you down and you don't become stressed when you don't smoke, it may have a positive effect on any symptoms. If it makes you anxious/focussed about symptoms or you get stressed when you are not high, my only advice is to kick the habit at least until you are pain free and stress free.
Once I realized this, I was able to smoke a couple of times more and didn't experience any pain or symptoms those times. I can't smoke quantities like I used to and I don't want to, it will make me feel like I described above. If I just smoke a little bit, and only when I am calm beforehand it all goes well. When I am stressed beforehand I find other ways to calm myself down, the weed will only make it worse.
To react to the guy or girls that blames poor posture... your posture is a reflection of your state of mind. I had a poor posture, but there have been people here that are athletes and don't have poor posture and still experience pain. In a mindbody disorder like I explained, the symptoms always seem to rise in logical places, or as I call it, it will stick any initial pain in the more vulnerable locations. When you sit "badly", you may experience a sore back muscle once and a while, but if you enter the vicious circle it will stick there and become really nasty. Every time you'll smoke you trigger the vicious circle, once you are sober it will quiet down. Or it may even be the other way around, when you are sober you experience stress and get back pain which will only go away from smoking as that calms you down. The worst of course is a combination of both...
hope some of you are helped by this, if you want to know more search the net for TMS, mindbody syndrome/symptoms or PPD.
My roommate and I have recently started smoking. The 1st stuff we got, we had no problems with. The 2nd stuff we got has left my roommate in excruciating pain for days, I have encouraged him to stop smoking it. I also have been in extreme pain. We thought smoking would help relieve the back pain we already had. I worry that whatever is being used to grow this stuff may be causing this pain. Like a chemical of some kind. Maybe something that has been only used recently. Just a theory.
Not to totally rule out your theory, but I doubt that really. I only smoked stuff I grew myself without any chemicals. Since you were already in pain I doubt it even more. You know pain can be contagious? Compare it to throwing up from seeing someone else throw up. Or feeling nauseous when you see someone getting kicked in the nuts...
wow i thought i was the only one when i bring it up to friends they usually reply with your crazy and thats weird although i agree it is weird but the pain is unbearable and i also get sick to my stomach sometimes constantly go from standing to sitting all the time cant get comfortable at all. So i guess ill just quit which sucks cause i enjoy the high but i enjoy not being in pain alot more......