does marijuana cause back pain?

It might be due to the fact that marijuana dehydrates you, if i smoke and drink 32 ounces of gatorade after, my back does hurt, if i dont drink after i smoke, i get unbearable back pain

Your posture gets way worse when you smoke I had the same sh*t. Try and sit up correct. Or change strains, sativa and indica. Idk though man. I look at it as life's a trip.

i too hav the same prblm ....hav u Got the solution

I smoke pot multiple times a day and I too have back problems. my back cracks, and I get people to step on it as well. now that I'm working out my back feel fine, until I smoke. Them my back feels weird. It's not painful ita almost pulling me head first towards the ground.

I just quit smoking weed again due to my lower back pain and sciatica. Been smoking weed 20 plus years n I love this stuff but starting 2 years ago the back pain started n I kept smoking more not knowing it was the cause. You may ask how I know it's the cause? When I don't smoke it for a few days no more pain. The reason? It's called microcirculation. The lower back region is supplied with blood n oxygen thru microcirculation more than anywhere in your body. So when u smoke, the resin fills your lungs but clogs only the small pores. These small pores that are clogged with resin are the staring point of the microcirculation system for you lower back. The bigger the pores the more important the organ or body part. I think.. It's my theory since this is true with smoking ciggarrettes.

I get severe muscle spasms when i smoke weed. I can feel a pain going up and down my spinal chord. Has anyone been cured of this condition? i just want to smoke some reefer :(

I've been having this problem for last two years until this year. As i love smoking weed and since the quitting was not an option + nobody knew what's that - i decided to find it out by myself. If you get pain only when you're high then it's all simple: the pain is in your head. As simple as it sounds it turns out that it's not so simple to fight with it. After you get a pain ache once or two your mind will start to concentrate on the back pain. The more you concentrate the more you push yourself into "dead territory". Your main goal is to learn how to control your focus no matter what happens. I think there are not just one reason that causes it but far more. First, more obvious, is sitting life style. If you spend literally half or full life lurking through the nets in office/home then this is your "boss" problem and "focusing" practice will be OK for a short time. Start doing sports or at least home gymnastics. When i had first back pain from the weed it was so severe i had a panic attack thinking i was dying. It was horrible experience with no wish to experience again. It was summer and i decided to go for swimming. After two weeks of swimming i smoked and got really high. Fortunately, there was no back pain and i thought it went over. Summer ended, i stopped swimming and in a month i got my back pains... back. I didn't knew how and why the pain went off during swimming times and thought it was luck or something. As i went swimming recently (once more) my pain disappeared. Doing physical exercises/sports is the solution. However, sports might help but you still got focus issues so, as you experienced horrible back pains before, you are still vulnerable to fall down to the dead territory. If you're not doing swimming stuff or sports - you have to count on your "mind abilities" which, so to speak, you have to tame. The thing is: keep your focus at something else. Try not to think about back pain. Saying like "i'm not thinking of back pain" several times might make things worse as you THINK of back and pain. Start with tiny cannabis doses getting high from 1 to 10 stars (increase dose as you smoke further). Preferably, do it alone. Try not to control or limit your actions and thoughts - do what you want (that's why you need to do it alone - not to get anxious from other's reactions to your "free willing mind"). Dance, talk with yourself, act like a psycho or just lie dead on the floor. If you have back pain - doing whatever you want might get you out from that. Just try not to seat or bend your back as it increases difficulty. Imagine stuff, have an "inner dialog" (hello Castaneda). Remember - you will live and nobody died or gone wacko from the weed. If you think you will die - then "die" (in your thoughts); treat yourself as you're dead already. Usually last realization does the magic trick and all paranoia or severe pain back vanishes in a second - besides, if your ever try LSD and have bad trip, this magic trick helps as well. Meditate, start realizing how you think and focus, on what you focus and why etc. Do math stuff, play logical games, solve riddles from riddle book - train your mind and focus. On deadend situation you can try this: once you have back pain, quickly imagine you have a Thor's hammer in your right hand. Imagine that you feel it's weight. Imagine you're swinging with it with the heavy feeling. If you do it right - You'll notice how your focus goes to the hand together with the back pain. I think you got the picture: additional help to our problem might is tamed focus. Additionally, focusing on eating food (yes, that famous wild weed munchies) might serve as "other focus target" which can be very convincing to your mind. Eating might be a "heavy" decision to the problem as well. Third, if you're having really bad times - your ally to the grand solution might be "set and setting" concept. It comes from psychedelic realm and somehow works for cannabis "trips". Technically, is also psychedelic - if you really get high (far from 10 stars) you might experience max 70ug acid trip (mild). Google the concept for more info. Basically, you need to have good mood and proper surroundings. You can prepare it yourself. Prepare a favorite music playlist, have food and water nearby, comfortable bed. Take your guitar or comic books on your table somewhere near so you can take it without certain problems. Just laid back as you get while sober (at home?). This does not complete solution but multiplies chance to mind focus solution. Afterwords: This back pain issue is a bit confusing in all ways. I always though i got some hearth attacks but it occurs it was that back pain in the hearth area that causes impulse to the nearest rib that affected chest muscles (there was no hearth pain at all) - focusing on causes pain realization that leads to the solution as well. Going to sleep on bed without pillow can also cause back relief and remove pain in time. Going outside for fresh air also grants relief. Well, everything above is personal experiments and experiences. It helped me to get rid of it and finally enjoy smoke without problems - i hope it will help you. PS: wrote this while stoned Pardon if i wrote something dum-dum and for the laziness to recheck it and purify..

If you get pain only when you high, that doesn't mean that its all in your head, it means that either the weed is making you more sensitive and you start feeling the pain that is always there.....or the weed is blocking some natural mild tranqulizer and you suddenly start feeling the pain. I read that magnesium helps in pain regulation. I've also read that constant weed smoking somehow depletes magnesium levels.

Not sure if that true but I suffer from the same problem. After smoking for about 12 years, sudden body pains are become really bad and my lower back is the worst but it also affects my shoulders, ankel joints and knees......time to start slowling down gradually, then eventually quit altogether.

So what happens if you try edibles only? Any change?

Same here. Started awhile back. Smoke pot and every muscle in my body gets horribly painful.
Was diagnosed with fibromyalgia but now I thinks it's the pot

does anyone who also gets muscle spasms and back pain from weed also get it from other drugs like acid or shrooms? i cant smoke weed anymore but i want to make sure i can still do acid or shrooms. If i get pain while tripping i'm going to have a terrible drip.

Never tried edibles in a long time so not sure. I still get it when using the vapourizer though.

I don't get it from Acid but then again, my Acid trips are few and far in between and so are the shrooms (I prob use them 4 times per year each - if that much, and then its really low doses). I think its the abuse of MJ that causes this rather than the use. I stopped for a week, then smoked this past weekend without any huge increase in pain at all, so its definitely something to do with how frequent i smoke.

I also have the pain associated with pot smoking and have MCTD, a broad spectrum autoimmune which attacks connective tissue. I am in severe lower back pain when smoking marijuana.

I feel the back pain on occasion and tend to smoke daily. For me personally, I have experience pleurisy (inflimmation of the cartilage/lining between the rib cage) which can cause intense yet sharp pain in the back and front of the lungs. HOwever, mine now seems to be slightly lower and muscle based pain below my shoulder blades. My theory is that repeated coughing (dont smoke cigs) can potentially cause irritation to the muscles in the back near the lungs after smoking. You are definitely not alone!