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 Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works
#7308897 - 08/18/07 09:05 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works
By Dr. Phil Leveque
August 18, 2007 - salem-news.com
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - There may be 10 million RLS patients in the U.S. This will be good news to them. I was one of the first doctors to sign up patients for Oregon’s medical marijuana permits. I had patients number 13 and 14.
Through the five years I was able to work before the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners revoked my license, I had between 4 and 6 thousand patients. I never did count them because I saw patients in at least twenty places from the coast to Bend and Klamath Falls in Eastern Oregon.
Why I had to travel all over the state is not a mystery. Other doctors were afraid of their own shadows and big brother to do this. However, eventually 2,200 doctors did shake off their paranoia and finally joined the club. Hoorah.
The original medical marijuana bill in California in 1998 required the following disease entities to get a “permit”: cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, and arthritis.
This was a rather loose list but it did give the doctor the option of recommending it for “any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.” This gave California doctors wide latitude for issuing permits.
Dr. Tod Mikiyuria found after interviewing and/or reviewing about 30,000 patient charts that marijuana was effective for about 200 separate medical entities.
It is difficult for most physicians to believe it could be effective for such a wide variety of conditions, and I as a Professor of Pharmacology took in all this with a grain of salt till I started seeing affected patients. It was one surprise after another. I got over the idea that the patients might be faking it to get a permit because it cost about $150 dollars to go through my clinics and the state charged $100 dollars for the permit. Would the patients fake it if it still cost $250 dollars? I doubt it.
When the first patient came in with “restless leg syndrome” I was bemused for a while. What’s going on here, I said to myself.
I knew that quadriplegics, paraplegics, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy patients had legs that jumped around and marijuana gave them relief. All these seemed to be treated poorly with valium-like drugs and the doses were high enough to be strongly sedative and extremely addicting. It didn’t take many doctor “smarts” to figure out if the restless leg patient said marijuana works, it must be so.
According to T.V. news programs, about 10 million patients have restless legs. Marijuana is a nice, safe, effective medicine. The big problem is that only in eleven states can the patients get a permit to use marijuana legally.
Phillip Leveque is a physician, toxicologist and WWII Combat Infantryman.
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 The Crow
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: veggie]
#7309086 - 08/18/07 10:27 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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I, too have the need to treat my Restless Leg Syndrome
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: The Crow]
#7309100 - 08/18/07 10:32 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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wait, is rls when your leg bounces up and down when you sit?
if so, they tried to give me adderal to cure my "add".
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: ledfut]
#7309121 - 08/18/07 10:40 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, Common pills are bad
Natural drugs=good
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: The Crow]
#7309153 - 08/18/07 10:54 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Holy shit! I have RLS... it's medical marijuana fixable? omg i hope my state gets the medi mari.
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell which encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided
by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips,
has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter
has moistened with His own sacred tears." - Kahlil Gibran
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: The Crow]
#7309222 - 08/18/07 11:19 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
The Crow said:
I, too have the need to treat my Restless Leg Syndrome
and yes it does work 
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Dr  says to stop trying to treat the side-effects of big government and focus on the core issues. End the Federal Reserve/audit the gold reserves at Fort Knox, abolish the IRS, end all wars and occupancies, stop the building of an empire that will inevitably fail, and cut all unconstitutional federal programs. Put the power back in the peoples' hands by ending this nanny-state.
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: highdroponics]
#7309233 - 08/18/07 11:24 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hmmmmmm
Intersting enough, I developed a strange twitch in my left leg since smoking some really potent weed a few months ago(I think I even made a thread about it thinking it was laced lol)
Yeah, it was really annoying though. It stayed for a while, even after I was high. But it kept reappearing, whenever I got high again, or horny or really happy.
Lately this mysterious weed-induced twitch has ceased to almost a complete halt...
Weird. huh?
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: The Crow]
#7309868 - 08/19/07 07:26 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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you got the black snake moan crow
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: veggie]
#7309938 - 08/19/07 07:59 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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I have RLS and I know it works but I have yet to convince my mom that it does. Maybe this article can persuade her.
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: kirix]
#7310009 - 08/19/07 08:37 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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My grandpa has really severe RLS. From the groups he's in, I've heard really mixed reports about efficacy. Mostly people say it just helps them fall asleep deeply enough to overpower the twitching.
Kirix, just get access to a university computer and search Pubmed. No official studies that I know of, but plenty of references to MM in the literature.
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: CaptainLinger]
#7310035 - 08/19/07 08:47 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ever since I quit opiates cold-turkey about a week and a half ago, I developed RLS. And yes, I would always cheif a bowl when it would bother me and it would usually stop it.
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: marshalldylan1]
#7310147 - 08/19/07 09:28 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Restless Leg Syndrome. Give me a break.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: CaptainLinger]
#7310374 - 08/19/07 10:56 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, I agree. I quit for 3 months and I have developed RLS here and there...Not every night, but at least 4 to 5 nights out of 7. Occasionally it would pop up in my left arm as well...Which was WAY worse than the legs. I had never had that problem while smoking, especially if I smoked before bed. So, I would say that weed helps to ease such things as RLS.
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: xyphoidmax]
#7310482 - 08/19/07 11:23 AM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
I quit for 3 months and I have developed RLS here and there
"Restless Leg Syndrome" isn't "I'm Excitable and Can't Sleep, Mommy". You don't develop it "here and there"...that's like saying you had a bit of Alzheimer's this morning. When you get to sleeping 1-2 hours a night, if that, with the uncontrollable feeling of creepers everywhere on your skin...you may have "caught" a bit.
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Re: Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works [Re: CaptainLinger]
#7312315 - 08/19/07 08:39 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Am I the only one who twitches when they smoke? Must be if they're using marijuana to fix it...
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