Pot Popular for Pain in Fibromyalgia
Use of cannabinoids for medicinal purposes — particularly for pain relief — is popular among patients with fibromyalgia, who either smoke marijuana or take synthetic prescription formulations, a Canadian study found.
Among 457 patients referred to a fibromyalgia clinic, 13% self-reported using cannabinoids, according to Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, MB ChB, from McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues.
A total of 80% were marijuana smokers, 24% used prescription formulations, and 3% used both, the researchers reported online inArthritis Care & Research.
Numerous therapies have been tried and advocated for use in fibromyalgia, but no single approach has proven reliably successful, so many patients turn tononmainstream remedies.
(Source: medpagetoday.com)
