Marijuana Addiction Treatment: I’m 14 years old and have a good amount of medical problems. Read the details, but are drugs the answer?
Question by Sophia Feinstein: I’m 14 years old and have a good amount of medical problems. Read the details, but are drugs the answer?
I have a pretty screwed up spine, and have had nonstop lower back pain for a year and a half (two years in July). I have a herniated disc between L-5 and S-1 and I have gone to several doctors and have done physical therapy, rolphing, will be starting other treatments soon, but nothing has kept it from hurting still. I can’t do a lot, I used to be a pretty rough kid and would do a lot of active activities. I haven’t been able to do sports, I still try to do things for fun and in PE, I’m still somewhat of a good athlete if I just get over the pain but I end up hurting myself worse a lot. And I am going to be in track this season but I’m tired of always carrying a heavy weight because of my back. I don’t want this injury to keep me from being a kid, I can endure pain but it sucks. Literally each step I take is painful, along with sitting in my chair in class and raising my hand, along with carrying my backpack with homework and several books. I used to have a cart I rolled my backpack in after I was injured in PE earlier in the year, but kids made fun of me (rolling backpacks aren’t aloud in school) and said I was being overdramatic. I would still have the cart now but I hate the humiliation. I feel stupid for not telling them I actually have a serious condition, and also I usually ignore criticism but I feel helpless and pathetic when it comes medically. But I’m seriously tired of this pain and don’t want to keep waking up every morning taking a ton of advil and still hurting. I’ve thought of this for a while and I’m questioning marijuana or other medical drugs, I don’t want to become addicted, especially end up with lung cancer or something. Addiction runs in my family and I don’t want to deal with what they went and are going through. But would it be questionable or worth it? I really need help with this!
Oops, didn’t mean to make it sound like they didn’t let me use the backpack, but that was another reason why I was made fun of. But yeah I would rather roll my books around and face some criticism than carrying my backpack, I feel pretty dumb not doing it. I don’t know why I don’t. But my parents wont allow me to do surgery, it’s hard getting the family to make a big decision alltogether with my parents being divorced but I’ve thought of doing it in therapy. And I would like to take some medications but again, my parents aren’t comfortable. I have ADHD and I take a 25 mg dose of adderol and they don’t want me on anything else. And also thanks for filling me in on everything Nurse!
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Answer by Nurse For 21 Years
No, you are not getting a marijuana card at your age. That is something they do for adults, not kids. Also, you would have to go through other meds and treatments to determine that absolutely nothing else works for you. As for other drugs, if you are taking it exactly as needed and prescribed, that’s not considered addiction. That’s considered taking a medication because you need it.
If you have a herniated disc, then it needs to be repaired surgically. They don’t just go away and the surgery to fix them is really quite simple.
As for your rolling backpack, you can’t tell me that if a person has a medical reason that the school still wouldn’t allow it. That’s bull. Would you rather use it and ignore a few idiots or be in pain all the time because of your heavy books?
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