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Over 4 years since I first happened upon my personal miracle cure, I now have some perspective on it. In this episode, recorded in the spring of 2021, I re-summarize the most important things I've learned. In addition to presenting concepts from published research (linked below), I want to reiterate some of my thoughts on chronic pain. Pain can be addressed, suppressed, repressed, masked, intensified, expected, modified and pondered about for an eternity. But that does not change it's meaning. Pain is a message from your body. Y.O.U. need to figure out the message. Your conscious mind needs to interpret pain's meaning and address it with your behavior, when we receive the message, our unconscious mind will help eliminate the pain.
Beyond the meaning of pain, I am also trying to communicate to a wide audience, what I feel I'm learning through what is happening to my body, in nearly real time. The changes are due to my beginning to understand my own endocannabinoid and fascial systems. I know it may all sound far-fetched, and many of you will discount that I am still, necessarily and nearly always, high on cannabis. To which I respond:
1) Read my references...
2) Have you seen my abs?
3) You are invited to run a few miles of trails at altitude with me, please RSVP at your earliest!
I am still very much a work in progress and I continue to try to minimize my use of phytocannabinoids. But, I am compelled to share the information in this podcast with my fellow humans and I appreciate y'all's consideration. I would especially appreciate your help in getting this information to victims of extreme physical trauma such as crushing, or those hopeless and in extreme pain.
A Final Note to the CP Patient: It helps me to break cycles of addictive behaviours frequently and NON-cyclically, even if I have no intention or expectation of quitting whatever drug...this is to observe and reconfirm the patient-drug relationship. I believe doing this provides an important reset. Humans seek the comfort of cycles; we seek predictability. But self-administered predictability is false and a waste of resources. I almost always reduce my consumption or collect new insight by breaking a cycle.
A Final Note for the Scientist Types: Not accounting for the pain, this ongoing 21 year-long experience seems to have an overarching theme of drying and dessication. It seems my fascia cannot produce sufficient hyaluronan without being prompted by phytocannabinoids. I believe this is likely a maternally-transmitted congenital condition that was exacerbated in my case, by the crushing of my body that occurred in the accident compounded by weight-gain and aging over the following 17 years. Obviously, I could be way off, but this is my working theory in a nutshell.
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Neurologist Dr. Ethan Russo appears on Mary Bile's Cannabis Voices Podcast
Greg Gerdeman, Ph.D. appears on Mary Bile's Cannabis Voices Podcast
Caterina Fede, Ph.D. discusses hyaluronan in fascia:
Fede et al. on cannabinoid receptors expressed in fibroblasts
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4933831/
Fede et al. on cannabinoid receptors expressed in fasciacytes
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/8/2936/pdf
If you have neck pain, download the article at this link and take it to your pain management doctor:
Here is a recent PBS Nova episode on cannabis that includes a lot of good information:
https://youtu.be/w-dxMTDzMLY l
Dr. Ethan Russo discusses THC-O Acetate:
*My Original 3 LinkedIn Articles*
Because I quit my job without notice, I wanted to give some form of explanation to my professional colleagues, so I wrote a deeply personal column on a professional social network. Writing the story triggered hundreds of flashbacks and I eventually had to give up on further revision:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-regarding-my-2019-departure-from-redshift-coleman-ph-d-
Few people will ever understand fentanyl. Most folks will likely dismiss my experience on it as simply "bad." I get it. The topic is uncomfortable and sad. But I very much hope people check out this article and my podcast regarding fentanyl. It is not like other drugs, and it isn't a pill; the pain one is trying to kill with such a medicine is something I hope very few will ever know. I also did not make my best decisions while on that drug.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/professional-life-chronic-pain-fentanyl-vs-cannabis-coleman
I wanted to compare the horrors of fentanyl with my experience on cannabis, so I wrote a third article on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/professional-life-chronic-pain-fentanyl-vs-cannabis-coleman-1e
If you want to see me running without a shirt, where I do it and the van in which I have lived for two years and counting, I made this drone video in July 2021:
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Thank you for liking, listening and sharing! If you would like to *speak with me* one on one about surviving and exiting *chronic pain*, navigating *medical cannabis* or aspects of *minimal\vanlife*, I offer my time in 15 minute increments at a rate I will post elsewhere. I can help you with perspective on your pain, to get started healing, to survive and to stay motivated, for anything else you should seek qualified professional help, which again, I am not.
*I DO NOT OFFER MEDICAL ADVICE OR ENDORSE ANY SPECIFIC PRODUCTS *
Music by:
XtaKeRuX - Pursuing Darkness from the album Victim 2021
*Cover art taken during the long run at Hartman Rocks mentioned in this episode. Origami van is roughly 3 miles behind me, below and left of my left hand. I have since purchased a new belt.
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