Smoking to Vaping and Pain related issues

[LTV1]

OK....I can preface this by saying I am disabled due to disc disintegration in my lower lumbar and I have a few herniated upper discs as well. So I live with pain and can deal with it. Or could until I started vaping instead of smoking (also its getting cold quickly here in early morns + late at night now).

Seems to me my pain level is more pronounced with my now much improved blood pressure. As a smoker it was high (140's/90's). As a vaper its (108-112/68-72). So I'm wondering if the increased blood flow is allowing me to feel pain by neuron receptors I never could feel before because of inferior blood flow back then?

Is this making any sense? Anybody have a medical background here?

Avoided pain pills pretty much the last 2-3 yrs as I've learned to accept a certain level of pain. But now? Used hydro's every other day the past 2 weeks!

 

[tnt56]

I don't have that much medical background but the increased blood flow does make sense to me.

 

[LTV1]

My next doc appt isn't until Dec 2nd or 3rd, gotta look it up. But it makes sense to me too, my brother says the theory is flawed but he has no clue either really.

 

[RoseB]

You may be getting dehydrated. At first I didn't get why people kept harping on me to drink so much water.Vaping is drying.It could be drying out the discs in your back. Making it flare up, but I ain't a doc or nothing. I know how much it sucks to be in pain every day. The past week I have hid in my room chain vaping with a heating pad, and posting too much on the forum

 

[Susaz]

I have congenital hip luxation and also two herniated discs although those don't hurt. Diclofenac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It could also be an allergic reaction. Better have it seen by a doctor. First weeks vaping I felt energized, but it's dwindling. I had to up my meds to 150 mg Diclofenac. Posture is important too, try to sit up straight!

 

[steved5600]

Best to ask your doctor. May be unrelated or as another said an allergy. May want to be tested for allergies. But I'd just be guessing. The Doctor is more likely to know than us. Got no Med. License to look at on here.

 

[Susaz]

Best to ask your doctor. May be unrelated or as another said an allergy. May want to be tested for allergies. But I'd just be guessing. The Doctor is more likely to know than us. Got no Med. License to look at on here.

Generally hernias are more posture related. Alcohol might be interfering with meds and such. But the perception of pain can be thrown off balance by alcohol, since it's a nervous system depressant. I'm not a doctor, but a production engeneer, I know well my chem

 

[Snus]

Hmmmm, you would think increased blood flow would be a good thing! I have some similar issues and I find when I chain vape, my pain level sometimes increases. I think that is because of too much nicotine, which would actually decrease blood flow. What strength juice are you using?

Also, Try drinking lots of water! When I was first diagnosed, I met a woman with severe rheumatoid arthritis in the bookstore. She claims all her pain was because of not having enough water. If vaping is dehydrating, water could help with that. There is also a book out there called Your Body's Many Cries for Water. Relates it to way more things than just pain.

I usually use ice packs rather than heat for my pain, seems to work way better......

Good Luck and let us know!

 

[zapped]

My pain tolerance used to be through the roof when I was a smoker for 30 years.might have had something to do with the cigarettes causing my physical pain and my body adjusting to it or one of 3999 drugs besides nicotine.

I also used to be able to eat any hot food known to man (because my taste buds were dead) now not so much.

The way I look at it these changes are because Im more alive than Ive ever been

 

[Snus]

Are you saying you have been more active? That will do it!

 

[LTV1]

Was hoping a doc jumped on in. In my town theres nurses that vape, maybe I'll ask one.

 

[Snus]

I don't know if there are any one here.... there is a wellness forum for people with medical issues. I don't know if it is very active, but you could also ask there. Probably the vaping nurses would be better able to help you!

 

[mostapha]

Talk to your doctor, but I'd want to say that blood pressure probably isn't that much of a contributing factor.

I think it's much more likely that a crap-ton of the chemicals that are in cigarettes but not in vapor might be to blame. There are chemicals in cigarette smoke similar to drugs that are given for–among other things–chronic pain. However small the dose and however indirect/small the effect, you might have unknowingly quit a drug that was helping your pain, separate from everything else.

Talk to your doctor………but, honestly, cigarette smoke is so incredibly complicated that I doubt he'd know all that much about it. If he doesn't have anything to say about it, trying a WTA juice might help some.

Or you could just take your pain medication. It was given to you for a reason.