i have yet to eat a medible, smoke a med, or budder, or oil, or shatter, or the like than can take the ammount of pain away that i suffer when im having a flare up. the only thing if i dont get treatment in time (depomedrol shot directly into the bursa sack + steroid pack) i have to go to the nearest ER and get fentynal injections to controll the pain. but those are rare occurances now.
the best way i can describe the pain is trying to pass a golf ball sized kidney stone, then multiply that by 10. ive passed stones before. shit the slightest breeze, even a drop of water on my flare up area is excrutiating to the point that id rather die. its really that bad. hence the reason why i still have my vicoden script. its the only way i can tell if its just hurting or a flare up (as said above in my prev post).