{"id":29990,"date":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/wil-anderson-opens-about-his-chronic-battle\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:00:00","slug":"wil-anderson-opens-about-his-chronic-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/wil-anderson-opens-about-his-chronic-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Wil Anderson opens about his chronic battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Comedian Wil Anderson says we need to listen to what elderly people are telling us about their chronic pain &#8212; and he would know.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThree million Australians live with some sort of chronic pain,\u201d Wil told Jade Robran on FIVEAA, \u201cso it\u2019s an amazing amount of people who are out there everyday going about their day with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s normally a thing that much older people have, but it\u2019s a bit of a silent condition because we\u2019re not listening to the elderly as much as we should be about their daily pain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also get to the point where they\u2019re like, \u2018Mustn\u2019t grumble,\u2019 even though they\u2019re in this daily pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/311082969&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wil said he uses medical marijuana to combat the pain of his own chronic condition\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have osteoarthritis in my hips, and in the US where it\u2019s legal, I\u2019ve used it and it\u2019s brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been really great for me. Sometimes then somebody will say, \u2018Does that mean you think everybody should be smoking marijuana?\u2019 I\u2019m like, no. I\u2019m saying for me, an adult in my situation\u2026 this was what was good for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m now at the point where it gives me a lot of trouble. If I fly for more than five or six-hours on a plane, I really can\u2019t walk the next day. I sleep about four hours a night\u2026 if my hips are in the one place, that\u2019s when they start to ache after a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wil said medical marijuana had been an \u201camazingly\u201d helpful for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a day-to-day way to treat pain. 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