Medical Marijuana

Personally, I would consider it, never having tried it before, but just reading up on the benefits vs. downfalls, it seems like a no brainer.

Your thoughts...

I don't think it's a bad idea honestly....although never been there myself. I know over in Europe, for dying cancer patients they give them heroin! Here everyone is so worried about addiction, but my thing is, "what about quality of life?" Here, you have a dying cancer patient, and they are afraid to give them morphine for god's sake....who cares if they get addicted...THEY"RE DYING!

So I guess if the option were there I may consider it...even on pain meds, my level is never below a 6....and that's a good day...which are very few and far between

So YES it is a good idea.

Jaime has a point mentioning Lyme disease, too. Lyme has caused more havoc with my brain than the PTSD. My psych insists that my brain fog is caused by my PTSD. I used to think so. PTSD *can* cause physical changes in the brain. But last year, before I found out I had Lyme, I had four month's worth of cortisone shots. Since then, I've experienced significant changes in thinking and memory. My family tells me about things I've done that I swear never happened. And I insist that I've done things that I haven't. It's been horrible. Cortisone reduces activity of the immune system, which is what you need to fight Lyme. And although I've had PTSD for some time, this spike can only be explained by Lyme, since my PTSD was not triggered - but my Lyme was.

I don't mean to speak for Jaime, but you may be wondering why we are mentioning Lyme to you. You are in the Fibromyalgia forum, and most Lyme is initially misdiagnosed as fibro. I was misdiagnosed for 4 years. So, it's not as strange as you might think. Unless you just came here to comment on the medical MJ, since you said you might have cancer.

They sent him home with Hospice when the doc couldn't help him anymore. They only supply pills. He could not keep them down. For the nausea, they gave him more pills which came right back up. They had nothing else to offer, no shots of morphine, nothing except by mouth. How great it would have been if he had been able to get pot. It would have helped with the nausea so that he could keep pain pills down. And it would have helped with pain.

The same was true with my sister-in-law. She died two months after my dad, and I got to watch years of her misery with both leukemia and lymphoma.

I don't want to get into a fight about what is safer, better, etc., but I do think that pot is more useful than alcohol and if that's legal, why not pot? I know that people believe it leads to harder drugs but I think that's only because it is illegal (so, since you took that first illegal step, you're more inclined to go further). I think that if it were legal, that reasoning is no longer true.

No, I am not a pothead. But I have watched enough suffering. Prescription meds are almost illegal because docs are even afraid to prescribe them to people who are dying. What kind of a society are we, where treating pain and suffering is illegal?

very well said. I have to agree whole heartidly. It is sad when people we love, and even ourselves suffer needlessly. There have been so many studies done even on prescription meds, that when taken properly, the risk of addiction is VERY low.... not saying your body doesn't become DEPENDANT...two different things here.

Thanks for explaining why I brought up lyme in the fibro forum Lori.... I too have been dx with fibro...MCTD (lupus, RA, scleroderma), and now possible lyme... they did a study of 50 fibro patients, all ended up having lyme.... they are starting to feel that fibro is a symptom rather than a disease itself....

i live in the uk and so quite near to amsterdam where it is legal, im planning on going for a lovely haze filled long weekend there soon! so yes i would take it, bring it on, mr brown....

I live in California and use medical marijuana in addition to the usual fibromyalgia medications (40 mg methadone twice a day, 140 5mg oxycodone tablets per month for flare to use as needed).

My personal philosophy is that once you're told that you have to take narcotics for the rest of your life or live in horrible excruciating pain there really isn't much question that smoking a little (or a lot) of pot is beneficial both to your physical and emotional well-being. Physically it both helps counter act the nausea that comes with taking the opioids as well making the pain more diffuse. Overall it seems to provide another level of relief that helps me delay &/ or decrease my usage of things like adivan & Xanax.