My Dr. has suggested very strongly that I stop smoking marijuana because he believes it could be causing a portion of my pain and nausea. I have yet to find anything that supports more than pain on the discomfort level. I woke myself up 6 times screaming in pain last night. Also vomited 5 times between last night and today. I have god damned Crohn's disease, I have ulcers all over my intestines. How is it that he is more concerned about some slight discomfort from some marijuana? Do tests, find out what the fuck is wrong with me before you strip me of my crutch. The one thing that brings me physical comfort in this world.
I have tried to explain to them how I feel. They seem to think they understand, but they also thought my medical marijuana was taken via pill. So the University of Washington is completely uneducated on marijuana. So why would I believe them on this? I asked them to prove it to me with published articles saying that it is possible for me to feel as shitty as I did in my 1 day sober. 1 whole day where i couldn't eat.
I have a feeling that someone is pushing them to discredit marijuana, because I have only heard that it helps stomach issues, which is why I INHALE it. Fuck I'm still laughing about that one. It's also possible that my terminology confused them. Telling them I use up to 5 grams a day, they were thinking about pills *giggle*. Whatever. It's not my fault they know so little about something that most people with fucked up stomachs use. I've tried to share with them how much it helps, but they seem to think that is not relevant, that it is making everything worse.
I'm okay not being able to math, I'm okay not remember 2 minutes ago, I'm okay coughing, I'm okay having dry mouth. I'm okay with being okay with being bored. I WISH I HAD HALLUCINAIONS! (I never have). I'm also okay with discomfort and slight nausea from not smoking. But there was nothing minor about what I felt. Also with blood coming out of my ass and me only being able to shit turds with the diameter of dispensed toothpaste.
Do you have any sort of well informed information on this? It would seem that if the overuse symptoms were so extreme that someone on the internet would talk about it, much like I am right now. Due to my many experiences with doctors and medicine, I harbor a healthy amount of skepticism in this profession So please, prove my doctors right for me, since neither they nor I can do it.
*It is 12 hours later. I stayed up till 3:30am looking for ANY sort of proof that would provide evidence that my Dr is not completely full of shit. I have only found evidence to the contrary. As I had been led to believe there are many studies proving marijuana's effectiveness for coping and possibly healing stomach illnesses. These are the same studies that made me get my medical marijuana licence in the first place. So I think I'm done looking, it has become too taxing to prove someone else right over myself. Though It has given me a much larger faith in what I had already believed, and that is why I set out to prove my Dr right in the first place, because either I'd have to change my mind because of FACTS, or I'd be right. But if you feel so inclined to continue looking to prove that using too much marijuana can lead to long term stomach illness, please show me. I'm willing to read even opinions, but I refuse to believe anything that doesn't have facts attached.
I sort of understand what you are feeling, as we are taught that doctors are demi-gods and all...but you need to fight that feeling. They are people, like everyone else. Some are good and some are bad. And some have agendas.
ReplyDeleteTake care of your body, you are the one that will be living in it. Best wishes.