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Medical Marijuana and Cystic Fibrosis

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana Usage and Applications' started by famicube64, Jul 12, 2012.

  1. #1 famicube64, Jul 12, 2012
    (Cystic Fibrosis is a terminal illness that causes a thick mucus to build up throughout your body, including in your lungs. Treatments for this disease are incredibly expensive with two of my medications costing over $2000 each for one monthly order. If I weren't insured I would surely be dead by now.)

    I have Cystic Fibrosis and I've been smoking weed for the past two years or so. I bought a vaporizer after smoking a joint one night with my friends and it's been really great for my CF symptoms and general lung health. My lung function test results in general have been going up pretty drastically since I started vaping regularly and I've been putting on a lot of weight (a steady 120 pounds up from ~105). Basically, smoking weed has done a lot more for me in terms of improvement than I've seen with any of the other new medications my doctors keep pushing onto me. At this point I think it would be wise to legal-up and get my card but I haven't seen anything from what I've been reading as to people getting their cards for Cystic Fibrosis. I realize it probably looks bad because Cystic Fibrosis affects your lung function heavily (hence making smoking anything obviously dangerous) but the vaporizer solves that part of the problem.

    In short, if anyone knows anything about medical marijuana and Cystic Fibrosis, I'd love to hear from you.

    P.S. I'm new here. Hi!

    P.P.S. I was a bit stoned when I wrote this. It might be rambling nonsense.
     
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  3. #3 Jspare, Jun 28, 2013
    Hi, I to have Cystic Fi Brosis and smoke marijuana. Or rather I smoke a vaporisor, a hash oil vaporiver, and I make the oil. I have gone on again off again my whole life, and I have found that is key to me staying healthy. I am 37 and my CF is off course getting progressively worse, but it keeps the mucus down. Really It works in three ways as  an anti inflammatory for pain, as an expectorant to get the mucus out as an immune booster. I also use it as a salve and rubbing it into my joints helps incredibly with the pain. I have seen some historical  evidence that it was used as a salve on CF patients right at the time it was made illegal. Vaporizing and smoking dank, mixing it up with oils, concentrates, and tinctures has been really sucsessful in letting me smoke just the right amount without hacking out a lung. Like I said before I have gone on and off, and the only way I stay healthy is when on it. I hope you are in a red card state. Good luck​
     
  4. #4 CFVapor, Sep 24, 2013

    I'm also a lifetime CF sufferer but it's only been diagnosed recently at 44 years old. :-( I've had a lifetime of undiagnosed illness, resperatory problems, weight loss and most recently crippling insomnia. I always knew than smoking cannabis made me feel better but never understood the pathology. Doctors always said "You should never smoke!" but never said why. Until 2 years ago I was doing pretty good with a few downward spirals that were scary but after a couple months would stop and life would resume. But this time the spiral has bern pretty severe and having lost over 100lbs unintentionally and not sleeping more than 2 hours a night has started killing me. After several specialists found nothing I had to insist that this strange brownish grey sputum I'm coughing up was at the center of the issue. I was right. My lungs are completely overrun with the bacteria Pseudomonis Aeruginosa (the bacteria that is responsible for CF defective gene carriers illness in the final years.) and its become systemic and has begun to invade my body and g.i. tract. BUT. When I stop smoking I get sicker FAST! Within 3 days my stomach is racked with pain and I lose 5 lbs a day! Going from 260lbs to 160 in a year without even trying is rough and this time its been relentless. I'm lucky in that my partner is a surgeon and that gives me access to more information and case study literature than many have. I've found that THC is actually a serious anti-bacterial that kills Pseudomonis on contact and reduces the bacterias numbers significantly. So vaporizing and eating are 100% safe. But you also need to supplement with Pancreatic digestive enzymes because the pancreas becomes so full of thick mucous it cant release the neccessary enzymes for food digestion. Dehydration is another factor to consider as well. Stay hydrated. Enjoy the herb but whatever you do DONT SMOKE IT. Anybody who would like to talk, trade stories and attempts at healing and share experiences I encourage you to write to me. I'd like to hear from and talk to everybody. Maybe we can help each other in this battle. Love to you all.

     

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