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Do You Tell Your Doctor About Your Marijuana Use?

Discussion in 'Medical Cannabis: Treatments & Patient Experiences' started by Kwayle, Mar 22, 2005.

  1. #1 Kwayle, Mar 22, 2005
    Just wondering ... Do you feel you can talk honestly with your healthcare providers about your marijuana use? How about if you do not have a condition that would qualify you for medical marijuana? Thanks for sharing your suggestions ans experiences!
     
  2. #2 worm97, Mar 22, 2005
    I have a chronic, somewhat debilitating illness. I see multiple specialists. There are very few people I feel uncomfortable about my smoking with. But for some reason, in six years I have never told any of my docs that I puff.

    I just get the feeling they would put a very negative spin on things as related to my condition, regardless of the validity.
     
  3. #3 Kwayle, Mar 22, 2005
    I have multiple sclerosis, one of the conditions that would qualify me for medical marijuana if I lived in Canada but not here in the good-old-god-fearing USA. Still, I can't bring myself to discuss it with any of the bunch of doctors I see, either. That's just another example of the wrong done by keeping it illegal.
     
  4. #4 Flower-Of-Truth, Mar 22, 2005

    Hmmmm if you "don't havea condition that would qualify" then that would be lieing init?

    Flowers-Of-Truth
     
  5. #5 Kwayle, Mar 23, 2005
    Nope, I just remarked that I have a condition that would qualify me for medical marijuana, not that I want or need to ask a doctor for a prescription. (I've had a good source for years before I had a medical condition.) All I mean is, it sure would be nice to be able to talk with health-care providers about marijuana's benefits, deficits, interaction with other drugs/medicine, etc. This kind of honesty is prevented by our archaic drug laws.
     
  6. #6 Del420, Mar 23, 2005
    I have Fibromyalgia.... and all the joints in my feet are misplaced by a half inch.. Causes me alot of pain, I told my doc that I smoke to ease the pain..
     
  7. #7 Packman, Mar 27, 2005
    Whenever I see my psychiatrist, I tell him about it. He doesn't seem to have a problem with it. But when I told him about me getting drunk one time, he told me that wasn't a good idea. My Doctor really knows what the true evil is.
     

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