Fellow stoners, reassure me!

It sounds to me like all you do is smoke recreationally. (not judging, I dont know you)

But if you are young, which you sound young, of course a doctor is going to tell you that you should not be smoking pot.

You are probably stressed out because all you do is smoke pot, and when you are not smoking pot, you worry about the next time you are going to smoke pot. There is much more to life than pot.

If you have pain take some ibuprohen or something. I'm not downgrading the value of mmj by any means, but it sounds like all you have is pot on the brain, maybe take up a hobby. Besides sitting in the house... gaming...

You havent been very clear on your issues, so I cant be very clear on advice. If your a pothead your a pothead, If you know marijuana makes your stomach pains and so forth go away, why would you stop smoking? Dont take a doctors advice unless its something serious. Thats what the government wants you to do. Get prescribed to some shit that gives you symptons worse than the problems your trying to fix.

Not that all doctors and so forth are like this, some would just rather have your money.

 

Do your own research. never take the doctors advice without at least thinking to your self whether or not it sounds feasible. With that said, whose to know if your doctor got C-'s or A+'s, maybe he went to med school in Guatemala. Point is, they don't tell you their MCAT scores and even if they did you wouldn't know what it meant without looking it up (i got a 13-S) Hell he could have paid to get it too.

 

You live in Florida...Dr's have no real choice but to tell you to stay away from POT in Florida...but at no point are they entitled to lie about why.

So as to saying mj is causing your ailments, that's BULLSH*T...fire his arse and get a new Dr. as soon as you can (I'm the type to tell the Dr why, "I do not like being lied to").

Aspirin 'mask' headaches, joint pain...it's called RELIEF from the symptoms...if MJ gives you relief, then do your best to use it as a medicine...meaning, find how much you need to get relief, and try not to exceed that. (I won't advise recreational use of medicine...but nobody ever died from just using mj, EVER)

Cramping, gut pain, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting corresponding to instances of stress and/or anxiety?

Your stress admission and symptoms mentioned already, make it sound like it could be IBS. MJ does wonders for IBS...edibles work great to sooth the gut, and keeps the stress down.

just my opinion, I'm not a Dr (pay attention to the Dr, but do ask for any documentation to back a Dr's claim that MJ is harmful in any way, no Dr can provide documented proof, even the AMA says MJ is good medicine...seriously), just someone with a long IBS history that found MJ does more than anything else to help get relief.

key thing, is to research, understand, know what you should know about your ailments, what can help them, and to be educated on MJ and why it is illegal (bigotry, racism, industrial greed, political corruption are why....not one valid scientific reason) Then research what MMJ can do to help your condition(s).


to quote G.I. JOE "knowing is half the battle" Once you 'know' get busy pestering your state to allow MMJ. (Granny Storm Crow's sticky has all the info you need).

 

If cannabis has been relieving your symptoms do get checked out for celiac disease.
Celiac disease - sprue - PubMed Health

If you want your test results to be completely accurate, it is preferable that you not smoke at ALL until all testing is finished, esp. if you are seeing a gastro for any type of 'scope or biopsy.

Cannabis is an anti inflammatory, and may suppress the inflammation of the intestine to the point where they may not get any accurate picture of your disease process.

You might be requested to stop steroids before a biopsy for the same reason.

 

yah ive been waiting on getting more since i ran out so i started longoarding more. i reccomend riding ur bike a couple miles and that will probably help

 

You should ask your doctor if he is testing you for Celiac Disease, because he may not have even thought of it, or could be unaware of it's relevance - millions of people (one in a hundred) have CD, and less than five percent of those are diagnosed because many doctors don't have a clue - not saying he does or doesn't, but I had to figure it out on my own and ASK for a Celiac blood test, which was positive, followed by an endoscope, also positive. A large number of people with "IBS" symptoms actually have Celiac, and do not know it. Most doctors I've run into don't even know which blood test to give for Celiac. You should go to a reputable gastroenterologist to have these tests correctly performed.

 

is your problem constant? I picked up a protozoa in San Diego.. I was barfing and burping sulpher.. I had some serious bloating and cramps.. and the poop was pure EVIL coming out of me..It was so so bad. But then went away for a month or two... then came back.. I dealt with this for two years!! Each Dr. I went to thought I was crazy.. I tracked my food, cut out dairy, and did all sorts of crap.. Finally a Dr. I saw at a clinic said "OMG my sister went to Mexico and got that same thing!" So one stool sample later I find out I have this stupid protozoa in my gut that when it reproduces I get sick so it can get out of my body and try to infect others..

Lesson Learned Do not drink anything but bottled water.. I think I got it form a fountain drink..The machine was not cleaned properly or the person servicing it didn't wash their hands.. I get sick thinking of it..My cousin was with me and ate and drank everything I did excpt that damn fountain drink form a gas station. UGH

 

Despondancy can be a symptom of cancer

BBC NEWS | Health | Tumour make-up 'fuels depression'

 

I wish cancer screening was that easy. That is why your doc is trying to get you in for more tests, there is no easy way to dx a wide variety of the diseases which might be causing your symptoms. You may need highly specialized testing, biopsies, scans....it can take months, years, even decades (of monitoring a disease condition) to narrow down a dx. Its not like House, unfortunately, they can't solve the puzzle in 43 min of air time.



What if you guess its just depression and stress....and guess wrong?

 

I'll be happy to review any test results with you, if you have questions your doctor does not clarify.
Please, try to have celiac disease

 

Ya my doctor saw me for 4 times in two weeks for IBS symptoms and they still almost misdiagnosed me. I had to have a customer I was working with tell me about celiac. Found out two yrs later both my mom and sister are either celiac or gluten intolerant. It intresting to note that celiac disease is more prevalent in women especially those from the england/Ireland area. My mothers maiden name is O'Donnell lol. The doctor said "celiac....hmmm... I guess it could be but that's more of a European thing...." I couldn't eat any thing with gluten in it for months slowly it went away. Then seemed to "flare up" a cpl times in the next two years. Now I haven't had a flare up in over a yr and a half don't think I am really celiac don't even know what it is who knows maybe that accutane I took as a teenager did fuck me up.....

 

Did your doc bother to give you a hat. Hat or lack of hat shows a lot about an office's attention to detail.
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