I said ok, and accepted the offer.

I haven't smoked it in like 6 years, but from what I have been reading, patients with chronic illnesses like MS and Arthritis are using marijuana as an effective stress reliever/brain fog reducer. Even some doctors are prescribing this.

Are there any known interactions with marijuana and antibiotics?

Im getting alot better, but I am so sore and my mind gets foggy when I herx. I was wondering if this would help or aggravate the situation.

I have it sitting right here, not sure if I should or not. Any feedback would help.

But after hearing anecdotes about how helpful pot can be to chronically sick people I have considered trying it myself.

I'm wondering if anyone's tried the tablets -- tetrahydrocannibinol (THC) -- that are often made available to patients undergoing chemotherapy?

Those I'd be willing to try, and they wouldn't exacerbate the cardiopulminary symptoms.

I probably would try it for pain if nothing else worked.

Pain can be excruciating with Lyme.....16 Advil(within a 12-hr span) can barely touch mine......I will try homeopathics now...only because Lyme has a tendency to give me a wake-up call....."Take better care of your body or it will just revolt!"Exploring the legal stuff is less stressful.

Changes in attitudes

Nothing remains quite the same...

With all of our running and all of our cunning..

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

In and of itself, cigarette smoke kills macrophages. A macrophage is one of many kinds of immune system cells, whose count,and functions I leave you to research.
Would the smoke of pot kill macros.? Rhetoric Ques. Your internet saviness will render a prompt answer.
Much is in the lyme lit. on macro. function in lyme.

nm

In August, again the worst pain of my life, I had been scratched by my cat and was ill for a month. I tried all kinds of pain killers and the only thing that gave me enough relief to sleep for a couple of hours was a small marijuana cookie, about the size of a silver dollar. That really helped.

I am not against smoking marijuana and I well know the problems associated with it. A drug effects everyone different, even the prescribed ones.

I just believe it is not a good idea for it to become a habit.

I know smoking is bad, I smoke about 2 a day reading the newspaper. I have done that for almost 38 years. I know I need to quit. Why is it specifically bad with lymes and in treatment?

my advice for those who want to smoke it medicinally - my naturopath at one time, who was open to everything, told me definitely NOT to smoke it as it is difficult to find it pure out there - its loaded with chemicals and other nasty stuff we dont want in our bodies.

so, I sent him on his way...(sniff sniff)

although I don't doubt its healing capabilities - every plant has a healing spirit willing to help us...

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Originally posted by Corinne E:
In August, again the worst pain of my life, I had been scratched by my cat and was ill for a month.

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I am starting on amoxicillin and flagyl tomorrow and will see what happens. In a couple of weeks, I will have some money so will ask to be tested for cat scrach fever.

I always wondered what the chemical interaction in pot was for him that worked so well. My boyfriend before him was the same way . . . and me, I hate pot, gives me panic attacks.

Anyway, there is something to it but I don't know what. It was really obvious w/both of these guys that they were motivated by pot. Both are outdoorsmen and have had tick bites, could it be lyme?

Musing out loud here, I don't really have a point except I always wondered about why this was so effective for them. Oh, brownies are too much sugar. Try a muffin. Whole wheat if you can and keep the carbs down. Maybe a drop of Samento baked in? LOL Lets be healthy!

Come on guys, as you can see by all the states and countries now making this legal for medicinal purposes, doesn't that even a little bit change your view of this natural occurring drug?

I am 52, and I have never been a regular pot smoker, even early on, I just didn't like the way it made me feel...I could get to sleep quite naturally without it and I had a very good appetite...for that is all I could see that it did..for me anyway.

I know attorneys, doctors, even judges who smoke pot...for I have been with them when they were smoking it.

It wasn't until I started having so much pain that I thought I would give it a try...I say it prescribed for some of the bone marrow transplant patients when I was a Bone Marrow Transplant Coordinator for a very large transplant center.

It was prescribed for my late husband when he was in so much pain going through his transplant...

the doctor's thought nothing of prescribing this drug.

So, now, I truly believe that I would be addicted to a prescription pain med if I didn't have this each and everyday in my life.

The one problem I have is getting it regularly...as I am usually out of it for a couple of days while waiting for it.

And the other problem I have is getting it in good quality...that sucks and I have to smoke more.

The brownies are a good idea if you can't smoke...I only use a pipe and it is rather easy...the only problem in making brownies, is that you have to use so much...

But, it works, it really works.

I never in the past understood why some who smoke it have more energy and it seems to just wake them up...in the past that was not my problem...

but, now, it doesn't make me sleepy and I don't get the munchies...it just seriously helps me with my pain and for that,

IT IS WORTH THE RISK TO ME.

By the way, if I get busted for using it, I hope the headlines say something like, "Grandmother Suffering from Chronic Pain due to Chronic Lyme Disease Busted for Using Pot".

Rosemary

BUT..it is so hard to get, tied up in so much political stuff, and the street stuff is too risky (the content) without a safe source.

In my many all night searches on the internet on something to help my son that would not hold the high potential risk that so many of the heavier psych/anti-siezure meds do..

I found this link on a child with psychosis...

http://rxmarihuana.com/jeffries.htm

and if I could have gotten a prescription, a safe source..I'd have used it in a heartbeat. That with ALL my research, which was alot, and into every possible "legal" drug. In comparison to the other options, this seemed MUCH safer. I couldn't get it, though.

Rosey..to think..we could have been sittin in the slammer together

Mo

Thanks for that link!!!

I thought I would bring this thread up as I have been exploring the possiblity of trying this. Was of course concerned with street level pot and chemicals etc.

I found out I qualify for medicinal marijuana and will get some probably within the month as it will take time.

I have big problems with over the counter and prescription medications. They are pretty hard on the liver and stomach and we are already on a lot of stuff which is necessary. I have been taking advil for pain and all my natural anti-inflammatories. Vioxx put me in the hospital with spasms in my esphogus and everything else has some serious risks and side effects.

A few months ago on tv I seen a young man who has severe jerking from ms and couldn't sit still. He had a couple of hits and immediately his whole system calmed down, it was amazing to watch. They did this to show people what pot can do to help people. Also on Montel last week, he says he uses it and it is much less toxic then anyting else they have prescribed him.

When my nervous system gets bad, it is hell. Thanks god it doesn't happen continuous like it was, but when it acts up I need something for relief of the feelings as well as pain, and don't want to take a drug that will mess with my nervous system like anti-seizure medications and the like.

I will get this and try it. Of course, my system is pretty sensitive so if it doesn't work at least I will know.

Take Care. Anyone recently try this that didn't mention before. Would love to hear your experience.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities may prosecute sick people who smoke pot on doctors' orders, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state medical marijuana laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
The decision is a stinging defeat for marijuana advocates who had successfully pushed 10 states to allow the drug's use to treat various illnesses.

Justice John Paul Stevens, writing the 6-3 decision, said that Congress could change the law to allow medical use of marijuana. The closely watched case was an appeal by the Bush administration in a case that it lost in late 2003.

At issue was whether the prosecution of medical marijuana users under the federal Controlled Substances Act was constitutional. Under the Constitution, Congress may pass laws regulating a state's economic activity so long as it involves ``interstate commerce'' that crosses state borders.

The California marijuana in question was homegrown, distributed to patients without charge and without crossing state lines.

Stevens said there are other legal options for patients, ``but perhaps even more important than these legal avenues is the democratic process, in which the voices of voters allied with these respondents may one day be heard in the halls of Congress.''

California's medical marijuana law, passed by voters in 1996, allows people to grow, smoke or obtain marijuana for medical needs with a doctor's recommendation. Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state have laws similar to California.

In those states, doctors generally can give written or oral recommendations on marijuana to patients with cancer, HIV and other serious illnesses.

In a dissent, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that states should be allowed to set their own rules. ``The states' core police powers have always included authority to define criminal law and to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens,'' said O'Connor, who was joined by other states' rights advocates.

The legal question presented a dilemma for the court's conservatives, who have pushed to broaden states' rights in recent years, invalidating federal laws dealing with gun possession near schools and violence against women on the grounds the activity was too local to justify federal intrusion.

O'Connor said she would have opposed California's medical marijuana law if she was a voter or a legislator. But she said the court was overreaching to endorse ``making it a federal crime to grow small amounts of marijuana in one's own home for one's own medicinal use.''

The case concerned two seriously ill California women, Angel Raich and Diane Monson. The two had sued then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, asking for a court order letting them smoke, grow or obtain marijuana without fear of arrest, home raids or other intrusion by federal authorities.

Raich, an Oakland woman suffering from ailments including scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea, fatigue and pain, smokes marijuana every few hours. She said she was partly paralyzed until she started smoking pot. Monson, an accountant who lives near Oroville, Calif., has degenerative spine disease and grows her own marijuana plants in her backyard.