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Nausea--need help/advice
Less than a year ago I began to suffer from intense nausea, especially in the morning. It can be literally disabling, to point where I found myself balling, curled up in the fetal position in my closet trying to "hide" from it. Silly reaction, but I was desperate.
Medical marijuana is the one thing completely eliminates it. I also used Marinol the highly inadequate "surrogate" our wonderful FDA has proffered as an alternative to burning rope.
I have no idea where the nausea came from. It started long after I started taking large doses of narcotics. It started long after I started taking Elmiron. And after I started taking Valium.
I can find no common denominator in what causes it except that it is almost always there, whether just around the edges of consciousness, or slagging me with a (metaphorical) twenty-pound sledge. It's far worse than the mirgraines I suffered as a kid.
I also went a whole year without smoking and no nausea. After almost twenty years I would like to eliminate marijuana, medical or otherwise, from my life. It causes too much friction in the marriage and my toddler things Daddy's "smoking cigagrs."
THC is the only thing that works. Even if the other anti-nausea drugs do work, they leave me horribly sick or so dopey/dippy/sleepy I can't properly supervise my 4 year old. Dad zonked on the couch from Phenergan is just not on. Whereas, marijuana has not such problems.
In fact, stoned people drive better than sober people--as a long bured Federal study proved some year ago. I know this from personal experience. One must, of course, find out for one's self, but the odds it'll make you better at driving because you'll be far more careful. Unlike drinking which makes you not care about anything due to the lighter fluid you've been drinking.
I really need help/advice on this issue. We aren't poor, but with the cost of medical mary jane and my insurance's high charge for the Marinol, this is getting to be an expensive problem.
Also, the doctors are scared silly by Federal threats to take away their prescribing priveleges to prescribe pot. Fortunately, a medical condition is a defense in our state's law to "possession"--a civil offense punished by a fine any way, but a $600 fine for stuff that's impossible to OD on!--but I'm still in a gray area.
The cops in my town are punks with badges and guns so talking sense into one of them, ain't likely. So once again, the Powers That Be have decided their political careers are more important than relieving suffering.
Were it not for the nausea, with my frequency and "flow" issues largely resolved, I would be left with just the constant, 12 year long pain night mare--as if that weren't bad enough.
So whatever anyone can tell me (aside from silly stuff like ginger T, chiroprators or standing on my head mumbling Buddhist mantras, or handing crystals around my head) would be greatly appreciated.
Medical marijuana is the one thing completely eliminates it. I also used Marinol the highly inadequate "surrogate" our wonderful FDA has proffered as an alternative to burning rope.
I have no idea where the nausea came from. It started long after I started taking large doses of narcotics. It started long after I started taking Elmiron. And after I started taking Valium.
I can find no common denominator in what causes it except that it is almost always there, whether just around the edges of consciousness, or slagging me with a (metaphorical) twenty-pound sledge. It's far worse than the mirgraines I suffered as a kid.
I also went a whole year without smoking and no nausea. After almost twenty years I would like to eliminate marijuana, medical or otherwise, from my life. It causes too much friction in the marriage and my toddler things Daddy's "smoking cigagrs."
THC is the only thing that works. Even if the other anti-nausea drugs do work, they leave me horribly sick or so dopey/dippy/sleepy I can't properly supervise my 4 year old. Dad zonked on the couch from Phenergan is just not on. Whereas, marijuana has not such problems.
In fact, stoned people drive better than sober people--as a long bured Federal study proved some year ago. I know this from personal experience. One must, of course, find out for one's self, but the odds it'll make you better at driving because you'll be far more careful. Unlike drinking which makes you not care about anything due to the lighter fluid you've been drinking.
I really need help/advice on this issue. We aren't poor, but with the cost of medical mary jane and my insurance's high charge for the Marinol, this is getting to be an expensive problem.
Also, the doctors are scared silly by Federal threats to take away their prescribing priveleges to prescribe pot. Fortunately, a medical condition is a defense in our state's law to "possession"--a civil offense punished by a fine any way, but a $600 fine for stuff that's impossible to OD on!--but I'm still in a gray area.
The cops in my town are punks with badges and guns so talking sense into one of them, ain't likely. So once again, the Powers That Be have decided their political careers are more important than relieving suffering.
Were it not for the nausea, with my frequency and "flow" issues largely resolved, I would be left with just the constant, 12 year long pain night mare--as if that weren't bad enough.
So whatever anyone can tell me (aside from silly stuff like ginger T, chiroprators or standing on my head mumbling Buddhist mantras, or handing crystals around my head) would be greatly appreciated.
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