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I am allergic to marijuana, but I fully support the legalization of medical marijuana. I was on steroids for my condition. Steroids are really hard on the body
by Mz 9y ago
I am allergic to marijuana, but I fully support the legalization of medical marijuana.
I was on steroids for my condition. Steroids are really hard on the body. My first two attempts to quit landed me back on additional medication. One involved an ER visit and a week in bed. Doctors never told me I needed to taper off, nor provided other support for helping me get off the steroids. Trying to quit was creating potentially life threatening crises for me. Doctors were not proactively helpful to me in escaping this trap that kept me on the steroids because trying to quit was threatening to kill me.
An internet friend told me I needed to taper off, that going cold turkey was too hard on the body. A different internet friend told me to take guaifenesin, the active ingredient in Mucinex. Over time, internet friends helped me sort out that generics were tolerated better by me because they lack the blue dye and the time release stuff. They are also cheaper. One internet friend hand-packed pills for me as a Christmas gift to make sure I could get this drug with zero additives and in a lower dose than you can purchase OTC.
This not only helped me get off the steroids, it helped me get off of multiple other prescription drugs over a period of several years. Addicts are not people who lack self discipline. They are people who need practical help to get free of the prison of their drugs. Our current approach frequently helps to actively make it harder or impossible for them to do that.
Most doctors completely suck at helping patients effectively get off drugs. They are in the business of prescribing drugs and surgeries and can be shockingly oblivious to relatively cheap, simple solutions that can provide a patient with stepped down intervention so trying to quit isn't akin to hurling yourself off a cliff.
And then we blame the addict for failing to get to the other side on their own. We have to stop this.
- weaksauce 9y agoi am curious what your allergy is to mj? have you tried other forms of it like edibles or the higher in CBD tinctures or products? or if edibles weren't an option have you tried vaping or smoking? Not saying you should try it but I am curious how your allergy manifested and what you actually tried before you came to that conclusion.
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- code_duck 9y agoYeah, I would wonder what effect THC distillate with added terps would have. And the allergy - is it a food allergy, to cannabis protein or seed protein, or to pollen?
- Mz 9y agoMy allergies are not really all that pertinent to the point I am making other than to emphasize that I have no plans to consume marijuana myself, so my position has no ulterior motive wrt me wanting access to marijuana personally. So I have to wonder why on earth that is getting questioned. I have concluded no good will come of me cooperating with answering intrusive personal questions that aren't really even pertinent to the discussion.
- alexilliamson 9y agoIs this a bot?
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- PixelB 9y agoClose, a fucking idiot troll.
- Mz 9y agoPeople who are genuinely making a good faith effort to be helpful don't promptly call people trolls (or bots or other names). Name-calling is never evidence of genuine desire to do a person a good turn.
- dang 9y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly violating HN's guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- spraak 9y agoHave you heard of Kratom?
- Mz 9y agoI have, but I don't know much about it, so I am unclear what relevance that has to the discussion. My hand wavy understanding is that a) people sometimes use it to try to break addiction and b) this sometimes goes very bad places. (Correct me if I am wrong.) My understanding is that marijuana does not have a big downside, so it strikes me as a better thing to pursue here.