Use Does Not Denote Abuse-In Everyone

First off, use doesn't mean abuse.  Not in everyone.  I think for some, yes, the long-term effects are unpredictable at best, and so are the short term.  The very reason I keep this blog are to keep track of when the meds I get are helpful, and what for.

And it's not always that MMJ (Medical Marijauna) is to blame for the increased problems a patient has, and the gastroenterologist is one reason that I want to pull my own hair out.  Their medications have all failed.  I refuse to take the ones that are supposed to stimulate motility even though I do have a motility disorder.  The reason is the "GP Protocol."  I spent ten miserable days in a hospital barely able to make it to the bathroom, and that's not a pretty set of medications to begin with.  The trouble is that there's too many misperceptions about what people do with MMJ.

It's assumed that if I "present" to a doctor with increased symptoms, they first attack this area of my life, and I totally get why they are concerned, I would be, because mostly I feel that people will abuse cotton if they are allowed to.  But assuming that I am one, it's assuming a lot.  The difficulty lies in finding balance, and knowing when you need to stop.  For me, it's when I feel a sense of thirst.  I get a cup of decaffeinated coffee, and since it does settle the stomach (in small amounts) and I can then be able to move into drinking some additional fluids.

And when I realize that when some do get increased nausea with their meds-it's usually when they have used too much.

Keep it legal.  Know your limits.  That does require some trial and error, but so does using some of the more modern meds, and those too, are also medications that can potentially be abused.

More of them are each passing day.

When someone does perhaps goof off a bit, perhaps they are blowing off steam, but generally they feel the need to for a good reason.

Sometimes, they also need people to cut them a break.  When you live with chronic pain, you can take abuse just for having that label.  I've been handed opiate narcotic policies in an ER that I would never take them from based on the fact I feel they are way too irresponsible with them.  People sleeping it off in the lobby because they are too messed up to take a bus home and have the bus ticket given to them by the ER in their hands?  No one is giving them a hassle about using that medication!

But that's the reality of taking an alternative medication too.  And sometimes understanding that it just goes with the territory and finding a more quiet outlet for blowing off steam-while you are not medicating.

And realizing that this just is not for everyone.  So with that?  Well, there's some wisdom in this!

Happy medicating, and do keep this one in mind:

Oral Surgery Recovery and Medical Marijuana

I have tested now my certification to include oral surgery.

Recently done surgery in three separate surgeries to include the removal/extraction of multiple abscessed teeth (all of them abscessed) in three separate surgeries, the best postoperative pain control for me, has been the MMJ.  I don't care for pain medications in terms of opiate narcotics.  They don't work.  For me, at least.

Also, part of the problem lies in how best to consume the said medication.  The preferable route is the use medibles, I am in agreement with that.

If that's not possible, the next factor to consider is vaporization or smoking.  It really doesn't matter, so long as you are in no way increasing pressure inside the mouth.  That can lead to dry socket, obviously because the clot protecting the operated area is literally sucked out.  If you don't mind this, go ahead.  The other problem is in the heating of the medicine itself.  That's done in vaporization and smoking to release the active ingredients in the flower.

And while it can irritate the area around the operated site, it may be advisable to simply tolerate what must be for a few days, and resume treatment.

Otherwise if you have access to a dispensary (I won't advise anything but doing this when it's legal, or where), I found the teabags that I used provide (with caffeinated teas, as this encourages clot formation, and stops bleeding faster) some pain relief when applied directly to the gum will also provide pain control.  Through direct application.  This also does minimize systemic absorption.

Additionally, it also can be taken from a cup, so drinking a lukewarm cup of tea will help.  One can make their own coffee once you've had a chance to heal up a bit, and stretch the coffee out while home recuperating.

Happy Healing!

Oral Surgery & Medical Marijuana Use

Medibles, whatever: coffee, tea, etc.

It doesn't make swelling worse, heck with RSD, I'm looking like a chipmunk in my own because pain and swelling but later, muscle atrophy.

Also, there are multiple other MMJ products.  A Dodo(r) pen, Rick Simpson oil, the regular hash oil, and so on, that may allow some pain relief in a personally chosen method.  If someone doesn't care for an opiate, then giving it to them anyhow isn't too productive.

If you aren't destroying your own life, or anyone else's, then the general idea is for a provider to consider themselves fortunate that your patient isn't hunting you down over 30 hydrocodone tablets.  Personally, having something-though I am not foolish enough to advertise, because I am quite sick medically, the basic assumption is that I am someone's 24-hour pharmacy.

I'm not.

People when you have something that really isn't responsive to pain medications, and also when taking much of any of them will shut down my gut, I have been fighting to keep it working as you would be able to note from reading the blog entries from these past several months.