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: