My mom admits to wishing she'd scored some when she was in chemo. None of the available anti-nausea drugs helped, but marijuana is supposed to be amazing for that. For the record: Mom barely drinks (half a glass of wine, 3 nights a week when she's on a tear), rarely uses anything but her anti-cancer drugs, tylenol, and zinc for colds, and doesn't smoke.
--Doom G Money wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 2:23 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hhm, not so sure about that...it's one of the most effective anti-emetics >> and thus very useful in pain treatment of people particularly with end-stage >> disease. I have chronic pain issues, and I can tell you it's a frustrating >> situation when you have a choice between suffering with the pain or taking >> pain meds that you know will make you sick to your stomach or have severe >> cramps, etc. I've never tried marijuana (nor would I be likely to) but I do >> understand people wanting the option to use it when nothing else works. They >> just need to regulate the use of it better...which frankly goes for all >> narcotics...way too easy to abuse any of them, get scripts from multiple >> doctors, etc. > > > That is what Maureen is saying as well. I had heard at one point they had > engineered some marijuana that retained many of the medicinal qualities of > the plant, without the THC high. > > I had read several doctor's reports where they suggested that other > medicines were preferred to marijuana in just about every instance. They > seemed to suggest patients who said otherwise were at least partly > interested in the "other" affects of marijuana. > > I guess I'm up in the air after listening to you and Maureen... > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:253792 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
