Thanks for your advice and opinion. I respect your views on marijuanna, but I'm also wondering if you have been misinformed about it. There is no bad chemicals "added" to marijuanna nor does it go through any processing. There are other things in pot besides THC, but whatever it is, it is all natural....and God made the plant like he did all the others. The only processing to it, is hanging it to dry out much the same way that tobacco must be hung to dry out. When people grow it, the only thing added to it is fertiziler such as Miracle Grow or such as this that you would put on your garden vegetables. If I chose to go this route, I would not even attempt to get some scrappy stuff that has been grown in my area. Often it is not matured when they culativate it, they get scared and pull it too soon. All the hype that they write about that today's marijuanna is so much more potent than that of the 60' and 70's, well that is just not true. They are growing what they call hydroponic that is grown in water and you add the nutrients to the water. This is the potent stuff. This is a much more expensive kind. But if I chose to do this, I would choose the hydroponic and perhaps use in it cooking such as the brownies. But there are other things you can cook besides brownies and add pot to it. I'm not concerned with what is in the pot....my concern is if it is safe to use with the Gleevec?? and I didn't want to have to smoke it because of my emphysema in my lungs. Now if I could get a prescription for it and get the kind given to cancer patients, this would be more potent, and definitely more effective but the people who do have prescriptions for it, DO SMOKE it. It helps with the nausea caused by chemo and it does make you hungry so you want to eat. It is also given for glaucoma and Montel Williams and other MS patients use it for their disease. I know a lady in my city that has MS and has a prescription for marijuanna but I don't think it was given in my state as she has traveled to other cities and states to treat her MS. They have cafe type places where you go in with your script, get it filled and can sit down with others and smoke but this is not in my state.
As for the weight loss issue, my doctor doesn't seem to be too concerned, not as concerned as I think he should be BUT I guess he feels that a person who can barely eat and has severe diarhhea is only expected to loose weight. I do drink Ensure occassionally when I absolutely cannot eat, but it is not filling enough to my tummy to keep the Gleevec down when I just drink this. They also say leukemia is not heredity but my dad's baby sister died with it when she was 21. A distant cousin of mine, her mother died with hydokins lymphoma at age 19. I met a woman in a cancer chat room who has CML, her sister died with AML. So I'm not so sure doctor's know what causes it or that it is not heredity. I also met a man in the chat room that is 32 years old and has just come out of Iraq, and has recently discovered he has CML. He also told me that a friend of his has a friend that was in the military also and started getting sick and he too has CML and has been discharged because of it. So I'm assuming all that the military was exposed to over there is causing this so it may be more and more leukemia cases as a result of this senseless and needless war. Anyway, thanks for your care and concern. I'm reaching out to find out all I can because I'm desperate for something to work but not go against me in the process in other ways. Lord knows I've got enough side effects to deal with now. Thanks. Love, Peace, Hope & Prayers, Pat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
