Thanks to powerful medicinal properties in marijauna...

[Union Yes]

a very close friend and loved one does NOT require hospitalization.

Warning for those with a weak stomach, but i gotta get a bit graphic to explain her illness.

She suffers from diabetic cyclical vomitting. A horrid condition that causes relentless naseau and barfing.

For months she could hardly hold down food and was literally wasting away. In July she was properly diagnosed and began a long and difficult treatment to repair the damage done to her stomach due to diabetes. It might require years of treatment.

In the meantime, she still struggles with bouts of naseau. Despite all the prescriptions she is on, none can stem the naseau.

That is until she smoked some pot. The naseau has stopped 100% as long as she smokes pot.

It is the only drug that is keeping her out of the hospital.

It is the only drug that is enabling her to eat and avoid dieing from wasting syndrome and malnutritition. She was thin as a rail but her health is slowly improving. Due to her newfound ability to nourish her body. Made possible by marijuana.

It's a disgrace that we still view this plant as something that should be outlawed.

She can eat, hold food down, and digest it when she smokes pot.

It's time for President Obama and Dems to change our disgracful drug laws.

People need the medicinal properties of marijauna for crissakes. It's the only thing keeping some people alive.

[Fly by night]

1. Both the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association (finally) agree.

The advisory report from the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health, released last month, stated, "Results of short term controlled trials indicate that smoked cannabis reduces neuropathic pain, improves appetite and caloric intake especially in patients with reduced muscle mass, and may relieve spasticity and pain in patients with multiple sclerosis."

That is just the start. The flood-gates are about to open and drown the "drug worriers" in the wealth of science, common sense and compassion that they have kept dammed up for 75 years. Dam(n) them.

[Better Today]

2. Thanks ot MJ I haven't had a cluster headache in 20 years. Unfortunately

I seem to be entirely unable to get a regular job either, as nearly everyone is requiring drug tests. Every evening I ingest a certain amount, then go to bed. I've actually quit twice before and within three weeks the headaches are back, so it is clearly a relation to a certain amount of THC being in my body. I've tried to explain this to potential employers when, like yesterday, they were all ready to hire me, and by the way, first we need you to go get a pr-employment drug screen. But to no avail. This is the third time in the past few months that the job ditty didn't say drug testing but is mentioned at time of "acceptance".

I'm at my wits ends. I want to stay and be here with my daughter while she is getting her master's because she's also going to be trying to work at her current position (where she is stalled without getting her master's) full time, so she's going to need some attention and consideration from someone like me, her mom. RRRgggg.

[Enthusiast]

3. Interesting.

During my teenage years I had horrible headaches. These would last three days then I would gradually recover. At 19 I started smoking pot and never had another headache the rest of my life. I haven't smoked for many years yet the headaches remain but a bad memory.

It is as if there was a structural stress in my brain that was relieved through smoking pot.

So, apparently marijuana cures headaches. And, as you know, headaches can be life-changing.

I know several people that have chosen to remain underemployed rather than sacrifice their marijuana use. I know of someone else that gave up marijuana for a job only to succumb to the horrors of prescription drug addiction. The prescription drugg addiction has proven to be FAR WORSE than any marijuana smoking.

[Union Yes]

12. MJ is well known for pain killing properties. Many smoke it for head and back pain as well as ..

pain in other areas of the body.

[EOTE]

4. You need to look into a urine cleaning tonic.

http://www.testclear.com/

This is a good site to pick them up. They're a tad expensive, but worth it. Be sure to follow the instructions as well. I've also had success by ingesting a bunch of diuretics on the day of the test like cranberry juice, tea and coffee, but you really need to go overboard. This will dilute your urine greatly so that the detectable amount of metabolites in your urine is too low to show a positive. At that point, they can say your urine is too dilute and request a retest (usually not done due to the cost). However, if they do ask to retest you, you can pick up something like Ready Clean ahead of time to make sure you pass. I'd strongly recommend you try something like this.

As for me, I used to suffer from bronchitis every year growing up. It would last several days and make me absolutely miserable. I've been toking a good 13 years now and I haven't had bronchitis once since I started. Around cold and flu season, I'll always begin to feel that tickle in the back of my throat. The next time I toke up, I'll be able to cough up any phlegm that had been accumulating in the back of my throat. At that point, I'll feel right as rain and will never get sicker. In general, I have a lot less sicknesses now that I smoked than I had any time prior.

[Better Today]

5. Interesting, I've been on dozens of sites that say those cleaners don't

work. Yeah, yesterday I thought about lying and just going in after drinking a ton of water (I'm slender so I think it would solve the problem mostly by making the reading too dilute to tell) but I decided to try the truth. . . go figure. I was willing to provide a full blown FBI quality background check in lieu of the drug test to show I was not a criminal in any other way, but no.

I'll check out your link, to see it if is something/anything different than what I've been reading about.

[EOTE]

6. Dilution does work.

But as I mentioned, if your urine is too dilute, they can request that you retake the test. The urine cleaners that I've used also have worked. I've used a few different brands, but the one I can say for sure works is Ready Clean. As far as I know, the only active ingredients are creatinine and B12, so I'd imagine large doses of both would work as well. The B12 will make your urine very orange and have an unusual odor.

If you're going to go the dilution route, I'd recommend taking large amount of cranberry juice or cranberry juice cocktail and then maybe some tea or coffee. Also, when giving your urine sample, give it mid stream. By this, I mean to urinate for a second or two into the toilet, then start collecting your sample and finish with the sample before you're completely done and then finish in the toilet. I'm not sure if there is a good reason for this or not, but I've heard that the urine in the very beginning and the very end is most likely to come up dirty. I don't know if this is the case or not, but I've always followed that rule and I've never had a test come back dirty.

Honesty is a great quality to have, but when it comes to employment, I think it's best to look out for yourself. I think with the tools available now, drug tests are quite easy to pass. Businesses have no business telling you what you can or cannot do in your free time, especially when it pertains to your health.

[Better Today]

9. Your link is quite interesting. Though it gives me a cheaper idea.

The main thing is that isn't that it's fake powdered urine, almost everyone knows someone who will give them clean urine, I suspect if I asked my daughter would be happy to since she knows first hand the difference it makes in my life. I think the thing that makes it so unique a selection is the air-activated heater pad and the thermometer. So perhaps purchasing one of the instant heat wraps, carefully cutting an appropriate size swatch, and a thermometer paper easily obtained at the drugstore, should be set, and instead of $50 for one, it'll cost about $20 for as many as I may need given that I'm interviewing for damned near anything over $8/hr at this point.

THANKS!

[LanternWaste]

7. Odd that...

Odd that... MJ is an absolute trigger for my clusters (CH sufferer here too-- bet we have some stories about pain that would knock a lot people on their butts...). Not saying it doesn't work for you--- obviously it does, but to me, smoking a joint during a cycle is as bad as smoking a cigarette or smelling gasoline.




CH's-- a nightmare we wouldn't wish on our worst enemies...

[Better Today]

8. Oh, mine was like a dream come true. Fuller story below.

I was 28, just had my second kid. Since my husband traveled, I got a housekeeper for about 6 months. She came one day to find me in tears, head between my knees, begging for quick death, 4 year old trying so hard to help but couldn't, baby crying. . . . She asks if there are med for me she can get/bring me, I say yes but on two Vicodin and two darvocet (yes, that's what my doc was prescribing) I can't stay awake to take care of the kids.

Now I was/am and look very uptight, I watched my brother gateway from pot to heroin and never return, I believed the BS.
So she sort of whishpers, "ever tried pot for those?". "NO! I don't get stoned." She says, "I didn't say get stoned, I said try pot. Like alcohol you don't have to smoke enough to get high."

So she goes to her truck, brings in a joint, I smoke three puffs. Headache gone like magic. Gone, not dulled, not reduced, but quite literally gone. And I felt like myself, not like "stoned" which I remembered from the one time a partook back in the day with my brother's original smoking buddies. It was un-believable. So she kept me in pot, so I wouldn't have to feel all dirty going to a dealer, nice lady. Being in Oregon at the time, I also started maintaining a couple of plants, without fear, so nice.

Now and for the past 18 years, I'm in a very red, anti-pot, quite literally they'll toss you in jail for a pipe. Nonetheless, since I don't buy, sell, or share (okay I share sometimes, but rarely) I've managed to do okay here. Now needing a job with the biz stagnant, it's just frustrating. Oh, BTW, I have a couple of times quit smoking my 6-12 puffs a day and literally within the time it takes for the THC to dwindle in my system, I'm back to having headaches, just that fast.

I suffered with them for 28 years, I am resistant to even one more week of that level of pain. Suicide is quite literally the more rational choice, or so it seems for the 3-5 days out of 14 that I tended to have them.

[LanternWaste]

10. Well, I'm certainly not going to knock it if it works for you.

Well, I'm certainly not going to knock it if it works for you. I finished my last CH cycle two weeks ago, and t was the first time I'd used the oxygen therapy method. Thank God I finally found something that works too. 8-10 liters of O2 for five minutes at the first sign of shadows, and voila! No headache. Anyways, just an idea for if you do have to go in with clean blood-- the oxygen treatment is a miracle.

Pot would be a lot easier than getting an O2 canister, though. :)

(Never thought I'd meet another CH sufferer on DU-- we should trade war stories one day...)

[Winterblues]

11. Lance Mackey that won the Alaska Iditarod four times uses Medicinal Marijuana

and Credits it to his success. He says he uses it on the trail and it makes it durable. There is a big stink about it at the moment..

[Union Yes]

13. Interesting. Thanks for adding, =)

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Union Yes.

[Union Yes]

15. My pleasure. Thanks.

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