Category: Health

Michelle’s been staying with Viki past few days, so I decided to take my summer medication break starting last weekend. Today’s the fourth day off and pretty much mirrors the last time I quit for more than a day or two a couple years ago. Seems to take about 3-4 days to completely wring the weed out of my system, after continuous round-the-clock usage for many months.

If there is such a thing as Marijuana withdrawal, it is not possible for me to get it, for some reason. I did notice the body temp reg thing a few times, but seemed like more of a fleeting sensation than a detour down hyperemesis lane. Only real change between then and now is I’m not eating the THC.

Cannabis medication for my ailments (arthritis, nerve root damage and autism) is a godsend. Haven’t had much sleep and the ache in my right glute and quad has returned to a state of constant glow. Arthritic joints feel the same lack of pain med. It’s hard to gauge the inflammation instigator when approaching a sedentary state, because it hurts to move.

Psychotropic effect on the autism is pronounced, as well. I find myself screaming in rage at the slightest miscue. It bumps depression back a little. Slows things down and lets me think clearly. Weird part tho is, I can’t tell much difference on the overall outlook, and haven’t really noticed the mental effect stoners are going for in years. Suspect I must be permanently high.

Vaping doesn’t feel like it’s affecting my lungs at all. I sense no physical effects there, and still enjoy spitting loogies on the roof while sitting in the hot tub.

They been working on this shyt for how long now? And still won’t let people use weed in half the country? Riiiight. I hear those cancer drugs can be quite spendy…

Now I get it.

While I was a teenager and my parents were berating me, and I banged my head against the kitchen cabinet over and over to drown them out. (How, on earth, did they not realize I was autistic?)

I think they need a 4th group to represent “continuously throughout the day including nighttime edibles for sleep.” i.e. real heavy users. Because when your body’s as eff’d up as mine is in multiple different ways, things get sketchy with the drug providers, formal healthcare or otherwise.

Future studies could focus on more controlled dosing to better understand the relationship between THC levels and impairment.

Took me a long time to figure that part out. Now I have a set of stainless measuring spoons going down to 1/32 tsp. It’s also why edibles can be dangerous.

Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants.

That’s how I’d characterize my most recent healthcare encounters.

Patients are not getting enough help dealing with a healthcare system that is growing increasingly complex, according to researchers and other experts in care delivery. They say more frequent insurance complications, doctor and drug shortages, and a lack of communication all make life harder for people with serious or chronic illnesses.

In extreme cases, particularly if they have not had many experiences of healthy conflict resolution in their families, they may take the extreme step of cutting off their families completely, in an effort to extrude the challenging emotions they are experiencing.

The researchers suggest that “suicide attempts may actually be part of a larger physiological impulse to stop a stress response that has become unbearable at the cellular level.” Monitoring mitochondrial function by measuring blood levels of mitochondrial metabolites may have clinical value as a predictor of suicide risk.

I get that. Try walking around with a torn lumbar disc the way I did for a year.

I’m pretty sure what’s wrong with me and how I got this way. Seems the Japanese youth culture portion might be just the start of a growing worldwide, age-irrelevant phenomenon. I turn 65 next month, not a gamer, never was. But I’m all about the social withdrawal into my hobbies and screens.