What could be wrong with my health physically?

[rarerran]

I'm convinced it's THC-related and not just stress/anxiety.

I was popping strong edibles all day every day for about a week or two. I would take them even while I was high to stay high. I went to sleep stoned and first thing I did when I woke up was take edibles.

Isn't there any known condition caused where the THC receptors or the brain's cannabinoid system becomes damaged by too much THC too often with insufficient time to sober up? Surely this must have happened to someone before?

 

[Jibult]

Isn't there any known condition caused where the THC receptors or the brain's cannabinoid system becomes damaged by too much THC too often with insufficient time to sober up? Surely this must have happened to someone before?

A lot of people have experienced this before, but there doesn't really seem to be a clear-cut answer.

Damaged receptors.... definitely possible, but I don't think a week or two of heavy use would do that without any underlying or undiagnosed medical issues you may've been living with (uneducated guess.)


If it's a chemical/hormonal thing that you're trying to rule out, I think you should focus on dopamine and whether you may've possibly fucked up your pleasure pathway a little bit. For what it's worth, I don't think that's what happened to you but, as I said, I'm at a loss here and don't seem to be the only one.

 

[rarerran]

Any idea if such a thing would go away given enough time?

 

[Ksa]

He said he's not concerned. I'm extremely concerned. What I have is certainly not just a regular headache.

Wait, you said it's not painful, now you're telling us it's a headache. You gotta decide, do you feel pain yes or no?

Any idea if such a thing would go away given enough time?

No one in this topic was able to identify what your problem is. Why would you even ask that question, if we don't know what you have?

I think you should focus on dopamine and whether you may've possibly fucked up your pleasure pathway a little bit. For what it's worth, I don't think that's what happened to you but, as I said, I'm at a loss here and don't seem to be the only one.

I was thinking the same thing. OP, did you notice any change in your interest for your hobbies and in the pleasure of having sex or eating tasty food? Do you enjoy eating your favorite meal as much as before? And in case you no longer enjoy eating very much, do you have increased libido with increased sexual pleasure? Or perhaps your libido decreased and now you find yourself eating more, how is it?

 

[Bigfatjoe96]

Op have you tried the having the paraceatomal, ibuprofen, asprin, benadryl medical remedy when you get a flare up? It really helps me get my cogs turningwhen i feel like that i prefer to have two of each personally and see how i feel in an hour and repeat as such until i feel better etc.

Hope you get well soon!

 

[rarerran]

do you feel pain yes or no?

It's not something that would make me say ouch, it's more of an unpleasant discomfort pressure-like feeling felt somewhere in the middle of my brain (I know the brain doesn't feel pain per se but that's roughly where I can feel the sensation). More of a dull ill feeling than a sharp pain. I'm in early 30s and never felt anything like this in my life before, and I can tell this is something I am not meant to feel. Something somewhere in my brain is not right.

did you notice any change in your interest for your hobbies

Yes. I spend less time doing things I enjoy and more time doing nothing. The worst part is not being able to get stoned anymore because weed made me so happy.

Appetite is unchanged, sleep is affected and I if it wasn't for my medication (risperidone and trazadone) I would really struggle with sleep.

 

[Ksa]

It's not something that would make me say ouch, it's more of an unpleasant discomfort pressure-like feeling felt somewhere in the middle of my brain (I know the brain doesn't feel pain per se but that's roughly where I can feel the sensation). More of a dull ill feeling than a sharp pain. I'm in early 30s and never felt anything like this in my life before, and I can tell this is something I am not meant to feel. Something somewhere in my brain is not right.




Yes. I spend less time doing things I enjoy and more time doing nothing. The worst part is not being able to get stoned anymore because weed made me so happy.

Appetite is unchanged, sleep is affected and I if it wasn't for my medication (risperidone and trazadone) I would really struggle with sleep.

In my opinion, the problem that occurred has nothing to do with your weed habit, it's something else, unrelated, possibly a side effect from your other medications or just something else that has nothing to do with the medication you take. People who take no medication also experience health problems, we often tend to forget that and blame it all on our drugs. You assumed it was weed causing it but in my opinion weed has nothing to do with it. If I were you I would just go back to using weed without reservations.

 

[Bigfatjoe96]

Why start a pointless thread when theirs medication you can get for your issues

 

[rarerran]

I've only tried paracetomal and aspirin but neither have helped, kindof hesitant to try anything else incase it gets worse.

@ksa, here's the thing- when I thought it was getting better about 3 months ago I tried a small dose of an edible and it actually got worse

 

[Ksa]

I've only tried paracetomal and aspirin but neither have helped, kindof hesitant to try anything else incase it gets worse.

@ksa, here's the thing- when I thought it was getting better about 3 months ago I tried a small dose of an edible and it actually got worse

You can smoke or eat weed and if it gets worse take codeine or some other opioid in therapeutic dose, for example 60mg of codeine, until the pressure goes away. You can be aggressive with your pain management. I was in a similar situation with Dexedrine, it gave me terrible migraines, heat strokes and other problems, I decided to be stubborn and continue with the medication and take sodium metamizole, codeine, tramadol and paracetamol for the pain. When opioids alone were not enough to relieve the pain I used multi-modal analgesia. After 3 years my strategy paid off and now I can take Dexedrine in any amounts without side effects.

Sometimes your body components just aren't made for you to be happy because ever since you were born, your body built itself around different parameters. At birth, the size and shape of your organs are random, some may be too small, some too big. Maybe your heart was too lazy to deliver the type of punch you need to be happy, so your blood vessels develloped around a weak input. Some things inside your body have to break and be rebuilt in a different shape/stronger, to adapt to your drug use and make the most of it. And I'm not talking in metaphors, I really mean blood vessels, veins and cellular structure, needs to change and reform. Just bare through it and medicate painkillers until the change is over.

If you experience severe loss of balance, lack of strength in one arm/leg vs. the other, if one pupil is more dilated than the other or if hot water feels cold or cold water feels hot, go see a specialist. Otherwise act like nothing's happening and dose opioids for the pain. Don't hesitate to use multi-modal analgesia if the pain is stubborn/rebound. Multi-modal meaning a combo that can include opioids+NSAID+dipyrone+SSRI. I also recommend Clonidine or Intuniv to be added into your daily medication if you can afford a drop in blood pressure, just to make sure adrenaline isn't taking a toll on your situation, bearing in mind that some adrenaline is required for the heart to operate safely.

My conclusion is that some structure in your head has a bit of trouble accommodating your lifestyle, and that structure has to change. I suspect the structure is of cardio-vascular nature, usually those have most trouble. I don't recommend you be as reckless as I was, if you get migraines, by all means see a doctor. My approach was to tell my body "Oh, you can't handle Dexedrine? No. You WILL handle it...or you're going to die. I'll kill you myself." So my body ended up choosing life and now Dexedrine is it's best friend! The human body is an amazing thing, it's really not made of glass, it's very tough, so how about you don't let it guide your life?

Don't let weed down so quick rarerran, there might not be something else that makes you happy. In a human body, we have 2 hands 2 legs and some receptors in our brain. If the right hand is not working...I doubt the left hand will do better, if you know what I mean. You don't have 1,000 receptors in your brain to try. There's the u-opioid, cannabinoid, nicotinic, dopamine D2/TAAR-1, serotonin H, and...that's about it. If you scratch one off the list, not many options left.

 

[thujone]

rarerran, in all seriousness, if this is as uncomfortable as you make it seem you should get a doctor to check you out. Preferably a private physician but even a walk-in clinic would be better than nothing (in most places.)

or a CT scan, it's possible there's a benign tumour and it's being aggravated by the effects of the THC.

i hate to be that guy who says CANCER to everything like WebMD but if it IS cancer an early diagnosis is better.

then there's the Risperidone. that is some heavy shit to be taking on the regular, wouldn't be surprised if this is a side-effect of prolonged usage.

 

[Ksa]

or a CT scan, it's possible there's a benign tumour and it's being aggravated by the effects of the THC.

i hate to be that guy who says CANCER to everything like WebMD but if it IS cancer an early diagnosis is better.

then there's the Risperidone. that is some heavy shit to be taking on the regular, wouldn't be surprised if this is a side-effect of prolonged usage.

I would be inclined to say that if it were cancer, weed would act as a painkiller to mask symptoms. Usually, when a painkiller causes headaches, it's because it affects a system outside the skull, like the heart or the intestines. For example opioids are known to cause rebound headaches, because they decrease intestinal transit causing constipation. This doesn't match well with the fact that the pressure increased abruptly. If a mass was responsible for the pressure, the pressure could only increase if the mass increases, so for the pressure to increase abruptly, the mass also has to increase abruptly which is impossible. Also, by the time you feel a pressure, severe neurological symptoms would appear.

 

[noone1]

You shouldn't be worried about radiation from one scan, leads me to think it might be psychosomatic. It could be anything don't listen to people on the internet go to a doctor.

 

[Ksa]

You shouldn't be worried about radiation from one scan, leads me to think it might be psychosomatic. It could be anything don't listen to people on the internet go to a doctor.

By listen, you mean obey? To listen is one thing and to obey is another. No one is asking for the OP to obey, but we do want the OP to listen and use critical thinking. Did the OP give you any reason, in this topic, to believe that he/she is lacking judgement, so that you feel the need to judge in her place? I think the OP has good judgement.

 

[noone1]

By listen, you mean obey? To listen is one thing and to obey is another. No one is asking for the OP to obey, but we do want the OP to listen and use critical thinking. Did the OP give you any reason, in this topic, to believe that he/she is lacking judgement, so that you feel the need to judge in her place? I think the OP has good judgement.

We don't have all of OPs information, health history nor do we have access to the machines that can rule out life threatening health problems. I also doubt anyone here has the education and experience of a medical doctor, anyone can look up information and apply it but without the real world experience it is worthless. I would not put my health in the hands of the internet and random strangers, I mean you could but such a person is a fool in my opinion.

 

[Jibult]

We don't have all of OPs information, health history nor do we have access to the machines that can rule out life threatening health problems. I also doubt anyone here has the education and experience of a medical doctor, anyone can look up information and apply it but without the real world experience it is worthless. I would not put my health in the hands of the internet and random strangers, I mean you could but such a person is a fool in my opinion.

A lot of us agree with you. I think that, to some extent, Ksa does too.... he just seems to be skeptical of doctors in general (just an inferred assumption, Ksa, not trying to judge) and would prefer others to be capable enough to think as completely as possible through their problem before seeking professional help. It's not a bad way to go about things, but the average internet users these days aren't very good at figuring shit out when they've got medical websites telling them they've either got cancer of the toe with a 89% chance or sinusitis with a 37% chance.


I could be wrong but I think that's what's going on here. I, for one, thought a finding a doctor would be best early on in this thread, but that's admittedly because I'm an anxiety-stricken, stressed out sum bitch who tends to think in worst-case scenarios despite how unlikely they may seem... and plus, I've always thought erring on the side of caution was best when it comes to your head (and several other body parts too, actually.)



Still on the fence about the whole judgement thing, though, for what it's worth.

 

[Ksa]

^ It's important to distinguish medicine, the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, from general education. As a quick example, a great psychiatrist by the name of Doctor Mailloux, denounces in a french radio show, how doctors prescribe Rivotril(clonazepam) to treat psychosis. He says:

Mailloux: Rivotril does nothing to treat psychosis. Rivotril is just alcohol in pills. Are we that dumb to believe that Rivotril, Xanax or Valium are able to improve psychosis?

Josee: But when we are talking about a family, living with a mentally ill relative, they don't know all that...they aren't doctors!

Mailloux: I do not practice medicine when I tell you this: Type it on google, type it on Google and you will see that Rivotril, what I told you about it will be explained in great detail, it treats anxiety...

Josee: But a doctor should know this.

Mailloux: A doctor should type it on google.

The conversation can be found here in french at minute 24:00 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yN95xh0e0

On this site there is an epidemic of ignorance, where people cannot tell the difference between being ignorant and not being a doctor, or between being informed and practicing medicine. Doctor Mailloux stresses the fact that you don't have to be an idiot just because there are doctors. The practice of medicine is one thing, and having certain knowledge is another. There isn't a single member on this site that is practicing medicine. Not one. There are however, plenty of people who tell you to go see a doctor when you ask what a NSAID is, rather than listening to some random dude on a website tell you what a NSAID really is.

GOOGLE IT! I'll say it again:

GOOGLE!

 

[noone1]

I'm not saying you should take 100% whatever a doctor says as gospel of course they can be wrong and you should educate yourself and ask questions and get second opinions. But you do not diagnose yourself even if you where a world renowned expert in the disease you have you do not treat yourself because of bias, the person who treats themselves has a fool for a doctor

 

[Jibult]

^ It's important to distinguish medicine, the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, from general education. As a quick example, a great psychiatrist by the name of Doctor Mailloux, denounces in a french radio show, how doctors prescribe Rivotril(clonazepam) to treat psychosis. He says:

Mailloux: Rivotril does nothing to treat psychosis. Rivotril is just alcohol in pills. Are we that dumb to believe that Rivotril, Xanax or Valium are able to improve psychosis?

Josee: But when we are talking about a family, living with a mentally ill relative, they don't know all that...they aren't doctors!

Mailloux: I do not practice medicine when I tell you this: Type it on google, type it on Google and you will see that Rivotril, what I told you about it will be explained in great detail, it treats anxiety...

Josee: But a doctor should know this.

Mailloux: A doctor should type it on google.

The conversation can be found here in french at minute 24:00 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yN95xh0e0

On this site there is an epidemic of ignorance, where people cannot tell the difference between being ignorant and not being a doctor, or between being informed and practicing medicine. Doctor Mailloux stresses the fact that you don't have to be an idiot just because there are doctors. The practice of medicine is one thing, and having certain knowledge is another. There isn't a single member on this site that is practicing medicine. Not one. There are however, plenty of people who tell you to go see a doctor when you ask what a NSAID is, rather than listening to some random dude on a website tell you what a NSAID really is.

GOOGLE IT! I'll say it again:

GOOGLE!

You overestimate the average person's objectivity.

All I'm saying is a typical person with a truthfully baffling health problem can go online and find information that points to how they're going to die in two weeks, and how they'll be okay but if it persists call a doctor two weeks from now, and how it's just stress, and how they want to get an EKG done to check out their heart, and how they PROBABLY have borderline personality disorder even though they just wanted to find out if that cough they had was serious-- and they'll be able to apply every single one of those possibilities to themselves and, depending on how their mental state is that day, they're going to jump to either the worst case scenario or the best case scenario and ignore all the extremely much more likely possibilities in between.

People tend not to be objective when the subject of concern is their own body.

The internet is awesome. It's fucking WONDERFUL, don't get me wrong-- but it also instills a false sense of omnipotence as people become over reliant on looking things up and care less about actually knowing things.

Doctors can (<--- keyword right there) be awesome, too-- fucking WONDERFUL even. I'll even go as far to agree with you that a person should be as informed as possible before seeking medical help, unless faced with a life-threatening emergency.




For what it's worth, nobody heard "NSAID" and said "Bro, idk, go see a doctor."

OP clams to have mysterious head issues and you're sitting here playing 21 questions pretending to be his doctor while advising him not to go see a doctor and google it instead.


Fuck how eloquently you can put a sentence together, they're something wrong with the way you think, bro. Maybe you think you're smarter than everybody, maybe you're unable to hold onto the concept that everybody thinks differently than you, maybe you distrust anything that's not behind a computer screen, or maybe you're just bad at giving medical advice.... because that's all you're doing here, giving advice, pulling possibilities out of your ass and then acting like we're lesser-than's because we don't treat Google like an all-knowing medical omnibus?




Google knows damn near everything, but it's up to the people using it to differentiate between truth and falsehoods. People are bad at that in times of stress. Medical emergencies are stressful times.

Put the shit together, man, the line of thinking isn't really that difficult to follow unless you're one of the people I'm referring to.... which would be a shame, because up until that last post you were beginning to convince me otherwise.

 

[Ksa]

^ Forum Rules state: "BL is not a substitute for medical treatment in emergent situations." Everyone understood that and no-one can post without reading the rules. Stop spamming the topic.