I complty agree it's good to be 100% honest with your doctor so they can give you the best treatment possible. Sadly the fact that many doctors are very ignorant about drug makes this a bad idea especiallly if your perscribed controllled substances like I am.
I am perscribed opietes for chronic pain
and around 6 months ago my doctors office decided to start doing yearly drug test for people that are on controlled substances and I failed it for weed.
I thought my doctor would have been very sympethetic concidering how much I was sufforing from several things that weed helps; including arthitus, glacoma, insomnia, and axiety. I even concidered telling her but I was complty wrong. To despite her knowing of my sleep trouble and the fact I was very sick with some health problems I was haveing she callled me 9 in the morning to telll me I failed the test. I made an apointment for the next day and she spat out the typical bull shit propaganda, your hanging around bad people, its laced, insinuating I'm a drug addict, blah blah blah and so on. When I told her it helps me sleep she said " It helps you sleep because other people says it does; tobaco used be market as somethhing to relax you but it is actualy a stimulent". Yes; that reallly was her responce.
She was ready to drop me as a patient but decided to stilll see me but make me go to a PM clinic for my hydrocodone and tramadol ( even though tramadol is not controlled). I was able to get her to script me my pain meds again by seeing a psycologist for a pm evalulation; luckly he was pretty rational and gave me a goood report.
She gave me a couple more tests after that which I passed. I took a 4 month break from smokeing now will smoke for a week or so after my apoint then stop since I go every month for my meds and am not sure when I willl be tested again. I got her trust back and she has since incresed my pain med dosages when I asked her to since I reallly needed it. Now that I can't smoke regulary I have had to be perscribed multiple new meds to take benzos for sleep which are 100x worse than weed and don't help me sleep nearly as goood as weed. Thanks to her I am way worse off.
I wonder why the medical profession is so institutionally anti-cannabis?
decades of republican propaganda
When they were first makeing it illegal the medical community was very against the prohibition of marijuana.