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Anyone else use weed for cold/flu symptoms?

therussiancircus

therussiancircus

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I find it helps my shit better than anything else honestly. I mean, nyquil is the shit but I can't take that during the day. Weed seems to fix a lot of my congestion from colds and all the aches and pains and nausea. The only thing that it aggravates is the sore throat, but tea usually keeps that manageable. I think this year though I'm going to use that firecracker recipe that was posted hear and see if that works better
 
I feel like I disagree with this. The only time weed goes with sickness is when you decide to stay at home all day and pass the time with getting high. If you need to go out into the world and function, weed makes my already-foggy head a lot more foggy and it's hard to get anything done. Also, depending on the severity of sickness, I'm sure the act of smoking is just aggravating it...some old ladies I used to work with told me to make weed tea by boiling milk, there's actually a thread on it somewhere from not too long ago...that might be effective when sick.
 
^^ But if your sick you should stay home all day. Why go out and get more people sick? That being said. Yes i do use weed sometimes wit sickness. Sometimes it helps sometimes it makes it worse. Depends on how sick i am. But if you really want your sickness to go away take some amps lol. Wat cold??
 
SDforever420 said:
^^ But if your sick you should stay home all day. Why go out and get more people sick?
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If I stayed home every time I felt sorta crappy, I'd fail graduate school. If you have a little cold or the sniffles, no professor (or boss) in their right mind is going to be cool with you staying home. Plus, even if I'm "sick" enough to stay home for one full day, chances are I'm not feeling too well for several more days than that, and if everyone stood home when they felt slightly under the weather, society just wouldn't run.
 
Definitely takes the edge off a flu. Especially stomach flu. Of course for appetite reasons and such, but moreso when you are puking every half hour which quickly turns to dry heaving, who wouldn't rather be stoned?
 
depends on what type... Flu A or B, maybe, depends on how long I've been sick or if my bronci are acting up, congestion, etc.

smoking helps a lot with post nasal drip IME and also with clearing up mucus in the lungs or throat by opening your airways a bit (not really airways, I think lung capillaries expand and allow greater flow of oxygen).

When my lungs permit it, I shall smoke, but give my fellow circle stoners a heads up which normally goes unheeded.
 
smoking weakens your immune system i hear, and it can lead to bronchitis (happens with smoking cigarettes as well). if you get high off edibles, unlike me, you should definitely go with that when you come down with something...
 
dubbster said:
smoking weakens your immune system i hear, and it can lead to bronchitis (happens with smoking cigarettes as well). if you get high off edibles, unlike me, you should definitely go with that when you come down with something...
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Smoking anything is not only carcinogenic by nature, but can cause bronchitis... in fact, the common cold can cause bronchitis, and if you're smoking already irritated bronchi, it does increase the odds. That's why you've heard it goes both ways, with cigs and cannabis... it would increase the odds even if you were smoking catnip.
 
Last week I had a cold and felt like shit, my head felt like it was getting raped by a bear, but then i smoked a pipe and it went away!
 
Vicks Dayquill works like magic. But yes i enjoy smoking pot when im under the weather a little.
 
yes, i have.....

on one hand, it's been really helpful when i'm extremely congested and it makes me cough, it breaks up the mucus in my throat and i can spit it out (gross, but sometimes necessary). and like other people said, it "takes the edge off".

but at the same time, i've known it to prolong my illness. granted, some of those times were probably because i was smoking blunts, but i do remember specifically one time i had a bad cold which I could NOT get rid of. it persisted for a few weeks. finally, i gave up smoking for a few days (it was really hard but i managed) and within those few days my cold cleared up. you can make of that what you will, but i'm pretty sure that it was the smoking that was prolonging my cold.

when i say that, it was NOT the weed itself. i don't smoke cigs or anything, just weed....and it wasn't the actual weed, it was the smoke irritating my sinuses. but like i said in the first place, if you've got a lot of phlegm in your throat, weed can help you cough more to break that up and get rid of it. just don't go overboard. and don't share with others, unless they know you're sick and don't care!
 
amber- I had the same thing happen to me. That was when i was smoking a stupid amount daily though.

Its really hard for me to smoke when im sick, i usually have a bad cough as it is and it tears my throat up to smoke. It does help to get high while sick though, just have a sip of some nice cold water and you'll be fine ;)
 
I always toke when I'm sick. If my throat hurts really bad or I've got a nasty cough I roll a joint and take tiny puffs, since bong hits will just cause mad coughing. The smoke initially irritates the throat, but soon the painkilling properties counteract that, and the general feeling of well-being from the cannabis high reduces the discomfort of being ill.
 
I am in no means a "stoner"..I've always loved weed, but it doesn't love me as much, makes my anxiety go thru the roof, and i fidget like crazy. But yeah, when i'm sick, im usually zonked out anyways just from being so tired...its ilke the few times i can actually smoke an entire joint and think "that really helped"............but if its a case of sore throat or something, I just use my trusty lightbulb as a makeshift vape. I might look like a crackhead (if anyone ever saw me use it!) but its impossible to smoke when you have some kind of respritory bullshit going on.


Try cigaretttes when you're sick, they help! lol.
 
Yes I get high when I have a cold .

I don't SMOKE though
I VAPE .

Smoking actaully lowers ur immune system as ur inhaling carcinogens which will prolly just make ur cold even worse .

Vaping gets rid of most carcinogens so I vape when Im ill . It's awsome .

I also found that weed temporarily stops my runny nose !
 
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