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How hard is it to get a prescription for Marinol if you're on chemo?

tantric

tantric

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My niece has anaplastic astrocytoma, malignant brain cancer, currently in remission. She still takes chemo and radiation for the first five days of every month and it makes her sick for a week afterward. Why hasn't her doctor given her Marinol? Is it like opiates, if you ask the doctor directly for the drug, you will never get it? Niece hates illegal drugs cause her mother is junkie, and won't take bud or noids.
 
What are noids? I don't think it's very hard to get a script for Marinol if you have cancer and are taking chemotherapy because I got a script for it years ago just by being diagnosed as bipolar. However, the pills turned out to be completely ineffective in giving me any pleasure or anything remotely resembling a high, which is what I was looking for by seeking them out and taking them. Also, they were very expensive even way back then (roughly 20 years ago) at about $400 a bottle; there's no telling how much they are now, unless there's a cheaper generic available now. If she won't smoke cannabis, then there's probably not a lot you can do to help in this case.
 
Have they given her the normal cocktail of antiemetics, Zofran, Dexamethasone, and Lorazepam? They would normally wouldnt jump straight to Marinol without trying this first.
 
That's unfortunate because Marinol is addictive, being a full CB1/2 agonist, but natural cannabis isn't. Not to mention it's expensive.
 
^ but cannabis has a huge range of other active chemicals as well. I don't think it would be hard to get a marinol prescription for a patient on chemo. If it is, I would try to see another doctor if possible. But if you live in a state with medical marijuana, that would really be a better option (and your niece should have no problem getting a recommendation), for the reason I just stated. The whole range of cannabinoids in cannabis work together synergistically, and you're going to get much more benefit from all of them together than THC by itself.
 
yeah my point is that THC is not a full agonist (check wikipedia), which he claimed. I am aware that pure THC is not the same as a mixture of all the cannabinoids in hemp

I also reject the claim that natural cannabis is not addictive (I know I am addicted to it at least ;) )
 
If she has cancer, I seriously doubt the doctor will throw the book at her. Are you able to sit down and talk with the doctor and just let him know your concerns?
 
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