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No. It is not safe for you to ever inhale smoke again. What happened was that the toxins you inhaled slowly damaged and killed cells along the outer wall of your lung, which then wore thin. Who knows how many other weak spots, like the one that ruptured, are still there, and just ready to burst? Your lungs will need a couple of years without smoke to repair this damage fully.

I recommend you eat marijuana, or make it into a tincture with high proof alcohol (green dragon). In a couple of years, if you have no further issues, you MIGHT cautiously try vaporizing a bit of weed, with absolutely no tobacco of course.
 
Now that you say it the right side of my chest kinda hurts when I lie face down. It was like this a year ago, then subsided and now has returned. Is this collapsed lung perhaps?
 
My lung collapse too

Hello.
If I was open a topic would be:

My lung collapsed 2 month ago, will it ever be safe to smoke weed again?

Thanks for that, g0to !!
Answers are not much :( but one or 2 make sense.

Ok, My lung collapse (2 month ago) I didnt have a clue that something like this can happen to humans, I was shocking.
I feel a strange pain but with me was different because I had a lick (hole in the Lang).

I am now 41YO, I dont drink and I smoke Joints, Bongs, chillom etc... since my 11 YO, my favorite sport was always smoking joints like if I smoke tobacco.
A coffee and a splif in the morning was my breakfast for many many years.
My drugs history can go on and on...

As (g0to) first describe, is a hell of a pain and I have been 2 Months on Morphine, PLUS, because my lung didnt want to get back, they have to put 3 different tubes on me in different occasions , wish make the thing more painful.

Now, I am at home for 2 weeks, they take the tube out and the lung looks like is recovering slowly, I had a small operation and they glue my lung up, my job now is to re inflate the lung, wish is doing fine.

Can I smoke a bloody joint ??
NOP !
Can I share a Joint with my friends ??
NOT ANYMORE (That hurts!)

So, What can I do ??
Eat cakes !!

I have been thinking about this very serious ; I want to smoke a joint unless on weekends but that will be later in a couple of years... Maybe !

Second... a friend just broth me a vaporizer and I think in a couple of months, I will be able to have a smoke !? ... Probably !!

Probably maybe the best is... Cakes !!

Cakes still the favorite (Health and safety rules:) but is not the same.
At same time, I have been bitten by my girlfriend with this question:

What do you really like ?
1 - smoke ?
2 - or be stone ?
Shes is right, you can be stone without smoke.
Sound weird ? I feel the same :( when I eat the cookies.

Cookies are good and they will not affect you (me).
( I just cant see my self in a party, eating cookies and drinking glasses of milk:)
Hug...

Anyways, thanks all for read this and for the comments about the situation, I will agree with , slimvictor and MyDoorsAreOpen.
Its better be careful then sorry.
All the best
 
Geez, I'm surprised you'd even have any desire to risk it again so soon after something so horribly traumatic happened to you. I'm glad you are okay, but I think considering the way you were abusing your poor lungs before, this might be a blessing in disguise. Be glad this got you to stop before you hurt your breathing beyond repair.

If you still want to use marijuana there is nothing wrong with that, but definitely don't smoke anything anymore. As others said, get a vaporizer, or make some pot butter or something. It does seem silly that any of us are smoking the stuff anyway when there are such safer options.
 
Roger&Me said:
Vaporize, friend.

You shouldn't be smoking stuff anyways, so take this opportunity to invest in a vaporizer and you won't have to worry about your collapsed lung, and its just way better for you in general. :)
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What he said.
 
Fine.
That means Vaporizer is not smoke ?
If you burn some weed in the vaporizer you still smoking, right ?
Clarify, please.
 
If you were to somehow burn weed in a vaporizer, it would be smoke yeah, but real vaporizers don't work by burning the weed.
 
ok, but I still inhale the smoke is it ?
I have a vaporizer but I still not very shore about this one too. Is smoke !!
 
It isn't smoke, you're boiling the vapours off without burning the plant matter. However, you're basically using your lungs as a condenser, so it can still be quite irritating to the lungs, it makes me cough a lot.

MDAO, why do you say that if the OP vaporises he should not use tobacco? Is nicotine likely to aggravate his condition?
 
Is nicotine likely to aggravate his condition?
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It is the main cause for this too happen but not just, Inhaling deep is the other reason.
Anyway, where is smoke , is a fire too :( and I dont want to get more burn.
I will try the vaporizer probably next year, for now I keep on cookies and cups of milk ;)
 
I had the same thing mate, top right of my lung collapsed 15%. I was a regular bong smokker and joints and heaps of cigs but i also had harder drugs like coke, not regularly but i think it created blisters on my lungs which didnt help. Mine collapsed on the bus on my way to work and i didnt go to hospital until a week later when a family friend who is a surgeon urged me to get the chest tube, that hurt like a bitch! It hurt everytime i moved too but i didnt get any goodf pain relief, i now smoke weed again but only joints, i think the suction with the bong on the lungs isnt so good. But i am constantly scared it is going to collapse again although my friend who is a doctor now said it was becuase i grew and my lungs didnt grow with my body that it collapsed and smoking had little too do with it but didnt help.
 
^Be careful, joints have always been MUCH harder on my lungs than bongs. I can't even smoke joints anymore because it gives me breathing problems within a week. I'd watch that if I were you, considering what happened.
 
I need to save up more money for a vaporizer.... after reading this post I think I will do just that lol.
 
I thought bongs were considered worse because the amount of smoke that gets inhaled. I guess it depends on how you hit them, I would usually be caughing my lungs out after a hit.
 
I think I just read my own story!

I just got out of the hospital today after my lung collapsed 20%. Almost every word of the story seemed like I wrote it. From the spontaneous collapse and trying to tough it out, to my eyes lighting up at the sound of morphine, to the tube in my chest being the worst pain I ever felt, and how much weed you smoked and even how you smoked. My jaw had dropped when I started reading it. When I got out of the hospital I felt a little weak but great otherwise. Later that night, I took what weed I had left (about 1/4 kush) and threw it in the crock pot to make some butter. I've made my own baked goods for about 3 years now with perfection, the only problem I have with eating it is that it isn't the same high as smoking it and it only lasts me about 2-3 hours. I know most people say they get a four hour high, but I never did. (maybe its cause THC is fat soluble and I am only 13% body fat) Any way, after I got the crock pot set. I started researching vaporizers and came across this post. After reading all the posts I am convinced I'm going to get a good vaporizer. I'm just not sure which one to get. I had bought a vapir one about a year ago and ended up selling it 2 months later cause it was inefficient. The chamber only held enough for about half a hit and it took what seemed forever to heat up and create vapor. For someone who is used to smoking up to 2-3 grms of kush a day, this sucked. So I come to the forum now to ask everyone....What kind of vaporizer should I look at getting? Price isn't an issue. I once went to Amsterdam and in the Hemp Hash and Marijuana Museum they used a vaporizer that looked like a hair dryer or something. They put it down on a glass cylinder about the size of a 3oz shot glass with a stem on the bottom (kinda like a huge glass slide for a bong) filled with weed and filled up a 5 liter jug with a thick milky vapor. I took one large pull and filled my lungs with this vapor. I didn't feel it going in but I certainly saw it coming out! I was lifted for about 4-5 hours! it was the best! But again I don't know which one that is. cant seem to find it online. HELP!

Oh BTW I use for the treatment of Crohn's disease so I do need my weed! lol
 
My friend only has one lung and still smokes. Not saying he's the smartest cookie out there, but he seems to be doing fine. Just coughs a little more. haha
 
Dude, You're...ME!

Hey man, whoever you are, you're...ME!!! I mean dude, you described me and my condition PERFECTLY. I'm not fucking kidding. Right down to the T dude. Ok, Here's MY answer. I just smoked a few tokes of J right across the street from my house a few hours ago with a dude. I really hope it doesn't make my lung collapse again, because I know your pain and I know what you mean when you say there's nothing else like it. In fact, I can't think of another situation where they would cut anyone open and shove a tube in between their rib cages by blunt (no pun intended) insertion. It was fucking horrible wasn't it???!!! anyways man, I'll seriously let you know how it goes because i plan on smoking a couple J's a day for the good of science.
 
i personally think the damage the op did was from over heating the lungs with huge bong rips and holding them in for ages. bongs generate much hotter air> than joints> cigarettes.

leave vapourising and any other form of heat transfer onto your lung tissue alone.

eat weed, make do and let your burnt out lungs heal
 
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