Quitting weed on a doctors advice? Is he/she right?

[swilow]

^^Yeh my things a general anxiety- constantly keyed up, almost like I'm on speed, sweating lots, can't eat . . . it really heightens into outright panick when I'm in bizarre situations- for example I walked into my mates darkened room, and saw my self in his full length mirror opening the door- it just reminded me so much of salvia/ other drugs, that I had a panick attack!

Parties can freak me out a bit, particulalry those of the psychedelic nature- more so when I'm stoned.

I've pretty much quit though now.

 

[Khadijah]

Imma tell you something......

Doctors are not gonna want you to be doing drugs. bottom line.

most doctors that is.

But imma tell you what happened with me.
I went to the doctor cuz i was havin some problems with blood pressure and passing out and shit. She was asking me about my drug use and shit and i told her the whoel history of it and all that.

ive told that whoel passing out story in the Health QnA forum.

but anyways,when i went to see her about it, my doctor straight up told me, "Im not worried about you smoking weed. Not to sound like its nothing at all, but I dont count weed when i ask you what drugs you been doing. Its fine, its really no big deal."

Just for your info, My doctor aint no crazy old cool hippie free love herbal doctor either. Shes like 60, and very proper, a very traditional doctor. so i woudl expect a much harsher opinion on it from her, but like i said, she basically just dismissed it like, weed, thats nothin.

If he cant give you any real reasons to quit, your docs just being a douchebag. "you gotta stop, its illegal, and bad for you, and stuff!"

No doubt weed CAN make panic shit worse for people who identify a panic attack or bad experience with weed, but if you DO NOT get anxiety from weed, and do not have panic attacks from weed, and enjoy smoking it and dont get all bugged out like some people, and you already basically know why you ARE feeling that way (you know its the trips and the salvia) then you know whats up with that.

i aint sayin you know better than your doctor but chances are your doctor dont know shit about weed other than its harmful to the lungs and the negative side effects that he/she learned from the book.

Doctors aint all that smart either, ive told my doctor (a different doc) that i quit before just to shut them up and they be like "oh yes, i can see the improvement already" when i smoked like 5 hours before i went to the doctor LOL. they really dont even know. (im speaking for some not all, some do, but in general they seem to be pretty clueless about that shit.)

I think you should tell the doc what you think really causes the problems youre having and be up front about the shit....

Quitting aint bad if you wanna do it and youre doing it for yourself for your own reasons, but most of the time when you quit for someone else or something else, you go right back anyways as soon as the period of time that you had to quit for was over.

I mean you are hardly smoking at all. one bong a day, that aint shit. even 3 a day, thats normal. for someone who smokes every day, maybe a bowl at night, one a few hours later, and one before bed or some shit like that, thats nothing huge or excessive.

If your psych doc thinks it would be better to quit ask them why. dont just take what they say like OK fine if you said so its good.

Ask them the specific reasons why it would be better to quit, why weed would interfere with your treatment, what part of the brain is affected that causes the treatment to be less effective.

If they cant answer that shit, chances are that they just want you to quit cuz they got the idea that weed or any drug use is bad and you might as well jsut stop.

Then consider this:

If youre stopping for treatment, when is that done?
Any doc will tell you that "recovery" from whatever it is, can be a life time process. if they want you clean for treatment, that aint like "dont smoek for 6 months then you can start again." youre never truly finished. so remember that they could be basically asking you to stop smoking weed for a loooong time, or your whole life, or however long you see that doctor for, know what im sayin?

I would challenge the doctors not because they suck or cuz you wanna smoke or get around it but simply to see WHY the REAL reasons behind what they are askin you to do.

is it just cuz overall its "bad" like smoking cigarettes? "you should quit." well yea you should always quit, does that mean you gotta? no....its just a reinforcement that its bad and a reminder to stop. it sounds like thats just what theyre doin, but with weed.

but if they can respect you enough to show you their deeper reasoning behind their recomendations, supported with details, facts, and explanations of exactly why they want this and how it is gonna help you, then maybe you would have more reason to go along with it.

Good luck

 

[blase deviant]

I'm trying hard to quit the old gunge, at least for a while, but am definitely struggling. I don't feel a craving per se, but am just bored and a bit depressed due to the abscence of weed. My doctor (a GP) is obsessed with trying to make me stop and has laid any number of issues onto my use of weed (usually one to three bongs a day) mainly my anxiety and panick syndrome. I attribute that more to rather heavy pyshchedelic use and a terrible salvia trip then with weed.

Any advice? I don't want to to stop but feel under immense rpessure to do so.
Has any one been in a situation like this? I am engaged in CBT at the moment and am concerned that the weed may effect the positive outcome of the treatment, which my psychologist seems to agree with.

However, they both (GP and psych) are more then happy to load me up with diazepam. Getting mixed signals here

Ha fuck that, if you're on diazepam you don't have any reason to quit weed.

You can either go to counselling and put it tons of effort to get rid of panic, and it may/may not work (I haven't gone this route yet).

You can stop smoking weed, it might make it better, it might not.

Or you can just get legitimately/legally addicted to Valium, smoke out/do drugs all the time, and not have panic attacks (I went this route, minus the legally addicted part, and I use clonazepam). To tell you the truth, valium/benzos are a quick easy fix, but I don't know if I'd recommend it, since it has a high potential to fuck you over in the long term. Of course if you get them legit and can keep your dose steady/have no anxiety without having to increase your valium dose, maybe it'd work. I dunno.

 

[Remicks]

Coming from personal experience, I find quitting weed to be very changing. I smoke daily ("smoke" means consumption of no less than 1 gram of high quality stuff) and more so on the weekends, but when I quit for 2 weeks at the end I found my thoughts to be lucid and clear, and most of my anxiety to be gone.

 

[psychoprophet]

quitting weed will help. i used to get mild panic attacks on weed all the time. i've cut down considerably and they have subsided. after quitting weed for a month you will feel so different that you will probably consider quitting forever (from my and friends' experiences). a month is a long time but focus on the positives. don't take the valium. you dont want to take a dangerously addictive drug to curb use of a mild one. chamomile tea is a mild sedative that i take when i think about weed when on a break. it kind of reminds me of weed in a way.

 

[blase deviant]

More than a minimum amount of panic can be due to weed use that is more than very, very light/not often...

Try quitting for like 2-3 months?