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Yup.. Same here. Try not to smoke while yuo have the flu.. it just makes it worse.. if you must.. just try and cook a bit.. and put it into chicken noodle soup ;)
 
My first semester away at college I was so sick for so long and I couldn't figure out why. It was sort of a cold/congestion thing, never enough to keep me home but always enough to keep me feeling crappy.

It started in my sinuses, then moved to my ears (I couldn't hear properly out of my left ear for over a week, that drove me nuts) then moved to my nose, and throat and finally settled in my chest. I seriously was sick from about the second week of school well into midterms.

Finally, when I stopped smoking up, I got better.

I watched the rest of the kids on my floor spread one sickness after another back and forth between them, but I always refused to smoke with them. My roommate wound up with pnuemonia 2nd term, but I was fine.

Ever since then I've always been wary of toking and my immune system. If I'm already tired or not feeling 100% I'll usually pass, or if the other person has a cold or looks sick I'll pass too. The way I look at it is that I've got the rest of my life to get high, why get sick?
 
well i've had some hardcore gastro since like wednesday, smoked a few pipes, now i feel awesome :D
 
Re: smoking when you're sick

deviate said:
i have a terrible cold right now and i can't get high. i tried smoking weed several times and i dont get at all high. some of my symtoms are relieved but others feel intensified, i get some some weed effects like the munchies and sensory enhancement but i dont get high. my friends all say that they get high when they're sick. what about you guys?
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when i have a cold or am sick i get incredibly stoned, completely wasted, it isn't funny anymore. profused sweating, aching tummy, cold/hot flushes, but i do get high(er)..
 
I had a soar throat once and I smoked, it helped it. I would say it got better in half the time it normally does, and it didn't hurt as bad for a few hours.
 
There's nothing better for me than Paracetamol & weed.
Blows away stomach aches, back pain, general feeling of exhaustion & headaches normally associated with a cold.

Why my nose stops running is a complete mistery to me though...
 
sometimes smoking when i'm sick makes it worse. it can make me more aware of the "body load" of the flu and then i can't think of anything else.

it makes your sinuses more plugged up than they would be without, also.
 
I had the flu this week and also a cold later on and I noticed I felt worse while I was sick and even noticed symptoms I wouldn't normally notice. Now that there is just a slight remaining cough, things are much better and the pot actually helps dilate my lungs :-).
 
i try to smoke when im sick, i mean, sure, i may feel crappier some of the time i do smoke when im sick, but i dunno, being high makes the shittiness seem less shitty.... but i do notice i stay sick longer when i toke.... also, smoking cigarettes helps nothing, in fact, because of my cigarette smoking ive had a weird congestion thing for a while now that goes away when i give the cigs a break, defenitely noticed the dead of my lungs midway through a bowl yesterday, havent quit coughing since.....
 
Weird enuff its always different effects for me. sometimes it amplifieds the sickness and i need to sleeep , then other times i just feel ripped and the symptoms dissapear.

Last week i had a cold and i blazd up and i was ripped without symptoms it was sweet :)
 
ive had the cold now for a week and a half and its cause i cant stop smoking weed and cigarettes :(

its getting better gradually...=D
 
i'm just emerging from an illness that makes you want to rip your own entrails out and wrap them round your throat, stifling your last painful breaths in an attempt to release yourself from the unending physical torment...

yet i still smoked throughout.

it's funny how many of us know that it probably will extend our sickness but smoke regardless. godamn this virus for robbing me of my enjoyable stonerdom!
 
i have the flu right now and weed made me feel awesome. made me feel releaved. but right now i feel like shit.. no pot
 
I always smoke when I'm sick. it doesn't make me feel worse, and though I know it isn't good for me, it's the only way I can stand being stuck in bed watching TV all day
 
This is weird, I just got over the flu. Body Aches, nausea, sneezing/coughing let me tell you i had the whole shabang!
But i smoked throughout and it didn't bother me none, in fact, it made me feel better!

honestly, with weed, its whatever you take out of it, or whatever you make of it.
If you smoke, and you're tired and all you want to do is sleep, then that's what will happen. On the other hand, if you go out and you feel like smoking before, you're usually thinking "this will liven me up, make the night more fun etc." and that is how you're high will be.
a better example would be acid, if you're scared before you take it, or stressed or pre-occupied with some negative vibes, they say chances are you will have a bad trip. i think its the same exact way with weed, it's all in the head.

i know i'm not explaining this in the most articulate of ways but hopefully you all understand what i'm trying to say.

i firmly believe that if you're sick, and you concentrate on feeling better while you're smoking, the weed can heal you, at least psychosomatically. it's like those people, who never get sick because they psych themselves into thinking that they're not, it's the same way with weed.
at least in my oh so humble opinion ;)

that's my $0.02, though i could be wrong. ;)

-jen
 
Strangely enough, I think weed has been helping me fend off a throat infection or something that's been going around my residence. Like, I can feel my throat is a little sore, but everyone else is coughing and sneezing and shit, but when I smoke, even the sore throat goes away. I think I'll continue this experiment later tonight. ;)
 
when im sick i dont smoke till after the first few really bad days. then toke it up. i guess all the extra sleep i get really helps make it go away. but ive neve rliked mixing pot w/ antibiotics.
 
for some reason i've always thought of antibiotics being completely harmless (aside from cancelling out the pill, for girls). is it bad to mix them?
 
Man you shouldnt really need anti biotics to get over a cold/flu, it will lower your tolerence. I hate how doctors always prescribe you shit, you're body needs to learn to combat that shit naturally otherwise it will never learn, just like if your mum cooks your dinner every night, when you move outta home u eat maccas every night hahaha

Umm, anti biotics shouldnt hurt, ive smoked on them, I prefer smoking on psudoephedrine (sp?) coz it kinda gives you the same effect as smoking on speed

I do find when you are sick you get more fucked up in the head and it feels really pressurised, and harder to think clearly etc and your sinus's hurt a lot more and waking up sucks. My sense of smell is gone, so is my taste, I can barely hear, I can see pretty fine......everything feels normal except a bit colder than normal

If you arent getting high off weed, then dont bother, you're only delaying your recovery about 2-fold...I take ages to recover from colds, I think my body's getting good at it now though.. :)
 
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