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Smoking when you're sick (merged)

I love to smoke up when I'm congested. It clears my sinuses right out and takes care of that awful first sign of an impending cold: excess saliva. With my face dried out and my head full of droopy stoned thoughts, it's easy to nod off for a nap.
 
i have the flu and i cant smoke...well i can... its just i dont feel the need or a craving too... so i have a bag just sitting there cuz i just cant make myself pick up my damn pipe and smoke... *sigh* it kinda sucks... but then again when i do soke it does make me feel somewhat better... more enrgized... i just dont care...
 
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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My understanding is that whilst you are ill, weed will blast your ass more than usual.:\
 
Back when I smoked weed I used to find it better to smoke when Im sick. I guess maybe it just eased my illness or something but I would just lay down and feel better. It would take more to get me high for some strange reason though.
 
ive had a cold for almost a month now, and ive been smoking the whole time ive been sick. i usually dont stay sick for this long, so im sure smoking isnt helping at all. but, it does make me feel better while im high. dont even get me started on coughing up black slime
 
i smoked when i was sick few days ago, and the next day was the worst, i could barely breath because my chest hurt so bad, but it was cool, nothing a few painkillers cant fix
 
Yesterday said:
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?
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fuck that dude ill never give up a chance to smoke i dont give a shit how sick the guy is life is too short to not be under the influence

what you need to do is have yuour own stash that way you dont have to worry about sickness spreading cause its all you baby
 
Thread Summary: Weed will either make your symtoms dissapear or make them more pronounced.
 
yea... I've got a really annoying cold and I've been smoking steady for 2 days.. atleast more than usual. the only bad thing about this is that it kinda hurts when I take hits, due to my throat. it really helps me fall asleep in the afternoon.. gotta rest to get better, being sick is shitty.
 
rah said:
Thread Summary: Weed will either make your symtoms dissapear or make them more pronounced.
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Yeah pot works differently for everyone.
But I must say, it will make most people feel sick for longer.
But on the good side, it takes yuor mind off pain, cramps, nausea, and everything else while you're high.

Also, hurts like fuck to smoke weed with a really bad throat.
 
Cannabis Effects On Fever

I had seen a topic like this a long time ago but it didn't have much info and I'd rather hear some new ideas on this subject.

I have a fever right now and if there is one thing I have never really known about marijuana, it's whether or not the stuff is good or bad to smoke while sick. I figure it can probably only be negative or neutral, because besides taking away some stomach pains, I don't see how it could help.
But I'm wondering if it would hurt much. I have seen very few studies or research done, even though I haven't looked as hard as I could. I'd rather hear some personal opinions on the subject.

What are all your experiences with marijuana and either having a fever/cold/flu ?
 
If the weed is strong and you don't take too many hits, your lungs probably won't hurt. That's the only problem I have smoking when sick; the coughing is terrible. But it does make me feel a lot better. I'll either fall asleep, or forget I'm sick. But don't smoke a shitload, and I don't reccomend bongs of any kind (when your sick). Stick to a pipe, easy on the lungs.
 
Yeah, it's a bit weird.. You can get much, much sicker when smoking, or you'll feel a little bit better. I usually get a lot sicker, vomiting may occure (instead of stopping/preventing it).. Usually the sick feeling you may have is because of a lack of weed, smoking then really makes you feel a lot better, I wonder why..
 
Firstly I don't think people should smoke cannabis when they are sick, cannabis could have a negative effect on immune response, and anecdotally, my friends who smoke very heavily are always the first to get sick (with colds/flus).

Now then, THC/cannabinoids do seem to be antipyretic, that is to say they reduce fever, they also reduce body temperature in normal people.

But the question is, Is that a good thing? Your body makes you go hyperthermic on purpose. Now whether its to make your body uninhabitable to microbes, or to stop you from running around, I'm not educated enough in the area to comment....

..BUT, if your body (or more your brain), is giving you a fever on purpose, should you stop it?
 
woah, came here to get info on this and here it is

ive been smoking while sick lately and it helps my fever, but makes other symptoms worse (like coughing and my sinuses getting really congested)
 
a few months ago i had a cold with a really bad runny nose and fever so i decided to smoke a litte. the high was really great because it relaxed me a lot then i peacefully fell asleep a few hours later and felt better then next morning
 
IN recent study, Marijuana actually triggers the Immune system. While it my very on the user, this worked for me. I had a cold and I smoked and it was gone in less then 3 days as when not taking anything it would take as much as 1-2 weeks.
 
Well, i had a nasty lil virus enter my sytem and I got a headache, sore throat, lightheadedness and crazy bodyaches. I didn't feel like throwing up and I had no excess mucus or coughing.

I decided to smoke a small 2gram J with a friend of mine.

The next morning I woke up with an ear and throat infection and, incidentally, conjunctivitis (pink eye). Now I don't know if this would have happened anyway had the marijuana not been involved, but seeing as my immune system was already weakened i don't think it could have helped one bit. I did feel good though and did not feel any symptoms of my sickness (except for the sore throat) at the time I was smoking.
 
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