[LostTribe]

Originally Posted by Pangea

Many people around me with serious diseases and cancers are interested in using cannabis oil but have concerns about it interacting with their current medications, of which they are usually on many. They often ask for advice on such issues as their doctors play ignorant and dismissive.

From what I have read I wouldnt even tell them if I thought they would prevent me from making my own choice on my meds.

[Ioni Botani]

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[Chonkski]

Originally Posted by Pangea

Many people around me with serious diseases and cancers are interested in using cannabis oil but have concerns about it interacting with their current medications, of which they are usually on many. They often ask for advice on such issues as their doctors play ignorant and dismissive.

Yeah I agree, that always tends to be the first concern of the patient. I would like to know more about the compatibility of cannabis and other pharma medications.

It's always my guess that cannabis is okay with just about anything because it's not toxic to us in any way?

[GrowGoddess]

Originally Posted by Pangea

Many people around me with serious diseases and cancers are interested in using cannabis oil but have concerns about it interacting with their current medications, of which they are usually on many. They often ask for advice on such issues as their doctors play ignorant and dismissive.

I do know of medications that do react with cannabis oil. Not in a toxic manner, and they are very common medicines. A large percentage of medical cannabis users are prescribed these medications. Switching over and using a concentrate the patient should be made aware that vicodin/hydrocodone, percoset/oxycodone, morphene, and probably others can have a serious effect on increasing the potency of the THC buzz from the concentrate. Nobody wants a bad trip. I have had some of my patients tell me that when they were taking the concentrated cannabis oil, even in small maintenance dose size, taking their pain pill doubled the potency of the THC oil. For them to continue taking their standard size dose of oil, they had to take less of the pain pills. When they would take a pain pill, they said it felt as if they had taken another dose of oil. Didn't even feel the effects of the pill, just prevented any withdrawl from the opiate. For them to continue taking the dose of oil three times per day, they had to cut their pills in half, but it still increased the effects of the oil. This is a good thing, it surely helps being aware of what is going on and understanding why without finding out the hard way, and it helps the patient become less reliant on the pills. It can take some time, but it can work.

[Gray Wolf]

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacy, Psychotropic Agents, Part III, has information regarding cannabis drug interactions.

[Pangea]

Thanks!

How detailed and updated is it? Do you recommend it or is it the only reference with relevant info?

[Gray Wolf]

Originally Posted by Pangea

Thanks!

How detailed and updated is it? Do you recommend it or is it the only reference with relevant info?

Print date is 1982 with Chapter 7, or pages 119 through 158 devoted to cannabis.

It is a serious work, chock full of useful data and references. About $80, which SPR's licensed pharmacists considered worth it and I agree.

If you are only interested in the 39 pages on cannabis, it is no doubt available at a library.

[LostTribe]

Originally Posted by Gray Wolf

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacy, Psychotropic Agents, Part III, has information regarding cannabis drug interactions.

This is a very interested and much needed point. The interactions among pain pills and the use of oils is definitely something that patients must take into consideration. I am sure there may be other ways that other meds interact as well.

[GrowGoddess]

Originally Posted by LostTribe

This is a very interested and much needed point. The interactions among pain pills and the use of oils is definitely something that patients must take into consideration. I am sure there may be other ways that other meds interact as well.

Yes, there are other interactions.

When treating one of my cancer patients, he had an interaction with his heart medication. I had already forewarned him of this being possible, so he kept a close eye on it. He was taking 2 different medications for high blood pressure. Since he began treatment, he had to stop using one of the medications. I regret I do not recall what that medication was. All in all, he not only managed his cancer with the RSO, he also managed his high blood pressure.

I can go on and on, and get my 50 posts. I would like to note previously that I was joking around.

Another medication this patient had an interaction with when taking RSO is Xanax. I can't say whether it was positive or negative issue. I suppose it depends on the patient. This patient was taking (4) 1 mg tablets per day, which is extreme in my opinion, but I can understand why. If you ask me, he was having a nervous breakdown after learning of the cancer. What the Xanax did for him was cause him not to feel the full effects of the oil when only taking maintenance size doses (grain of rice). We suspected that the Xanax was causing him to not feel the oil. He decided to skip a couple of the pills and low and behold, he started feeling the oil effects, which he wanted to. After the treatment, he decided to continue to cut back on the Xanax. The oil has become more enjoyable, but still admits that the original hefty treatment of 1 gram per day, was mind boggling and a trip. This is an educated man who worked full time. During the treatment, he found it a challenge just to take the trash out to the curb.

Terpenes effect the oil even more intense, with an opposite effect. Especially the terpenes from cannabis that pass through the blood brain barrier. They can help your memory, lessen the intense effects of the THC, but it is a double edge sword. They also cause the THC to last twice as long. 100% longer than the terpenes effect you, based upon my personal experience.

[GrowGoddess]

Excluding high blood pressure medication, maybe we should be more concerned with beneficial interactions with other medications. Maybe other plant extracts can have a great benefit to the patients. For example: Frankincense oil which contains terpenes that cross the blood brain barrier. How does that effect cannabis oils that are missing terpenes like RSO or BHO. Oils that were processed with heat. Or even old buds that have lost their terpenes. Grows that were not treated delicately and the terpenes were lost due to too much air flow or too much heat? There are other plants out there with essential terpenes and some that have terpenes that can cross the blood brain barrier.


My goal is to be able to treat me and my family and others to treat themselves of illness. The current medical system does not do this for me with out harsh consequences.

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