Like most things in life, use in moderation keeps the "ship of state" in trim. While marijuana helps with the headaches it does tend to aggravate my laundry list of mental health issues. Sativas make the paranoia grow to gargantuan proportions until I am carrying an eight hundred pound paranoid gorilla on my back wherever I go. It makes me angry (at me) and I have to take a deep breath every now and then to come to grips with what is real and what is imagined to be real.
Not smoking during the day helps. The more I smoke the more the memory issue becomes a liability. Smoking at night helps for sleeping but wipes out my short-term memory so I have to sleep with a pad of paper and pen by the bed so that whatever it is I am worrying about won't be forgotten the next day.
This tells me I have to be more judicious with my treatment options, but everything comes with a price. If I don't medicate with marijuana then I end up loading up on Excedrine Migraine and that means my liver suffers more and more damage (thank God I quit drinking 25 years ago or I would have died of liver failure a long time ago).
An active lifestyle helps the most. I need to get back into the exercise groove as I at least felt better when I was exercising. My job makes me the ideal couch potato and I need to change that.
With all of us the same theme seems to emerge: take care of your health, eat right, get some exercise, stay engaged and energized with an active lifestyle, use with moderation and keep an eye on any untoward mental health outcomes your use of this drug may create. Life isn't all beer and skittles and we cannot hide from the consequences of our decisions.
Stay safe and grow the same way.
Not smoking during the day helps. The more I smoke the more the memory issue becomes a liability. Smoking at night helps for sleeping but wipes out my short-term memory so I have to sleep with a pad of paper and pen by the bed so that whatever it is I am worrying about won't be forgotten the next day.
This tells me I have to be more judicious with my treatment options, but everything comes with a price. If I don't medicate with marijuana then I end up loading up on Excedrine Migraine and that means my liver suffers more and more damage (thank God I quit drinking 25 years ago or I would have died of liver failure a long time ago).
An active lifestyle helps the most. I need to get back into the exercise groove as I at least felt better when I was exercising. My job makes me the ideal couch potato and I need to change that.
With all of us the same theme seems to emerge: take care of your health, eat right, get some exercise, stay engaged and energized with an active lifestyle, use with moderation and keep an eye on any untoward mental health outcomes your use of this drug may create. Life isn't all beer and skittles and we cannot hide from the consequences of our decisions.
Stay safe and grow the same way.