What was your recreational pharmaceutical use prior to your MS diagnosis?
Submitted by art on Mon, 2007-08-27 14:08.
Now that we've discussed brain donation, let's see how toxic those brains might be!
Never (or didn't inhale :-)
38% (115 votes)
A Few Times
26% (79 votes)
Occasionally
19% (57 votes)
Regularly
12% (36 votes)
Cheech and Chong are Amateurs
5% (16 votes)
Total votes: 303
Recreational Pharmacutical
I'm assuming (because of the Cheech & Chong portion) that "recreational pharmacutical" is referring to canibus. It seems odd that that could be the cause or a hinderance to MS as it seems to help some of the symptoms ???
I'm referring to all
I'm referring to all intoxicants, not just ganja. But it's really just for fun.
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Art Mellor, Accelerated Cure Project for MS, art-msnews -at- acceleratedcure.com
"referring to all" . . .
Even though this may be in fun, does it include alcohol and cigarettes--both which ramp up glutamate uptake levels in the brain, which has been shown to be neurotoxic.
For this one, I'd say no. We
For this one, I'd say no. We did smoking as a separate poll, but drinking might be a good one to do in the future.
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Art Mellor, Accelerated Cure Project for MS, art-msnews -at- acceleratedcure.com
My behavior in college
My behavior in college (marijuana, LSD, tattoos) were all stressors that directly coincided with a worsening of symptoms.
recreational use
i smoked a lot of pot in high school. nothing after that. wasn't diagnose with m.s. til age 43. but a lot of my friends smoked and they are fine.