Posted by Magee on April 4, 2004, at 3:41:11
In reply to Prescription for Marinol for Bipolar Disorder?, posted by CrazyGuy on April 2, 2004, at 15:36:48
>Hi There
Funny you should mention this because just tonight I smoked some really good weed and it has helped me so much! I feel more alive than I've felt in a month (I've been in a black depression with serious anxiey). Anyway, tonight I laughed for the first time and felt like myself. THC frees up my mind and I consider it medicine.
Peace and good luck!
Magee
Hi. I'm trying (thus far unsuccessfully) to convince my pdoc that he should write me a prescription for Marinol (a synthetic form of THC) to alleviate my symptoms of BD. I've used marijuana in the past and found it VERY helpful for alleviating both depressive and manic symptoms. I've been on numerous "mood stabilizers", anti-depressants and atypical antipsychotics over the past 10 years (e.g. lithium, depakote, tegretol, lamictal, trileptal, prozac, zoloft, wellbutrin, trazadone, desipramine, effexor, remeron, celexa, lexapro, risperidone, zyprexa) and in various combinations and nothing seems to work with minimal side effects for any appreciable length of time. Although this pdoc said that he'd look into it, he chickened out, saying that he wasn't "comfortable" prescribing it. Of course, I thanked him for putting HIS comfort level before MINE. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with this moron for the forseeable future. Has anybody else received a prescription for Marinol from a pdoc? (My former pdoc in another state, who I talked to recently, indicated that he has prescribed it for at least one of his patients and I think he'd prescribe it for me if I were still under his care....) Any advice would be MUCH appreciated!!! I suppose I can just ask around among friends/acquaintances and find a new source of marijuana, but I'd prefer to be given X number of pills to last X number of days so that (a) I know exactly what dose of THC (synthetic) I'm getting and (b) I don't get into the situation where I'm tempted to overindulge....
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