Hi everyone! CFS and pot...my story

Hi, my name is moonstoned and I'm writing from Victoria. After living in Armidale NSW for a number of years putting my two teenage sons through a Steiner school, I have once again moved back to my adoptive home town and found the whole town absolutely dead for any weed contacts. I've been back here for 2 years now and to make matters worse, have now found I have CFS or chronic fatige syndrome.

My weed smoking history is kind of like this; smoked till the age where I had my children and then quit naturally for about 10 years (it wasn't hard). When my Mum died, I started smoking weed again sometimes to ease the pain. In Armidale I just grew my own and smoked recreationally and always alone (guess I just enjoy it that way - I love my thoughts when I'm stoned). Now that I'm back in Vic and have got this CFS and no helpful folk around who are enlightened enough about dope to help out (not that I even get out much anymore to find friends and contacts - all my old friends from this part of the world have moved to other places), I make a yearly trip to Byron and on to Nimbin to buy a few oz.

Trouble is this trip now exhausts me, even though the benefits of smoking pot as a treatment for CFS are not to be underestimated. You may think, "Well, a person with CFS is already exhausted and weed can sometimes have that effect, so isn't there a clash there?"

Well, I've done years of meditation, have tried olive leaf extract, flower essences and vitamins to help, but nothing takes the edge off like a smoke.

Thing is, the spiritual/psychosomatic diagnosis for CFS is that the sufferer is usually an ultra-perfectionist. The urge to succeed and "be" perfect in every way ie "super-mum", "Super-person", super-woman" etc. is really powerful, and failure to live up to self expectations causes mental distress. Of course the life lesson here is "relax, go with the flow, don't judge yourself so harshly", which is fine, but sometimes the consequences of having CFS is that you are forced into a situation where this credo becomes liveable.

Now don't get me wrong - the symptoms are extremely real, exhaustion, continual tiredness, muscle and joint aches, not being able to be active in anyway without paying for it with exhaustion for days afterwards.Even hanging the washing can take all day with rest periods in between. And for a perfectionist - that's excrutiating.

That's where the dope comes in. What better tonic is there when you need to relax and not be effected by negative self talk about all the things you can't do anymore. Often with CFS goes a time of real mourning and depression and smoking a joint REALLY takes the stress away.

So there you go - that's my story. If you get this far into my recent life story and live around Byron, Nimbin or Lismore and want some regular paid employment - let me know at my email address. This is a legit offer!

Regards Moon

 

Hello Moon & Welcome to the forums.
good to have you here , PEACE.
ps great intro,

 

thanks jimmy and hey

 

Are you after some raw dairy to treat your CFS?