JeeSee
Cultured Curmudgeon
I'm new to the boards, but I have a concern I'd like to ask the members here... especially any members who are medically qualified. I was in Amsterdam for a year, living a hard partying lifestyle. I snorting so many experimental drugs I can barely remember the names, let along the effects (stay AWAY from MDPV) and used to smoke a pack a day easy. I stopped working out (used to be a state-level boxer back home in India). Almost immediately upon my return, I felt my body trying to tell me to quit smoking cigarettes - so I did. A few weeks later, I was hospitalized and diagnosed with tuberculosis. I was in bad shape, but the first line of meds worked (thankfully), and I was back on my feet within months. I regularly took my prescribed medicines, and allowed my lungs to heal as they should (ate cannabis edibles) for the first six months or so after diagnosis. That was when I started smoking about a joint or two a week. This gradually increased to a steady three or four joints a day around my ninth month, after which it plateaued and then decreased as I felt my lungs congesting again. Despite the doctor telling me that smoking has no direct effect on tuberculosis, it is absolutely not something I wish to go through again. I have started swimming to increase my lung capacity. I have also decided to buy a vape (MFLB) in order to decrease the effects to my lungs. What I want to know is this - is it alright for me to vape (and I'll probably be doing so at least once a day) given its benefits? Or should I be cautious and wait? My medications have been stopped and I feel fine. My drug use has stopped nearly completely - I've only used MDMA once in the past year, and dropped acid or used mushrooms (which I'm very confident will have no effect on my recovery) a few times. I continue to swim and plan to do so every day.
If you think I should refrain from vaping as well, how long do you think it will take for my lungs to recover? My doctors here, to put it mildly, are prudes and I cannot tell them I smoke marijuana, so I have to pretend I am still smoking cigarettes to ask them for opinions. They are the kind who would be opposed to cannabis on 'moral' grounds and I don't think asking them about vaping would be very productive, or that it would be a subject they have much information about. I completed one year since I was diagnosed in April, just so you have a frame of reference. Also, please don't ask me to get a vape with temperature regulators - as much as I'd love one (especially that tasty looking Da Vinci), I can't afford it. Besides, from what I've read, after a while I'll be able to regulate the temperature of my MFLB pretty well with estimates on drawing through personal experience.
Help?
If you think I should refrain from vaping as well, how long do you think it will take for my lungs to recover? My doctors here, to put it mildly, are prudes and I cannot tell them I smoke marijuana, so I have to pretend I am still smoking cigarettes to ask them for opinions. They are the kind who would be opposed to cannabis on 'moral' grounds and I don't think asking them about vaping would be very productive, or that it would be a subject they have much information about. I completed one year since I was diagnosed in April, just so you have a frame of reference. Also, please don't ask me to get a vape with temperature regulators - as much as I'd love one (especially that tasty looking Da Vinci), I can't afford it. Besides, from what I've read, after a while I'll be able to regulate the temperature of my MFLB pretty well with estimates on drawing through personal experience.
Help?
