What will weed do to my brain if I am recovering from a very traumatic brain injury?
By very traumatic I mean multiple brain contusions, skull fractures, broken bones in my ear, and double vision. Do you think it will hinder my recovery? The doctor said don’t do any drugs, but you would think that every doctor would tell you NOT to do drugs… Right?
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Use your common sense if you have any and give up drugs.
In this case your doctor is right ( i consider myself a self natural healer). But where i am focused on right now is the fact that as you smoke weed, tar will buildup in your head( you know like the resin you scrape out of your pipe). Your body will then have to take that extra burden cleaning all that tar out, while it repairs itself, needing that time to recover. You won’t stop recovering, you will just slow or delay your recovery. Your body is the one being taxed out at your expense. If you smoke now you are only asking for a lesser degree of healing when you want to be whole.
It will cause you to get depression.
Often people get that from using marijuana without having a head injury.
I was just in your situation last year, minus the contusions and broken ear-bones. I agree that smoking anything will slow your recovery, simply from the tar and carbon monoxide, but if you use a vaporizer, you don’t have to worry about inhaling combustion products.
I started smoking weed again about 2 months after my injury. It helped me wean off of the strong pain meds I was given, made a massive positive difference in my mood, and helped me deal with the psychological trauma stemming from the incident. As for the physiological effects of weed on an injured brain, here’s something that you should read:
“Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon found that the administration of synthetic cannabinoids in rats stimulated the proliferation of newborn neurons (nerve cells) in the hippocampus region of the brain and significantly reduced measures of anxiety and depression-like behavior. ”
It did for me what it sounds like it did for those rats. I wish I could have taken part in a study to test the efficacy on human neurogenesis. The bottom line is you sound like you have a lot on your mind and you have a long way to go. In my experience, smoking weed with these kinds of injuries is the least of your worries. Relax. Stress is much worse for you right now. Just make sure you use your brain. Watch Discovery or other educational programs while you are recovering and don’t let the onset of ADD and working-memory deficits get you down.
Optimism: Now you get to see the world in a new light.
Think of it as an alternative to pain killers, Im sure they were perscribed to you. They are doing a lot more harm to your body than marijuana will EVER do, you will be fine if you just smoke a little weed.
Brain injury lawyers are on your side. In the meantime, stay off the drugs.