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Posted by pete on May 20, 2000, at 21:12:07
I was recently diagnosed as having G.A.D (General Anxiety Disorder). This came after I began sweating profusely all the time for no apparent reason. My doc says it is a mental thing (not in those words of course). He started me on Celexa, which I took unsuccessfully for a month or so. After returning for a follow-up he switched me to Zoloft- 50mg. The sweating (original problem) still persists, but I do feel a little less anxious. I also smoke about an ounce every two weeks or so. Any ideas? Think the heavy weed usage is doing it? I am at my wit's end here. It is ruining my social life.
Thanks in advance. Pete
Posted by paul on May 21, 2000, at 22:55:37
In reply to Zoloft, marijuana and sweating, posted by pete on May 20, 2000, at 21:12:07
pete-
pardon the hardliner recovery diatribe, but regardless of what the weed has to do w/the sweating the plain truth is that it aint doin you no good, no how. i'd bet it's responsible for the self-isolating you've been doing and i doubt seriously it helps w/anxiety. you might want to investigate freeing yourself from it sooner rather than later. if you got any ?'s about this write me directly and i'll get to it asap.
pcl
Posted by boBB on May 22, 2000, at 3:19:39
In reply to Re: Zoloft, marijuana and sweating, posted by paul on May 21, 2000, at 22:55:37
yeh, pete, if not for the weed, maybe you would be a day trader on the stock exchange, or a marketing expert designing ways to trick people into buying a sport utility vehichle, or a environmental lawyer trying to find ways to end-run the national environmental protection act so rich people make more money by killing more rivers with more sulfide metal mines.
That isolation is really bad for you. We can tell all about you from the one paragraph you posted.
As a matter of fact, if you could only pass a drug test, you could get a job as a prison guard, keeping all of those descendants of slaves safely locked away from the polling booth, or a target acquisition specialist for NATO, helping to be sure only foreign embassies are accidentally bombed. Or maybe even a Psyops specialist, convincing the public the Serbians are responsible for Albanian terrorism.
Yeh, pete, that weed is really messin you up.
You should only take the drugs that are licensed and from which the profits go to corporations, usually owned by nice white people. Your pot dealer probably passes profit to some subversive guerrila army in the Caribean or to some midwest farmer who doesn't realize his parochial lifestyle is out of date. It's the guilt, pete, you are sweating from guilt of knowing that this is the brain on drugs (oops, pull that commercial, it was the EEG of a comatose patient, not a pot user).
Maybe you are sweating from fear of wondering if you will get caught. Don't you know right from wrong? Right is what rich people say is right and wrong is when poor people challenge them. If you would do what's right, you could live the good life.
Seriously, dude, I sweat too. Maybe it is the chronic dental infection?
Posted by grannybabble on May 22, 2000, at 14:12:18
In reply to Zoloft, marijuana and sweating, posted by pete on May 20, 2000, at 21:12:07
> I was recently diagnosed as having G.A.D (General Anxiety Disorder). This came after I began sweating profusely all the time for no apparent reason. My doc says it is a mental thing (not in those words of course). He started me on Celexa, which I took unsuccessfully for a month or so. After returning for a follow-up he switched me to Zoloft- 50mg. The sweating (original problem) still persists, but I do feel a little less anxious. I also smoke about an ounce every two weeks or so. Any ideas? Think the heavy weed usage is doing it? I am at my wit's end here. It is ruining my social life.
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> Thanks in advance. PetePete- I read recently that botox injections are being used to control excessive sweating. I know this sounds like a pretty radical solution,but it might be something to look into if everything else fails. :-)
Posted by stjames on May 23, 2000, at 11:17:41
In reply to Re: Zoloft, marijuana and sweating, posted by grannybabble on May 22, 2000, at 14:12:18
I don't think per se that smoking weed is bad nor can anyone make this call via the internet. Some people get into trouble with pot while many have no problem with it. I don't think it has anything to do with the sweating. Go to Bob's Tips section
and search on sweating, there are several meds you can take to reduce this.james
Posted by Brenda on May 23, 2000, at 12:33:05
In reply to Re: Zoloft, marijuana and sweating, posted by boBB on May 22, 2000, at 3:19:39
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boBB - first off - I'm a little off the subj. of this whole "weed" thing. Been there, done that.
What I'd like to say is your writing style puts me in mind of Tom Robbins (at least on this weed thread). I do like it. The controversy you stir up is great. Reading about all those meds can get a little dull. I'd like to know a bit about your journalism history. Are you/were you a reporter? Did you actually cover the riots you mentioned?
Sorry if I'm too personal. I would appreciate it if you would keep posting.
Brenda
yeh, pete, if not for the weed, maybe you would be a day trader on the stock exchange, or a marketing expert designing ways to trick people into buying a sport utility vehichle, or a environmental lawyer trying to find ways to end-run the national environmental protection act so rich people make more money by killing more rivers with more sulfide metal mines.
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> That isolation is really bad for you. We can tell all about you from the one paragraph you posted.
>
> As a matter of fact, if you could only pass a drug test, you could get a job as a prison guard, keeping all of those descendants of slaves safely locked away from the polling booth, or a target acquisition specialist for NATO, helping to be sure only foreign embassies are accidentally bombed. Or maybe even a Psyops specialist, convincing the public the Serbians are responsible for Albanian terrorism.
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> Yeh, pete, that weed is really messin you up.
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> You should only take the drugs that are licensed and from which the profits go to corporations, usually owned by nice white people. Your pot dealer probably passes profit to some subversive guerrila army in the Caribean or to some midwest farmer who doesn't realize his parochial lifestyle is out of date. It's the guilt, pete, you are sweating from guilt of knowing that this is the brain on drugs (oops, pull that commercial, it was the EEG of a comatose patient, not a pot user).
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> Maybe you are sweating from fear of wondering if you will get caught. Don't you know right from wrong? Right is what rich people say is right and wrong is when poor people challenge them. If you would do what's right, you could live the good life.
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> Seriously, dude, I sweat too. Maybe it is the chronic dental infection?
Posted by boBB on May 23, 2000, at 17:46:53
In reply to Re: To boBB - off the subj., posted by Brenda on May 23, 2000, at 12:33:05
Well, yeh, I covered some unrest. It was one of the numerous resource wars that tend to miss the radar of major news organizations. The repeated crowd scenes never quite exploded into riots, thanks in part to the several hundred policement mobilized to the area, but also to the longsuffering patience of at least one side of the conflict, and perhaps to some tenacious media work by a few dedicated journalists. There were some nervous moments, though, and a few bombs, some gunshots, quite a few rocks thrown and countless rude insults. Sorry if I am being vague.
I work as a journalist now. I don't get paid much, but I get to keep my skills sharp. This forum probably helps keep my style fluid and the controversy I stir probably makes up for the relatively mundane material I cover each day.
When I grow up (some more) I want to write about psychology, neurology (yeh, right!) and culture, but I lack formal training in the area. I hang out here to learn more, I guess. Too bad I will probably never sign my real name to this psuedonym; for all the trouble I stir, it seems popular. Thanks for the encouragement.
Posted by Rockets on May 23, 2000, at 18:04:34
In reply to Re: To boBB - off the subj., posted by boBB on May 23, 2000, at 17:46:53
Personally as a Rocket I can not really endorse anything that would slow me down. My "aim" is to travel as quickly as possible to "prescribed" goals without breaking apart. You can read more about my functions at http://wcrockets.bizland.com/info.htm.
"Cannibas Sativa is an obnoxious weed." -Dr. Gabriel G., Nahas
"la la la pot pot give me some pot forget who you are you can be who you're not, do do take a family cruise you with your grass mom and dad with their booze.." -Neil Diamond 1974
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