...Should I tell my family doctor about my MMJ rec?

[Let.the.Music.Flow]

I know this may seem like a dumb question, but should I tell my doctor about my MMJ recommendation?

My mom now knows about my rec. She's not comfortable at all with it (lol she's an old timer), but she's not super mad at me or anything. I told her about my rec after I explained why I use it. Lol I was so shocked I told her. I thought she was going to kick me out of the house!

Since my MMJ doc said I need medical records of my insomnia, I do plan to get diagnosed by my family doctor. That way, its on my real medical record about my health probs AND my MMJ rec gets extended another year (read my past thread). Killing two birds with one stone :)

The reason why I'm kind of scared to tell my family doctor is b/c Idk if they will be "ANTI MJ" and tell me to pop pills 24/7 when I don't need that. Of course, I will be willing to try pills and see which one is better for me. But, I have a feeling MMJ will work WAY better. I mean, look at all the side effects pills in general have.

I don't quite have a "go-to" family doctor just yet. If I am able to, I'm going to try and request a "pro-marijuana" doctor if its even possible.

Also, Idk if they will write down on my medical record I'm a MMJ patient since I don't want it to show up on my medical insurance. IDK if my medical insurance supports smokers. Or am I just being mad paranoid? Lol

AGH! Someone help me out! If you told your family doc, what happened? How did it go?

[edrag87]

Don't bother telling your family doctor about your rec. He probably wouldn't even write it down because it's just a rec, not a prescription, and marijuana is too mild to be written down most of the time.

I told my family doctor that I knew for most of my life. He was supportive of the idea, but since he wasn't an expert on mmj, he referred me to a local doctor (Dr.Frank Lucido) who has a lot of experience with the drug.

Medical marijuana is not covered by insurance in California (and probably every other state. correct me if I'm wrong) and most likely won't be seen by your insurance company. Even if it did, they won't drop you. It's not like probation where you have to stay clean, lol. It's a recommendation, not a prescription, so most people outside of the collective+doctor-who-gave-you-your-rec won't have anything to do with it. I was working as an EMT doing 911 before starting med school, and if a patient told me he had a marijuana rec, we wouldn't write it down because it didn't matter. We might write it down if you that you were high, but even then maybe not because it doesn't react negatively to anything or make you incapacitated enough to need medical attention.

You're protected by HIPAA, patient privacy laws; medical records stay inside of the medical system. Also even if you came to the hospital and were high on whatever, we wouldn't call the police or otherwise get you in trouble (unless you became extremely violent ;-) )

I wish insurance would support medical marijuana! Holy crap, you'd save an outrageous amount of money.

Did that answer about everything? I'm pretty high, so it may have been rather disjointed.

[Mrs Chubbs]

Not that I agree with hiding anything, but I have heard about people being denied organ transplants because they smoke. They were totally on the up and up with their doctors and such. Sucks, but true.

[DPHil.Socrates]

Not that I agree with hiding anything, but I have heard about people being denied organ transplants because they smoke. They were totally on the up and up with their doctors and such. Sucks, but true.

This is probably, if that's how simple it was, a HUGE lawsuit waiting to happen (assuming it's prescription pot, not black market). That's essentially the equivalent of discrimination, which is strange, because all doctors (I hope) know how harmless pot is, and for an entire board of physicians to deny an organ based on that is just strange.

[Mrs Chubbs]

This is probably, if that's how simple it was, a HUGE lawsuit waiting to happen (assuming it's prescription pot, not black market). That's essentially the equivalent of discrimination, which is strange, because all doctors (I hope) know how harmless pot is, and for an entire board of physicians to deny an organ based on that is just strange.

I think it's "legal" to deny because insurance companies are nationwide (i.e. go off federal laws) or maybe it's the hospitals themselves that are denying. Have a look: Cheryl Shuman testifies (http://blog.norml.org/2010/01/23/beverly-hills-norml-director-cheryl-shuman-testifies-on-the-cruelty-of-banning-medical-marijuana-patients-from-transplant-lists/).

[johard59]

At first I am really surprised to hear that you finally told it to your mom whom you consider as a lady of old times and that's one of the reasons she has been still not kicking you out of the house.Anyways, whether you like to be diagnosed by your family doc or not or whether you don't wanna try our some pills for yourself, that's all up to you.But there is a saying that when the sun sets, it's always a fresh day in the next morning.So come on track and be good.

[dahcwon]

I told my doctor at the VA and she was all fine with, but that's only because I'm in California. Veterans around the nation the have been losing there benefits for smoking marijuana, but its crazy since marijuana is the best treatment for Post-traumatic stress disorder. If it was not for marijuana I could not function on a daily basis. I was taking 9 mill-grams of Xanax everyday to combat the PTSD, but I just turned me into a non-functionally zombie. Then I would still need a Ambien at night to stay asleep through my nightmares.