questions about MARINOL. gettin script.

[ILLWILLMD]

next week i will be getting MARINOL, from my bup doc, along with bupe, soma, visteril, phenegrin, clonapin whick i have already recived. my question is how does it relate to pot. pot has many cannabinoids, and marinol is just delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. does anyone have any experiance with this drug? please i would like to know what to expect.

[youwonhundred]

next week i will be getting MARINOL, from my bup doc, along with bupe, soma, visteril, phenegrin, clonapin whick i have already recived. my question is how does it relate to pot. pot has many cannabinoids, and marinol is just delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. does anyone have any experiance with this drug? please i would like to know what to expect.

I've tried it a few times. The recreational value is pretty low, compared to some good bud. Just makes me hungry as fuck. Might be okay for wd, combined with some loperamide and a couple drinks (thanks nick :p)

[Hammilton]

what are you getting it prescribed for? Seems like an odd thing to get.

I'd love to try it once in my life, though.

[flipside]

Like U-100 it gave me the munchies which was a good thing cause I was RX'd it for nausea & vommiting after chemo. Not much recreation value though. I agree. Great for it's intended purpose. And I agree that is an incredibly strange med for your Sub Dr. of all things to be RX'ing. Curious.

[AWOL]

Yeah hi, I'll have the number 5 combo please ..... and super size it.

Thanks.

[soulman]

Tried it a couple of times, it's alright if you take a couple with a few pints of Guiness!!!:D
Why are you getting it scripted is the question that we all would like to know?
I thought it was kinda funny when my bupe doc told me he would write me a script for whatener benzo I wanted, but a pot substitute, I would have to do a double take on that! I mean they know we are on bupe because we are addicts and then they offer us valiums, xanax and now weed substitutes?!?!?!?!?!?!?!:confused::confused::conf used:

[soulman]

Yeah hi, I'll have the number 5 combo please ..... and super size it.

Thanks.

That's some funny shit bro!!!:p

[opi8fiend]

damn!!! I wish my sub doctor gave me a cocktail of those drugs...All i get is bullshit sonata or ambien when i have sleeping problems and anti-depressents when i have anxiety...I'm jealous of you....As far as the marinol goes, I'm gonna go with the crowd here and say that when i experienced it as well, it didn't give you that "stoned" effect, it just made me really hungry as well....I believe that's why they prescribe it off-label for people with eating disorders, I may be wrong though....

[pharmboy]

Maybe your Bup Dr. has a crush on ya. . ? .

So she gives you everything you want and more.:rolleyes:

[Duckfeet]

I once had a female guard that worked at the methadone clinic in Houston get a serious crush on me...all she ever got me was half a pizza and a quart of beer...some people get all the luck :-(

Maybe your Bup Dr. has a crush on ya. . ? .
So she gives you everything you want and more.:rolleyes:

[CSiiSEQ]

It's really just like getting 1 of the 60+ cannabinoids from cannabis. Part of the difference observed with the effects is due to taking it orally rather than smoking it. A lot of the efficacy credited to marijuana is due to its rapid effects. I have read and talked to people who enjoyed it as well as others who didn't think it was anything great. I haven't tried it and don't like pot to start with.

[ILLWILLMD]

i am getting it for appetite stimulation. my doc smokes weed, id like to know if in she could scribe me some treez. she offerd it to me, with a shit eating grin which i cought a case of myself upon her mentioning.

i also got the following i asked 4:
clonazepam 1mg. i / po bid prn.
subutex 8 mg. i / po tid.
promethazine 25mg. i - ii po bid prn.
hydroxazine pamoate 50 mg. i po tid prn
carisprodol 350mg. i po tid.
zyprexa 5mg. 1 po at night.
clonadine .1mg. 1 po bid prn
marinol 10mg. 1 po befoer meals prn

so all in all it think i did pretty good no?
lol, by

[flipside]

I'd say you did very well. Cool doc, one that admits to her patients in a recovery setting that she smokes bud? Better hope she is a little more discreet with her other patients and more importantly her peers, or she may not be around very long.

You hit the jackpoit with this one. Enjoy!:D

[Sitar]

That doctor sounds horribly irresponsible, prescribing an admitted drug addict several other addictive substances. I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but that doc is just asking for her license to be taken away. The DEA does not fuck around with doctors like that; they will just can her ass faster than anything if any attention is drawn to it.

By the way, opi8: Ambien is good stuff, you should be happy to get that.

[moviebuff927]

next week i will be getting MARINOL, from my bup doc, along with bupe, soma, visteril, phenegrin, clonapin whick i have already recived. my question is how does it relate to pot. pot has many cannabinoids, and marinol is just delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. does anyone have any experiance with this drug? please i would like to know what to expect.

SEARCH! SEARCH! and then SEARCH AGAIN!!!!

I'm not trying to take it all out on you, but the information is out there if you JUST SEARCH!!!! C'mon now, anyone with a brain can find out exactly what you were looking for. Hell, even searching on this site would give you ample information!

I'm just getting sick and tired of seeing people post broad, general, and simple questions to which the answers should be apparent and shows that the OP did NOthing to attempt to find the answers on his own.

We're just getting too lazy to even search?

To the OP, I'm not taking all of this rant out on you, but I'm just tired of questions like yours that are too easy to find the answer to instead of wasting precious space on this website. I apologize if you feel it was directed at you, but it just finally got to me.

Because I do guarantee that question has been asked before, and the dosages and strengths, side effects, and its relation to THC. Like you said, there are over 100 active cannibanoids in marijuana and from what I understand, they work synergestically (all in accompaniement, together, not seperately) there's no "one" active cannibinoid in the hundreds of different ones. "Dronabinol" is the chemical name for Marinol which is not only a pharmaceutical short for delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, but also entirely synthetic, not made from any plant material.

Just research before you ask a question...please...

- m o v i e b u f f

[moviebuff927]

SEARCH! SEARCH! and then SEARCH AGAIN!!!!

I'm not trying to take it all out on you, but the information is out there if you JUST SEARCH!!!! C'mon now, anyone with a brain can find out exactly what you were looking for. Hell, even searching on this site would give you ample information!

I'm just getting sick and tired of seeing people post broad, general, and simple questions to which the answers should be apparent and shows that the OP did NOthing to attempt to find the answers on his own.

We're just getting too lazy to even search?

To the OP, I'm not taking all of this rant out on you, but I'm just tired of questions like yours that are too easy to find the answer to instead of wasting precious space on this website. I apologize if you feel it was directed at you, but it just finally got to me.

Because I do guarantee that question has been asked before, and the dosages and strengths, side effects, and its relation to THC. Like you said, there are over 100 active cannibanoids in marijuana and from what I understand, they work synergestically (all in accompaniement, together, not seperately) there's no "one" active cannibinoid in the hundreds of different ones. "Dronabinol" is the chemical name for Marinol which is not only a pharmaceutical short for delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, but also entirely synthetic, not made from any plant material.

Just research before you ask a question...please...

- m o v i e b u f f

Sorry, made a few mistakes:

first, there are a few active cannibinoids, but less than 10 that are of any significance, I believe. But they work with all other ones, even the less active cannibinoids. So the "high" you experience from smoking unadulterated (not pharmaceutical) marijuana is probably the most beneficial (in my opinion)

dronabinol is entirely made in a lab, not extracted from any strains of cannabis sativa or indica. So its effects are very limited due to the lack of other "naturally active" cannabinoids and for the fact that it's structure is different than THC's, though not as complex.

I'm not an expert, but this is my understanding of how it's different. I've noticed that Marinol feels nothing like any kind of weed I've ever smoked, ate, or consumed.

[insaneike]

Marinol is crap. This girl my buddy worked with was scripted the 10mg i think ones. Lil orange pills. We took 2 each(had smacked less than an hour beforehand too) with a few percs n lortab(this was ebfore I was an opi user, and many years ago) and I was drinkingtequila shots with beer. Well the two marinol wasn't nothing I could notice... I really didn't notice shit. My friend got mad munchies from his, but wasn't high by any means from the marinol. Keep in mind we were daily tokers, 1oz a week between 3ppl. So maybe we had a toler. But we then took 2 more marinol tabs each before we smoked a few more bowls. Now the other 20mg gave us both sooo bad mubchies! We wasn't really high though. There was a feeling like somethin was going to happen, but it never did. It's like taking your first toke from a J and then putting the thing out... you get a taste and nothing more. It sucked. Glad we didn't pay! We didn't get the slightest buzz, just hungry, and the alcy added to the munchies I know. It's like the come up of a thc high but it doens't never kick in if you can get what I'm trying to say... It's something you kinda feel but then it just goes to nothing ya know what I mean?

All in all, absolutely disapointed after hearing all the hype about it online. I mean it added a good little high to the pot we was toking the whole time but nothing MUCH diff than ordinary you know.. Keep in mind I didn't even get much from the dankest pot then(i don't smoke at all now, haven't in over a year) so I'm sure my toler came into play then. Personally I found it next to worthless at 20mg then 20mg more about 3hours later. I was buzzed good but the Marinol added very little to my high I had going...
Also keep in mind that everyone is different and reacts differently to different drugs. The woman who was prescribed them seem to LOVE them when combined with toking a J. So some people actually do get a good use out of them. Just not me...

and your situation with that doc seems very weird, if she discussed this whole she smokes situationw ith you and didn't know you at all in ehr office during an appointment, well, you can bet your ass something isn't right or she is going to go down/be busted... Now if y'all two have a little thing going and have known each other outside the medical thing thats a diff story.. good luck though man.

[OxyContinuously]

Ikes right^^^ little orange fuckers....like mini round jelly-filled things

I do disagree just on the thing that they are crap...I know what you mean, Ike, they are absolutely no substitute for weed...after all dronabinol is a man made cannabinoid, BUT I found that two of the ten mg capsules with a blunt of what i usually smoke, did have me right, I gotta say, no lie.

I have tried it by itself as well, and without weed on top of it, it's a very body-orientated high..I can see how it would be a good adjunct to pain medication, becasue it gives that muscle loosening effect, kinda like valium, but obviously in it's own category. One thing that *did* surprise me, however was that if you take enough (for me we're talking three or 4 of the ten mg ones) and don't happen to smoke, believe it or not you'll be satisfied, and will actually feel a high reminiscent of smoked weed. Does the job. You gotta remember though that I think it's "label-use" is an appetite stimulant, which as U100 said, it works very very well. Boy was i hungry after that!!! more so than if I had just smoked weed for example; I can see how this may be of great benefit to cancer patients, or people that get anuseaus chronically for whatever reason.

they also come in 2.5mg and 5mg--useless unless u have practically never smoked in ur life, LOL

Now, on to the doctor that prescribed all this. That sounds like malpractice to me. First of, i have never heard of a doc prescribing Marinol to anyone other than people on death's door w cancer or something related. Second, the Suboxone, AND Klonopin as well? I mean benzos are specifically contraindicated with bupe, so i don't understand why ur doc would do this...Then u talk about the anti-psychotic zyprexa and promethazine AND hydroxyzine AND soma??? Sorry, but i smell bullshit. Hey if ur not lying, than my fault, I apologize, but come on, no doctor in their right mind would prescribe a cocktail like that---it just doesn't make sense...I mean if you understand the chemistry and the pharmacology of the drugs in you extended script, it starts to become rather spectacular as far as the "far-fetched" nature...again no disrespect or anything like that, but this sounds like shit to me

later
peace out

Oxy

[Hammilton]

yeah for real, I'm with OxyC here; it's either not real, you're dead, you want to be, or your doc is a fucking moron.

Suboxone, Klonopin, Soman alone are enough to kill a person, even experienced persons. Plus Zyprexa, Promethazine and Hydroxyzine? wtf? there's no way you could function.

plus marinol. man, I suspect a pharmacist, who was probably about ready to call the DEA on this, was on the phone the minute you handed him that script

[mrklean]

I am not really surprised about the doc precribing all this. It is just too bad more docs aren't so cool.

[Hammilton]

you're not? That really surprizes me. In a situation like this, I have to say that the doc isn't being "cool"- more like reckless.

There are lots of good docs out there, ones that are willing to break the rules a little bit to ensure a better outcome for addicts. I can see a Sub doc prescribing marinol "to ease drug-induced nausea"- but really to keep you from smoking pot. That's being cool. What's not cool is loading someone up on so many depressants that death is as likely as enjoying yourself.

Or prescribing klons to a sub patient who has anxiety. That's done all the time, but most clinics bar it.


When you have your doctor's trust, then you're more likely to get treated better. Same as anything, really.

But this doc either really wants to go to jail or this is made up.