Cannabis has taken a part of my brain

[Nochowderforyou]

I just noticed when I type or even write something, I leave out complete words of what I'm writing. I don't mean a letter, I mean an entire word. It's like I'm writing faster than my brain can compute. Anyone else have problem? this problem I mean.

Nochowderforyou Reviewed by Nochowderforyou on 03-17-2007. Cannabis has taken a part of my brain I just noticed when I type or even write something, I leave out complete words of what I'm writing. I don't mean a letter, I mean an entire word. It's like I'm writing faster than my brain can compute. Anyone else have problem? this problem I mean. ;) Rating: 5

[Purple Banana]

I do, but I've had it long before smoking pot... It's one of the plethora of neurological symptoms I'm having right now.

My brain processes thoughts faster that I can speak, it's just my speech is very affected. Thank pot my neurologist says my bi weekly toking has very little if anything to do with it :thumbsup:

[4gan2ja0]

i find that when i think of what im writing, ill get ahead of myself and just miss entire words, ive never thought of it before, but it probably is the weed

[Nochowderforyou]

Sometimes I'll read words one ahead of the other and miss certain words by doing so. I don't know if it is the weed, but it's weird sometimes. I have to read a sentence more than once sometimes so I can compute it.

[birdgirl73]

I have that very same problem, too, and I'm not a cannabis smoker, just an advocate. I think it's because of the processing vs. typing issue Purple Banana identified. And in me, I think it's also because I have an as-yet-undiagnosed degenerative brain disease, possibly attributable to middle age or stress, that's rapidly eating holes in my gray matter.

[timothylearyisdead]

I had that problem a lot before I cut back on smoking. For some of us I guess it really is the weed, but some of us are just naturally retarded:areindeer:

[4gan2ja0]

id say its a bit of both for me...

[Purple Banana]

That's a bite, BG... I had an appointment with my NEW PCP the other week (GREAT guy, finally I've found a good doc!) and he casually mentioned "Yes, I've had a woman in here before with similar symptoms... She had a malignant tumor in her frontal lobe, but I don't think that's the issue with you..."

I looked at him, and was like "Oh, gee, THANKS..."

They found a few bilateral lesions on the white matter and a few mysterious indentations of my dura and pia mater (during an MRI in 2004 for ataxia caused by a reaction to Flexeril), thought it was MS, but that wasn't the case. I still can't help but think about whether or not they're causing my problems, but so far, none of my doctors can figure it out.

Maybe a odd form of dyslexia, Chowder? Stress, maybe?

[birdgirl73]

Glad to hear you've seen a new and better doc now, Purple B! That is great news, and I know you're relieved to have a decent one who'll listen.

Have they, in what testing you've had so far, checked to make sure your cerebellum and brain stem are not squeezed too tightly down in the posterior fossa region of your head? That is, have they ruled out type I Arnold-Chiari malformation?
Chiari Malformation Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

[Matt the Funk]

I do, but I've had it long before smoking pot... It's one of the plethora of neurological symptoms I'm having right now.

My brain processes thoughts faster that I can speak, it's just my speech is very affected. Thank pot my neurologist says my bi weekly toking has very little if anything to do with it :thumbsup:

Yeah! same, except Idon't tell my doctor about it. I forget a lot of things to talk to my doctor about.