Psilocybin Fibro and Me

    Another long stretch between posts. I should post more often, but you know life kinda gets in the way. Today I am going to post about my experience with Magic Mushrooms or Psilocybin. First I shall run my disclaimer. Yes I know, Psilocybin is illegal, but so is cannabis. Yes I know Doctors do not like it when we self medicate. Do I care. Not one bit. I need to ask what the difference is between a Doc prescribing me a drug or me prescribing myself a drug? In my mind there is no difference at all. Do docs know more about drugs than I do. Most certainly. Do doc know more about my body and my pain than I do. Most certainly not!  What matters to me most would be my wife, my kids, my spirituality and my health. In that order. 
   On to business. Last year I went to an outdoor music fest for the first time in my life. 5 days of music and camping. I may not have covered this in my previous posts, but one of my vices would be that I just love to trip. I've tripped a lot when I was a teenager, but that was all kinds of acid. I didn't like the chemical feel of acid or the 3 day burn out that good acid gives for a hangover.            I tried Psilocybin when I was in the Navy and I was home on leave. It was great but I never had the chance to go again. There were 1 or 2 more acid trip and then I quit tripping. I didnt like the chemical feeling. Fast forward 35 years and here we are. So I got the opportunity to try Psilocybin ( here after known as "shrooms") again last year at the fest. Wow. I had a very nice non chemical contaminated mellow trip. Tripped twice for that matter. I tried something called psilocybin drops. Yea that was way to intense for me. So I tried regular shrooms a couple days later and that was exactly what I was looking for. I had a nice mellow body high kind of trip that didnt go on for ever.  
    A couple of days later i noticed that I wasnt having a whole lot of fibro pain. I had just spent 5 days and 4 nights partying with weather problems and a poor diet with little sleep. That alone should have kicked my ass all the way to the Land Down Under and back. Nope I was feeling pretty good. I thought about the shrooms and if maybe just maybe they had something to do with that. I did some research and discovered studies on psilocybin and major depression. I also found studies on psilocybin and PTSD. Both studies show promising results. I wont go into detail on these studies. You could look them up the same way I did. 
  On to this summer. I decided to find and obtain enough shrooms to do a complete study for myself. I have tripped 10 times this summer and every trip, although different in buzz and quality, I found the same results. During the trip there is no fibro pain at all.  The trip peak only goes for 3 to 5 hours then its on its way down. No chemical hangover, no pain, no tiredness aside from a slight lack of sleep. Even the IBS is calmed way down for a couple of days after I trip. That in itself is worth way more than what I paid for my shrooms. I would pay big money, and I have, to be free of constant pooping every single morning, no mater what I eat. Nothing helps. 
     So shrooms put the skids on IBS, at least for me. 
   Now I have to admit that the shrooms do very little for the arthritis or the tinnitus. The tinnitus does calm down some but not a lot. I can handle that too. There are no side effects except for a very small bout of intestinal grief, but hey I ate poison mushrooms so what else does one expect? Its not too bad just some cramping and very small amount of nausea. All I need to do is eat something and the nausea goes away. I guess that's common.  I havent gone over 2 grams yet but I may at a later time. I am still exploring this so I am going to take it kinda slow. 
    So does this make me a bad person or a "drug abuser"? No. I'm still the same person I was before, except for the fibro and all of its wonderful problems. A drug abuser? No. I most certainly do not abuse drugs. Mayhap in the eyes of our establishment type of people I am guilty of drug abuse. In the eyes of my spirit I am seeking relief and spiritual guidance. 
  Back to the shrooms. I do plan on some more experimenting before winter time hits. I like to trip outside.  When it gets cold I wont trip again until spring or whenever the weather warms enough to enjoy being outside. I also dont like to trip in the daytime. I'm more comfortable at night anyway so that only makes sense. 
 Ok so now I got that out. I trip and I smoke weed and I usually feel pretty good. I do not trip every day. More like once in awhile. I do smoke weed everyday though. So sue me. Maybe next time I'll talk about my efforts to bake some edibles. I'm learning, and I am way behind, but I am learning there are better ways to ingest weed than to smoke it. That my friends, I'll save for another day. In the meantime I shall sign out and see you on the flip flop.. Peace my friends.