[CaptainKirk]

Hi, my girlfriend and I are sixteen and pretty hesitant to talk to her extremely strict parents about this. She smoked marijuana nearly every day for at least four months until a few weeks ago. We haven't been together long enough for me to know a lot about her symptoms, but I know she has a problem with headaches.

She is overweight and has also experienced symptoms of anemia, which also points to carbon monoxide poisoning. Her headaches were usually what she described as migraines, but tonight she mentioned that it felt like pressure in her head that spread from one side to become a dull, continuous (not throbbing or sharp) pain along the entire top of her head, and she had to throw up after being dizzy for a while and losing her balance once or twice. She has not been in a recent accident, and I don't believe she lives in a home where she could be exposed to carbon monoxide any other way.

At first it sounded like some sort of tumor but she hasn't lost any hearing or vision or had any of the other obvious symptoms. All I know is that there is carbon monoxide in marijuana cigarettes and I am wondering if, weeks after having any, she could exhibit the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning? I don't know much about it, so I don't know if it could be this chronic, and if it is, how can I help her?

Thank you

[lostwonder]

Highly doubtful, although the symptoms you are describing would warrant a check up from her primary care physician.