excuse my sarcasm, but her "diseases" don't make sense...Endometriosis rarely starts before one's mid twenties, scoliosis is present in 7% of women, and rarely causes back pain from arthritis before age 40, and usually exercize and NSAIDS keeps it under control. Brain tumor? Seizures? Let me see the CT scan...bet the reporter never saw them...and my favorite "Chronic wasting syndrome"...this only exists with HIV or advanced cancer. And it is NOT a medical disease, just one of the side effects of advanced disease...makes me wonder if she has HIV or hepatitis C from her earlier illegal drug use making her sick...
Want to bet she likes being high, and after doctor shopping for her narcs has found the marijuana lets her be stoned all the time so she doesn't have to cope with life...
I know of no person who contracted HIV or HepC from smoking pot.
And LadyDoc-if you are indeed a Doc- I just love your bedside manner. Sounds like you are not at all concerned with your patient's level of pain.
I happen to doubt that you're a real doctor of medicine, or even a real Dr. of anything. How about posting a copy of your medical diploma? After all, it's the same standard for credibility that you require from this medical marijuana patient.
I don't believe that the article said she had arthritis due to her scoliosis, only that she had back pain from it. I, too, have some slight scoliosis. Now, it is not at all severe -it barely even counts- , but it does cause me some pain and muscle spasms on occasion. I am only 29. This I can manage with massage and judicious use of OTC pain medication. I can only imagine how much worse the pain would be if the scoliosis were more pronounced...
I also get migraines, and I have already tied belts,scarves ect. around my head (and begged poor dh to squeeze my skull, lol) to relieve the pain of migraines, when I couldn't afford Imitrex, and my doc has said I shouldn't use it now that I am pregnant. Other migraine meds did not work for me, so I can't rule out the idea that I would use medicinal pot for chronic pain like this lady suffers from if nothing else worked. A better idea, of course, would be to change the delivery method, so you could control it better...I don't know if that would prevent addiction, since I am not sure how THC would react to your system in a pill form vice smoking it.
Age. Endometriosis can occur in women of all ages. It has been reported in girls as young as 8 (and has been documented before the onset of menstruation), and in women over 75, with the average age being between 25 and 29. Approximately 40% to 60% of women with endometriosis report symptoms before age 25.[end excerpt]
Where did you get that she had earlier injected illegal drugs? The only way to get HepC or HIV by drug use is by contaminated needles, correct?
You have no evidence she has either one of those diseases nor do you know if she has a history of injecting illegal drugs, now do you?
So exactly what's wrong with wanting to be high? Is it the "you're going to hell if you don't suffer" thing? Actually, her use of marijuana is no business of yours or the governments. It's only the desire to control people that drives the WOD, added to the benefits the drug warriors get. Do no harm.