I recommend talking to different care givers and sources of information when faced with an illness. Specialists, nurses, pharmacists, herbalists, chiropractors and the person next door who has a relative who had something similar-- any one might have a piece of information that helps make healing possible. Accessing care and information about the latest and even common folk treatments can be a labyrinth.
Just got a personal reminder of the importance of talking to people who have been through a condition to get help.
I was referred by my dentist to an oral surgeon who told me I may have a chronic infection or cancer. It might be slow growing as CT revealed it has eaten through my skull. It might be fast as a little finger sized lump appeared between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It might be something benign but the biopsy will be back from the lab next week.
As it is so close to the brain I have an urgency to begin treatment and I have in the past recommended Rick Simpson Oil. I have told people how easy it is to talk to knowledgeable doctors and cannabis club owners and it how it will all go smoothly.
My experience has been frustrating: The cannabis shops cannot talk over the phone about products or benefits. They say come down to the shop. My local shop wont let me in to ask a question without a medical authorization. There are well dressed kids driving expensive cars in the parking lot and the place looks like a spa with color changing led lit waterfalls. I do not want to pay an online doctor to authorize to find out the local cannabis shop does not have what I want: organic alcohol extracted oil in the tradition of Rick Simpson.
I contacted a friend with cancer and he checks for me: no.
He spends an hour explaining all the ways to use it not described in medical literature.
I call an online cannabis doctor who is more rushed than a regular MD-- no practical discussion.
I am left with the experience that the medical marijuana industry is not set up for medicine.
The rules are as Byzantine as pharmacy and the FDA prevents any actual discussion with "Bud-tenders."
Not as straight forward as I was led to believe.
I had imagined being a cancer counselor not long ago to help people navigate integrative options.
Many complementary treatments I already have in my life...interestingly I stopped my usual diet for the Holidays and stopped using numerous supplements (Curcumin and some expensive adaptogens and green drinks) and behold I was gifted a tumor. Getting back on all of those supplements plus fermented mushrooms and hopefully with medical grade cannabis.
I really value the folks at constance therapeutics. They are the pharmacists of medical marijuana. And I am blessed to have a friend who has personal knowledge with cancer and cannabis.
http://constancetherapeutics.com/
Just got a personal reminder of the importance of talking to people who have been through a condition to get help.
I was referred by my dentist to an oral surgeon who told me I may have a chronic infection or cancer. It might be slow growing as CT revealed it has eaten through my skull. It might be fast as a little finger sized lump appeared between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It might be something benign but the biopsy will be back from the lab next week.
As it is so close to the brain I have an urgency to begin treatment and I have in the past recommended Rick Simpson Oil. I have told people how easy it is to talk to knowledgeable doctors and cannabis club owners and it how it will all go smoothly.
My experience has been frustrating: The cannabis shops cannot talk over the phone about products or benefits. They say come down to the shop. My local shop wont let me in to ask a question without a medical authorization. There are well dressed kids driving expensive cars in the parking lot and the place looks like a spa with color changing led lit waterfalls. I do not want to pay an online doctor to authorize to find out the local cannabis shop does not have what I want: organic alcohol extracted oil in the tradition of Rick Simpson.
I contacted a friend with cancer and he checks for me: no.
He spends an hour explaining all the ways to use it not described in medical literature.
I call an online cannabis doctor who is more rushed than a regular MD-- no practical discussion.
I am left with the experience that the medical marijuana industry is not set up for medicine.
The rules are as Byzantine as pharmacy and the FDA prevents any actual discussion with "Bud-tenders."
Not as straight forward as I was led to believe.
I had imagined being a cancer counselor not long ago to help people navigate integrative options.
Many complementary treatments I already have in my life...interestingly I stopped my usual diet for the Holidays and stopped using numerous supplements (Curcumin and some expensive adaptogens and green drinks) and behold I was gifted a tumor. Getting back on all of those supplements plus fermented mushrooms and hopefully with medical grade cannabis.
I really value the folks at constance therapeutics. They are the pharmacists of medical marijuana. And I am blessed to have a friend who has personal knowledge with cancer and cannabis.
http://constancetherapeutics.com/
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