My latest piece on the Higher Living Wellness Centre Inc Blog
Meet Jessica, suffering with abdominal pain until she found cannabis…
Three years ago, Jessica started to not feel well. She was experiencing a lot of abdominal pain and nausea. A tumor had formed in her small intestine. It took a while to diagnose and find as tumors rarely grow in the small intestine being that’s it’s predominantly cartilage and it requires Endoscopic ultrasounds and scopes to detect. The symptoms it causes includes weight loss, bleeding if it becomes ulcerated, nausea and possible bowel obstruction. It took four scopes and surgery and 8 months to locate the tumor and remove it.
During her ordeal, Jessica was finding herself full of anxiety and was subsequently diagnosed with depression and Fibromyalgia. Anti depressants and Ativan were added to her already existing regimen of Morphine and Tramacet (an opioid analgesic combining acetaminophen and Tramadol) prescriptions.
One of the many negative side effects of opiates is stomach and bowel issues. Jessica was finding herself in…
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