I have a common complaint. One of the nerves in my leg is being pinched by something. This results in numbness in the leg, tingling, burning and deep muscle pain. It's been going on for years, but has been getting progressively worse over the past six months. The other night the leg wouldn't let me sleep so I heeded my wife's advice and made an appointment to see an orthopedist.
So I go in and they ask what drugs I take and I go through the list (I suffer from a rather horrible mental disease as well as suffer high blood pressure, high cholesterol and migraine headaches, so I have quite a few meds) and of course I had to list marijuana as one of the medications I regularly take.
The doctor acted like I shot her. She could not believe a guy my age (I just turned 50 two weeks ago and you people forgot the surprise party) was using "illicit drugs". I almost laughed. I told her that sometimes it was all I had between me and screaming agony from the headaches, but that wasn't important. What was important was that I am an older man and I need to be responsible.
She even wrote across my treatment printout "NO ILLICIT DRUGS!" "NO MARIJUANA!"
Gimme' a break lady. Have I not earned the right to just a wee bit of comfort as time winds down in my life?
Frickin' square baffoon.
Is anyone else getting this kind of gas from the health community?
So I go in and they ask what drugs I take and I go through the list (I suffer from a rather horrible mental disease as well as suffer high blood pressure, high cholesterol and migraine headaches, so I have quite a few meds) and of course I had to list marijuana as one of the medications I regularly take.
The doctor acted like I shot her. She could not believe a guy my age (I just turned 50 two weeks ago and you people forgot the surprise party) was using "illicit drugs". I almost laughed. I told her that sometimes it was all I had between me and screaming agony from the headaches, but that wasn't important. What was important was that I am an older man and I need to be responsible.
She even wrote across my treatment printout "NO ILLICIT DRUGS!" "NO MARIJUANA!"
Gimme' a break lady. Have I not earned the right to just a wee bit of comfort as time winds down in my life?
Frickin' square baffoon.
Is anyone else getting this kind of gas from the health community?