Charlotte Finn, affected person coordinator at Zerenia Clinics UK, shares her journey with fibromyalgia and medical hashish.
Charlotte’s journey with fibromyalgia started on the age of 21 throughout a tough being pregnant along with her daughter in 2012.
Ten weeks into her being pregnant she discovered herself unable to stroll as a result of SPD (symphysis pubis dysfunction) which led her to needing a wheelchair, leaving her bed-bound for more often than not. She started taking codeine for the ache and by the point she bought to full-term she wanted day by day blood thinning injections to stop clotting.
Charlotte was suggested by specialists that her ache would subside after giving delivery to her daughter, nonetheless, this was not the case.
After a number of months of exams, MRI’S and excruciating ache, she was recognized with fibromyalgia and Joint Hypermobility Syndrome.
Going from a match and lively younger lady to being a brand new mum and disabled, unable to hold on with the approach to life she had as soon as identified, was devastating, and heightened by a long-standing prognosis of depression since her teenagers.
Fibromyalgia impacts individuals in many alternative methods. For Charlotte, her essential signs embody widespread chronic pain, joint ache, costochondritis, disturbed sleep patterns, fatigue, mind fog, muscle and joint stiffness, irritable bowel syndrome, nausea, migraines, complications, melancholy, and anxiousness.
Earlier than Charlotte discovered medical hashish, she spent years biking via numerous medicines, every bringing its personal unintended effects and added issues in makes an attempt to search out one thing that will relieve her ache, psychological well being points and permit her to have life value residing.
The medicines she tried included: Sertraline, amitriptyline, sumatriptan, naproxen, pregabalin, codeine, co-codamol, Targinact, meloxicam, gabapentin and paracetamol.
Easy issues akin to rolling over in mattress, getting off the bed and attending to the bathroom appear to be not possible duties if you find yourself residing your life in power ache.
“For a few years I struggled to have the ability to take my daughter to highschool, I couldn’t take her to the park and push her on the swings, easy pleasures in life that had been as soon as saved out of my attain,” says Charlotte.
In 2020, after shedding her part-time job as a result of being unable to bodily get into work anymore and struggling a nervous breakdown, Charlotte discovered herself determined for one more solution to handle her well being.
She started researching, studying, and creating a greater sense of herself, different medicines, and therapies. This ignited a newfound ardour for Charlotte and led her to finish programs in holistic well being, herbalism, the endocannabinoid system (ECS), understanding autism, counselling expertise and medicinal hashish.
In 2021, Charlotte discovered PLEA (Patient-Led Engagement for Entry), a gaggle of like-minded sufferers who’ve devoted themselves to assist the various. With their help and steering, she started her medical hashish journey and acquired her first prescription.
After making an attempt different medical hashish clinics Charlotte discovered herself at Zerenia Clinics UK. She was so overwhelmed by the compassion and understanding that they had of her situation that she determined to hitch the workforce as a affected person care coordinator. Her position sees her assist others who really feel left with no different therapy choices discover the aid they deserve.
“Medical hashish has given me a brand new life,” says Charlotte.
“For me, it has allowed me to ween off all of the tablets and rely solely on my medical hashish treatment to deal with each my fibromyalgia signs and psychological well being. Without the added unintended effects and now having a ache aid that works for me as and after I want it, I can stroll my daughter to highschool, I can clear the home, I’m able to work.”
She provides: “There isn’t any miracle remedy, I nonetheless have ache flare-ups at occasions of stress and a few days are tougher than others, however I’m happier, more healthy, and capable of be the very best mum I may be to my daughter now. Which means the world to me, and it’s because of medical hashish that I can.”
Zerenia Clinics UK presents FREE eligibility assessments for brand spanking new sufferers. For present medical Hashish sufferers, Zerenia presents consultations at half the price.
Go to zereniaclinic.co.uk to contact certainly one of their affected person care coordinators in the present day to learn the way.
For extra data contact a member of the workforce. Name: 0204 515 0797. Electronic mail: [email protected]
