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Hi - hope everyone is keeping well.
For a number of reasons its been a long time since I had an appointment with MAC. Would anyone be able to share how they have been dealing with patients recently - do they still have a restricted product range? Is there a reasonable dialogue on the consultation and knowledge of what they are offering?
I will most likely give them one more appointment then decide what to do next.
I’m a long time sufferer of mainly health based anxiety, and often focusing on the heart. I also have some OCD tendencies, and since getting my first Fitbit watch 5 years ago I’ve been tracking myself more and more.
In the past year or so I now track my steps, weight, heart rate, sleep, and water intake every day mainly via Fitbit. I also use it to check my heartrate many times a day. Every morning when I wake up I’d check my heartrate and sleep stats during the night - if it was low and steady I’d feel good, if it was high/irregular I’d perhaps worry more. I’d do the same at the end of the day, or after any exercise, so quite obsessively.
Around 3 weeks ago my watch was giving an incorrec
Hope everyone is keeping safe and well.
Just wanted to hear thoughts of others on the Althea flower, THC 18%. I was skeptical because I know MAC are known for pushing their own products, but I needed a new indica/sedating strain and the price was fair.
I tried it recently and was unexpectedly impressed - did not expect such a strong smell and flavour, and the effects were excellent. I’m not sure if I’ve just been suffering from strain lock (if this is a real thing) for too long, but I’m excited to have this new flower.
I know it’s referenced as ‘Alien Dawg’ strain, is this a confident answer or guess? Curious as the taste was extremely similar to a BM strain I had in years past, possibly
Hi - I hope everyone is keeping well.
I’m making an appointment to see a private cardiologist as I suspect I’ve had costochondritis (rib inflammation) for years now, but it’s become more troubling recently and I want to rule out anything cardiac related.
I want to provide all the information the cardiologist needs, and I feel that includes the fact I’m a medical cannabis patient with nightly usage. However I don’t want this to derail the conversation, which I fear it might especially if they have not dealt with medical cannabis before.
Does anyone have any experience / insight / advice to share around this?
I think most experiences with us so far will be with GPs, who in my experience ar
A few months ago when I received my first prescription I was ecstatic. Cannabis enabled me to quit my other medications, it treats my symptoms effectively, and finally I could move past the fear of criminality by becoming a legal patient.
Except that it hasn’t quite worked out that way. Whilst I do feel more secure in that by the letter of the law I am a legal patient, it hasn’t had the sweeping effect I maybe hoped for. It’s still a secret from my family, I still tidy it all away when someone visits, I don’t dare mention it to any colleagues at work, and I feel uncomfortable in public or driving with my medication in case the police were to stop me because it appears from other patients’ e
Hey, hope everyone is keeping well! I’m looking for advice/guidance/experience on taking medical cannabis on UK domestic flights.
This isn’t much of an issue now, but I’m considering how my job will change post-covid and although I may be able to continue working remotely most of the time, I’m sure I will still be travelling to the office / client site a few times a month. Depending on where I settle down in the next few months this may mean flying often.
There’s no concern about the legality at the destination as it’ll be UK to UK travel, but I am still very unsure about taking cannabis flower and a vape through an airport, multiple times a month. So a few questions:
Hi All, firstly just to say thanks for this sub and all the amazing daily contributers.
So I had some symptoms last week and went to get a test at a walk through test centre last Wednesday. Thankfully it came back negative (the same day, impressive turnaround!), but now I’m feeling awfully anxious that I put myself at risk and may have caught the virus by going there.
The centre was like a big tent in a car park... didn’t seem that well ventilated. It wasn’t busy but I saw four people leaving as I was going in. I spent as little time as possible there but still a bit paranoid about being close to the mirror to swab, and wondering if I was in the same ‘tent booth’ as someone was just minute
I’ve been struggling on and off during the pandemic, but this year has been rough. I’m based in the UK and my region’s cases were higher than ever during December and January.
We live in a small seaside town, I work from home and my partner works as a barista 1-3 days a week (and really wants to keep working for income and sanity). We go out for a walk a few times a week, into a shop for groceries once a week, and otherwise relatively little exposure risk.
We have had two covid tests already this year (negative) after feeling a funny throat, or some coughing during the night. Unfortunately every week I seem to feel a new cold/flu/covid like symptom and immediately want to get a test for re
Hi All,
Firstly thanks for building this community and helping push forward progress in such a constructive way.
I have a confirmed appointment tomorrow with Dr S[...] at MyAccess Clinics, as a patient with anxiety disorder. I’ve provided a good deal of medical records detailing my condition and past unsuccessful treatments, and understand I should quality.
I’m just feeling very nervous (anxiety really) as this feels like a big deal for me for a number of reasons. If anyone has been through the process and can give some insight or could kindly DM me to answer a few questions it would be really appreciated. In particular a few areas on my mind are:
Does anyone have any helpful tips or advice for dealing with noise-related anxiety?
I like in an apartment building in a city, there’s lots of noise around - traffic, people outside, construction sites and so on. I can generally deal with these okay. My problem is with new noises or things very closeby.
For example when I hear music or loud talking, my anxiety spikes. It’s like I need to immediately understand where the noise is coming from, how long it might last, if I can do anything about it, if this will be regular or a one-off, and so on. This is a huge overreaction to something which doesn’t really cause me real problems - in most cases the music stops, the loud talking goes away.
This is an odd post (in odd times) so please forgive me, but I’ve always found UKPF to be such a helpful subreddit.
My girlfriend lives in London, is a citizen of Taiwan and here on a working holiday visa. She is a barista and last month was job hunting, and got an offer she was really happy with. Tomorrow is her last day at the current job, and she has just been contacted by the new employer to say they can no longer hire her.
She is very upset, and I’m just trying to think of how we can deal with things practically. She has approx 1.5-3 months living costs in savings and I can also support in the short term.
She would like to get another job as soon as possible. However given the situat
Apologies, bit of a downbeat post here. Basically, does anyone else not do any socialising over the weekend?
Since being out of a long term relationship my weekends have become really quite mundane. I do have work friends and we occasionally go for work drinks and it’s fun, but there’s very few people in London who I would see at the weekend.
I do my own thing and it is quite enjoyable. Generally a bit of gaming, exercise, netflix, various chores, eating nice food, and so on. However at some point in the weekend, usually when I’ve been out and seen lots of people out with their friends / family / partner, I get a weird feeling of loneliness even though I’m naturally quite an introvert. Als
A few times a year I go back to my family home, which I lived in until 18. I used to pretend I was a teen again, I’d play video games, eat junkfood, maybe smoke weed when my parents were gone. It was great and pulled me through when my normal life in a major city was beating me down.
I feel like it doesn’t work anymore. Everything is changed, including me. The house feels different, my parents are different, I’m different. Normally I came home and could be carefree again. Now I spend my time giving health, financial or relationship advice to my parents. My mum even told me she has been put on an ssri and I’ve been advising her on it as I take an snri. I don’t stay up late or eat badly becau