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I Am Worried About My Health

I have a 1/4" cyst in the left side of my brain, I have juvenile osteoporosis which has resulted in 7 badly compressed vertebrae and severe kaiphosis. Canada's "free" health care was happy to diagnose but there is no coverage for any of my prescriptions. The cheapest apartments cost me my entire income so not only do I suffer pain and mobility problems but I can barely afford to eat at all, let alone utilize a bone "savvy" diet. I had such a terrible migraine all night because my spine got overworked the last few days. I have no helpers and cannot afford any.

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4meAndyou · F

I read your paragraph with a certain degree of horror. Canadas socialized healthcare is held out to us as one of the examples of how socialized medicine can work in the United States.

I can not tell you how much I sympathize with you. It is so difficult to know what to say when your situation is so dire. I hope and pray there is some member of your government to whom you can write and ask for help.

Salix75 · 46-50, F

@4meAndyou Canada's healthcare system is an odd amalgam of Federal and Provincial jurisdiction. It's "free" in that it's paid with taxes, but this way it's available to anyone. However, prescriptions are managed by the Provinces, and only part (the majority often) of the cost is covered by the Provincial government.

Anonymartyr · M

I have a nurse practitioner. Doctors have refused me as a patient mainly because they cannot prescribe me opioids.

Salix75 · 46-50, F

@Anonymartyr cannot, or will not? Either way, they sound like crappy doctors. Have they offered alternatives, such as CBD?

Anonymartyr · M

@Salix75 they will legalize marijuana very soon but they intend on keeping it at street prices and sell it like the liquor stores in Ontario. I can only hope that they will eventually cover it financially. Research in the past decade suggests that CB2 in it should help to balance the bone loss to bone growth ratio without messing around with female hormone production, which is why I cannot use Actonel DR which is covered.

Salix75 · 46-50, F

@Anonymartyr I was thinking medical CBD, not recreational. so you get the health benefits (pain management) without the high. I don't know much about it, but my mum has started using medical CBD and says it's very effective

Anonymartyr · M

All strains are medical in Canada. I can get one very potent strain that will replace 3 medications 2 of which are not about pain.

SW-User

@Anonymartyr the legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada so far has no effect on prescriptions for medicinal. Rightfully it's being considered very separate from each other.

Anonymartyr · M

@Salix75 I cannot use the strains for only painkilling because they relax the muscles too much and besides that is not high enough in CB2 which helps balance bone loss/growth ratio. In any case The Canibis Clinic will inform me if there ever is any coverage for applicable marijuana.