{"id":16850,"date":"2021-06-01T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabishealthnews.co.uk\/?p=16850"},"modified":"2022-02-11T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T09:38:37","slug":"webinar-womens-health-and-cannabis-medicines-women-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabishealthnews.co.uk\/2021\/06\/01\/webinar-womens-health-and-cannabis-medicines-women-in-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"WEBINAR: Women’s health and cannabis medicines | 01 Women in pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cannabis Health hosted the first in four-part series of expert webinars, exploring the role of medical cannabis in women\u2019s health.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In this episode we were joined by a panel of clinical experts and patients with lived-experience, to explore women\u2019s pain and gynaecological symptoms, the struggles they have faced in their journey to get a diagnosis and how cannabis medicines have helped the<\/span>m find relief.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI was told as a 24-year-old woman, to ‘have a family and then a hysterectomy’ or ‘we can just induce the menopause and put you on hormone replacement therapy’.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI was 30-years-old when I had surgery and since I was 14 I had been told it was just my period.\u201d – Abby Hughes, PLEA<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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“It takes years of women going to the GP for them to be listened to and for [doctors] to accept there is something wrong, they then need to be referred to a secondary care setting and it can take years for this to happen. By this time [the patient] will have been suffering for years which will affect them mentally as well as physically.” – Dr Sally Ghazalah, Integro Medical Clinics\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA huge part of who I am is the fact that I\u2019m a woman and I have a uterus. When something goes wrong you feel shameful about it, you\u2019re made to feel as though it\u2019s your fault. I<\/span><\/em>n terms of how cannabis has helped, I no longer have to use over-the-counter painkillers, I\u2019m sleeping much better\u2026 I feel like myself again.” – Jessica*\u00a0The Endomonologues\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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“It’s usually when somebody is leaving the room with vulvodynia or vaginismus that they’ll say, ‘oh, by the way, it hurts every time I have sex’ and as sexual health clinicians, we know that that is our moment to talk to that patient and be clear in acknowledging that we believe them.”<\/span><\/em>– Sarah Higgins CNS, CPASS<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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