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Is Smoking Marijuana To Control Chronic Pain Serious While Being On Multiple Stents Put Into Heart?
I have recently had 5 stent s put into my heart and was told that the situation was serious and if not caught when they did I would have had not more than a month to live. I do smoke marijuana daily to alleviate chronic pain from prior injury s.I have been receiving conflicting reports on the risks of damaging my heart stent s, can you offer any insight on my situation
Tue, 6 May 2014
hello u have not mentioned about heart function level pls get an echocardiography done to know that and if ur heart function is normal then do regular exercise to manage ur stents and try to quit marijuana smoking
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