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Ep. 84 | The Sick Snowbird/A Spoonful of Sugar

2025/5/13
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Abigail Norris: 我在加州的时候,朋友推荐我用大麻软糖来缓解慢性疼痛,效果非常好。回新泽西后,我每天都吃,但没想到会引起这么严重的呕吐。我因为不好意思,一开始没告诉医生我吃大麻软糖的事情,以为这和我的病情无关。住院期间我没法吃到大麻软糖,所以症状就减轻了。虽然停止使用后,我的背痛又回来了,但至少我不用再受呕吐的折磨了。 Dr. Howard Pinter: 我最初怀疑Abigail可能患有腹部偏头痛或癫痫,因为她的症状和神经系统疾病很相似,而且止痛药对她无效。CT扫描受到她体内神经刺激器的干扰,难以看清。我注意到她的白细胞计数很高,体内酸水平也在上升,担心是缺血,但手术排除了这个可能性。我建议她去看神经科医生,进一步检查。 Dr. Randall Bergen: 我在详细了解Abigail的病史后,询问她是否使用大麻。得知她食用大麻软糖后,我诊断她患有大麻素过度呕吐综合征。这种病症是由长期高剂量使用大麻引起的,停止使用后症状就会消失。我建议她停止使用大麻软糖,虽然她的慢性疼痛可能会复发,但可以避免严重的呕吐发作。

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“The Sick Snowbird”: After a lovely winter in Southern California, an older woman is excited to enjoy the spring in her native New Jersey. But when she starts experiencing inexplicable nausea and headaches, she ends up in the hospital. With her baffling symptoms appearing and disappearing seemingly without reason, her condition seems inexplicable – but it turns out, her doctors just aren’t asking the right questions.

“A Spoonful of Sugar”: When a successful real estate agent starts acting confused and erratic at work, her colleagues wonder if she’s getting drunk on the job. In reality, she’s suffering from extremely low blood sugar. Or at least, that’s what her doctors think. But when her condition only gets worse, the woman desperately seeks an answer – before she passes out and never wakes up.

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