Give me cannabis on NHS to ease constant orgasms

Woman’s plea to Health Secretary for treatment costing £1,000 a month

A WOMAN who claims a blunder by doctors left her ‘plagued’ by orgasms is pleading with the NHS for medical cannabis to help treat her condition.

The 61-year-old Scot says her ‘life was wrecked’ by a botched smear test – leaving her with a condition that causes orgasms during everyday activities such as driving over a pothole or using an escalator.

However, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is refusing to prescribe the medicine that she says has relieved her symptoms.

She has now written to Jeane Freeman, the Scottish Health Secretary, to help her ‘as a woman’ after an initial query by her MP fell on deaf ears.

Yesterday, she told a newspaper: ‘It’s been recommended by the very specialist [the NHS] sent me to and now they’re ignoring his advice.

‘The condition has calmed down a lot. My own GP says she’s never seen me looking better in the past two years than I do now. They’re the only thing that’s worked.’

Identified only as Maria, the widow from East Dunbartonshire said her problems began after a ‘botched’ smear test at Stobhill

Hospital in Glasgow left her with nerve damage.

She attended the routine gynaecological exam in September 2017, but by October she was experiencing distressing symptoms which would eventually be diagnosed as the rare condition Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD).

After searching in vain for an effective treatment, she was referred to Dr David Goldmeier, an

NHS consultant and PGAD expert based at St Mary’s Hospital in London. He recommended medical cannabis suppositories, which at £49 for a pack of ten added up to £1,000 a month for treatment.

Although expensive, the suppositories are much cheaper than treatcannabis ments she was previously offered.

Maria said the suppositories were ‘life changing’ in the way they treated the trapped nerve causing the problem.

However, she has been told that if she wants to keep taking them, she must pay for them herself.

UK guidelines state medical should only be considered where there is ‘clear published evidence of benefit’.

This only covers a limited range of conditions but Ms Freeman said exceptions could be made where ‘there is a clinical need which cannot be met by a licensed medicine and where established treatment options have been exhausted.’

Maria wrote to Ms Freeman: ‘It is ludicrous that I should be expected to pay for these in order to live a quasi-normal life. If the health board will not supply these, there is a moral obligation for them to fund me in advance in order that I may purchase them myself.’

NHSGGC said it was looking into the case and ‘exploring all options’.

The Scottish Government said that any decision on prescribing was ‘entirely one for clinicians to make’.

‘They’re the only thing that’s worked’