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Mild heart attack with a stent put in
I recently had a mild heart attack have a stent put in and I smoke marijuana daily for pain can I continue that I use a vaporizer instead of smoking a pipe or joint I do not use pain pills because of the side effects
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Dr. Rajni Sharma
Cardiologist
21 yrs exp
Delhi
After having a stent put and attack you should not be using marijuana as pain killer. Marijuana known to have bad effect on heart in form of raising blood pressure, increasing heart rate and most important risk of chest pain ( angina) and risk of heart attack. DEFINATELY there are pain killer not having bad effect on heart
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stop marijuana, if got addiction take help of deaddiction centre.
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