There is all kinds of talk that goes around these days about how to holistically treat your ulcerative colitis(UC). Just a few days ago, I ran into a parent, who’s child used pot to help with UC symptoms. I wasn’t sure how much this parent wanted to talk about the situation, but it seems as though there might be something to this.
Take for example the mental anguish, and depression that can sometimes go hand in hand with ulcerative colitis. Now, if you smoked a joint or two, maybe that is all you would need to progress through your daily life without having such touch thoughts constantly going through your head. Again, I don’t know, this is all just a theory.
As for marijuana actually healing the inside of people’s colon’s and changing the digestive system for the better…I think that might be a long shot. I for sure could believe it has potential to change someone’s desire to eat, but beyond that, I just don’t know.
As more and more days pass since being diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, I am beginning to think more and more that the disease is a mental game just as much as a physical one. There are so many instances I remember where I really thought my life was coming to a close. And at the same time, there are so many times where I thought my life was just filled with some very minor setbacks and colitis was for sure not going to alter my life’s master plan.
If you are using marijuana to control your ulcerative colitis and have some ideas or thoughts you would like to share, please feel free to post them here.

If you are living with ulcerative colitis, there is a very good chance you might try several medications along the way.  Humira is definitely on the stronger side of the medication pyramid that ulcerative colitis patients work with.  Humira is a drug that is used to alter your immune system.  The actual humira medication itself comes from rats actually.

The idea behind the humira medication is that it will slow down parts of the immune system that are attacking the inner lining of the colon.  And after this attacking is slowed down or stopped, it will allow your body to heal itself and get back into a normal way.  This is the overall idea behind Humira.  Currently Humira has not been approved by the FDA for Ulcerative colitis, but it is currently approved for treating Crohn’s Disease.

Humira comes as a small shot, or actually its called a subcutaneous PEN.  There is a very tiny glass needle that shoots just under your skin and that is where the very small amount of Humira goes.  It is something that once you are shown how to use, you will actually be giving the humira shots to yourself at home.

There are a few potential side effects from Humira, so you want to speak with your doctor about what you might expect if you have a bad reaction.  For me, I had a few strange reactions with Humira.  I started to have some joint pains, and also some psoriasis on my hands,feet,legs,and chest areas.  As well, after taking Humira, I started to have a really itchy scalp, which I have heard quite a few other Humira people have had too.

But, at the end of the day, there are quite a few people who are having great success with Humira for both Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. I was prescribed Humira after I tried Remicade which is the same general category as the Humira medication.   Since the remicade did not work as we hoped, that is when I was given the humira medication.

If you are dealing with ulcerative colitis and are being introduced to remicade, the chances are that you have tried quite a few other medications so far.  Remicade is a pretty hard core type of colitis treatment.  It is one which most doctors won’t even consider unless some of the more conventional medicines like Steroids or Asacol or Lialda are not working well.

The answer about if Remicade works for colitis is yes, no, and sometimes.  That’s not the clearest answer, but it is the truth.

There are some patients like myself who have a great positive reaction to Remicade right away.  For me, I responded within 24 hours, and I thought my severe colitis was instantly gone forever.  But, after about ten days it came back, and my second remicade infusion did not work nearly as well, and the third infusion was as though I was taking a placebo.

But, there are also some other patients who use Remicade and who have a great experience from the medicine for the long term.  AND THIS IS GREAT.

Also, there are even other patients who use the medicine and it does nothing positive for them right away.

Bottomline, this is a hardcore medication that affects the immune system.  It is given by infusion, and is very expensive.  Sometimes it works, other times it doesn’t .  The usual response time to the medication if its going to work is within about a week.  Some people like myself show positive responses much quicker.