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.
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Does Medical Marijuana Work for Ulcerative Colitis
Posted on04 July 2010.
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As someone who has been suffering from UC for almost a decade I can not only tell you that pot helps, but there is plenty of scientific data supporting this. You don’t have to look far either. I have tried many different diets, medications, and holistic treatments and the plain and simple truth is that nothing holds candle to what pot does.
Conventional treatments will leave you with months in between flare ups. pot will leave you in remission for years.
Hey Harry, how often do you smoke the pot if you actually smoke it? Or do you use it some other way like via baking or eating etc…? what do you think is necessary in order to see some benefits from it.
All I know is that as a childhood ulcerative colitis patient (began at 11), relief and the ability to end meds began when I began smoking pot at 17. I never made that connection, however. Remission ended at age 37 when I had no pot for a few years. Duh. I still did not make the connection. Fortunately, the mildest of anti-inflammatories keeps my colitis at bay, but I do notice that if I am able to have any pot for a little while (gifted), this old ‘boomer’ can get by w/o any or with only a very small amount of sulfasalazine (the anti-inflammatory referred to above). Sadly, it is rare to have any pot due to it being wildly expensive for my very low income, and most importantly it’s completely illegal here and very hard to access. Our state will likely be the last to approve medical marijuana, if it ever does. I am completely convinced there are anti-inflammatory properties in marijuana, and as I am now wracked with arthritis, I only wish the mainstream would wise-up and tell the pharmaceutical industry, and the other money-men holding on to this prohibition, to stuff it (yes, my language preference is much stronger; I am being ultra-proper). Forty years ago we thought this would have been a non-issue by now; what fools we were. “You may say that I’m a dreamer….Imagine.” And, btw, that goes for Peace, too. If a side effect of pot use is Pacifism, then it’s even more important to the world in general.
The simple answer is yes.
I have had PANCOLITIS (My whole intestine is fucked) since I was 10….I have been on pretty much anything you could imagine. Steroids at first, which made me gain a bunch of weight and really made me depressed at a terrible time (puberty)
Asacol was worthless and made my symptoms worse. Same with Lialda and all the other bullshit! I almost died during a remicade treatment!
Then I started smoking weed at age 16 like any other high school kid. I hated it at first and actually didn’t really smoke again till I was 18. When I started smoking again I also stopped taking my medications for my Pancolitis, and boy am I glad i did that.
One dose, whether it be via smoke or edible will eliminate all my symptoms for the whole day…plus my parents aren’t spending thousands of dollars a year on pointless medicines that only made me more sick.
I have been in complete remission for 3 years with my only medicine being marijuana. I do have a doctors rec to use since I am in a medical marijuana state and my doctor is AMAZED at the results he’s seen in my case just from using medical marijuana….
Nobody should have to suffer through this terrible disease. It can break you down mentally and physically….I can honestly say that pot saved my health
after a lifetime of digestive issues, i was finally given a concrete diagnosis of ulcerative colitis this past october. since the diagnosis, i have been hit with two major flares. the first was treated with a four month course of steroids. the second, which reared its head just a few weeks ago, landed me in the hospital for two weeks of IV steroids and pain meds. fortunately, i am now recovering from the comfort of my own home. my doctor currently has me on steroids for the flare, asecol for the UC and a fentynl patch for the pain.
with two serious flares in under a year, i am starting to quickly consider that mainstream treatment may not work for me. any suggestions for someone suffering from UC on starting treatment using marijuana?
Hi. Ive been on and off the pred for bout five years now, beeing diagnosed in 2007 with a pancolitis. Since this time ive been mostly in remission, having 1-2 flare ups a year. Everytime I go up on the roids to eather 40 or 60mg. Tapering down.
The last year Ive smoked marihuana almost every day. It has done wonders for me. As today ive moved to london and stayed here for 3months without smoking. recently gone in to a really bad flare up. Seems like I have to move back home, and hopefully start smoking again.
I think marihuana helps the stressfactor more than anything. It sets the bowel at ease. meaning it stops moving around too much. I also think it helps taking away the physical and emotional stress of everyday life. Now im starting the scd diet, which ive read alot about lately. hope tO get better soon!
I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis around age 16. I also have PTSD. I don’t know if marijuana will cause a direct physical healing per se, but I can assure you that the mental relaxation and absence of anxiety that I achieve when using marijuana has absolutely lessened the symptoms immediately, and in each instance, has also caused the symptoms to completely cease in time. I have treated flare-ups both with marijuana alone, and with Asacol alone, and the Asacol has never made it completely stop. The marijuana, on the other hand, has made it stop completely every time. I believe firmly that mental stress and anxiety are directly related to outbreaks, and the relief of these psychological symptoms with marijuana relieves the ulcerative colitis. Nicotine patches have also helped lessen the symptoms, but never has completely stopped them the way that marijuana has. It’s a sad fact that I have to use marijuana very sparingly since I am subjected to tests randomly at work. I can have all the Prozac, Paxil, Welbutrin and Zoloft that I can choke down – all through medical insurance that I have through my job – but I will get fired if I am caught treating my disease with the only thing that has ever worked completely. What a joke. I am not a “pot head” and I don’t “party” with marijuana. I don’t even desire to use it unless I am suffering from this disease. What a ridiculous world we find ourselves in sometimes. I sincerely hope this helps.
Yes, MJ works for UC. It does this by reducing the spasm in the large intestines. It stops the burning cramps. It relieves depression (usually due to the continual pain). I’ve lived with UC over 15 years. The last 5 years have been without any flare ups…. due to MJ. To anyone living with this horrid disease, legal or not, find it and use it. Good Luck to you.
Hi, I have UC since more than 9 years and just recently began using Marijuana. Before I had each year 2 – 4 flare ups, which had do to be treated with steroids. Even between my flare ups I had some cramps from time to time and pain was a constant partner! Since last summer, when I started using MJ I do not even have to take my other med (Sulfasalazine). For me, MJ is definitely great and I hope for a long remission after this time of illness. I’m not sure, what I will do, if I would ever want to get pregnant. But for now, weed is my med! And after all, I absolutely prefer weed to steroids. I would suggest MJ for any other UC patient. I still can’t believe how good and energetic I feel since last summer! It’s such a different life… Go for it…