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Cannabis Helps My Crohns
For 20 years I’ve experienced daily bowel problems. And lived a drug & alcohol-free life. But my Berkeley, California doctor recommended I check out a marijuana directory, and now I know cannabis helps my Crohns.
I’ve told friends the paleo diet and daily yoga helped control my auto-immune disease symptoms, but I don’t always tell them about cannabis. Some people still have misconceptions about the plant and its value as medicine. Cannabis helps curb inflammation, acid reflux, and urgent bathroom trips faster than any prescription or over-the-counter medicine I’ve tried, without the nasty side effects. I usually buy cannabis at a marijuana dispensary.
How cannabis helps my Crohns
But perhaps more importantly, how it’s had a wider impact on my life.
- Slows my bowels and reduces trips to the bathroom — cannabinoids can inhibit motility of the intestine and delay gastric emptying.
- Increases my appetite and helps me eat with focus and attention, and ultimately gain weight — THC appears to increase our sensitivity to scents and flavors and convince the brain it’s starving.
- Calms my inflamed bowels and anxious mind — cannabinoids such as CBD may reduce colonic inflammation in IBD patients.
- Slows down my mind — which helps me appreciate life and connect with nature.
- Allows me to practice yoga without wanting to rush through it — popular in places like California, Colorado and Toronto, where cannabis and yoga are seen as complementary medicines.
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Doctor recommended
My doctor recommended I try two forms of cannabis: tincture drops and vaporizing dry marijuana flowers, which you can easily find at a medical dispensary. She recommended tinctures because it’s faster-acting than edibles, so it’s easier to control the dosage. Then she spoke about vaporizing cannabis, instead of smoking. Navigating Missouri’s Medical Marijuana Card System helps individuals access these alternative consumption methods, such as vaporizing, which is less harmful because it heats the herb just below the point of burning, so the chemicals are activated and released into the air, and you avoid the toxic smoke and harsh heat from fire.
Temperature chart of various cannabinoids found in the cannabis plant and their effects on the body.
Limited access
Perhaps you live in a state where medical cannabis isn’t yet legal. I am truly sorry for you. I know friends who struggle to obtain consistent and good quality medicine. Cannabis helps my Crohns, but just smoking weed doesn’t. A quality Indica strain that’s been professionally cured will be much more effective at reducing inflammation and helping your gut than a top-shelf sativa or funny bag from a dealer.
How to get started with medical cannabis
First, I assume you are in a legal state…
- Get your medical card — Crohns, GERD and other bowel disorders are often covered under state medical marijuana laws.
- Try edibles, but beware — most have sugar, refined super-sugar corn syrup inside, which tends to destroy my bowels for days. I’ve had good luck with low-sugar banana bread, but I tend to avoid the sweet treats.
- Indica strains of cannabis helps my crohns a lot — ask medical dispensary professionals for recommended strains to ease nausea, inflammation and provide a night-time sedative. And experiment with different strains yourself, some sativa/indica hybrid mixes are rather relaxing, but also give me a creative boost for writing this web site!
- Buy a good vaporizer — $200-$300 depending on your situation. Good portable vaporizers: Pax ($280), Arizer Air ($260), Crafty ($340), or the budget Magic Flight ($120). Have serious medical issues and medicate multiple times a day? Look at reliable desktop vapes like: Da Buddha ($190) or Volcano ($480), which offers a bag for folks with sensitive lungs.
- Go slow and stay safe. You can always have more!
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Your results are anecdotal. What have your colonoscopies shown? You base your results on yourself but we are not the same. One person? You are causing yourself brain damage. All mind altering medications should not be used regularly. The studies you referenced are also not scientific. Below is the response to your second referenced study:
One significant limitation of this study is that the results were based on subjective parameters and were obtained during active use of a known mind-altering drug. Although there was an improvement in clinical status after 8 weeks of cannabis use, the CDAI includes variables such
as general well-being, abdominal pain, and body weight. Cannabis is widely used for symptomatic relief of many gastrointestinal-related issues—chronic pain, anorexia, and nausea—which all contribute to general well-being.
Endoscopic data were not collected, and there was no difference in objective inflammatory markers to indicate disease modification.
I have Crohns of the small bowel as well as psoriatic arthritis (comparible to rheumatoid) and endometriosis and 100% agree with every bit of the above said. I use cannabis daily, preferably the Indica strain. I don’t know what I would do without it. It helps me in every way, mind and body, helping tolerate the horrible pain and nausea of Crohns while also helping keep mentally distracted which in return helps the Crohns as well as helping my other ailments in this way. I highly recommend cannabis for Crohns along with any other ailment. I find it to be one of the healthiest things you can do for your body despite the bad rep it has gotten over the years and is 100% natural and homeopathic unlike pharmaceutical and over the counter drugs that the ingredients are unknown. I cannot stress enough the benefits of it and use cannabis as a medicinal aid for any ailment I have.