Using Cannabis for Colitis?

Anybody have any experience? I was diagnosed with UC over a year ago. I was in remission for almost a year. About 2 months ago I started a flare up. It's horrible, going to the washroom 10-15 times a day, blood loss,Abdominal pain, cramps, loss of appetite. My doctor has me on Pentasa, prednisone, and enemas in the morning and before bed. This is all to try to get over this flare up. Some of the drugs I'm taking now are not meant for long term use and have pretty bad side affects if used so. I've been a recreational user of cannabis Since my late teens, I'm 27. I smoke with my friends maybe 2 times a week tops. I have now tried vaping before bed, it helps with the pain but i just cant seem to get to sleep. Maybe its the strain which i dont know. Anyways i was just wondering if anyone else has been in this kinda situation and had any suggestions. This disease is staring to wear me down.

I'm not sure about colitis but for my diverticulitis I use cannabus coconut oil. And use a strong INDICA strain. U can youtube on how to make it. Not hard really, I just decarborize in a roster oven at 190-200 degrees for 30-45 minutes then crush the herb up fine and put it in a sauce pan and cover w coconut oil and heat on low for 20-30 min stirring constantly then strain through cheese cloth.
A tea spoon in my coffee every am helps a lot
Good luck

cronmega666 said:

Anybody have any experience? I was diagnosed with UC over a year ago. I was in remission for almost a year. About 2 months ago I started a flare up. It's horrible, going to the washroom 10-15 times a day, blood loss,Abdominal pain, cramps, loss of appetite. My doctor has me on Pentasa, prednisone, and enemas in the morning and before bed. This is all to try to get over this flare up. Some of the drugs I'm taking now are not meant for long term use and have pretty bad side affects if used so. I've been a recreational user of cannabis Since my late teens, I'm 27. I smoke with my friends maybe 2 times a week tops. I have now tried vaping before bed, it helps with the pain but i just cant seem to get to sleep. Maybe its the strain which i dont know. Anyways i was just wondering if anyone else has been in this kinda situation and had any suggestions. This disease is staring to wear me down.

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I know your pain. I've had ulcerative colitis since I was in my early 20's. I'm in my early 50's now. I go for periods of recession (years) and then flare ups. I'm on pentasa as well. 4 in the morning and it's tough to get those things down. Ugh.
Anyway I'm convinced that certain strains help with colitis. I know indicas are better if I'm working on finding a strain. I have some Pennywise I'm going to run and I'm trying to get some Lovin Cup from dynasty which is also supposed to be good for colitis.

Thanks for the help guys! I really appreciate it, when I created the thread I was pretty down, I'm feeling a little more optimistic today. I know no dought in my mine cannabis helps with the pain. Only thing is my pain is usually all day. Like I said I usually just smoke with friends after work. When I smoke obviously I'm impaired so I don't think I could do it through out the day ( I own a small carpentry buisness). But like you guys mentioned I'm going to look in to different ways, Like the coconut oil and stuff like that. Thanks again!

cronmega666 said:

Thanks for the help guys! I really appreciate it, when I created the thread I was pretty down, I'm feeling a little more optimistic today. I know no dought in my mine cannabis helps with the pain. Only thing is my pain is usually all day. Like I said I usually just smoke with friends after work. When I smoke obviously I'm impaired so I don't think I could do it through out the day ( I own a small carpentry buisness). But like you guys mentioned I'm going to look in to different ways, Like the coconut oil and stuff like that. Thanks again!

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if you make the extracts like I mentioned , u can use small amounts like an eye dropper full or less in the am and be good all day. But it's best to test it out first on ur days off. The concentrates can hit hard if your not use to them, and it can take up to an hour or 2 to really hit. For myself I usually use 1 eye dropper full in my coffee in the am. Mine is pretty strong tho. And last all day. Check out some of the YouTube videos on making cannabus coconut oil or Rick Simpsons oil there's some great info out ther

I'll tell my story since its pretty similar. I have Crohns. Looking back, I've had early signs since 2002. In '04 I was going thru some rough time with a scab near my anus. Turned out to be a parirectal abscess. Which turned into 2 surgeries, where my Gastro guy said he never seen abscesses like this before (made me feel great). Fast forward about ten years, crazy amounts of pain. I'm curled up in a ball all day, near tears. Pooping 10-12 time as a day. 20-30 lbs of weight loss a month. I was miserable. Was offered surgery or a poop bag. Its not sexy when you get with a lady and she goes to remove your pants, and there a small bag of poop clipped on to them like a cell phone. So I had half inch small intestine removed. Pain gone....well for 2 months. Tried Asacol, Humira, Remicade...none worked. Just horrible sides. One day I was outta oxy. I asked my drug dealer friend if he could get me a few till i could grabbed a new script. All he had was bud and heroin. And I was hurting. Gave the bud a try. Hadn't smoked since HS like '99. That was in 2014. I've been in remission since then. I smoke maybe once or twice a week. I swear by it for Gastro problems.

Tatornuts said:

I'll tell my story since its pretty similar. I have Crohns. Looking back, I've had early signs since 2002. In '04 I was going thru some rough time with a scab near my anus. Turned out to be a parirectal abscess. Which turned into 2 surgeries, where my Gastro guy said he never seen abscesses like this before (made me feel great). Fast forward about ten years, crazy amounts of pain. I'm curled up in a ball all day, near tears. Pooping 10-12 time as a day. 20-30 lbs of weight loss a month. I was miserable. Was offered surgery or a poop bag. Its not sexy when you get with a lady and she goes to remove your pants, and there a small bag of poop clipped on to them like a cell phone. So I had half inch small intestine removed. Pain gone....well for 2 months. Tried Asacol, Humira, Remicade...none worked. Just horrible sides. One day I was outta oxy. I asked my drug dealer friend if he could get me a few till i could grabbed a new script. All he had was bud and heroin. And I was hurting. Gave the bud a try. Hadn't smoked since HS like '99. That was in 2014. I've been in remission since then. I smoke maybe once or twice a week. I swear by it for Gastro problems.

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Thanks for sharing Tator!
While I'm here I might as well give an update on my situation.... which unfortunately has gotten worse. I went into my doctors for an appointment to check on how my Pentasa, steroids and enemas were working, at this point not at all. I was going to the washroom 20 plus times a day with lots of blood. My doctor decided to check me into the hospital right there and then. That was 12 days ago. I'm still in the hospital. They tried me on high doses of IV steroids, anti inflammatorys, and antibiotics... didn't work. They took a scope of my colon and discovered it was in really bad shape. Users everywhere up the left side of my colon, pretty much torn apart ( serious case of UC). So they decided to try Remicade which my doctor has high hopes for. We did a dose and it stopped the bleeding right away! But I still go to the washroom 20 + times a day with lots of pain. So they decided to give me double dose of Remicade to try and bulldoze the inflammation. That was 2 days ago. It seemed to help I was feeling better the last couple days but not a huge improvement. The doctor says it can take up to a week to really see the results so I'm trying to stay positive and hang in but then I hit another hiccup like just now. My last bowel moment the blood was back....
I'm scared guys, next step after trying the remicade is removing my colon. I have my big wedding coming up in a month and a half. Anyways just an update hopefully the remicade kicks in full force soon. If anyone has any experience like this share your story. It helps to know I'm not in this alone. Thanks everyone.

Hang in there brother. Sending positive energy your way.

Hey everyone, lil update. 15 days in the hospital, 38 pounds lost in 3-4 weeks. Ive been out of the hospital for over a week. Ive been feeling a lot better. I had my 3rd dose or remicade on Wednesday. It was in a clinic in Ottawa. It was a really good expiernce for me, my nurse was so nice and explained everything to me. it was a lot of information but quite relaxing as well, I almostwanted to just stay a little longer ha. I also learned the $8300 bill was completely covered...... since my first dose ive been worry about having to pay for this stuff, anyways letsjust say a hugh weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Anyways since then ive been feeling really good. ive got my wedding august 20th. I'm not working right now becase I'm so weak. I'm trying to stayactive everyday and id doing good, babysteps. I'm finillay startein to taper off of my prenizone. should be completely done aug 14th. then the 16th I get another remicade shot. I do believ th eremicade is working but the prenizone is starting to take its toll on me. I think it makes me super ancious, and not able to sleep. I haven't slept more than 4 hours in a row for 3 weeks. it is getting better tho. I went to my family doctor today and asked if she would sign for my medical marijuana card and she wouldn't do it. she rather me on anti depressants. fuck that! buy I'm just gunna buy illegaly I guess becausewhile I'm still sick the cannabis really does help me, i usually vape less than .5 -3to4 times a day. i just got some rockstar kush hopefully it helps out with my insomnia. it takes my craping away, makes me go to the bathrrom less, gets me energized to do stuff during the day. they had me on 2mgs shots of hydro morphine in the hospital but they cant get me a mm card. imjust stressed about driving around with it in my truck. it would be nice not to have to worry about that. but what can ya do. well to make a long story short i think I'm on the track to a full recovery. hopefully i can get back in shape for my wedding. 4 weeks to gain 35 pounds?
Thanks for reading,