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Crohn's Disease and Smoking (Weed vs Tobacco)

Qnick

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I believe I have recently (last year) had Crohns Disease become active, and have been looking into information about it but have a question...

All the information I can find says that smoking can lead to attack of crohns disease or cause the onset of it, but is this referring specifically to tobacco smoke?

As it is when I have a flare up and can't keep food down and feel like I have a knife in my abdomen, the only thing that helps is smoking weed to help get a liquid meal down. But I want to make sure that smoking weed isn't just prolonging the attacks, because I'd rather go one day fully in pain than a week needing to be super stoned all the time just to avoid debilitating pain.

I've got a Dr appt coming up later this week, but the pain is here today and I've been unable to keep food down for a day and a half already, and I want to know if smoking weed is doing more harm than help.

I don't know if this is the right spot, feel free to move it mods.
 
I have Crohn’s and am a regular cigarette smoker and have never noticed any relationship to smoking and flairs.

If you are to the point that you can not even keep a meal down and are in that much pain you need to go to the ER!!!

I was in a crazy amount of pain prior to my surgery to remove a large portion of intestine and when then opened me up they found that my intestine had ruptured. I should have been dead and was lucky that they scheduled the operation when they did.

If you are feeling as bad as you say do not wait for the appt, seek medical attention NOW!!!
 
Thanks for the quick response.

I'm really trying to avoid the ER due to me being a poor student. I had to pay $5000 for a CT scan last year when I mistook crohns pain for appendicitis, and still haven't really recovered financially. I also have a low tolerance to pain so I may have overstated the pain level, it's closer to a swift punch in the gut than a knife.

I'm just trying to make it to my scheduled Dr appt, I got it moved to tomorrow afternoon.
 
since this about the how smoking weed affects a condition, i am going to move it to Cannabis Discussion.

hope you get things figured out, Qnick.

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If you have crohns you'll know, smoking is the WORST thing you can do.... It's proven that ciggies make the crohns worse. Ulcerative colitis however, smoking can actually help...
 
Crohns runs in my family, but I don't have it. My brother does and he has used marijuana medically, daily, for years. He hasn't had a flair up in several years now and still smokes, it's the best thing for many of the problems he experiences. So while I'm not very educated about crohns, he is and he maintains a quite strict diet to help his crohns, and he doesn't think weed hurts. I have no idea about tobacco, but my gut tells me it'd be bad.

I think weed is probably fine for crohns, I've met several people with crohns who medicate with weed, it can really help with the pain and difficulty eating, among other things.
 
I'm not sure what I have but I definitely have something wrong with my GI tract, sometimes after eating any food I get horrible stomach pain and have to go to the bathroom, sometimes when I'd smoke a cigarette it would make me have to shit, but I recently quit.

Weed however always helped my stomach and I could eat a shitload and not even have to use the bathroom. I probably have IBS or something.
 
Marijuana is actually good for keeping Crohns in check. It's possible you might have a kidney stone, I thought I had Crohn's for the longest time..had all the same symptoms but it turned out to be a kidney stone. Caused me years of difficulty, for some reason it was stuck and never diagnosed. After doing a heavy regimen of hash oil and smoking high cbd bud for a month it randomly started moving and I had to get rushed to the emergency room where they finally did a cat scan and found it. All of those horrible symptoms I had for years are finally gone, feel like a new man.
 
Yes i agree with you that smoking is very dangerous for our health because it contain a large amount of tobacco that produces many diseases. Lung cancer is also a result of tobacco cigarette. Many smokers can't leave the habit of smoking but for preventing from disease we can use electronic cigarettes because in these cigarettes a very fem amount of nicotine is present.
http://www.smokereliefnow.com/
 
I know this is an old thread but I just wanted to give some input. Tobacco definitely is a major if not the worst trigger for me. Doesn't matter if it's smoked or snus. I find that I also have a lot of trouble smoking medical marijuana (thought ive smoked for a decade). I think it causes an allergic response which somehow ties into the crohns. I find that I still have this response even if i vaporize, but its far less if it's eaten. Now when I'm cooking my healthy meals I just throw a little in with whatever portion has the most fat and have a nice relaxing evening. No more smoking on the go though. Despite the fact that smoking it bothers me, the effects certainly are great at masking the stomach/back/everything else pain that comes from a flare up.
 
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