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  1. bobbyearle

    Any caretakers WITH IBD out there?

    Hi there :) I'm not as active as I'd like to be here. I was DX about 4 years ago with UC -- then switched to Crohn's a couple years later -- and lost my career in the process (international photographer). Eventually I was given remission by cannabis juicing and rick simpson oil -- but I can't...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    No psychoactive effects from juicing unless you heat/dry the raw flowers (i.e. you use a high friction power blender that actually heats up the plant or a bud worm bites a flower at the base and it dries/cures for a while without you noticing it while on the plant). Much like grapes not...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    Treating Crohn's/UC is all about mg's of cannabinoids, in my experience. I find I need nearly 1000mg (or a gram) of cannabinoids a day with myself and several IBD sufferers I've helped find the same. Rick Simpson Oil is best for this -- well, second to juicing raw, fresh cannabis flowers and/or...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    One of the best side effects of cannabis is dry mouth! As UC/Crohn's people, we need to drink way more water than others. And cannabis is the first thing to make me drink lots of plain water :) So drink water constantly with your medicine -- always have bottles of water around -- and see if...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    I had a scope that showed improvement after I had been smoking marijuana -- similar to that of a recreational user. My doctor said to keep up what I was doing. That was before I started using RSO. Recreational use masks symptoms, imo. Highly concentrated doses, however, treat the disease, in...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    Like Francis said :) You can also add extra things (carrots, apples, etc) to help the leaves grab hold better. A really good wheatgrass juicer is the way to go, I'm told. But here's what we do... We have a gnarly blendtech blender (like the kind at smoothie shops). I throw in 25-50 leaves...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    This place has them up north, it seems... http://synergycbd.com I wish we had places like that in SoCal :)
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    Hey guys :) I finally have had enough raw CBD fan leaves to juice daily for 4 days. Wildly effective. 25 average sized leaves in the morning. 25 at night. I'm amazed. If you have the opportunity to get a high CBD plant, get as many as your doctor's rec allows (local/state laws matter here) and...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    I'm not saying anything Francis didn't say above (excellent post there) -- but I figure another person echoing his sentiments might help :) Hands down, the best way to move past the intellectual obstacles that cannabis can bring is chronic use. If you have a couple days off in a row, you can...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    This isn't the case for me -- but I've been told this by several mmj patients who use RSO (waking up feeling groggy, dizzy, and nauseous). My wife, as it happens, is incredibly sensitive in this exact way. Until her tolerance was built up, she felt queazy/wobbly for a few hours. I'm so thrilled...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    I use my RSO in a cloud vape pen (I see you're in SD -- tons of dispensaries sell them in SD) -- but NOT as treatment of Crohn's. In my experience, IBD symptoms are best treated by inhaling cannabis while the actual disease itself is best treated by ingesting highly concentrated cannabis oil...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    I can only go by my experiences -- but absolutely not, at least for me. I have a friend with ulcerative colitis who has had wonderful effects with lower doses like you're describing -- but RSO is only meant to be given in rice size as the starting dose. This size is less than 10% the normal...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    I'm so sorry you're in a bad state for MMJ :( Having been off pharmaceuticals for exactly a year now, and having success with concentrated cannabis (like RSO), I would 100% move if it were the difference between having cannabis treatment or not. I practically missed the 2nd year of my son's life...
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    Raw, fresh buds? Absolutely. Probably much easier blended into a smoothie, though? You want to ingest the cannabis within 15 minutes -- as quickly as possible :)
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    Sticky Medical Marijuana for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

    It's not so much about juicing -- more about ingesting raw, fresh cannabis. So if you want to actually juice the fan leaves, you need a wheatgrass juicer. This does a great job of getting all of the juice of the fan leaves -- which, if they are from CBD rich varieties, can have 4% CBD -- and...
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