My Story, my treatments, I recommend reading as it may help some sufferers.
I'm 30 years old and have had stomach issues my entire life. I was hospitalized in 2001 because I couldnt stop vomiting, lasted over 12 hours of throwing up every 30 minutes or so. After an ultrasound, upper GI, lower GI, Cat Scan, stool samples, blood samples, urine tests, and everything else you can imagine, Rush in Chicago did a capsule endoscopy.
The doctor said I had between 30 and 40 ulcers in my small intestines. He suspected Crohns and did a colonoscopy. Immediately after looking inside he told my family I had Crohns.
After years of suffering and trying Pentasa, Asacol, and every other drug he could throw at me, I asked him what else I could do. What I should and shouldnt eat etc. He told me to listen to my body and see what it does and does NOT like. To keep a food log and see if there were ingredients in common when I got sick.
After doing this for some time, I found out I could not eat GARLIC. I looked back at all the bad episodes I had and they all contained large amounts or fair amounts of Garlic in them. I from that point forward stayed away from Garlic. This helped me greatly, went from having an "attack" (puking for 12 hours or more) several times a year to maybe having one 2 times a year.
I also found out that I shouldn't eat any oils other than extra virgin olive oil. And that I could not eat corn or watermelon. I also started each much healthier and staying away from processed foods and fast / junk food.
While this was a huge breakthrough, I still had nausea quite often and a general not so happy stomach after, or before meals. Eating smaller more frequent meals seemed to help, but still didn't make a large enough impact.
I was working as a loan officer out of a local real estate office and we had a company party. At this party I was staying away from food with Garlic as I had grown accustomed to doing and I would frequently have to decline foods and tell them that I am allergic to Garlic. At that party one of the agents and I were discussing this and she mentioned her husband was from Russia and studied homeopathic remedies. She recommended Colustrum certified by Immune Tree and offered up a local place to get some.
I bought the lozenges and after trying them for a few days, they started to really help the nausea and discomfort after meals! I continue to use these to today to help with nausea and mild discomfort.
There are still, however, situations where I may accidentally ingest come garlic because even though I tell people I am allergic to it, they pretend there isnt any in their food, or some other unfortunate mishap. I also just have bad times when my immune system is low and I haven't gotten enough sleep. In the rough times, the colostrum and eating a healthy diet was not enough. I would find myself extremely nauseous and on the verge of an "attack".
One day, a friend of mine, who is an avid MJ smoker was over at my house during one of these episodes. Now don't get me wrong, I tried MJ when I was like 17 years old and did it quite a few times, but quit after a few months. Was just a "phase" I went through. Anyway, he was over and noticed my suffering and told me I should smoke. I was very reluctant as the LAST thing I wanted to do was be high and nauseous at the same time. He told me that they use this for cancer patients for that exact reason and I remembered hearing it, so I decided what do I have to lose. I tried the MJ and within 10 minutes I went from thinking I was in for another attack to being completely symptom free!! This was a huge breakthrough for me!
I managed to keep my Crohn's at bay for around 10 years with Diet, excercise, staying away from foods my body didnt like, Colostrum as needed, and MJ as needed!!
All was great until about 6 weeks ago. I got an abscess (infection) in a tooth and had to have a root canal. They gave me clendomyocin (antibiotic) to aid in clearing up the infection. One week later, I had a C Diff infection caused by the antobiotic killing the good bacteria in my system.
They gave me another antibiotic for the treatment of C Diff, however, I cannot stop going to the bathroom with severe Diarrhea. Doing some further research into my disease, I found that EATING cannibas has more of an effect on the body and can actual be a great anti inflammatory.
I found a great canna butter recipe and made some. I then took some and put it in some fresh hot tea. It took about an hour or more to "kick in" but I noticed a HUGE difference. Cramping and pains were gone and the diarrhea subsided. I also had my first normal bowel movement in a long time.
Now most of us have jobs, lives, families, so the idea of "being high" is not appealing and may make you feel like a scum bag. But I can tell you this, I did it before bed several days in a row so that when I was "high" I was asleep and didn't have to deal with it. I would wake up a bit groggy, but that would go away after drinking some water and eating breakfast.
People, this helps so much you cannot even imagine. If you suffer from Crohn's I recommend you listen to your body and keep a food journal. Figure out what you can and cannot eat. Go Get some colostrum certified by immune tree, my uncle has Crohns and this helped him too! (his was colon, not small intestine like me), and also try MJ.
Legal or not, this has been a life saver for me and my well being. Do more research if your skeptical and realize this: You cannot overdose on MJ, its physically impossible and has been proven over and over. You cannot eat or smoke enough to OD and hurt yourself. You may vomit and go to sleep, but that's about the extent of it. And that's only if you go CRAZY or try too strong and too much right away. Also, its less harmful than probably every other drug you are trying. Dont want to smoke it? Don't, figure out how to make cannabutter and eat it. You can also get a vaporizer which only extracts the THC and the oils in the plant, none of the carcinogens from smoking.
Please give this a try if you are a sufferer. It worked wonder for me and my uncle.
God Bless and good luck everyone.
