When it rains, it pours

[Blockhead_imp]

Geez Louise ferret! I’m sorry you’re in such agony...I hope you find the right doctor who can help you. The Cleveland Clinic has a lot of good ones.

[use2b_imp]

ferret that is terrible medical news and i feel your pain.
had to look up what you have and thought it was what i caught in SE Asia and penicillin got rid of it. seriously you sound like the perfect candidate for medical marijuana . it will settle your stomach , alleviate the pain , give you an apatite and make motorcycling more enjoyable ...
" so i am told "

[Cormanus]

I’ve heard a number of reports of the medicinal benefits of marijuana for people with colitis in all its forms. I’m not completely sure why our legislators have fought so very hard to deny access to the medicinal variety.

[Banned_imp]

I use medicinal marijuana to help treat my back and knee pain, I use the strains that have CBDs only and no THC so I don't experience any psychoactive effects. Since starting it last summer I have cut my opiates in half.

It has been quite effective in my case, although I ingest it as there is no way I could ever smoke it.

[Guth_imp]

W/R, I've been researching this myself and have a number of friends who have been using medical marijuana in various forms for their own health issues. My understanding is that if one is experiencing any amount of psychoactive effect (getting "high" from ingesting the plant in any form or fashion), they are not experiencing the real benefit of cannabidiol (CBD). CBD oil created from the hemp plant is what one would use to avoid the psychoactive effect, as opposed to cannabis oil (containing THC). It's a shame that there is such a stigma around this topic, but I'm glad that you have experienced benefits from it.

I've reached a point with chronic pain that I have become much more open to topics that I might have previously considered taboo in some way, certain from a point of discussing them at least. If it means more time spent riding and less time in bed, then it's worth discussing.

[dbarkdoll_imp]

Caught up on this thread. Ferret, like everyone else I am very sorry to hear about your condition that is giving you so much discomfort. I am no medical professional (obviously), and know next to nothing about colitis, but I do know a bit about the benifits of marijuana. As a self proclaimed stoner, I could go on and on about how it has enhanced almost every aspect of my life. Taboo or not, legal or not, if it works, it works. The legal part is just a matter of time, I have no doubt that within the next 5-10 years legislation will allow individuals who truley want and need it to treat disease and illness to have access to it anywhere in the country. It really is a miracle plant IMO that has almost innumerable benefits. Not telling you to go out and score a bag from some dude on the corner this instant, just dont close the door on the notion of it. Do some research and keep an open mind to it. Good luck and best wishes on your recovery.

[Capo]

Ferret, I know nothing about Microscopic Colitis, but something about depression. Treat that seriously, and separately. Meds work, even if your one of those guys like me who try and avoid them. Take care of your mind and body with equal fervor. Something tells me you’ll be riding for a long time.


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[2017EX_imp]

I had a law enforcement career from 1982 to 2011. In my pre employment polygraph and subsequent interviews, I told the truth, that I had socially used Marijuana when I was in College, ( 1970-1974). When I got to the final interview with the Chief, he asked me if I was worried about being disqualified for hire because of it, and I said I was worried. He started laughing, and I asked him what was funny. He looked me in the eye and said " we just got out of the 70s, do you have any idea how hard it is to find anyone that has never done it?". He went on to say it was more important to him that I was honest about it, and asked if he hired me, would I ever do it again. I said no, and haven't touched it to this day.

That said, I am currently healthy, retired, and no longer bound by oath. Legal or not, at this point in my life, if I was in pain and thought that using a medical Marijuana product might relieve that pain and give me better quality of life I would not hesitate to give it a try. I have had several friends that have gone through chemo discomfort, cancer pain, and various other significant quality of life reducing ailments, that experienced good to unbelievably positive results from using non THC medical versions of Cannabis.

[Stichill_imp]

The sudden onset of the illness is puzzling. Just a thought...if not done already, maybe the doc could test for the presence of a parasite(s). I work with two guys who went to Mexico and came back deathly sick as you describe. Turned out that's what it was. It can be caught from fresh vegetables apparently.

[the Ferret]

Test has been done Stichill. My family DR. originally thought along those lines. He actually thought I had drank some contaminated water in Arkansas. After normal courses of remedy for that and not clearing up, he sent me to a gastroenterologist who did the colon biopsies which revealed the colitis.

As far as marijuana, first off other than speeding ocassionally, I would never do anything illegal, and currently, it's not legal in Ohio (but will be soon I think), but other than relieving some discomfort symtoms, I don't think it would do anything toward actually making me better, and for me that's the end goal.

I fault no one for seeking legal courses of remedy that relieves pain or discomfort but I want to be healed, not just doped up. (truth is I don't know exactly what it does to/for the body and doped up may be an inaccurate term). Being 68, my only knowledge of marijuana comes from late 60 early 70s college experience, and I didn't care for it then. (Same goes for alcohol and cigarettes btw ). Now if they would do a study and the study showed promise toward healing what I have, then I'd be all over it. In the meantime, I'll stick with a strictly controlled diet and the prescribed expensive pharmaceuticals that keep the symptoms (mostly) in check, and pray that it somehow miraculously goes away lol.