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hyenacry t1_itj7fcy wrote

Reply to comment by uncoolcentral in IBD Patients Report Fewer ER Visits with Medical Cannabis by BoundariesAreFun

I have either IBS or UC, and some days weed is the only thing that will dull the pain of my stomach and bowels long enough for me to even try to eat. I also can't eat without weed when I have a flare-up. It helps definitely

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catfishchapter t1_itjxs11 wrote

Very interesting. How do you intake the weed? Smoke, vape, edibles?

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lighthawk16 t1_itjbm71 wrote

What do you mean, either? Do you mean both.

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Sparkybear t1_itjq7rw wrote

IBS and UC are different illnesses the can have similar symptoms. UC is fairly difficult to diagnose as it could be multiple other IBDs that just happen to be localised to the colon.

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HomicidalChimpanzee t1_itjfpx1 wrote

Try a probiotic called Saccharomyces boulardii. It's actually a yeast, not a bacterium. I've been using it for weeks now and it makes a massive difference in my GI stability. It is unbelievable. I didn't have IBD, but did have IBS/"leaky gut" type symptoms for decades, so bad at one point that I thought it might be Chron's... and this stuff changed all that literally overnight. I have to think that it could do the same thing for IBD sufferers.

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uncoolcentral t1_itj7p6o wrote

I don’t question it even one bit.

I also don’t question that marijuana can take peoples minds off of what ails them sometimes.

ER visits is a metric. I don’t know what metric I would like more but I still don’t love it.

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Sparkybear t1_itjq3pv wrote

This one study is showing that the improvements are significant enough to reduce ER visits, it's not the only study that's ever been done on the subject. There are other effects from past studies that have already been established, expecting all of them to be re-presented in a new study is nonsense.

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