Ever found out you had a disease/infection through marijuana?

[Entwurf88]

I don't mean have you gotten a disease or infection from marijuana, but have you smoked regularly for years and felt just fine and over time you slowly started to feel a strange pain or irritation developing in some part of your body and went to the doctor to have it checked out and it turned out you had some sort of infection or medical condition?

I only ask this because, I've been smoking weed for 4 years on and off and I notice from now and when I used to smoke then that my body feels different inside. Since marijuana enhances your senses, my theory is that you tend to get more in tune with the inner workings and feelings of your body, and for me.... well, lately shit just doesn't feel right.

I felt fine up until January of this year, where I had intense stress and depression going on in my life, and I started to have problems with constipation and since then it has seemed to have calmed down but now I always have this bad pain in my stomach, don't know what it is yet... haven't been to the doctor for a check up since I was little, but I'm getting insurance soon through my job and I'm wanting to get to the bottom of it.

Never felt this before, and I can remember vividly 2 years ago when I was smoking regularly and I remember feeling in tip top shape then. I know this is a strange thing to bring up, but I'm wondering if anyone else has ever experienced something similar to what I am experiencing now.

So has anyone ever caught wind of an early developing disease/infection in this manner? I like to think of it as marijuana aided physical awareness.

[luciddreamer]

I think this could happen. I believe you probably have anxiety/stress issues. This causes stomach pains in most cases. Even if you don't feel that stressed, yous aid you have before. It can hang around sort of mildly but you will realise you are tense and everything when you actually relax. Try to just relax all your stomach muscles. Lie back in your chair and breathe deep so your stomach goes up and down. If you can get your muscles to relax, the pain should go away. If not, something else is causing it. I believe smoking Cannabis could help you recognise this because it relaxes your muscles, but if you are tensing your stomach muscles because of stress, the tensing and pain would be even more apparent. Whereas most of the time you just ignore it.

[JohnnyZ]

Dude the exact same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, this is tripping me out..

Exact same situation as you, I was having mad indigestion issues so I went to the doc and got a blood test and turns out I have celiac disease. Fuck.

[DarthStoney]

Don't know if this is what you mean but I either have a very, VERY low tolerance for THC or my anti-depressant or anti-ADHD meds are fucking with my ability to hold down my lunch while getting stoned.

Here's the situation:

I'm on Effexor and Strattera. I'm slowly being taken off the Effexor but when I was on the 150 mg dose, I smoked about once or twice a week and I felt pretty good for about 20 minutes and then I started getting sweaty like I was gonna get sick. I felt my stomach turn and I had to head to the bathroom and upchuck. Total buzzkill, right? No doubt. Anyway, I keep wondering which med was doing that to me then it occurred to me that it might be the one that's raising my BP. I'm now at 75 mg and will be going to 37.5 in a few weeks.

Either that or I'm allergic to weed which would suck dripping donkey dick.

[Algag]

Ya I have really really tight hamstrings and smoking helped me identify what the problem was. Its been giving me heartburn and other stuff because they are so tight. Now I have to stop smoking because I need to do intense hammy stretching for a while to get back in shape and it seems like smoking is slowing down the progress. Harsh but worth ti in the long run.

[JohnnyZ]

Algag - try going to hot yoga. Worked wonders for my flexibility. Also tons of girls wearing lululemon pants. You do the math.

[Algag]

That sounds pretty sweet but i dont think id fit in well or would be awkward but I have been doing real hard stretching and got alot of the stretches from yoga poses i looked up. It does feel real good to stretch out.

[Kroniq]

u say u got severe stomach pain u needa get that shit checked out. i'm no doctor or anything, but could be an ulcer. them fuckers are nasty u wouldnt wanna take a chance and ignore it, it could be anything; stress, worms, who knows lol. but good luck dude

[thedeadone]

Dude the exact same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, this is tripping me out..

Exact same situation as you, I was having mad indigestion issues so I went to the doc and got a blood test and turns out I have celiac disease. Fuck.

Z what is celiac disease??? is it one that makes you set your celiac on the toilet!!!:stoned::stoned::stoned:

[Algag]

Celiac means you can't eat most food. Can't have foods with gluten in them.

[Breukelen advocaat]

Dude the exact same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, this is tripping me out..

Exact same situation as you, I was having mad indigestion issues so I went to the doc and got a blood test and turns out I have celiac disease. Fuck.
I have Celiac, also. A lot of people do, and 95% of them don't know it.

Are you doing better, now that you're (hopefuly) on the gluten free diet?

[JohnnyZ]

Nah man, I tried being gluten free for a few months after I found out but it didn't really help. However while I was being gluten free I discovered this thing called the paleolithic diet. It's based off the fact that our DNA is 99.8% the same that it was 10,000 years ago. Back then we were nomadic and ate mostly lean meats, fruits, vegetables and whatever you could scrounge up. Processed foods aren't so good for you because your body hasn't adapted to it yet. This includes bread. Basically anything that doesn't grow in the earth, you don't eat. I tried that for a while and it was actually pretty good. Ate a lot of salad. You can eat potatoes but not with every meal, unless you wanna be fat. It's a pretty neat idea behind the whole thing too, very back to your roots hippie earth ish. I like it. I still try and follow it as much as possible but its football season now and I run so much I just eat whatever I see.

[Breukelen advocaat]

You are putting your health is in great jeopardy if you have Celiac disease and continue to eat gluten. You'd be better off on a gluten free diet, and not play sports or exercise, than play and ingest gluten. The body of a Celiac goes into an autoimmune mode from gluten, which brings out an army of antibodies to destroy it, among other things. You may not think anything's happening, but chances are very good that you'll have to suffer the consequences for it eventually. Good luck.

[EmoRebellion]

Well, I am sort of in the same situation here as some of you, although im not sure its MJ related... :jointsmile: I went to the dr about a month ago with fairly bad stomach pains and some constipation. Urgent care diagnosed me with an impacted bowel, gave me some laxatives and sent me on my way.

I followed up with my primary care dr a couple days later and informed him of some pain I was having in my groin as well. He ended up diagnosing me with epididymitis, which is an inflammation of the sperm duct. He put me on antibiotics which didnt help. After a week of not getting better on two types of antibiotics he sent me to a urologist.

The urologist took a look at me and said I actually had prostatitis, an infection of the prostate. :wtf: Infection of the prostate? At 22? Ok... So he put me on a different set of antibiotics for 6wks. I am now almost 3 weeks in and am not really seeing improvement. Not only am I still having pain in my groin, but abdominal discomfort and nausea as well. The antibiotics have caused me to have almost no appetite, which is horrible because I have to eat with these pills. I have lost over 15lbs, and at 6'2 180lbs I dont have much to be giving away.. :D

They did some blood work 2 days ago and everything came back normal, but my doctor said it is not abnormal for stuff like this not to show up. The thing that concerns me is that if I had a bacterial infection, I should have a raised white blood cell count (which I didnt). If I dont have a bacterial infection, all the antibiotics in the world arent going to help me.

Now I am having this weird pain/discomfort in my neck. I feel sort of a pressure on the left side of my neck, a little above my adams apple. It almost feels like that tendon that runs from the front to the side of your neck is getting pulling too tightly, or something.. Related? Who knows.. :( I search for my symptoms online and see tons of hits for lymphoma and all sorts of things that get my heart racing. But then half of the time I feel like I am just being a hypochondriac. I try not to read too much online because I just freak myself out more.. :hippy:

[JohnnyZ]

My body is pretty sweet, I'm sure it'll sort itself out eventually. Or maybe I'll die who knows.

[Trip06]

^eating natures bounty is the only way to go man props.
our bodies are so converted over to feeding off of corn syrup and preservatives that people wounder why they get cancer at 50. If you went right now straight out to the bush and ate nothing but venison and fish you would starve to death because your body isnt used to having very little fat intake. Scary thought that if our system failed and we had to survive with the foods nature intended us to eat, we would be gorgeing our selfs away on steak and filets and we would still be starving. THANK YOU food prossesing companies. Basturds.

[Horsemanrocks]

Johnny Z,

Nah man, I tried being gluten free for a few months after I found out but it didn't really help.

Iâ??m also celiac, and it may take a little longer than that to clean out the â??baddiesâ?� and rebuild. Stay with it. Youâ??re what 21! Iâ??m a celiac at 63â?¦..just think, you may be 63 at some point. Donâ??t do damage today that you will (with luck) pay for, for many years to come.
I give you thisâ?¦.the first few months of gluten free are the hardestâ?¦.Itâ??ll get easier, and in time it will become as simple as breathing air.
Health to you��.

Horsemanrocks.

[JohnnyZ]

Wow.. That's like top four inspirational things anyone has ever said to me.

[Nation_1ne]

I suggest you go to see a doctor.

[purplekush989]

honestly i think some of your problems are totally created in your heads, especially the guy talking about abdominal/groin and now neck pain. smoking a lot of weed and making yourself paranoid is not going to help either. this isn't a goddamn episode of House MD where everyone has weird and incredibly rare diseases.

[Weezard]

Johnny Z,

Nah man, I tried being gluten free for a few months after I found out but it didn't really help.

Iâ??m also celiac, and it may take a little longer than that to clean out the â??baddiesâ?� and rebuild. Stay with it. Youâ??re what 21! Iâ??m a celiac at 63â?¦..just think, you may be 63 at some point. Donâ??t do damage today that you will (with luck) pay for, for many years to come.
I give you thisâ?¦.the first few months of gluten free are the hardestâ?¦.Itâ??ll get easier, and in time it will become as simple as breathing air.
Health to you��.

Horsemanrocks.

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A-frikkin'-men!

Aloha:)
Beat-up ol' Zard

[Horsemanrocks]

You can eat potatoes but not with every meal

I can think of two â??tricksâ?� for celiacsâ?¦.not so commonly known.

1st trick: Potatoes donâ??t contain glutenâ?¦.but, celiacs often have reactions to the nightshade vegetable family. Tomatoes, peppers, potato, eggplant etc. Eliminate these with glutenâ?¦â?¦and well after you do clear up, introduce them again one at a time. For me personallyâ?¦..it was potatoes, but none of the others.

2nd trick: Never again take NSAIDâ??s (thatâ??s non-steroidal anti-inflammatories)

Both of these can set off a reaction and you wonâ??t see any improvement.

And if you did take NSAIDâ??s (most likely Advil) for say a sports injury or whateverâ?¦..Iâ??d be interested in hearing about it.

Best of luck,
Horsemanrocks.

[JfromThaBay]

Definitely happens to me... I'm not going to go into a long account of the many ailments/maladies that affect me, but to keep it short & simple, I know that, say if I'm straight, I might not notice something is wrong... But, if I smoke, I'll feel "out of synch" I guess. There's no real easy way to describe it... It might be a sensation in my leg, like a pulled tendon or something that I might not normally notice... While "enlightened" I feel more in tune with my body and would be able to feel where the problem may be... It might not necessarily hurt when I notice it(since cannabis eases pains) but I know that I am more aware of my body/surroundings.

[Purple Banana]

Now I find myself questioning whether or not I have Celiac... I know BA has mentioned several times to me that I most likely do have it. I always had some sort of waxing and waning sensitivity to most foods; not only to wheat but sometimes my stomach would simply hurt for no apparent reason.

The past three weeks, my stomach pains have severely increased- possibly due to a stressful situation I've got going on now, but I'm finding that wheat-based foods have been triggering a lot of stomach pain and digestive issues. I've literally eaten nothing but oatmeal, brown rice, chicken, and fruits/veggies the past week or so, and with an occasional slip in of a wheat-based food to test sensitivity (the pain begins about an hour after ingesting, and lasts for about eight hours after), I'm beginning to think BA is correct.

I'm getting an abdominal CT some time this week, so maybe it'll give some answers. Until then, I'm avoiding all trigger foods.

My only concern is wondering why I've gone asymptomatic for many months at a time and then all of a sudden, BAM, I can't eat much of anything now. I know Celiac's autoimmune, but I would've thought it would have presented itself much much earlier.

Tried to look at gluten-free products in the grocery store, and the selection SUCKS!

[F1SEEDS]

hi guys
some of the problems that has been mentioned sound like some of u may have some form of IBS .........eating the right foods keeps ur body healthy just aint that easy keeping to a strick diet!

but again some problems might just be in ur heads lol


smoking to much can in a little time can get ur mind going:hippy:



peace and love

geeman

[momhasms]

This did happen to me, and I ended up having Colonoscopy, only to find out that I have either IBS or some other problems.

I think you are dead on in saying that when smoking you are more aware or more in-tune with your body.

Sometimes I am so in-tune I feel I will be stuck there.

(Weird I know, but lately I have been feeling odd when I smoke, maybe it's the crappy street crap I have had lately, the good stuff is hard to come by around here)

[pineappleflavor]

Don't know if this is what you mean but I either have a very, VERY low tolerance for THC or my anti-depressant or anti-ADHD meds are fucking with my ability to hold down my lunch while getting stoned.

Here's the situation:

I'm on Effexor and Strattera. I'm slowly being taken off the Effexor but when I was on the 150 mg dose, I smoked about once or twice a week and I felt pretty good for about 20 minutes and then I started getting sweaty like I was gonna get sick. I felt my stomach turn and I had to head to the bathroom and upchuck. Total buzzkill, right? No doubt. Anyway, I keep wondering which med was doing that to me then it occurred to me that it might be the one that's raising my BP. I'm now at 75 mg and will be going to 37.5 in a few weeks.

Either that or I'm allergic to weed which would suck dripping donkey dick.

when i got off meds like yours., i would get nauseous from food. but obviously it didnt mean that im allergic to food... just wait it out for another month or so and the withdrawl symptoms will go away. i'm pretty sure the meds are just fuckin with you