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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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?

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.

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.

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:

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

^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.

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.

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

I suggest you go to see a doctor.

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.