Bleeding and Weed

Hey City! I've been reading the good stuff all around here for a long time, but now I have to share something.

About a year and a half ago, I started having diarrhea. I thought that I ate something bad, but the next day, I went to the restroom and I there was a little blood in the toilet.
I went on a strict diet of only oatmeal/vitamins for a week, and then I eased into boiled fruits/vegetables, all the way up to meats and breads throughout about a month.
The blood stopped after that first week. I had visited Urgent Care when it was going on. and they took blood and x-ray and said everything was fine and nothing was found.

Well, this happened again after a year, about 8 months ago. I did the same thing and it got better fairly fast. I was instructed to collect my stool into these special receptacle, but as it got better, I sort of forgot about it and lived on. I smoked weed throughout both instances.

Three weeks ago, I had it happen again. This time, there was a lot of blood. It has been three weeks and I am still bleeding. I went to the ER and they did a CAT scan, and said they didn't find any forms of colitis. (the doc said it could be a bacteria imbalance, or a weak blood vessel).
I quit weed this time because when I was in high school, some of my friends had their wisdom teeth taken out-- They had told me that it was funny because a pamphlet that they were given stated that one should stop smoking marijuana a few weeks before the operation, and to not drink alcohol for 3-4 days prior, so that there isn't a problem with bleeding of the gums.

I am going to have an appointment with a gastro specialist this week, but I just wanted to get some other opinions on a few matters.

Now, I don't think I have Crohn's, as I don't have any joint/back/bone/rib pain.

Symptoms:

1. My ONLY pain is when I go to the bathroom, and its in my abdomen.
It feels like I have a big shit coming, but all I have is very liquidy diarrhea and various amounts of blood. And it feels like I have to run to the bathroom before it happens, and it feels like that throughout with just a bit of pain.

2. I wake up 2-3 times in the middle of the night to go.

3. I lost ten pounds in the last 3 weeks, and I have always been skinny, so this is a problem for me. I have a VERY hard time gaining weight, and usually I try to eat well, yet throughout the day. (not now, as I am on a strict diet).

4. I'm generally tired, but not completely fatigued. I'm never bothered by this except when I see food and food joints, and when I go to the bathroom, especially at night.

5. During the first week I had a lot of bloating, my gas and stools smelled unusal and rancid, unlike regular shit. After that week, it just smelled like regular shit, lol. This led me to believe it had to do with bacteria imbalance.



I have been told by doctors that this could be Ulcerative Colitis, but I won't know until my colonoscopy. I have only 2 serious symptoms, so I doubt it is any form of colitis, which I read involves other types of pains and such.
They told me not to go on a diet until they know what it is, but this has got to be complete bullshit, because I have more blood when I eat regularly, so I know I have to be on this bland/soothing food diet.



As far as the bleeding, what do you guys think about smoking weed? When I was doing it a few weeks ago and this occured again, I immediately thought of the wisdom teeth pamphlet (how you need to stop smoking weed a few weeks before the operation so the gums don't bleed excessively). I'm definitely not going to smoke until this is over, but I'm just curious if the weed is causing me to bleed more, since I don't "need" to smoke weed, as I have no pain. Even when I was high a few times, I went to the restroom and my abdomen had the same pressure and pain, which isn't that debilitating anyway...

Thanks for any input...

 

Anyone here who has colitis of any form, how do you keep it in remission, or make a flare go away really fast?

 

I-O!

Sorry that I didn't respond recently. I've just been trying to keep stress down and been sleeping a lot. Thanks for all of the input, that really got me thinking about things.

Yesterday I had a colonoscopy. I'm not sure if he did a deep endoscopy or whatever, because I was fucking cracked out on Versed (midazolam) and Demerol (meperidine)... IV. It was a tube camera up my ass, not a pill.

So anyway, I got diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I was still pretty high so I kept asking him if he was sure its UC, and not something else, and if he has a video so I can watch it later. He said he had no video, but a paper explaining what I had, and my treatment. It says that I have Ulcerative Colitis in the whole colon (which confuses me.. I REALLY want to KNOW and SEE what it looks like, so I'm gonna have a good talk with him when I see him in a week), and erythema's as well. It says a few other things, but I don't have the diagnosis on hand. Having read about UC, I know its a chronic illness, so my hope is that it will be in remission a lot, and have rare flares.

He put me on Lialda (mesalamine) - two 1.2mg pills morning and evening, and Rowasa (mesalamine) 4mg enema right before bed, and I need to retain it all night. I'm not sure if I need to be on it all my life, because I plan on not taking it after my flare ends, and to start an herbal treatment. Herbs worked in my last two flares... I'm pretty sure that high stress has caused this flare to go on this long (almost 4 weeks already, and still bleeding). Yet, I have normal hemoglobin levels, so I'm not losing a large quantity of blood.

It sucks being diagnosed with a disease, especially since I'm only 19, and have been a healthy motherfucker for so long, just kinda skinny. I'm just glad that it won't kill me, but will only hinder my quality of life, because I don't think that my body will let it flare up too much. Plus, I'll be careful when I start noticing stool differences, and hop on a diet right away to minimize irritation.

Now, I don't have any of that joint pain or back pain like I read about. I just want to smoke weed for the hell of it, and I had initially started this thread to see if I was making anything worse. So don't worry too much, because it's not causing me as much trouble as, evidently, it does for others.

Thanks for all the responses, and I look forward to hearing what you guys have to say.

EDIT: I've dropped all of my classes this quarter at my college so I can minimize stress. I just think that stress is a HUGE factor for my case of UC. Weed will probably help me with this. As far as appetite, it's even stronger now that I can't eat whatever I want, so that's not a problem either as it seems to be for many others.

 

Ok, i have since started smoking, and nothing has gotten worse.

Then again, i havent gotten better yet

 

ok i see your point...

but i cant eat certain ingredients in brownies, cookies, cakes, and such. I can have butter, so maybe i can figure out a way to put cannabutter into food that i CAN eat.

thanks for the tip!

 

you dont get it. im asking if weed will make it worse. i know it didnt fucking cause it.