long time no see update

Hello everyone .. I have been away for awhile and am finally in remission. Its been a journey but I hope what I share will help someone. Although I am in remission now I have bad UC. I've been through the ringer with meds and diets suffered depression and had bad illness due to the meds. For those who remember me know I was on remicade and was getting better after every infusion. I thought it was a life saver. At the time my UC was so bad I couldve cared less about any side effects however after I was on it for a little while I was a little disturbed on how a simple head cold turned into pneumonia in an instant. As if that wasn't enough it took me almost 7 months to recover from a foot surgery. All in all remicade can work quite well but to me there had to be a better way. A couple friends of mine recomended marijuana but I had quit doing that stuff years ago so I was hesitant to try it. I later found out another friend of mine has crons and treats it with ...you guessed it marijuana. I decided to give it a go but I didn't want to smoke it so I looked up some info online and found recipes to make butter for brownies and other treats. To my surprise it worked better and faster than the remicade ever did. Took a few weeks for me to be in complete remission with solid bms and all. It was a miracle. Now understand this is a try at your own risk thing. I am not telling you to use illegal drugs just simply sharing my sucess story and hope whatever you try works for you. Many people including myself disappear from the forum when they find remission so I wanted to share this so people currently suffering can maybe hold on to hope that things will get better or be desperate enough to try what I did and see if it works for you.

Thank you. I hope it keeps up also. I've been off of remicade for almost a year and had only 1 flair before I ate a brownie a day. I now fully believe the medicinal use of marijuana. In the US some states have legalized it and more will follow. I don't do drugs for recreation those days have long passed so getting used to the "high" took me a while. It was just another desperate decision like the remicade where the benefits out weighed the risk for me.

I don't wanna give people false hopes but yes it works for me. I also don't wish to promote illegal drug use but medicinally it does wonders. I was on remicade since 2010 which worked very well so I'm sure getting it healed a bit before I stared using marijuana made a difference. But I assure you I am in full remission with solid bm's. A few years back I wouldve never thought I would ever be the same again but I'm just so happy to finally feel better.

I used it in HS & college then backed off during my final years in engineering (coincidently, that's when I got my first flare). I used off and on for a while but got a job with the US gov and had to quit; laws won't allow it and I am subject to random testing and I need the job for my family.
It frustrates me that I can take medications with worse side affects but not this.
I read a Mayo clinic article where UC was referred to as the non-smokers' disease (many contracted it after ceasing smoking). So, after trying many difficult diets and supplements over 2 decades (SCD was so hard for me and I poured my life into it only to end up hospitalized, junk science IMO), I forced myself to try (tobacco) cigarettes (didn't help). I told someone in a UC research field and they said I would be better to try pot.
If only the laws were more forgiving on it; I cannot risk losing my job over smoking pot so I risk losing my colon or contracting blood cancer. Dumb laws. Law enforcement makes a lot of profit from pot seizures; they get so excited when they bust folks on TV (makes me really mad to see that). I get frustrated at the documentaries showing pot negatively. I wouldn't want everyone high while driving or doing safety related things so reasonable judgment should be made in allowing some to use it but just to outlaw it is insane. You can tell when someone is high. It will be legal everywhere but probably after I am retired and ruined from legal medications I'm taking.
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