Marijuana Causes Bad Stomach Problems, Etc.

Okay, it's been a long time since I posted in this thread. I love weed too but I dont love it more than I love myself. I found this information to be true from my personal smoking habits as a long time smoker. IF any of you are experiencing symption, stop completely for a few days and see if it helps:

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (Just Google it) is a disorder associated with long-term chronic cannabis use that is characterized by recurrent nausea, vomiting and colicky abdominal pain. These symptoms have been reported to be alleviated temporarily by taking a hot shower or bath or more permanently by abstaining from the use of cannabis. The syndrome is recognized by Allen and colleagues (2004), and Sontineni and colleagues (2009) who offer simplified clinical diagnostic criteria.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] While there have been anecdotal testimonies to the veracity of this condition, caution should be exercised concerning this medical evidence due to small numbers of patients studied. However, a subsequent study reporting the clinical features of Cannabinoid hyperemesis in 98 subjects has confirmed the earlier reported findings.[SUP][3][/SUP]

For a great thread, try Googling this phrase: marijuana and stomach problems

HomeGrownHairy said:

For a great thread, try Googling this phrase: marijuana and stomach problems

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I googled it exactly as you have it and it came up with a list of stomach problems it helps, then the next few things are all from the same studyhealth site in link you posted a long time ago.
acid reflux, ulcer, addiction, irritable bowel syndrome, crohns disease are all the first topics. Marijuana helps with all these
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS441US441&aq=f&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=marijuana+and+stomach+problems
Skip studyhealth and your post from 2009 and the rest is how it helps.
I have crohns disease and have/had Ulcerative colitis (intestine ulcers) until they removed my large intestine, hence the name NoGuts. I never smoked until after I was sick, I was even taking marinol (synthetic thc) before smoking. I cant say you haven't had ill effects but after about 10 years with no more than 12 hours between smoking it has done nothing but good for my stomach, It is the only thing that really helps with my nausea/vomiting and stomach pain.

Been smoking over 20 years straight, never had a stomach issue ever doubt i have even been constipated lol!

I was wrong, there is another site talking bad about it, then again the topic is of that thread is marijuana addiction..... Homegrownhairy, have you tried quitting for a while to see if the problems went away and started again to see if they come back.

Farmerbob,,,,you forgot the half-gallon of ice-cream,,,lol

Still in remission for my Pancolitis...going on 5 years of only MMJ and no pharmaceuticals.


This thread is such a joke.

People with REAL stomach problems talking about how MJ helps them. It's not even an MJ forum....

http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?t=18359

HomeGrownHairy said:

Man, I was really shocked when I found this thread on another site. I was having bad problems with my stomach; pain, gas, bloating, indigestion, burping, nausea, loose stools, blockage, sometimes a little fever, etc, etc.
I am a long time mj smoker & I smoke pretty much daily. About 3 months ago, I started to get indigestion, gas, bloating, etc, etc, etc. Not having health insurance, I have tried everything and I was getting pretty scared I had somethiong really terrible. I was about to pull out $4000 from my IRA for a colonoscopy to get myself checked.
Then I found this thread on a med site about others, like me, who are having reactions to pot. If any of you are having stomach problems, or lung problems, it may help you:

http://www.steadyhealth.com/marijuana_and_stomach_problems-t77046-0-asc-40.html

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How has your appetite been when your not high? Sounds a lot like gastroparesis- (from wiki)

The most common symptoms of gastroparesis are[SUP][5][/SUP]

• Chronic nausea
• Vomiting (especially of undigested food)
• Early satiety

Other symptoms include

• Palpitations
• Heartburn
• Abdominal pain
• Abdominal bloating
• Erratic blood glucose levels
• Lack of appetite
• Gastroesophageal reflux
• Spasms of the stomach wall

Imagine what it would feel if you were to shake up a pint of warm beer and down it as fast as you could. You would almost immediately feel the urge to burp. Now imagine what it would feel like to force yourself not to burp. That is the best way to describe it.

Because of the extremely high price to test for it and the fact that treatment options are very limited, very few are actually diagnosed. The exam requires a 24hr fast. You get to the hospital and they have you eat food that is spiked with radioactive technicium or barium. You then lay down into a scanner for several hours where they time lapse the food moving through your system. The isotopes are heavy enough that they never become absorbed into the body.

I thought it was weed too for the longest time that exacerbated my sympotms but that was not true. Turns out, I just ate really horribe food when high. I cut out all fast food from my diet and my symptoms went away. It took a solid sixth months of fast food abstinance until my symptoms started going away. Best part was that smoking made me so much hungrier and the drive to get my stomach muscles moving in order to digest my food.

I used to take prescribed reglan but i started getting tardive dyskinesia which can become a perminent drug induced parkinsons where you start twitching your facial muscles and have no idea that you are doing it. Pot is so much safer than all of this synthetic bullshit

I have the same problem after I smoked weed for 2 years, I was diagnosed with h.pylori, after the treatment I still had the bloating and stomach discomfort. My problem was milk and milk products, I did not know I was a lactose intolerant until I smoked weed, In a way weed helped me to find out that I am. After 40 years of drinking milk I just found out I am or I become a lactose Intolerant. AVOID MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS FOR A WEEK, if this works for you which I hope it will return the favor by spreading the word, I am going to post this to most of the sites that I visit to find a solution. Weed is good!

MJ like any drug will not have the same effect on everyone. The medical community has a very norrow approach to any drug. Most doctors will not deviate from what the USDA hands out. They seem to think drugs are a one size fits all item. One of the very first things you learn when you get cancer is that the drug that helps you may kill the next person who takes it. Just a few short years ago any doctor would have told you how bad MJ is. Now these same doctors want to act as though they are experts in the field of medical MJ. Check message boards dealing with your specific ailment and talk to others who use MJ. You may be suprised to find they have more useful info than most doctors.

I got really sick.. like flu sick from smoking when i was about 15. hasn't happened since then unless I eat it..

So I suffer from what is know as a hiatus hernia. And experience all the same symptoms are described. Ie.

-bloating
-spasms
-shortness of breath
-chest pain
-reflux

So I take an acidity reducing medication (nexiam) and a anti spasmodic (spasmo-canulase) and it seems to eliminate the majority of the discomforts.

Especially the bloating and cramps.

Hope that helps

Yeah this is the new disinformation/urban legend put out by the British government. There was some poorly writen paper in an obscure british journal about this. Its total bullshit.
Nice bump though, almost six months...

5ourdiesel said:

How has your appetite been when your not high? Sounds a lot like gastroparesis- (from wiki)

The most common symptoms of gastroparesis are[SUP][5][/SUP]

• Chronic nausea
• Vomiting (especially of undigested food)
• Early satiety

Other symptoms include

• Palpitations
• Heartburn
• Abdominal pain
• Abdominal bloating
• Erratic blood glucose levels
• Lack of appetite
• Gastroesophageal reflux
• Spasms of the stomach wall

Imagine what it would feel if you were to shake up a pint of warm beer and down it as fast as you could. You would almost immediately feel the urge to burp. Now imagine what it would feel like to force yourself not to burp. That is the best way to describe it.

Because of the extremely high price to test for it and the fact that treatment options are very limited, very few are actually diagnosed. The exam requires a 24hr fast. You get to the hospital and they have you eat food that is spiked with radioactive technicium or barium. You then lay down into a scanner for several hours where they time lapse the food moving through your system. The isotopes are heavy enough that they never become absorbed into the body.

I thought it was weed too for the longest time that exacerbated my sympotms but that was not true. Turns out, I just ate really horribe food when high. I cut out all fast food from my diet and my symptoms went away. It took a solid sixth months of fast food abstinance until my symptoms started going away. Best part was that smoking made me so much hungrier and the drive to get my stomach muscles moving in order to digest my food.

I used to take prescribed reglan but i started getting tardive dyskinesia which can become a perminent drug induced parkinsons where you start twitching your facial muscles and have no idea that you are doing it. Pot is so much safer than all of this synthetic bullshit

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Sorry to bump up and old thread guys but this guy has posted some really good information. Just a heads up to anyone who thinks they have stomach problems from marijuana, or anyone who comes upon this thread from google.

I too believed marijuana was causing my horrible symptoms of nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and feeling full after just a couple bites of food not when high(medicated) but only when sober. I havent been diagnosed yet but im pretty sure I have gastroparesis. Since gastroparesis is slow empyting of your stomach it can cause you to be full faster not have much of an appetite or you can have an appetite but only if you havent eaten for say 5-6+ hours or so depending on the severity of your case. IF you do have gastroparesis and you smoke marijuana pig out and satisfy your munchies once you become sober again eventually you will have the symptoms described in my post and the post that I quoted.

In my case I was eating huge meals after getting smoking and eventually it led to horrible nausea that was pretty much constant all day and then I would take one two bites of food and immediately be full and if it got bad enough I would be vomiting. This all came with abdominal bloating and pain and all that fun stuff.

I started to think about my childhood because for me I was like this ever since I was a child. I never had too big of an appetite. I could go longer than others without being hungry. I found that if I ate too much(according to my stomach, it wasnt infact that much food) or even fast I would instantly get nauseous and feel like throwing up. I always chewed my food really thoroughly and ate slower than others. And this was all in my childhood before I was even aware I had a problem.

So like the others here have been saying it is not the weed causing your problems but it might be aggrevating a problem you already have by its side effects like the munchies. Figure out what it is and dont just say its the weed immediately because there are a TON of factors that play into this. At first I thought it was marijuana causing my issues too but once I sat down and actually thought about my childhood and eating habits it all made sense. Now with changes to my diet I have fixed those issues and I still smoke on the daily.

BTW that Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome crap is all bullshit. Even with my symptoms and the cause of my issue I felt huge relief from hot showers. Taking a hot shower can relieve anxiety and get things moving properly with your body thats why hot showers help with nausea and the like.

I've had IBS all my life..imodium works...but weed is 100% and faster...

I've never heard of weed/gut issues...well except that ya eat too much...

Been smoking 2 years now, pretty much daily, never had a problem until 4 months ago when I fainted on the toilet. I ignored it and would faint again 2 months later but this time it would be really bad pains near the bellybutton and I'd vomit. Went to the ER they gave me fluid felt better went home and was sick for an entire week (a week in which I wouldn't smoke at all), sick as in huge pains in the bellybutton area. Saw the Doc then a specialist who wanted me to get an endoscopy. As I was feeling better I decided not to get it. Made some pot brownies got really stoned but was ok, a week later I felt safe to smoke again (btw by smoke I mean vape, since I got a vape for Christmas vaped day 1 ok, vaped day 2 next morning I get sharp pains in the bellybutton area from a 6 inch subway sandwich and ended up passing out in class, woke up to the professor asking me if I was ok, then started to vomit got up and went to the restroom and proceeded to vomit until that sandwich was gone. Well my family scheduled for the endoscopy, I've got it done. I've been abstaining from weed again and I can safely say that things seem to be returning to normal again. I get the results of the endoscopy tuesday to find out if I have anything stomach related. Specialist also wan'ts to look at my colon. Now my take is that its something else, but the relationship with the severity and the weed has me thinking the weed is aggravating whatever it is I have. I really want to continue to smoke/vape but until I find out what is wrong with me and get it fixed (if possible) I just can't .

A bit of some research and I found this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptor#Gastrointestinal_activity
Inhibition of gastrointestinal activity has been observed after administration of Δ9-THC, or of anandamide. This effect has been assumed to be CB1-mediated since the specific CB1 antagonist SR 141716A (Rimonabant) blocks the effect. Another report, however, suggests that inhibition of intestinal motility may also have a CB2-mediated component.[23]
So weed may be making my condition worse after all?

Also I figure the fainting maybe due to dehydration. I was drinking water when i was eating that subway sandwich and I was also running off of 5 hours of sleep. Still I've never fainted in my life until these past 4 months. BTW I thought maybe my weed has been tainted, but the second of the three fainting vomiting episodes I actually shared a blunt with me and my friends (one of which is the guy who provides me). None of my friends have had issues so I assume the weed isn't tainted and it must be my own body that has the issue with the weed.

I have had similar problems in the past, every time I make myself some high quality Cannabis Oil (NON BHO) for eating, I start with .5 a day for a few weeks and then tone it down to just a bit every morning and the problems go away.

When I stop, the symptoms are never ever as severe, and, I will admit when the symptoms do come back it is usually after a lot of drinking/bad eating habbits for at least a week.

Try oil! Put it on a cracker, sandwich, whatever makes you take it down easier! Don't knock it til ya try

HomeGrownHairy said:

Man, I was really shocked when I found this thread on another site. I was having bad problems with my stomach; pain, gas, bloating, indigestion, burping, nausea, loose stools, blockage, sometimes a little fever, etc, etc.
I am a long time mj smoker & I smoke pretty much daily. About 3 months ago, I started to get indigestion, gas, bloating, etc, etc, etc. Not having health insurance, I have tried everything and I was getting pretty scared I had somethiong really terrible. I was about to pull out $4000 from my IRA for a colonoscopy to get myself checked.
Then I found this thread on a med site about others, like me, who are having reactions to pot. If any of you are having stomach problems, or lung problems, it may help you:

http://www.steadyhealth.com/marijuana_and_stomach_problems-t77046-0-asc-40.html

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DON'T I repeat DON'T eat the STOCK...at least grind it up a bit!

HomeGrownHairy said:

Man, I was really shocked when I found this thread on another site. I was having bad problems with my stomach; pain, gas, bloating, indigestion, burping, nausea, loose stools, blockage, sometimes a little fever, etc, etc.
I am a long time mj smoker & I smoke pretty much daily. About 3 months ago, I started to get indigestion, gas, bloating, etc, etc, etc. Not having health insurance, I have tried everything and I was getting pretty scared I had somethiong really terrible. I was about to pull out $4000 from my IRA for a colonoscopy to get myself checked.
Then I found this thread on a med site about others, like me, who are having reactions to pot. If any of you are having stomach problems, or lung problems, it may help you:

http://www.steadyhealth.com/marijuana_and_stomach_problems-t77046-0-asc-40.html

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dang man, that sucks. i wonder if it's really related to smoking though. could be any number of things i figure. either way, sorry to hear man.