Sometimes I really hate having irritable bowel syndrome.
I was diagnosed when I was only 10 years old. I remember having to leave school halfway through the morning some days because I’d get sick after getting off the bus. My mom has Crohn’s disease and had already been diagnosed back then, so she was always worried that I would develop the disorder as well. My doctors thought I was lactose intolerant, but I got sick from as many non-dairy products as I did with pure dairy. Eventually my symptoms started to subside, but they never went away completely. It was my doctor that I was seeing in my 20s that finally diagnosed me with irritable bowel disorder. At the time he prescribed me anti-nausea medicine, but I never saw total relief from IBS until I was old enough to try cannabis at 18. I remember having a lot of abdominal cramps the night when my friends had scored a bag of cannabis flower buds and were rolling joints. Aside from enjoying the marijuana intoxication food the very first time, I noticed an immediate feeling of relief in my gut. It was like a wave of calmness washed over my brain first and then my body second. I was absolutely amazed at how effective the plant was at curing my IBS symptoms. Nowadays I use cannabis regularly to treat my physical and mental health problems. However, I haven’t had as much luck with cannabis edibles because of my acidic stomach. I don’t know if having IBS makes my stomach more acidic, but I know that THC seems to break down whenever I try to eat it. And I recently discovered that I’m not the only person who experiences this.