Hello my name is Zach Leighter and I am 25 years old. I have been living with Crohn's disease since I was 12 years old. These past 12 years have been full of constant stomach pain, inflamed colon, fatigue and loss of appetite to name a few. Recently my colon became very inflamed resulting in a colostomy surgery.
I have tried multiple biologic drugs administered by IV with no success. I am running out of prescribed "man made" medicines to try. The majority of these biologic drugs have terrible side effects, such as cancer or brain disease, and are extremely hard on your body. Medical cannabis can help with my damaging inflammation, pain, and loss of appetite without delivering the terrible side effects biologics have. Other Crohn's patients are benefiting tremendously from medical cannabis in their states, I hope our state will follow soon. Having access to medical cannabis will not only change my quality of life, it can help thousands of others in our state.
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Donna Villirillo
2/9/2017 07:23:12 am
I hope you are feeling better since your surgery and that medical cannabis will be available for you soon.
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Rita henderson
2/9/2017 08:57:55 am
I had diverticulitis had 13 inches of my colon removed. Didn't have to have have the bag. It's a horrible thing to go threw. That was 15 years ago. I have problems with my bowels all the time. You ll be fine Zane. Listen to your doctors
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Barb Tuttle
2/10/2017 10:45:35 am
Zac, I'm 52 yrs old & have had chrones since the age of 10. With chrones, I have had 3 bowel resections, countless dr & er, visits as well as dozens of different medications. Chrones is an auto-immune disease that most physicians don't seem to get or understand. I visited a biochemist that hrlped me get my natural body chemistry balanced, I'm feeling well again. The use of natural functioning vitamins & minerals along w/ a few presciptipm meds from tome to time, have greatly helped me back to good health. It just may worth a try for you.
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