Marijuana and diarrhea?

Mentally, you will go from cheerful on MJ, to a little moodier. You'll feel like you lost your mojo. As someone pointed out, food doesn't seem to appeal as much, you may skip out on lunch and eat little for dinner, having had nothing for breakfast etc...and you will feel downright uninspired. Definitely do not quite during gray weather...or take a ton of vitamin D if you do (makes a lot of people in the Northwest happier during the hard, gray days that make up 90% of the given year there.)

Have you been drinking alcohol and not eating properly? I'm 27 and have been smoking bud since I was 11 (3 8ths a week) and stopped for 5 days so far, I had diarrhoea for the first few days but I've stopped drinking and trying to eat properly, the diarrhoea has stopped now, I still can't sleep and I have paranoia tho!

Marijuana will help f*****g settle diarrhea its a medicine

i am currently going through this problem. it does get worrying specially when your rushing to the toilet every 5 minutes. severe stomach pains. im 21 and been smoking for 7 years. i find it very hard to get an apetite when i dont smoke. i find it very hard to sleep when i dont smoke. i started smoking marijuana when i was 14 due to being very underweight and very fussy about food i could never sleep more than 5 hours. Marijuana was a godsend, but now im not too sure. i suffer from anxiety specially when im under pressure or "worried". i wake up most days needing to poop and its never just your standard log its always like rabbit poo's,runny poo's and squidgy poo's lol. im currently seeing my doc and my doc knows im a regular smoker she doesent think marijuana has anything to do with it. so she perscribed me buscupan  which is for IBS. it dident help but it manages to keep the stomach cramps and pains at a tolerable level.

That's me too. Having read everyone else's comments i feel a very back to front weed smoker, I get chronic diarrhoea only when smoking, but I lose weight when smoking as I lose my appetite but as soon as I stop smoking weed my appetite comes back. I do try occasionly to stop but I enjoy it. If I don't have any weed I'm fine and function and it doesn't bother me, but when I get my weed I don't have an off button and can easy do on oz in less than a fortnight.

IFalse. Marijuana inhibits gut motility, and therefore will prolong digestion. That's why diahhrea is withdrawal, and not the actual effect.

Stopping the use of marijuana is likely to increase gut motility, and therefore will increase digestion when use it stopped.

I was a daily pot smoker for 16 years, smoking anywhere from 1/2-2 oz per week. I can say without a doubt both scientifically and from experience that marijuana can contribute to diarrhea both while smoking and when quitting. This comes from the same mechanism.... THC slows gut motility, meaning that the normal muscle contractions of your gut relax when you are using pot.

While using pot, this can cause diarrhea by contributing to developing SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) - the slowed down gut motility over long term smoking allows carbohydrates and bacteria to linger in the small intestine and those carbohydrates feed an overgrowth of bacteria... The bacteria are usually flushed down to the colon (the small intestine should have low bacteria levels, large intestine high bacteria levels) but the THC in the pot slows the muscle contractions that keep the small intestine relatively bacteria-free. SIBO is the cause of diarrhea while being a chronic pot smoker, although not every pot smoker will develop SIBO. With SIBO, even though your normal digestion is slowed on marijuana, the bacterial overgrowth and their toxic irritating byproducts in your small intestine cause the diarrhea, even while your normal peristalsis (which would normally be flushing those nasty bacteria down the pipe) is slowed.

Those who get diarrhea only when they quit are also experiencing the effect of slowed gut motility from marijuana use. In this case, when the THC starts clearing the system, normal gut motility will be restored, but things will be out of whack for a while and food may actually speed through the digestive system faster than is optimal without even digesting, causing diarrhea from sheer speed it is moving through your temporarily hyper-motile gut... until your gut motility reaches a normal speed once your system is used to THC being gone.

In either case, quitting and detoxing off pot is best. I finally did it (I was a chronic smoker with SIBO) and although it was hell for about 3 months for me, I've now been off pot for 8 months and feel great both psychologically and digestively.

Very recognizable!!. I used to smoke only during the evenings and I almost always had a diarrhea like morning session at the toilet, the rest of the day it was fine. The last weeks that I used it my stomach started to feel irritated too 24h a day. My osteopath once said I had problems in my small intestines. Now after having kicked the habit for about 3 weeks, my stool is finaly getting more normal. I lost a lot of excess body weight too, which might be the reason why withdrawal is taking some time in my case, as THC is stored in body fat. Good to read that this can be considered as a normal withdrawal symptom. The statement of my osteopath about the smaller intestines supports your theory about SIBO. The first days I also suffered from incredible drops in energy level after eating sugarrich products. This could have been caused by the elevated speed with which the digestive system had to digest the sugars and therefore sending all energy to the intestines (digestions burns energy!). Probably my theory about this is not entirely correct, but it was a withdrawal symptom in my case.

this doesnt mean they snort coke u id**t, its the lack of weed causes no appetite. I have also gone several times without eating anything all day long, expecially when i have the flu or something cuz i cant stand throwing up so i just dont eat when im feeling ill.

I had a slightly different situation, but linked. I am not a regular smoker, in fact I only vapourize once every three weeks or so. Two days ago when I used the vapourizer I put some crystals from my grinder in the machine (my grinder collects them and has been collecting them for the past couple of years), and ate some crystals as well, not a huge amount, a small pinch. Since then I've had diarrhoea. This probably strengthens the argument about the body flushing it out of your system. I didn't really eat much yesterday, but I think since it probably isn't a stomach bug, eating is the best cure. 

Your post is over a year old. I hope you get this message. Can you tell me how long it took you to recover from the symptoms you were experiencing once you quit smoking pot?

I have stopped smoking weed 2 weeks and 3 days and i have the sh**s agen. I had it the first 3 days and i have them agen starting yesterday its horrible. I also have anxitey probs wich come and go as they please it nasty

 

iv been smoking 9yrs now an stoped 4 3days n got shitings wut can i take 4 this sum one help plz

I've eaten pot laced food on a few occasions at a friend's house and both times i've had massive diarrhea a few days after i don't smoke pot but i was wondering if there's some kind of connection or if my stomach is just acting weird

I have smoked EVERY day for the last ten years, and if for some unfortunate reason I run out. I feel the same way, not myself, not hungry, plus real CRAZY dreams...