Do I have CHS?
OK, so background information I am a heavy concentrate user since about 2019. Mostly dabs and pens hardly ever smoked flower.
About a year ago or so I started noticing like some early morning nausea and I chalked it up to postnasal drip. It kept happening up until this past October when things got worse. I would throw up from time to time in the morning and sometimes at work and there was maybe one or two days during this time where I vomited and could not stop and ended up in urgent care. I did not tell any doctor that I smoked. I just kinda keep that to myself because I didn’t think anything about it, but I’ve been through so many different types of tests to figure out what’s going on. Most of them come out normal. Actually, all of them do there might be some like little things but nothing serious that will cause this. I have one more test which is a pH study.
So my symptoms, obviously severe nausea, stomach pain, vomiting, I noticed taking hot showers and bath helped. But the thing that’s getting me is the sore throat and the difficulty swallowing that I now have. I quit exactly 2 weeks ago today. Nausea has gotten better. I did feel nauseous yesterday. Almost threw up in the morning. But this time the anti-nausea meds my doctor gave me helped.
So I guess my questions are: Is it normal for CHS suffers to have a sore throat and hoarseness and difficulty swallowing or whatever- like type of heartburn and that type stuff? Is it because I’m not like, sticking to the brat did it and I’m eating whatever I want? I don’t know. I did notice a couple other people talk about having a sore throat through this. I just wanna make sure this is what it is. Because if this is what it is, I don’t need to spend a bunch of money on more testing and surgeries and stuff.
I’m still having pain in my stomach. It just kind of came back the other day but I think the PPI I started taking to try to help the acid reflux symptoms is causing the pain because every time I’m on a PPI my stomach hurt hurts like this. Anyways, any advice or answers to my questions are much appreciated.