Hey folks. Daily user for sleep and pain management and work in the medical cannabis industry. Just trying to gather some thoughts around a recent experience and see if anyone has lived anything similar.
About 3 weeks ago, I woke up super dizzy, and developed severe vomiting episodes. Lasted 3 days. Resolved. Then came back again a week ago.
Weed was actually the only thing that alleviated my symptoms but still had to be admitted to the hospital as I couldn’t keep anything down. They did some panels and found my white blood cell count to be high and did a CT scan and found I had colitis which is inflammation of your large intestine. Nobody mentioned anything about CHS to me.
Fast forward 2 weeks, I meet a GI specialist, I tell him hot showers helped me at the time and weed continues to support my recovery to help my appetite as it was shot. He immediately rolled his eyes and tells me “oh, hot showers? You have CHS and need to stay away from the weed” but still insisted they scope me up and down at the end of May.
I asked him if CHS would cause diarrhea and a swollen colon lol. He said no. So I challenged him again, because I work in the industry and know people who actually have CHS and they cannot consume weed AT ALL without getting sick while I can and actually feel better. Alternatively, we have many patients with multiple forms of colitis who have an RX for medical cannabis just for that. He insisted it was CHS and to stay away.
Someone please tell me if you’ve had CHS and also an abnormally high WBC/colitis? I haven’t found anything that associated the two and have read accounts of hot showers helping all kinds of emetic episodes not just CHS ones. Flower is helping me eat right now which is important since I’ve dropped 37lbs since April 12th and that is not typical for me. If it wasn’t for the weed I have been smoking to get through my symptoms I’d probably have lost closer to 50lbs.