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Curious how many people have had to go to the hospital or puke for hours with chs

I had CHS for 6 years and continued smoking the whole time until 2 months ago. I would have really bad stomach pains in the mornings and constantly be gagging out spit with the rare occasional full blown puking but it would only ever be the one puke then that was it for the day. (Stomach pain would often stay for the first couple hours of my day before dying down) Also never had any trips to the hospital i would just quit smoking not be able to eat for 10ish days and then be back to normal. I just find out intrested how different everyones experience is with it is so different like i’ve seen so so many stories of people saying they would be puking for hours which i just can’t relate too and wonder if anyone knows why it’s so different for everyone

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u/Electrical_Reply3192 — 23 hours ago

Only had episodes while travelling with no weed?

Hey guys I’ve had 3 episodes of 4-6 hr nonstop vomiting while travelling places where I have no access to weed. Both times I’ve been hungover and woken up with spins, motion sickness, terrible headache in addition to constant throwing up. However whenever I get hungover at home I smoke and I stop throwing up. Also my friends drank way more than me and were fine. Is this CHS or bad hangover?? One of the times I was away I was able to get a joint and I immediately stopped throwing up and felt better. Also hot shower didn’t do shit I was puking in the shower too. Pls help :(

Edit: I’ve had bad hangovers (throwing up for hours) since I was 16 and now I’m 26 it’s just worse now… and I also have had daily prodromal symptoms except nausea/vomiting for 3 years now if that helps

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u/Agile_Deal4878 — 3 days ago

Facebook group ‘cannabinoid hypermesis syndrome recovery’ Question.

hi all,

it seems I recently got kicked out and blocked by the above mentioned FB group and am not sure why. i never got any notification about breaking a rule. I did see a post on here from 4 years ago suggesting this is a common thing.

does anyone have recent experience with this group and can provide an understanding of why they kick people out without any notification? I am in a different group as well, but I found both of them to be helpful while I navigate quitting weed and recovering from CHS. And quite frankly, getting kicked out of a support group without any reason is causing anxiety and cravings for weed (even though logically I know it’s not about me).

thanks for any insight to share. not here to cause trouble, just really confused.

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Tips for recovering quickly?

Hey guys, my girlfriend has had it twice and both times have landed her in thr hospital. She is very obviously getting it again she smoked a bowl this morning and cant stop throwing up. She's been extremely excited for her family beach trip in 10 days and it would kill me to see her as sad as she will be if she can't go. Please give us tips to get her healthy again in time we really need it!

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u/Comfortable_Cow1839 — 1 day ago

Need Some Peace Of Mind

Hi everyone! So I have been smoking on and off for a few years now, and I am currently dealing with nausea. My body hates me and I have tons of health problems, so my anxiety brain goes straight to CHS, but after looking into it, I don’t think I have it, but my anxiety is telling me that I do because I am dealing with similar symptoms. I’ve dealt with constant nausea for weeks at a time in the past year, but never got to the severe vomiting. Nausea has been in my life since I was a kid due to anxiety, but this past Sunday, I threw up three times in the morning, went to an urgent care, and received anti nausea medication. Monday I did not vomit at all but I did have nausea, and this morning, I threw up twice so I went back to a different urgent care, and I did tell them I smoke, but they actually diagnosed me with some type of stomach bug/viral thing and was prescribed a different anti nausea medication.

So the fact that I’m not having that intense screaming vomiting for hours at a time, and the fact that my nausea goes away and comes back every couple weeks makes me think that it isn’t CHS related at all. I never slowed down or changed the frequency I smoke, I use it for my insomnia, so that also makes me think it isn’t CHS because the symptoms are coming and going even though I haven’t changed the amount I smoke. I haven’t tried showering yet to see if it lessens because the nausea comes in waves for me, especially after I take my medication, so I’m thinking it probably isn’t CHS related because I never really fit any of the phases, just had a few similar symptoms. If I’m wrong about any of that please tell me! Whether I think I have it or not, I am planning to see a gastroenterologist anyways because I was on tons of antibiotics in 2025 so my GI system is already all messed up without CHS. I would appreciate any help and feedback to settle my mind! Thank you!

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u/No-Standard-2775 — 24 hours ago

Am I in the beginning stages of CHS?

I know half the questions are about diagnosing but I only started smoking anything at all a few months ago. 99% has been flower. I do smoke once or twice a day after work and stay stoned pretty much all weekend. I have morning nausea for the past week and have been kind of sweating but idk if that's because I am being a hypochondriac on google. But I don't have any of the other symptoms everyone talks about. I also don't want to get them so I know the safe answer is to just stop now but it makes me feel good to smoke. Does this sound like the early stages? or was i dumb and just didn't clean my normal glass pipe for a few weeks and am sick from buildup/whatever else gets stuck inside pipes?

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u/Other_Baseball199 — 2 hours ago

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.

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u/Conscious_Bit6684 — 3 hours ago

How long after cessation can the vomiting from CHS continue?

Someone I know with CHS stopped smoking and that triggered him to vomit for the last 13 days without being able to keep down any food. He's gotten like 5 IVs during that time and can keep down Gatorade and Pedialyte sometimes but I'm getting pretty worried. Does it ever end? He probably needs to eventually eat and digest some food again. Should we be considering parenteral nutrition? He's lost a pretty scary amount of weight but the last doctor we saw didn't seem worried and was confused why a previous doctor had prescribed Ativan so maybe they are stupid or an imposter or something.

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u/seriousofficialname — 18 hours ago

Please help or advise! Feeling hopeless.

I just found out I have CHS immediately stopped smoking, just not worth this pain. But this is day 3-4 of this episode and I am thinking of going to the ER again butbhave already been twice in the last two days. I'm afraid they will think I'm drug seeking or something even though I only every ask for nausea and sleeping medications.

The throwing up isn't quite as bad but can only keep down ice chips sipping any electrolyte drink or even water makes me violently sick. I'm so hungry, tired, and thirsty idk what to do. I'm in so much pain when not in a boiling hot bath. I feel like I am dying. The last ER visit they gave me a prescription for Zofran and promethazine suppository neither did much. The Zofran at the er (IV) worked wonders but not the pill. Idk if I should go back to the ER or just try to tough it out longer and hope it passes?

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u/LunacornSound — 2 days ago

potentially chs?

hello! I’m kinda believing I’m in the early stages of chs but I’m also not 100% sure . So long story short I’m an avid cart smoker and I’m also on Retatrutide which from what I’ve been reading Reta and chs have basically the same symptoms. I recently upped my dose of Reta and This last week I’ve had extreme morning nausea and extremely fatigued and had no appetite at all and I’ve actually lost 11 pounds but I have not been throwing up. Ive also had terrible acid reflux and my chest feels weird I’m not really sure how to describe the feeling. I don’t know if I’m just getting high anxiety and convincing myself I have chs or I’m actually showing symptoms of it. I would love to hear peoples experiences while in the prodromal phase to see if I’ve been experiencing any of the same things. And to add I’ve been smoking carts for the last 2 years Basically daily.

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u/Tight-Alfalfa4419 — 1 day ago

Help?

Hii,, I have an extremely hard time processing a lot of things, and CHS is something I've been dealing with for a bit now, only 3 episodes but this last one has been one of my worst due to it leaving me light headed and shaking whenever I do much for too long. It's making my anxiety go insane and my only way to cope with that aside from medication that doesnt work was THC. The vomiting and abdominal pain was already something I dealt with, so it didn't surprise me

I don't recall shaking like this before? I'm terrified something is wrong

Is it normal to be exhausted like this? To be too freaked out because I'm a little too shaky to do anything I normally do?

Is it normal to have month long periods? Is this even related to CHS?

Search engines haven't been much help, I don't know how to properly research things. I need help, and my mom is sick of dealing with me doing this to myself

I'm scared and my mom keeps asking if I can die, I know there's been deaths related to CHS and so I've had panic attacks over it

I haven't smoked since the 5th I believe? I was going through 2g carts in about a week and I still don't really know what to do with myself

This is kind of a rant too? But I genuinely want help or .. something 😓

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u/ZxmbieBite — 3 days ago

Potential CHS

Today is 48 hours of no smoking (cannabis and nicotine) finally was able to get some sleep (about 5 hours) still feel nauseous but not quite as bad as the last few days but abdominal pain is still present eating is still hard and my stomach is constantly churning (haven’t eaten in about 5 days)

I’ve been having harsh sensitivity to temperature feeling extremely cold until I am wearing multiple layers and begin sweating which feels ice cold and does help

This has caused me fear of taking hot baths as getting out feels unbearable.

Any encouragement or advice is appreciated 🙏

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u/danW420 — 5 days ago

hey guys! based on what i’ve read here i’m 99.9999% sure im in the prodromal phase of CHS. i have absolutely horrendous hunger pangs in the morning, intense sweats and chills after eating without smoking, and an overall lightheaded and nauseous feeling.

i’ve tried to quit many times throughout the years but not being able to properly eat makes it impossible. i’m wondering if anyone has experienced microdosing each day to combat this and ultimately overcome it.

i have a pen rn, and im wondering if i just hit it once a day to start, if it will help with the pain the withdrawal and CHS combine cause.

any tips are appreciated and thank you in advance

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u/LongAd9520 — 6 days ago

100 HOUR UPDATE

Quitting both cannabis and nicotine cold turkey at the same time is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.

I’ve suffered from mental health issues my whole life and my family has a LONG history of addiction.

I currently do not have a diagnosis of CHS as symptoms have only started 10 days ago and only had 1 visit to the emergency room however my hope is to never receive a diagnosis and overcome this before it gets to the point of repeated episodes.

Even if that means I’ll never “truly” know if I had it or not.

My two cousins who have been dealing with CHS for over 5 years while not being able to quit.

This has given me so much motivation to prove to not only my self but my whole family that it is possible to overcome this horrible experience.

QUESTION:

One was able to quit for 2 weeks but claimed felt no difference and began smoking again.

I have read online that coffee contains cannabinoids and can trigger episodes (she works as a part time barista and drinks very strong coffee regularly.

Is it possible this is what caused her to feel no benefit during this time?

As currently i can say I already notice a huge difference.

THANK YOU:

I genuinely can’t thank this community and anyone who has replied enough living in the UK with potential early stages is very difficult.

Doctors are hugely miss informed (one today told me every cannabis smoker is in psychosis but in denial)

I think if I hadn’t informed my self so well quickly I could have headed down a dark path of miss diagnoses.

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u/danW420 — 3 days ago
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My CHS story

Hi everyone, I’m so sorry you are going through this. I know exactly how you feel and what you are going through. I hope posting my story and recovery timeline can be of help to you and help keep you strong.

I suffered in the prodromal phase for about 1 year. My stomach was in near constant pain. I threw up in the sink about once a week after waking up. If not in the morning, I frequently threw up at work after eating lunch. I threw up in my car after eating “bad food” at lunch driving home frequently. I remember heaving into a plastic cup behind the wheel while my stomach roiled and tore itself apart. Watching the directions on my dash. My mantra “only x amount of minutes until I’m home, can smoke, and lay down”. I had constant diarrhea, slowly lost weight and wasted away. The only thing that “helped” was marijuana. It temporarily helped with the pain and nausea. A friend suggested it might be CHS. I was an addict and in denial. No way it could be the marijuana, that was the only thing “helping me”.

I went to multiple doctors. Underwent one endoscopy before my CHS diagnosis. Got diagnosed with gerd and got medications to control stomach acid. No doctors suggested CHS (my PCP didn’t know it existed until I told her later about my diagnosis). I spent thousands trying to discover the root cause of what I convinced myself was a newly acquired “chronic illness” that I had suddenly developed.

Everything came to a head in March of 2025. I flew out of State to California for my grandmothers 90th birthday. I already wasn’t feeling well when I got in the plane. Throughout the very short flight, I felt worse and worse. My the time we landed, I knew getting ill was inevitable. I was shaking, sweating, pain roared through my belly, and I was going to heave into a toilet. The passengers were kind and let me get off as soon as I could. I rant straight into a bathroom, passing and wretched into an airport toilet. We spent about 1 hour at that bathroom, because I was too sick to leave.

When I finally felt I was “okay enough” to leave. I had my aunt drive us straight to a dispensary before going to my grandmothers. After all, that was the only thing that “helped”. After making my purchases, I sat outside the dispensary, smoking a pen and throwing up in the grass.

Within 24 hours of landing, it became apparent that this bout of sickness was different than any before it. Weed wasn’t helping. The zofran I had been prescribed wasn”t helping. I couldn’t stop vomiting. I would drink some chilled water. Within 15 minutes, it would come back up, still cold. I was dehydrated and losing strength.

My mom eventually took me to the ER. They suggested CHS. They put some fluids in me, and sent me on my way. I knew I was too sick to leave. But I didn’t want to fight with the medical professionals. I went back to my grandmothers and slept for 24 hours straight. Sleeping was the only time I wasn’t in pain or vomiting.

I inevitably landed back in the ER. I was so dehydrated on the drive there, I distinctly remember the rain that fell. I remember watching a ravine on the side of the road flowing with muddy water. The fantasy of sticking my head straight in, and drinking my fill. I wanted water so desperately, my mouth was dry and my head swimming. But any liquids I drank never stuck, they always came right back up.

At the ER the doctors and nurses tried to push fluids and send me back in my way again. I stuck up for myself and told them honestly that I felt too sick to leave. I asked to be admitted. I am lucky that they took me seriously and did as I asked. Many hospitals around the US are frankly sick and tired of CHS patients. We are often treated like junkies. It’s hard to blame them when patients are told what their diagnosis is, but they keep seeing the same people again and again in the ER because they are too addicted and stubborn to quit. (For proof of this, just look at this subreddit. So many comments of “on my __ episode” and “at the ER/hospital again”).

I spent the next 8 days in the hospital. I had fluids and electrolytes being fed to me in a constant IV stream. I threw up bile 15+ times some days. No pain meds helped. The only time I felt relief was when I got into a hot shower. Some days I took 8 showers. Each time I showered, I had to wait for the nurses to dislodge me from the IV stand, cover the IV port in plastic, and for them to ready the shower. Sometimes the nurses were very caring and diligent when I asked to shower. Others left me waiting in agony, nausea, and with a fading will to live for an hour + for this relief. Many times I thought to myself, if this is the end, I’m okay with that. If I could have lived in that shower at the hospital, I would have. But I also couldn’t sit in it 24/7 and not allow other patients to use it.

During my time in the hospital, I missed my grandmothers 90th birthday. I missed multiple days of work, and I had to push my flight home multiple times. I also had to tell my boss why I was absent, which was extremely embarrassing.

Thankfully, I survived. However, I am firmly convinced I would have died but for the care I received from the hospital. I told my doctor that opinion. He told me “I think you would have too”.

Unfortunately, my suffering did not end at the discharge from the hospital. Recovery was/is a long journey. What I am about to tell you next is a mix of my own experiences, and some educational guesses/theories as to why recovery is so difficult for CHS sufferers. I am not a scientist or a medical professional. Just someone who did a lot of research on CHS and trolled this subreddit religiously for strength and solidarity while recovering.

What nobody tells you about CHS recovery is that recovery is often dampened and hindered by two inevitable and unavoidable phenomenons. The first is that marijuana cessation invariably causes marijuana withdrawal. Marijuana withdrawal symptoms largely mirror the same symptoms of CHS itself. So not only are you suffering anxiety, shakiness, pain and nausea from CHS itself, but also the withdrawal symptoms. Prolific marijuana users (which most people with CHS are/were) can suffer withdrawals for weeks after quitting.

The second thing happening in tandem with cessation is the consistent flow of TCH that continues to plague your body and system from fat cells. It is well accepted and documented that THC is fat soluble. That means that abundant THC in the body is stored in the bodies fat reserves and cells itself. This is why it can take 30+ days for a prolific marijuana user to test negative on a marijuana drug test, even after they stop smoking or using. The THC remains in trace amounts in the bodies fluids because it is slowly leaking into you system from the fat cells themselves. Most people who get CHS lose copious amounts of weight during each phase of the disease: prodomal, emesis, and recovery. When you can’t eat without pain or vomiting, the body burns through its fat reserves, releasing the THC stored there. I theorize that this THC is just enough to re stimulate the endocannabanoid receptors in my stomach, throwing your whole body into a loop of retoxification, but not enough to stave off the withdrawal symptoms.

For these two reasons, CHS recovery is a long and arduous journey. For the first three months after leaving the hospital, i lived with near constant nausea. I threw up bile in my sink many mornings after waking up. I struggled to eat and hold food down. The constant ache and pit in my stomach haunted my existence near every day. Many of my favorite foods were off the table. Things like coffee, dairy, and cinnamon were too triggering to consider, and they caused additional emesis to occur on more than one occasion.

It took about 6-7 months for the near constant tummy pain to abate. This was the most difficult symptom for me to live with. It nearly broke me many times. Being in constant unrelenting pain is exhausting, depressing, and heart breaking.

It took about 8-9 months for my brain fog to lift. As someone who is literally paid to think and be smart, I struggled so much with this. I felt stupid all the time and my self esteem tanked.

My bout with CHS taught me many things. First, it taught me how lucky I am to have my partner. He flew to California to be with me in the hospital on a moments notice. He nursed me back to health once I came home. He was understanding with my inability to be intimate for months while my tummy couldn’t handle it. He went on walks with me to stay active and cooked me non triggering foods. He was my rock in recovery, and I’m so thankful I have him.

I also learned that I never wanted to risk my life like that again. I am proud to say that I am over 1 year sober from marijuana. I can see now that I was addicted to weed. I was smoking a 1 gram cart everyday 1-2 days. I spent hundreds on marijuana weekly. All the employees at the dispensary I frequently knew who I was, my name, and what I always bought. Getting high is NOT worth my life. I literally almost died. My friends and family rallied around me to help me during the experience. I never want to put myself, or them, in that situation again. Who’s to say they would do the same if this happened again? Empathy diffusion is a real thing, and I couldn’t blame them for losing it if I did this to myself again and again. They can’t care for my health and wellbeing more than I care about my own health and wellbeing, that’s just not healthy. It’s important that I honor the love, care, and empathy they showed me during my episode by never putting them through that again.

CHS stole so many things from me. My joy. Days living without pain. My money paying for hospital bills, 2x endoscopies and a colonoscopy, and marijuana. I literally paid for drugs that cost me thousands in medical bills. Thankfully I have good insurance, otherwise we would be talking $50k+ easily. It also took my pride. I had to tell my boss why I was missing 2 weeks of work. I also suffered from low self esteem and depression for months because of the pain and brain fog associated with recovery. It stole experiences and life events which can never be returned to me. I missed my grandmothers 90th birthday in the hospital. I was also too ill to travel to California when my grandfather passed away in May of 2025. I missed the funeral. My pride was wounded again when my dad told them why I had to miss it and that it was CHS. I also missed so many outings with co-workers and friends. I was in too much pain to hang out and attend social events. I worked mostly from home and was a recluse.

Being honest with you, I believe my irresponsible marijuana use and my illness likely caused permanent damage to my body. I can no longer enjoy food at spice levels I had enjoyed in the past. I have to be careful with my coffee and acid intake or risk getting “acid tummy” (heartburn) and having the ache and dull pain return for days on end. Popping tums weekly has become a way of life. Although this may also be a result of aging and being 30 now.

Sadly, when I stopped smoking weed, I also began drinking alcohol in unhealthy ways to cope with the loss. If I couldn’t get silly being high, I wanted another outlet of intoxication. It took me a couple night of binge drinking to realize that the recovery is no longer just a 1 day thing. It takes a week now of feeling like 2 months off of weed before I “recover” from the binge. I’m am currently on an alcohol break that I plan to keep up for at least a few months. I don’t think the body ever fully recovers from the type of damage and destruction I wrought on it with my marijuana use. I believe I now have to learn to live within the parameters of my bodies new limitations for at least the foreseeable future.

There is light at the end of the tunnel. You are alive. The pain, humiliation, nausea, and brain fog will alleviate someday. I won’t lie to you. Lying won’t help you. Recovery is a journey. It will take time. Probably more time than you or anyone would want it to be. I’m so sorry you are going through this. I know how heartbreaking living with your symptoms is.

Don’t give up and give in. Weed and getting high WILL NOT HELP. It will merely offer some potential temporary relief while simultaneously stacking additional time at the end of your recovery timeline. The THC withdrawal clock with start again. The THC will invade your fat cells, re-saturating them, and cause it to leak into your system, repoisoning you again and again for far longer than necessary. Getting high and this possible temporary relief (I say possible because at the end of my illness, additional marijuana was no longer alleviating any of my symptoms) is not worth your life/health, the added recovery timeline, or the trauma you and your family and friends will endure as a result of that poor decision.

I hope my story and unscientific opinions can offer you some solace and aid in your journey. When in doubt and needing extra support, I encourage you to reach out to this subreddit. I literally pulled it up for strength and solidarity multiple times daily in the first 3 months of recovery. I read every single new post, and many some myself. I do the same now, to try and help people like you. I believe in you, I care about you, please care enough about yourself to NOT relapse. My life and health and your life and health, are not worth getting high again for some potential temporary relief or to get high.

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u/starshiplady — 5 days ago

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.

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u/HealthyResolution172 — 7 days ago

Just need some help to avoid retaking please

My life is truly miserable, I was born into a body that never should’ve lived, I tried to self-abort at 7 months old lol. I’m a genetic, physical and mental disgusting mess, I have BPD alongside a life so colorful and full of CPTSD I could make Steven King blush, alongside a general lifelong apathy and hatred of having to wake up tomorrow. I’m short, horrifically disgusting physically, and have a mental state that makes JRR Tolkien look like a saint.

Weed was truly my only escape, I could feel happy for just a few hours. I’d take 10-20 edibles a day, plus 50-70 hits off vapes a day, which as you can imagine developed CHS in about 4 years. I have lost 36lbs from vomiting constantly and 2 hospital visits, the second one my kidneys were beginning to fail cause I couldn’t keep anything down.

My life is still miserable, I have no money and can’t find a place to live expect for my abusive family, I’ve replaced weed with drinking and have drank about 1.75 L of whiskey in a week + a few bottles of Birddog and white claws hard.

I have a few edibles left plus a few packets still freshly sealed and full, and they’re so tempting right now I just want to feel high again, but I know if I take them I genuinely won’t survive. I would just like some sort of support here, any advice about reintroducing weed? It’s been almost a month since my diagnose (mid April) and idk if I can survive the 90 day period at this rate.

Any sort of advice or insight into reintroduction of weed after being diagnosed I’d greatly appreciate even a second of your time, thank you if you’ve made it this far truly : )

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u/TwoNo123 — 4 days ago

Found out today I have CHS, been smoking daily for over 15 years. Advice please..

So I just got out of the ER today with a pretty diffinitive diagnosis of CHS. I'm not sure what to do, I've been managing my insomnia, depression, anxiaty, and stress mostly with weed. Probably not the most heathly,

I know, but always felt better then taking a bunch of medications. I don't know the last time I went even a week without smoking. I just need some advice on how to move forward and and plus or positives for this happening, because right now this just sucks massivly.

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u/LunacornSound — 4 days ago

1 year + sober, does alcohol still trigger anyone else?

Im a little more than a year sober from thc since my episode last year. I still deal with occasional relfux issue that's being managed with meds (been weird lately due to dosage changes and stuff so I've been also having more issues). the other day I had like 1/3 of a wine cooler and felt fine that night mostly, but the last couple days I've been getting that relfux feeling, threw up a little bit last night but I had some heavy/greasy food so I just assumed I over ate or something. but on top of that I've had this big increase in physical anxiety. not sure if the relfux is just making me feel anxious or if it's that chs anxiety triggered by the alcohol 😔 really sucks that even a year out things can still trigger it despite not smoking anymore. Edit: also if anyone has any advice for treating flare ups, I have tums and my meds and stuff but if there's anything im not thinking of I'd appreciate it 😭

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u/transsnufkin — 4 days ago