The Strange Syndrome Caused by Cannabis Use | Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome | Dr Rege Explains
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2022
- Dr Sanil Rege, Consultant Psychiatrist, discusses a clinical case of an 18-year-old female who presented to the emergency department on multiple occasions for severe episodes of vomiting.
As no medical causes were identified, she was referred to psychiatry to evaluate anxiety that was thought to cause vomiting.
#cannabisuse #cannabis #cannabishyperemesissyndrome
Applying a diagnostic hierarchy, the cause was due to chronic cannabis use.
Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome is characterised by:
1. Chronic cannabis use
2. Cyclic episodes of nausea and vomiting
3. Frequent hot bathing
The gastrointestinal actions of cannabinoids are mediated chiefly by CB1 receptors.
Activation of CB1 receptors results in inhibition of gastric acid secretion, lower oesophageal sphincter relaxation, altered intestinal motility, visceral pain, and inflammation.
The clinical course of Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome is divided into three phases:
Phase 1: The prodromal phase can last for months or years, with patients developing early morning nausea, a fear of vomiting, and abdominal discomfort.
Phase 2 :
The hyperemetic phase is characterised by intense and persistent nausea and vomiting episodes.
Phase 3:
Recovery phase. This is associated with the cessation of cannabis use.
Despite the well-established anti-emetic properties of marijuana, there is increasing evidence of its paradoxical effects on the gastrointestinal tract and CNS.
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My heart does go out to anyone dealing with this syndrome.
Many don’t. Why are most pot heads straight up assholes denying withdrawals and this syndrome ? It’s mega painful and the worst experience I’ve ever had in my whole entire life
@@deepthoughts8393yes, they don't believe it's a thing... Hell, I didn't either for several years.
@@gptheog4667
When my wife first got diagnosed with it I thought the doctor was making it up because I was a chronic smoker for years and never had any issues like she did but after a few different trips to the hospital we finally realized it was the marijuana causing her to get sick
I am and it sucks bad
@@robertschultz9623yooooo bro dealing with the same with my wife... what does your wife do to be ablento smoke
I have this syndrome and I hate it so much 🤦🏽 you know how it feels when they tell you to stop smoking weed…😢
So heatbreaking I knowww
It's not fair, I don't drink, I don't like tobacco and I don't do other drugs. I just want to be able to have a few cones and I fucking can't!
same :(((
Have you considered Kava?
I started NA yesterday. Over 15 years as an extremely heavy smoker and at age 28 I'm making the decision to ween down. I've been feeling sick all the time, pot doesn't even get me high anymore so why even smoke it? Simple. I'm psychologically addicted to the substance.
Cheers to anyone making a change. I'm ready to start saving about half a grand each month.
Same on everything you said,good luck
28 is young, kid. Addictions are brain-slavery to chemical compounds. Be sharp, clear and real, with a mind functioning at its optimum healthy state, the way it should have been In the first place. And live the only life you have - Yours! Every human life is a miracle, and it all may not have ever happened at all: You&Me&All of&Us....
Goodonya Emma!! BlessedBe!
Been dealing with this for 4 years puked for 2 weeks every 3 months, been a toker for 7 years. I wish this wasn’t a thing. To everyone who is either going through it now, in the past or in the future please get better and stay safe out there.
So far, I've had two bouts of CHS within the last eight days and it hasn't been pleasant. I've been smoking marijuana daily for many years and now my body wants me to quit. I never realized pot could do this to me.
how do you consume cannabis? flower, edibles, concentrates?
@@lets7121 he said smoking so I’d assume the normal way
Same!!! I was literally hospitalized yesterday and smoking again now!! My doctor gave me these pills that dissolve on my tongue but I feel like they make me constipated 😩🤦🏽♀️ it’s a struggle man!! Wish you the best!
@@shakiramulcahy9069 well your not me. I want evidence, not assumptions. thanks.
@@lets7121 well that’s why I said I’d assume. Nobody wants to be you bro.
One of the worst things that’s ever happened to me. Extremely painful and uncomfortable and very very tough on the mental side of things. My heads was going crazy, I thought I was dying. The fear of being sick & the fear of this happening again has made me quit forever. Our health is our wealth people. I haven’t smoked in a year and I’ve never felt better. It’s not worth it at all.
Quit the puff & you won’t feel rough.
It is very scary because at first you have no idea what is causing your symptoms
Quit the puff and you won’t feel rough!😂👌🏽
I love your saying. Congratulations on stopping!
I’ve been diagnosed twice and didn’t really think it was a thing until I lost so much weight from being so sick for 4 days straight. My recent episode was two days ago exactly a year after my last, and it’s really disturbing that it was all self inflicted. Not smoking again it’s not worth it!! If you’ve been smoking and experiencing this, it’s your sign to stop. Listen to your body.
Its the commercial nutrients and they are not flushing it. Thats why it taste like crap burns black and makes you sick. I get it too from dispensary but not from properly grown and flushed weed. The yare not using quality nutes its the same stuff farmers use because its cheap and its poison to ingest. Dont beleive there is something called CHS. I promise you home grown from a good grower will not make you sick.
@@vikinglife6316bull.
@@gptheog4667 that’s right. People should ignore what they are going through and keep doing what causes it. Because it will make YOU feel
better about your addiction if they ignore their very real pain, which can possibly lead to death through extreme dehydration. But you’re the main character here.
Hello all, I would like to share my experience and also receive some answers. So yesterday I ended up going to the ER due to stomach cramps and a bit of nausea. I had to write an exam and those feelings got worse by the time I reached my university. I regretted not staying home because I was feeling something before I left but it settled a bit so I thought I'd be okay. Turns out not. I had to make a decision to go to the closest hospital. When I finally reached to the hospital, I saw the waiting room full of people. That's when I realized that I won't be seeing a doctor anytime soon and I have to endure through my suffering. After 4-5 hours of wait I got to see the doctor. I was in the hospital for 10 hours total. They took my blood test, did a CT scan and everything came back normal. When I spoke to the doctor again, I told him more about my symptoms and he asked me "have you been using marijuana?" This curious question has been raised by all the doctors I have seen related to my symptoms whether to walking clinics or ER doctors. My symptoms started last year in March and since then I have had to go to ER every 2-3 months. I was not able to quit weed though since the doctors first brought it to my attention last year. However, seeing how randomly these episodes come and interfering in my life and once again how I had to just be at the mercy of the hospital with their waiting times and also for the doctor to give me the right thing to make me feel better. I am so tired of it. My family also gets worried when I go to the ER for this. After yesterday, I have made a decision to just stop smoking, because nothing is more important than my health. The high wears off in what like 2 hours? But when these symptoms come, I have to deal with it for hours and have my life halted until I start to feel better. I just don't want to be worried about what I should eat, my appetite, indigestion, stomach burns, not being able to focus on work due to these symptoms. I enjoyed weed a lot and still have weed left but I will just give it away to someone. After yesterday's episode I have learned that these episodes won't go away and I have to do the one thing that will make it stop- quit weed. Even if it gets difficult and I feel like smoking it, I will just have to try and avoid it. There is no good feeling then to be able to write here feeling like myself. Anyone going through their symptoms would not be able to focus and write and talk to people. So this is very important everyone. We have to think about our lives 50 years from now and how we would like to feel. Can't just satisfy our impulses and fall into the trap of instant gratification. It's hard but this a journey I can be proud of and share my positive experience in a few years time. As much as I love weed, enjoyed it, it's time to let it go. Nothing stays forever. Gotta live and enjoy this life. And the hot showers/ bath are very much true. How many times have I had to get inside a hot bath to feel somewhat better. So don't be in denial and don't think your life will be incomplete without it. Build yourself, make yourself stronger because that's where the strength comes from, doing something we thought we could not do. Hope everyone finds their comfort soon! Now that I am on this journey, it would be great if anyone who has been through this and healed- can give me suggestions on how I can continue to heal my stomach and what I should be doing on a daily basis in terms of diet or vitamins in order to cleanse myself. Would appreciate it much!
Thank you for sharing your experience . It will help many
Thank you for sharing.
Please make a video..so many in denial
I wish I could, I wish I could.
-Manny from Runaway Train.
All you did was get off the runaway train that is refer madness. I will maybe grow out of it one day but for now it helps me put up with the present. 🎁
@jordanm4853 I had chs and I did not know I had it. I smoked weed for 30 years ever day. My chs came about 3 years ago. The first thing that happened was I was smoking a spliff, and halfway through smoking the spliff, I had very bad nausea, stomach pains and stomach cramps and I then vomited, i didn't understand why i vomited so I continued to smoke. 3 months before this happened. My marriage broke down and I was missing my children so much I could not cope, so I was already in a bad state of depression and not sleeping or eating much. I continue to smoke after this first bout of vomiting. After this first bout of vomiting, i could not eat food, and my insomnia kicked in very badly. Maybe I'm just eating two spoons of my dinner per day, and maybe 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night. I continue to smoke weed. I worked through this whole period doing manual labour, and somehow my body was still functioning, and I felt strong even with lack of sleep and hardly eating food. I was functioning on Coca-Cola, Lucozade, and spliffs. Basically I was ill for 6 months and continue to smoke without knowing the reason for my sickness. 6 months later, I hit a brick wall, and my body started to shut down. I went from 17 and a half stone down to 12 stone in 6 months. I started getting stomach cramps, stomach pain, vomiting from time to time, gastro problems, hypnic jerks when trying to sleep, Tinnitus in the ears. once I did fall to sleep then I woke up with tremors. Muscle spasms. Muscle stiffness. Muscle pain. Bone pain. Muscle spasms in my back . Found it hard to walk. Numbness down my legs. Vomiting, nausea.Waking up with numbness in my arms and hands. Anxiety, Muscle spasms in my throat, throat tightening every time I lie down to try to sleep. Constipation, Haemorrhoids. I could not urinate properly. The Muscle spasms in my throat when I try to lie down were causing my throat to close. All this time, i was going to the doctor's and getting nothing back from the doctors with regards to why I was getting all these symptoms. The doctor was offering me muscle relaxant tablets but I could not take them because they made a lot of my symptoms worse. the doctor was telling me to sleep sitting up due to my throat closing when lying down. They sent me for every check-up you could imagine and found nothing about the causes of my sickness. They did find I had developed a hiatus hernia. As more time went past, the muscle spasms in my throat got so bad that I could not smoke because my throat started to close when standing or sitting. This obviously stopped me from smoking. My anxiety and depression were so bad from missing my kids and all the symptoms from the chs and I was still not diagnosed. I felt like I was dying. My nervous system was in a very bad way. I was researching everywhere and came across CHS. I then took this to the doctor, and they diagnosed me with CHS. I continue to work through this whole period. Looking back, I do not know how I got through. But I think the continuous moving of the body was helping me somehow. I started to eat a little better and slowly slowly I started to put my weight back on. After 1 year of me sleeping sitting up I was finally able to lie down without my throat going into spasms so I could lay down I started to sleep a little better slowly slowly. It's been 2 and a 1/2 years since stopping smoking. After 1 year, I was still in a very bad way, with many symptoms still remaining. After about a year and a half they found a 7 mm polyp which they cut out of my stomach. Through this whole period of me being sick with chs i had found having hot baths with Epsom salts was helping me a great deal. Putting warm olive oil all over my muscles was also helping. Drinking bone broth also helped a lot. After 2 years, my haemorrhoids started to calm down. I was able to go to the toilet better. Both urinating and pooing. It's been 2 and 1/2 years, and I still have tinnitus in the ears and spasms in my back and back pain, but it's nothing like the spasms and back pain I had before. I'm still suffering a little bit with insomnia. And when I wake from sleep, my arms and hands still go numb and numbness down the outside of my right leg mainly my knee and thigh. The biggest help I have found in my healing period was through cranial therapy. When I start to feel quite good, sometime I would try to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. Drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes seems to bring back some symptoms. I tried to drink sometimes to test my body. But then I realised I could not drink. Same with smoking cigarettes. Some symptoms start to come back. I have come to the realisation that I can not drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. And obviously cannot smoke cannabis for the rest of my life. Even standing next to someone who is smoking a spliff affects me. I was always a very fit and strong individual and felt invincible. But this whole experience has humbled me. Please look after yourself and your health mentally and physically. The one good thing I can see about CHS is that if you stop smoking weed and live a healthy life it can go away. As I said I still have some symptoms. But I feel like if I look after myself hopefully I pray to God that all my symptoms will eventually go away. it is possible that there is damage done that cannot be repaired from but I am very thankful and go forward with a positive mindframe. It is very good to see that there is information out there for people to find. It did not occur to me to go on TH-cam and type in chs back then. But even the videos on TH-cam here do not talk about half my symptoms. I obviously took chs to the Brim. And maybe I'm very lucky. But it is very good to see there is information out there and people are learning more and more everyday about CHS. If you feel you have CHS the beginner of CHS or you feel you have had it for a while please stop smoking now. Go and seek help. As I said the best thing that I found helped me was cranial therapy and God. God bless you all out there, peace 🙏
had this happen multiple times over some 15 years, and always assumed it was part of an anxiety disorder turning into a panic disorder. when the doctor told me what it was i basically laughed at him, but he gave me some documentation and it all makes sense. crazy stuff.
This sucks so bad I’ve been smoking weed since I was 12 off and on I’ve been smoking weed now, I’m 21 now and never really felt the syndrome till I was 20 this syndrome messed up my life from something I enjoyed every day now, I am here in pain while my stomach literally feels like it’s eating itself and I keep having constant urges to throw up without nausea no warning at all, it’s terrible, definitely not worse then what I’ve been through but it definitely sucks immensely, I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone, I smoked last night and tbh im addicted to marijuana and looked up all kinds of foods not to eat with CHS, I wanted to prepare myself a meal before I got high maybe it’ll change how I feel in the morning, so I smoked a really juicy infused blunt, felt pretty good for a while then I just felt this pressure slowly creep up and I felt a really bloated feeling after, so I made sure I stayed hydrated, the next morning it was no different I felt like crap, extreme waves of nausea and anxiety, which only makes you feel worse, I have no other choice rn but to go cold turkey, I hope anyone feeling this syndrome can fight the feeling to want to get high, marijuana isn’t worth your life, stay safe out there everyone
what you just explained is exactly what im going thru ... smoked weed since age 15 and im 29 ( 2 months from 30 ) ..... that bloating feeling... wanting to vomit out of nowhere .... im heartbroken i dont know what the fuck to do ... i dont know what to eat.... what to drink ..... scary future ahead for me
Yall this shit is real. I went 2 1/2 years going to the er 3-4 times a month with cyclic vomiting and stomach pain and absolutely refusing to believe it was from marijuana. I lost the best job I ever had. I finally decided I'd quit mj and see if that was the issue and sure enough. 3 months since I've quit and I haven't felt nauseous since. I miss it every day but it isn't worth it.
How long after you quit did it take for the naseau to go away?
I quit damn near the same day I felt nausea I’m hoping I can end this early
@@ciarasmith4984 I would imagine 30-90 days tops, considering you system should be clean from the THC after that period of time and it probably also depends how often and how much you smoked. (Just my guess)I've quit for about 14 days and I'm still vomiting but it's not as bad as it was...
Took probably 10 hot showers at one time during withdrawals alone in one day. 😅. I Quit cold turkey. It be like that. Its not worth it anymore
I’m doing the same right now on day 2 in a half.
My grown son has been suffering from this for years. But he won't give up weed. My hands are tied. Breaks my heart because he gets so sick.
Sorry to hear. Hope he turns a corner
I was also in denial because weed made me feel better no matter the sickness that I had, but after actually looking into the scientific aspect of it I understand completely and honestly has caused problems at home because of how much I shower because it wakes me up everyday at 6:30am. If you do get him to quit smoking weed make sure you get every remedy you might need. There is a certain cream that helps with the cramping instead of showering
I’m 2 days sober I was diagnosed with Chs I was sick for 3 months and I decided to stop cold Turkey an got really sick. This video comforts me. Got 2 bags of iv fluids cuz I was so dehydrated. Still feelin suck not sleeping and my stomach hurts really bad. A lot of acid it comes in waves. I don’t wanna feel like this no more. A lot of anxiety to. Physical an mental pain. My heart fs goes out to everyone who came to this video.
Get well soon. Please see your doctor for insomnia relief as well.
I have been to the ER 3 times in two weeks trying to figure out what is wrong with me. I felt like i was dying. It wasn't until my last visit that the doctor suggested Marijuana may be the possible cause. I love to smoke,however, this is enough to make me stop. I' ve lost 21 lbs in 2 weeks. I cant eat or drink. The abdominal and chest pain are unbearable. I thought i was having a heart attack. None of the medications helped. My symptoms stopped once i stopped smoking. Now I'm here, researching and trying to see how many others are experiencing this.
Yes, it's more common than known, in a away. the comments section has taught me a lot as a clinician.
It's the very high THC stuff man.
I just smoke smoke flower like 30% THC.
I had a 61% THC CaviCone yesterday and woke up HOT.
(I've gotten good at this. You can evolve thru it. It's a syndrome.)
You vomit, take hot baths. Soak stomach and DO NOT DRINK OR EAT ANYTHING FOR 6 + HOURS.
Stomach acid, emzine development, sugar production all gets slowed cause of super high THC.
I just did a seccsessful reset last night.
@@FirstnameLastname-tp4zwwrong. It will come back. I promise.
@@gptheog4667yes man I wish I learned I’m 16 going through this
I’m going through this now It’s no joke I just want it to be all over smh 😢
Ok got it again but I shortent it.
You wake up in the night hot and you vomit.
Take a hot baths and DO NOT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING FOR 6+ HOURS.
Stomach Reset
I was diagnosed today. I’ve been smoking for 6 years everyday all day and I quit a week ago due to how sick it made me feel. I’ve learned my lesson.
Glad you got the help.
Quitting is the only way
31 year old male. I wasn’t a HEAVY smoker but a year ago I switched to dabs which brought my tolerance sky high because I also smoked more regularly on top of it being stronger. Would have periods of vomiting that I chalked up to a sensitive stomach or food poisoning. This past weekend had 3 trips to the ER and the first question they asked me was if I smoked. I was thinking BFF to myself “here we go, blame it on the weed.” Went home and researched and realized how spot on my symptoms are. I’ve lost about 26 pounds in 3 months, currently on day 4 not smoking. If y’all really refuse to quit after feeling like this all the time, it proves how addictive weed can be.
Thank to for sharing 🙏🏼
This is amazing to know cause I’ve stopped smoking flower and started sticking to concentrates and now I’ve been vomiting and nauseous for the last 3 month and I’m now finally getting answers had something like this happen a few years ago and doctors had no clue
@@CarlosTorres-em9tb yes it’s not easily recognised !
How long did it take for you to feel better
@phlmnn I had chs and I did not know I had it. I smoked weed for 30 years ever day. My chs came about 3 years ago. The first thing that happened was I was smoking a spliff, and halfway through smoking the spliff, I had very bad nausea, stomach pains and stomach cramps and I then vomited, i didn't understand why i vomited so I continued to smoke. 3 months before this happened. My marriage broke down and I was missing my children so much I could not cope, so I was already in a bad state of depression and not sleeping or eating much. I continue to smoke after this first bout of vomiting. After this first bout of vomiting, i could not eat food, and my insomnia kicked in very badly. Maybe I'm just eating two spoons of my dinner per day, and maybe 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night. I continue to smoke weed. I worked through this whole period doing manual labour, and somehow my body was still functioning, and I felt strong even with lack of sleep and hardly eating food. I was functioning on Coca-Cola, Lucozade, and spliffs. Basically I was ill for 6 months and continue to smoke without knowing the reason for my sickness. 6 months later, I hit a brick wall, and my body started to shut down. I went from 17 and a half stone down to 12 stone in 6 months. I started getting stomach cramps, stomach pain, vomiting from time to time, gastro problems, hypnic jerks when trying to sleep, Tinnitus in the ears. once I did fall to sleep then I woke up with tremors. Muscle spasms. Muscle stiffness. Muscle pain. Bone pain. Muscle spasms in my back . Found it hard to walk. Numbness down my legs. Vomiting, nausea.Waking up with numbness in my arms and hands. Anxiety, Muscle spasms in my throat, throat tightening every time I lie down to try to sleep. Constipation, Haemorrhoids. I could not urinate properly. The Muscle spasms in my throat when I try to lie down were causing my throat to close. All this time, i was going to the doctor's and getting nothing back from the doctors with regards to why I was getting all these symptoms. The doctor was offering me muscle relaxant tablets but I could not take them because they made a lot of my symptoms worse. the doctor was telling me to sleep sitting up due to my throat closing when lying down. They sent me for every check-up you could imagine and found nothing about the causes of my sickness. They did find I had developed a hiatus hernia. As more time went past, the muscle spasms in my throat got so bad that I could not smoke because my throat started to close when standing or sitting. This obviously stopped me from smoking. My anxiety and depression were so bad from missing my kids and all the symptoms from the chs and I was still not diagnosed. I felt like I was dying. My nervous system was in a very bad way. I was researching everywhere and came across CHS. I then took this to the doctor, and they diagnosed me with CHS. I continue to work through this whole period. Looking back, I do not know how I got through. But I think the continuous moving of the body was helping me somehow. I started to eat a little better and slowly slowly I started to put my weight back on. After 1 year of me sleeping sitting up I was finally able to lie down without my throat going into spasms so I could lay down I started to sleep a little better slowly slowly. It's been 2 and a 1/2 years since stopping smoking. After 1 year, I was still in a very bad way, with many symptoms still remaining. After about a year and a half they found a 7 mm polyp which they cut out of my stomach. Through this whole period of me being sick with chs i had found having hot baths with Epsom salts was helping me a great deal. Putting warm olive oil all over my muscles was also helping. Drinking bone broth also helped a lot. After 2 years, my haemorrhoids started to calm down. I was able to go to the toilet better. Both urinating and pooing. It's been 2 and 1/2 years, and I still have tinnitus in the ears and spasms in my back and back pain, but it's nothing like the spasms and back pain I had before. I'm still suffering a little bit with insomnia. And when I wake from sleep, my arms and hands still go numb and numbness down the outside of my right leg mainly my knee and thigh. The biggest help I have found in my healing period was through cranial therapy. When I start to feel quite good, sometime I would try to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. Drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes seems to bring back some symptoms. I tried to drink sometimes to test my body. But then I realised I could not drink. Same with smoking cigarettes. Some symptoms start to come back. I have come to the realisation that I can not drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. And obviously cannot smoke cannabis for the rest of my life. Even standing next to someone who is smoking a spliff affects me. I was always a very fit and strong individual and felt invincible. But this whole experience has humbled me. Please look after yourself and your health mentally and physically. The one good thing I can see about CHS is that if you stop smoking weed and live a healthy life it can go away. As I said I still have some symptoms. But I feel like if I look after myself hopefully I pray to God that all my symptoms will eventually go away. it is possible that there is damage done that cannot be repaired from but I am very thankful and go forward with a positive mindframe. It is very good to see that there is information out there for people to find. It did not occur to me to go on TH-cam and type in chs back then. But even the videos on TH-cam here do not talk about half my symptoms. I obviously took chs to the Brim. And maybe I'm very lucky. But it is very good to see there is information out there and people are learning more and more everyday about CHS. If you feel you have CHS the beginner of CHS or you feel you have had it for a while please stop smoking now. Go and seek help. As I said the best thing that I found helped me was cranial therapy and God. God bless you all out there, peace 🙏
I think there needs to be a lot more knowledge about how extracts/concentrates cause this very specific and very horrific syndrome.
For me, I didn’t need to cease smoking cannabis - just had to cease smoking extracts and hash and stuff. As long as I stick exclusively to smoking flower with a normal and balanced amount of THC/cannabinoids, I don’t get any CHS syndrome.
He’s absolutely right that hot showers are the one and only way to treat them. Luckily it’s VERY effective at treating CHS, at least in terms of relieving the symptoms.
I thought my future held only dying from some rare stomach cancer/disease after suffering endlessly and practically living in the shower. I have been to every stomach doctor/ specialist within driving distance, they have diagnosed me with one thing after another, from ulcerative colitis, gastritis, gerd, IBS, h.pylori (which i was treated for 4x) to the latest crohn's/krohn's (sp?) disease, yet my symptoms never matched up in the end and the meds they prescribed made me extremely sick. I've smoked since i was 17 except a few years here and there, i never got sick until i quit for 2 years and started back, and i couldn't figure out why, i stopped drinking anything carbonated or alcoholic, no red meat, no pork, no lettuce, pizza, spaghetti, the list of what i couldn't eat slowly became bigger then the one i could and i lost 120lb. The thought that i was doing this to myself all these years, about 20 years in fact, is as depressing as it is liberating. 😢😮😊
I have CVS, and every doc I met wanted to scope me and then tell me to stop smoking weed (I don’t smoke). It took so long to get a diagnosis. These attacks are similar to what I go through, except CVS makes you kinda comatose with migraine symptoms (light and noise sensitivity), you have nonstop vertigo, clothes soaked in sweat, it’s horrible. My heart goes out to my fellow suffers- to vomit every 5-10 minutes for 6-8 hours straight is hell on earth.
Sorry to hear. Hope things are better for you.
Ugh it's brutal. I've had it since 2006 an just recently found out I have CHS so I quit cold turkey a week ago. I've been kind to myself an drinking detox tea and eating fruits in small quantities so my body doesn't fight me.
I went thru this. I thought I was going to die. The hot showers was the only thing that gave me relief.
I'm female and my CHS acts up EVERY MONTH,RIGHT BEFORE I GET MY PERIOD...IT SEEMS LIKE MENSTRUATION AGITATE THIS CONDITION
Sure ! It does triggers it as well but the symptoms will go away as time goes by unless you start smoking again
girl same!
Yes.
this is why i stop smoking weed
Until I got CHS 6mo ago I smoked about an oz a week for 5+ years. I was in the hospital 3x in 1 week. the WORST stomach pain of my life. puking, fainting, body pain, etc. so bad I couldn’t walk. couldn’t eat, drink or sleep for 2 weeks and lost 20lbs. only hot showers helped. it took 9 nurses to get my iv in. my liver was shutting down. I quit smoking and I was better. took months to feel normal again though. i’m terrified and will NEVER smoke again. worst thing i’ve even been through.
Where you buying your weed? Dispensary? Those growers don't flush the nutes out of it and they are using commercial fertilizers which is highly toxic and is why you are getting so sick. Im right there with you but I discovered homegrown will not make me sick.
@@vikinglife6316 Are you blind? eazyekilla_7903 said he tried homegrown and still had chs
I was diagnosed with CHS yesterday. I have always smoked MJ since I was 22. I quit a couple of years for a job. But smoke on a regular basis. But it was second episode vomiting mostly vomiting. It gets me weak constantly vomiting. Drs told me to stop smoking MJ. I will finish out what I left and say goodbye to MJ.
Don't do what I did when I developed chs, after getting really sick I quit 2 months to recover only to micro dose daily, after few years I developed problems with my bones/teeth/thyroid,.. my eyesight got really bad & teeth pretty much started cracking/became brittle & started falling out, this sh!t is no joke, stop completely before you develop permanent damage to your body
Hell had some left and i throw it away
My wife is the most wonderful, responsible girl and doesn’t care for drinking…she’s a huge lover of marijuana, and unfortunately she has this syndrome. It seemed made up, but when she stops smoking it goes away indefinitely…when she starts again even in GREAT moderation, after about 2-3 months the vomiting begins and it has put her in the hospital 10 times or so in the past few years. I feel terrible for her. She’s a go-getter and works extremely hard every day of her life and is a wonderful wife…she deserves a vice and it seems god or the universe denies her of this.
If you don’t mind me asking, how long did she cease cannabis and how often did she smoke when she started again? I’m also dealing with CHS unfortunately any tips or words you can offer will be greatly appreciated
@@chimchim2069 hi there…it seems to be directly proportional to the amount of THC in her system….she can smoke as a treat once or twice a month and completely get away with it. Problem is she starts again because a lot of time passes between the episodes.She can take ONE hit 3-4x a week for maybe 6 weeks and that’s about the borderline to the vomiting
@@chimchim2069 when she stops…(demonstrated 12-18 momth abstinence) there is ZERO vomiting…it’s happened enough times where we have proven it’s the THC
@@jaketwomey7924 thank you, getting concrete data is so valuable. I hopw you and your wife are doing well.
Just stumbled across your channel. And I love it, very very informative and thorough!
I started smoking concentrates everyday again after quitting, and now I'm waking up in the mornings with a severe aching pain in my upper stomach and throwing up. I've never felt something like this before and had a feeling it had to do with the marijuana. Gonna stop smoking again and see if the symptoms go away. Thank you!
I just got diagnosed with this yesterday and it’s been HELL. I’ve always smoked for many years I didn’t know this was a actual medical condition
Sorry to hear. Hope you feel better soon
I'm going thru this rn!
@@Will-jf7oe sorry to hear. Hope you feel better soon.
flower, dabs, edibles, how do u consume?
@@lets7121 a lil bit of flower but mostly stiiizy pods.
Long story short- the general public was misled about cannabis. It IS addictive and it DOES have side effects. Thanks for spreading light on this… Dealing with some of the symptoms now…
And it shouldn't be illegal.
Been 8 days now and 3 trips to the hospital, I will never smoke cannabis again. I keep vomiting still and the only thing that is helping are the hot showers.
Sorry to hear. Hope you feel better soon.
1. Electric heating pad
2. Bananas
3. Gatorade
4. 2 hours before bed ONLY WATER to help avoid it coming on.
I am currently detoxing with chs. Third time in 2 years. First time I was in the hospital 6 times in one month. I stopped smoking. But switched to cbd. Thinking the binding of the neural receptors, with thc cbd would be fine. Matter of fact it was. Now. It's effecting me again. Desperately trying to hold on and stay healthy and hydrated. Anyone struggling with this, If you wear a shirt shorts or like sweat pants in the shower. It holds more heat on you. And that helps amplify the relief you get from hot showers. Electeolit from 7-11 has been an absolute life saver. If your struggling with this, please hold on. I know it's rough. This too shall pass. ❤️🙏🏻
Very disheartening to happen to me. I was using for anxiety and literally have had the worst nausea and vomiting.
@STYLE DARA stop smoking. Try to talk to your doctor. Maybe cbd without delta 8 would be ok. I'm going to look into it myself. It will still give you the anti anxiety effects. Amongst other health benefits. I hope you feel better. Try to go buy electrolits. It has something in it that helps prevent acid build-up. If you can't keep that down, water it down some. It will also help fight the dehydration. Which is one of the biggest risks with chs.
As an ex cannabis user who suffered this very painful syndrome multiple time (slow learner) I finally gave up entirely after an episode lasting 11 days with 3 hospital visits losing 15kg of body weight. I now lead a healthy life with a careful diet with a glass or three of spirits when I want to relax with family and friends. I'm not doctor but Stemazine injections and buscapam? relieved the vomiting long enough to begin the slow recovery of my bodies water
Thanks for sharing! And good to hear you are better . The medications make sense
Been smoking/vaping/eating cannabis to self treat my Irritable bowel syndrome. I wake up dry heaving with worse IBS symptoms now after a decade of use. Such a sad thing as cannabis has given me so much relief and quality of life in the past. I'm only at the first stage though at worst I will dry heave once or twice a day. can still eat but I have to force it down. sleep is a no go though and I am getting massive body temperature and mood swings. Cannabis can be a medicine but it's still a drug in the end and a powerful one
I was just diagnosed yesterday. Thank you for this video, very helpful.
Glad you got the right help. Thanks for the feedback 🙏🏼
@@PsychiatrySimplified I started noticing diarrhea in I didn't a little experiment I took a little bit of the dose of the acidic form of the CBDs and then the shortness of breath and it was kind of weird so I stopped using
May the Lord help me. I am suffering from this syndrome. Please pray for me and my recovery.
how are you now? i suffered with this several times because of my stubbornness to quit (I've been sober for nearly a year now thank god). i would be puking for days and couldn't eat and the pain was crazy. i wouldn't be able to sleep either, i would not wish this on my worst enemy. i would also be extremely emotional too.
My husband has been smoking for 15+ years and for the past 5 years that I've been with him he has gone to the ER many many times for cyclic vomiting. In the beginning of our relationship we went to Colorado, and he got sick. We went to the ER, and after they ran tests on him they told him it was probably CHS. He basically was like "no way". Then he had convinced himself (and me) that he probably had chrons disease because at one ER visit a doctor had no answers for him and said "maybe see a GI doctor because it could be chrons or colitis". Yet, he still hasn't gone to see a GI doctor. He has eliminated red meat, fast food, soda, most dairy, now coffee.. all with no relief to the cyclic vomiting.
A couple months ago he was landed back in the ER and had CT scans done, as well as other tests and everything came back perfectly fine. No signs of anything. So again, a mystery. The doctor there mentioned it could possibly be CHS, but he dismissed it again.
I'm currently typing this as he is throwing up and refusing to go to the ER. I have no idea how to get him to stop smoking to see if the symptoms will go away. He is so stubborn and marijuana is a part of his identity at this point.
Sorry to hear. Do hot / warm showers help? Have anti emetics helped in anyway. Hope you get to the bottom of this. Wish you and your husband well.
@@PsychiatrySimplified Thank you. So yes hot showers do help. I ended up doing more research on it since I posted this, and I think I found something in regards to treatment using capsaicin topical cream.
"The interesting, almost pathognomonic, characteristic of CHS is the relief of symptoms by hot showering or bathing. This effect was initially proposed to be motivated by impaired thermoregulation mediated by the stimulation of CB receptors in the preoptic area.13 However, the receptor that may actually deserve credit for this phenomenon in CHS is the transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 receptor (TRPV1), a nociceptor found in the peripheral nervous system that is involved in the pain relief we feel from endocannabinoid stimulation and which also regulates body heat.21 TRPV1 is activated by exposure to scalding heat (109°F).22,-24 Interestingly, capsaicin also stimulates the TRPV1 receptor.24 Lapoint25 identified the clinical advantage of the physiologic link between cannabis, heat, and capsaicin when they applied the chili pepper derivative (0.075% capsaicin) to the abdomens of several adult patients with CHS and observed relief of their nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Additional case reports subsequently also described the treatment of CHS with application of 0.075% capsaicin to the abdomen and 0.025% capsaicin to the back, arms, and abdomen.26,27 "
My husband was throwing up for 24 hours straight when I came across this information. I immediately went to Walgreens and luckily they had a single tube left of this stuff.
I got home and put a pea sized drop on his abdomen and another pea sized drop on his back. Within 15 minutes the nausea had completely subsided. He is currently sleeping and has not thrown up since. The only negative side effect was a burning sensation that lasted for about an hour.
@@mrs.ana93 this is fascinating. Thank you so much for sending this across. 🙏🏼. Wish you and your husband well.
@@mrs.ana93 I went through this very same thing, and like him, I also have been smoking a very long time and smoke like I breath it, as you said, it’s a part of us. The article you posted to here I found years ago, and yes the capsaicin cream or basically chilli extract does work and so do drastic temperature changes as well, like hot to cold showers back and forth. I last went to the E.R. In 2019 and I would go 1-5 times a month since 2012!! Basically I found an article on R-CPD or “The No Burp Syndrome” weed or cannabis is not the cause of our nausea, and vomiting, in my opinion of course, it’s caused by not being able to release stomach or abdominal gas. Basically you can’t burp, and then you work yourself up into a panic not been able to release the gas, which then causes you to make yourself throw up for the relief of some gas escaping while you throw up. Back in 2019 I figured out never let myself hold in a burp or a fart and voila, all of my crazy nausea symptoms went away, while also never reducing the amount of cannabis consumed. I wish you well and hope he finds relief.
@@Iamthatiis I don't think that's the case with my husband, because he frequently burps before throwing up. It's unfortunate because he just went 72 hours straight with no THC and the nausea completely subsided, and I kid you not he decided to smoke flower again because "maybe it's just the concentrates making me sick", and he's currently vomiting again. The capsaicin is helping some, but not as well as the initial time after I first bought it.
Things that stopped me vomiting during these periods : orange / clemantine / pineapple / please people share all your knowledge with people .because alot of people realy can help each other . Even trough the vommiting periods i kept smoking .. please we canot lose lives and so many people came verry close during CHS .
I’m currently experiencing this. I had food poising twice and the flu all while having symptoms of CHS from November until Jan. I never heard of CHS until this week when my appetite disappeared and been nauseous lately. I noticed it occurs during or after smoking. I googled a few things and I am done smoking now that I discovered CHS. Luckily I only had the nausea and stomach pains because I identified the issue. I never early weed was making sick but was in denial. Now I’m bed eating Chickfila fries trying not to barf, chugging water and a fiber pill to help. Smoking isn’t worth it. I hope you all have a speedy recovery. ❤
At the hospital bed while typing this. Just beat an CHS episode for the second time at the emergency room. First occasion was in 2018. Dr didn’t have a clue. Both times took about 10 hours of vomiting and extreme nausea before i started feeling relieved. All while having IV medication. Shame on me. I must truly quit
Glad you got help. Wish you well.
Did you have a migraine also while throwing up and nausea?
🥺 genuinely happy for you CHS sucks. I remember crying and feeling really bad. My moms took me to the ICU got my fluids up and quit for 7 months. Till one of my co workers brought a pen and I got into it again. Past two days I haven’t been eating and throwing up. I have to start the process again 🙏
I’ve been dealing with this for years and only now learning about it. My last bout with CHS was last Sunday and Monday. This last time was the worst it’s ever been for me.
You have to take care of yourself. Feel your body's receptors. Dont eat at night. Stay hydrated with healthy drinks. Best to avoid it before it ever happens
I suffer from this bs.. its absolutely horrible, I literally thought I was dying.. I smoked heavily, morning to bedtime, to help the pain (shattered heel and tibia).. if you too suffer from this, you know showers are the ONLY relief you will get.. BUT if you rub capcasin cream (arthritic relief cream) under your pectoral muscles/top of your stomach, the nausea will stop immediately it mimics the effect of a shower by tricking your hypothalamus, thinking your in the shower.. I started smoking the delta8 thc flower and I haven't had any CHS episodes *knocking on wood*
That’s sounds really distressing. Hope you stay well.
Around 15 showers a day and even when I try to quit it just makes it even worse the stomach cramps just kill me
@@mrkhd4679 yeah bro back to back damnear, I wouldn't wish it on my worst fking enemy
@@thatguybob3411 I rly thaught i was the only one that felt the way you jaut explained it don’t feel so sh1t now but I’ve been addicted since 12yrs old and heavy everyday since. it started acting up at 15 I’ve now had over 7 episodes I just can’t quit currently going through it now again this year and the capsicin cream is sold out near me besides 75% not my usual 25% and I put way to much on and now in between both pains I Fcking hope I quit this time !!!!!!!
@@jadecolley3123 dudeeee the first time I put it on I put way too much right so I ran up to wash it off in the shower, once the water hit it it burned SO BAD it literally made me scream so I turned away from the water, but then the water carried it downstairs to my pecker.. and OMG MAN THAT BURNED sooo much worse lol.. be careful that doesnt happen😂.. that's crazy it's sold out tho man where you at? England?? maybe you can order some online just in case it happens again.. how often do you get episodes? For me it was about every 45 days of heavy smoking, it hasn't happened to me yet from smoking only once at night.. however, when I smoked that once 9 outta 10 times my heart goes crazy beating out of my chest and my hands and feet get clammy, idfk why but it's not fun smh I gotta take only a tiny puff
I've never personally known of anyone developing CHS over time, but I know of several cases of people who vomited the first time they tried cannabis and on every subsequent attempt. Not too surprisingly, none of these people cared for cannabis.
Smh I started smoking at the age of 15 I'm 35 now and I never had any problem till recently I had 3 bouts with CHS by far one of the worst experiences I ever encountered. Went ICU ,twice sucks honestly from the looks of it the best cure is to quit. Your body just rejects it and will not accept it no more
I'm pretty sure this is what's happening to my sister. She has Parkinson's and is on a lot of different meds. Ive been thinking it's one of her many meds. When her psychiatrist told us it's the pot we both thought he was nuts, but it sounds like CHS in her case. Her doctor didn't put a name to it. Now that I know, I'm going to have to try to get her to abstain from the pot. Wish me luck, she's not exactly on board.
My husband is smoking every day, he will randomly get these attacks he starts sweating excessively then gets goosebumps all over his body. He doesn’t vomit but he does get a knot in his stomach right before it happens. This has been going on for years. A couple times he’s went into small seizures.
Wow!! Did he stop smoking it?
I was throwing up for a week a couple years ago and made two visits to the ER, just for the symptoms to subside for a little and then I vomit again at home. I was getting multiple diagnoses from the nurse saying it was CHS, to the Dr just saying it was a stomach bug.
Well flash forward to this week and it’s happening again, although my family members who don’t smoke were also throwing up. So I am not sure if it’s CHS or just a stomach bug.
It’s been going on for four days and the second day I actually felt better ate, and smoked later. Like some other commentator said after my high wore off I got extremely nauseous again and threw up all my food.
Feels like I can’t keep any food down. I will say hot showers actually make my nausea worse
Edit: I had a nurse come to my house and give me a home IV therapy and it made me feel so much better. Only $200 compared to a hospital visit and waiting forever.
I was in denial for many years, had a few hyperemisis episodes with a year in between that lasted about 2 weeks each. A few months ago, after starting smoking again, I got slipped into another episode and it almost killed me. I couldn't hold anything down for 21 days. Vomiting immediately after I would run out of hot water. Eventually was sent by ambulance because started seizuring due to lack of potassium. I attempted to go to hospital several times during the 21 days, but because of the 5-6 hour long waiting times in the hospitals in Canada, I could never last in the waiting room. I couldn't spend that many hours away from the hor shower..it felt like torture. I will never smoke pot again. I am now certain that I have an intense allergy. CHS is deadly. I now feel great.
Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏻. Sounds terrible . Glad you got better
Thank you for your comment I agree I went to hospitals during my several attacks over a period of 4 years . I TOOK HOT BATHS UNTILL I ALMOST FAINTHED .. GOT OUT WENT UNDER COLD SHOWER few minutes and back to burning myself in my steaming bath .. I had to leave hospitals I became agressive they could not let me sit under the shower all day everyday so I left every hospital I went to . The shower bills were payable though .. my dad always complained but I have seen people lose 300k in hospitals over this and ive only came across CHS yesterday ive been on a research rampage for 20h strait now . Im quiting weed forever no excuses for me anymore . Now I have to find ways to quit .
@@schildknaap_van_gent please make a video about this for other weed smokers. There is so much denial that this is even real!! They always say "reefer madness" or propaganda, like they are in a brainwashed drug cult!
My mother has this right now. She knows it and hasn’t stopped and is then giving herself “attacks” that could kill her. She has also overdosed twice now due to taking other things to deal with the pain and symptoms from the CHS. She came to visit us and had no weed for two months and all the “attacks” completely stopped and she could eat again. She’s dropped a lot of weight. And much more and she would tell me that hot showers what brought her some relief. Hers sound so extreme. Many ambulance trips over the last 2+ years.
Sorry to hear! Hope your mum gets better
back in june into july i had an episode putting me in the ER . after days of vomitting i actually ruptured my asophogus and had air leaking into my chest, placing me in the cardiac unit for a week. i quit and felt better for a couple months. i went on vacation & smoked and never went back to quitting. i was discharged from the hospital AGAIN yesterday after having another episode a few months later. i cut down my use a lot before that second episode. but it still happened. its hard to swallow the pill. but its been affecting my life . i get up an hour earlier than i should just to sit in the bath/shower. sometimes i cant make it to work. or even get about my daily life due to my stomach feeling like its rotting from the inside. gonna work on quitting but this is a real problem & you gotta take it seriously. ive been dealin with this for years now & its brutal.
Thank you for sharing. Hope you feel better and are able to achieve your goal. Wish you well.
Wow that is serious! I just had my first hospital visits (2) in one week because of this although I have been suffering for two years or more. I too would need to get up hours before work to soak and ease the nausea. I'm just quitting. Period. I may try to take a few puffs maybe 2 times a month after a while.
How long did you quit before doing it again? How often were you doing it when the symptoms came back?
Quit weed dummy
I never actually vomit, I just do this weird gag / cough / dry heave (especially in the mornings) for the whole first week of quitting. I can deal with the insomnia and edginess as I find that is more mental. What I cant deal with is the EXTREME weight loss and feeling that my stomach is caving in. Constant contradiction in and of itself - My stomach is empty, but I'm not hungry. 😫I just force myself to eat things light and healthier like fruits, yogurts, soups and vegetables. A glass of red wine will actually bring my stomach to a more normal state sometimes.
Each time I've quit, I always return back to normal and feeling even better than before after 14 days. Appetite comes back. I fall asleep naturally again. Energy restores. Overall health just increases tenfold.
I want to mention that I have smoked cannabis everyday since I was 16 years old ( I have quit 4-5 times over the years). 33 years old now. Use bongs, dabs, all the heavy stuff. Not just a mild user.
I always had the dry heaving in the morning, only actually threw up a little bit once or twice. I’ve been smoking super heavy for 4-5 years, I’m 19 now. I’ve been sober for 25 days now with no more nausea or vomiting, and I too feel like the worse part was the appetite issues.
@Vincent Methistopholese pretty much in the same boat minus once or twice before I quit, I’d always have a stupid hard time eating when that feeling comes on. Mine was always terribly uncomfortable though. Hard to get out of bed some days. Smoking used to make it subside but I had started to realize it was always worse the mornings after I had smoked more than usual.
@@briggan007 @Vincent Methistopholese If you guys are having the stomach issues like I did - go buy chocolate ENSURE protein shakes and drink one in the morning when you wake up and one before bed. Your stomach will feel full again and normal until you regain apatite.
I had this on and off for about 6 months, I didn’t realize it was this until I had an endoscopy done and my doctor told me about it. I would take at least a gram of wax a day and that’s probably what caused it. I can smoke as much weed or carts as I want and I don’t get this sickness tho
Great video keep up the good work also love the brick wall behind you 😊
Thanks for your feedback 🙏🏼
CHS sucks. The frustrating part is how people say "oh you're not smoking the right strain" "your weed was contaminated" blah blah blah. I was smoking dispensary lab tested weed ONLY. That's not how CHS works. CHS doesn't care. Hot baths and capsaicin cream help a lot. Zofran can help with the nausea but won't wipe it out completely. The big part is keeping your electrolytes in balance. Get in a hot bath and drink pedialyte or other electrolyte beverages. When you get out you might become nauseous and throw it all up but at least your body had some time to absorb some of the vitamins and minerals. It's a miserable condition but it will pass! I promise! The biggest thing is abstaining from any cannabinoids. Your body doesn't agree with them and that's unfortunately the way it is. I've been through it 3 times because I'm stubborn and don't listen. One of the times I spent 5 days in the ICU while on vacation because they couldn't figure out what it was. Hydration is the biggest part. You can go without eating for a long time but hydration is key. Drink as much water as you can handle. It'll get better. I promise.
Thanks for sharing. this is helpful for others.
How long i am one month sober but now experiencing these symptoms don't have the urge to smoke but naussea is getting worse anxiety is at its peak
@@vaibhavsingh4108 are you avoiding trigger foods?
@@Victoria-uq8mf yes avoided everything maybe i should see a doc
After 2 years of many hospital visits, several nights in hospital, an unneeded laproscopy the ER doctor finally diagnosed it as CHS. Administered Haldol and stopped the puking and pain immediately. Once Haldol wears off after a day or so the vomitting comes back and abdominal pain. It is awful to go through. Recovery can be weeks. Only way to get better is to stop. It is a new syndrome within the last 20 years so many doctors do not catch it.
Some of the worst nausea I've experienced. The only way to get releaf is the hot shower running on your body. This gives only temporary relief. But usually I would have to smoke more just to get the nausea and anxious episode to stop
I just got diagnose with this - I’m very impressed my doctor caught it, because I’m still in the early stage - about one month in or so. I track my food & weight carefully, and was open about my THC habit, and my symptoms were absolutely spot on with this, except I’ve adapted to using a hot air vent for comfort rather than showers lol. Easier than drying off repeatedly, I suppose.
Interestingly also, I don’t smoke cannabis so much as I use the THCp carts chronically. I wonder what else we’ll learn about this condition as time goes on. I rarely ever have any health issues. This was totally out of left field for me.
It's a horrible condition. I was diagnosed myself. Three er visits in one week. Glucose shot and three bags of fluid in ONE of those visits. The vomitting had me that dehydrated. I quit for 7 months. Back on it again for 5. This time around I'm not so much constantly getting sick but constantly feeling nauseous, painfully nauseous to the point I won't eat with nausea. Then the hunger pains are just constant. when I do try to eat with nausea I just gag. Countless meals I have forced myself to eat gagging. All because of weed. Hateful. Cause the weed is a crutch for anxiety and the likes x
Thats sounds horrendous. Hope you are feeling better and can get treatment for this.
Did you stop smoking after the first time? I haven’t smoked in 48 hours and plan on waiting at least 6 months
@@p3aoh161 How are you feeling now? I'm 14 days sober and still not 100 percent better, but not vomiting quite as much and I'm starting to slowly feel a bit better. I wish I was educated about CHS, I would've thought twice about smoking as much as I was on a daily basis! :/
@@p3aoh161 I stopped smoking for about 2 months and went back to it. I got it again now because I smoke more and more often cuz I wasn't having symptoms so I thought it was safe to smoke more. If you go back to it I'd wait at least 2 months and don't smoke more than once every 2 or 3 weeks to be safe. If you feel your tolerance rising and you need more and more to get the same high that's a good sign you need to stop or you'll get chs soon
So glad I found out about this. My poor husband has been suffering for a month and a half from this. 5 ER visits. 3 hospital stays. He has finally stopped vomiting but has an aversion to all food except a warm, blended soup I make. He has lost 36 lbs. We only figured out the cause 2 weeks ago, and he stopped smoking. He has been mostly bed ridden.
Same here..
Multiple visits and hospital stays...the pain is bad and I get urges to scream during these times especially while vomiting
Hi Donna, how is he feeling now? did he stopped smoking? Asking because i have the same problem, i stopped smoking completely 2 days ago, nothing had changed yet but i hope for the best..
He needs to get a protein substitute he can take every day, he will get to his normal weight soon, talk to a nutritionist!
Thanks for sharing. Hope he is better now
I am an emergency room nurse and tonight I saw the most horrific retching and vomiting I’ve ever seen in a young adult and I think this might be what she has
Clues such as relief with hot showers and ofcourse association with cannabis use most valuable for diagnosis.
Def something to pay attention to. I have 2 friends who have been using heavy and especially with concentrates. Unsure of their quantity of usage but admittingly both admitted “heavy”. I do wonder if the high % strains and concentrates are playing a role.
This is no joke I've never been sick like this it felt like it 2 weeks to recover i thought i was dying never again!
I stopped smoking for two days still in pain do I have to just wait
@@downtoroll7822 Yes sometimes it takes 2 to 3 days you just half to wait it out and stop smoking pot it took about a week until I felt much better and the only cure is to stop smoking pot you might half to go to the ER and get fluids that what I did because I couldn't keep anything down in my stomach it's no joke at all good luck I hope you start feeling better I haven't had any Marijuana since Feb 1st and I feel really great know!
@@downtoroll7822 The best thing to do is just quit I stop on February 1st and since then I haven't been sick are throw up why put your body thur this it's not worth it at all good luck!
@@robertdunford8610how long did it take for symptoms to go away? I’m on day 9 with no weed and still going through it.
@@WallofJohn The best thing for you is to just quit it took me 3 different times to finally realize that C.H.S is no joke since February 1st I've quit smoking pot and I don't have any more stomach problems and haven't been throwing up and I feel so much better!
Spot on, very informative. Thank you, I have suffered from this for over 10 years and did not know cannabis was the cause. I definitely thought it was a tool to help the nausea.
I was in emergency twice in 1 week just 4 weeks ago and the doctor La thankfully were aware of this syndrome and identified it right away.
I had never heard about it.
That was the most severe reaction I e had in the 10 plus years of having this and it was a very scary and eye opening experience..
I have completely stopped using cannabis and want to spread the word on this one because it should be more widely recognized.
Thank you for sharing. And hope you continue to stay well
This has to be what I’m going through. Lab doesn’t show anything, nobody has been able to figure it out.
Daily edible use for several months with no issues and then about a month ago I can’t function without needing to vomit.
Constant nausea, I take Ondansetron and suck on ginger all day.
I switched to tinctures because I couldn’t even eat food without feeling sick but now, I think I’ve done what the doctor in the video described - I thought I was countering the nausea.
Very frustrating as edibles were an alternative to having to take painkillers that were destroying my kidneys for neuropathy.
Did hot showers help? Also comments section indicate that capsaicin shows benefits - ps not medial advise
You've just got to quit the weed bro (especially the daily use) I know how bad it sucks but since there is no cure for this it's literally the only option is abstinence! :(
Thank you so much!
i’ve had 3 episodes. i was throwing up for a whole week each time uncontrollably
CHS nausea is strange. It's not like regular nausea. When I'm in a state it feels like I am in shock. I almost cut my finger off with a hatchet once, and was in shock. That's the closest thing to the CHS nausea that I can think of. Sound hurts, you are totally spaced out in the deep nausea. I couldn't even talk to my husband, cause talking and listening made it worse. Also, super hot water on the back of my neck was my only relief, would totally snap me out of the shock immediately. Now that I'm recovered, I can't get the temp even close to as hot without it feeling like it's burning me. So Strange. After losing 30 lbs, I know I will die if I smoke again.
Wow exact same..so interesting to learn what was causing this for myself. Especially the hot water. Usually I can’t even handle really hot baths or showers, when I am nauseous from this I can handle the absolute hottest water available, it’s crazy.
Thank you for sharing your experience . Sounds very distressing ! Hope you feel better
Part of the problem for me is that we have over 2000 years of documented marijuana use and only in the last 2 years is this a problem. They claim it's overuse but are they looking at everything? As the Dr mentions, marijuana actually helps with vomiting especially with cancer patients who can't keep food down SO how is it all of sudden causing people to throw up?? They have no real answer. What changed?
I have a major problem with the conclusion of these non-studies because they don't ask if something was wrong with the marijuana itself. I know since the legalization of marijuana, we've got an influx of trust fund babies who can afford the high barrier to entry and they don't give a damn about how they grow marijuana. There is NO regulation in terms of pesticides/insecticides. If you're a new grower, you don't pay attention to things like how quickly these organic and inorganic pesticides break down. They're using dangerous chemicals that even the FDA has prohibited for our food crops.
But, let's talk about these pesticides since some users don't know. Pesticides can be topical (outside of the plant) or systemic (inside the plant). They also have break down period. For example, if a grower has a spider mite infestation, they may use SEVINS. In dust form, it takes 3 days to break down. However, if you wet it, it can take up to 72 days to break down. We're working with plants that we're watering all the time. But, growers don't pay attention. I'm not blaming SEVINS for anything specific. We have neem oil, organic pesticide direct from the neem tree, breaks down in 5 days. You have SMC, depending on what you're using, it may take 3 months to break down.
But, I bring this up to point that we don't know what's really causing CHS and I highly doubt it's simply from people just using too much marijuana, ALL OF A SUDDEN. I am hoping that people start asking necessary questions and stop accepting these weird answers to a potentially made-up term. I think people are getting poisoned and it's not a real syndrome in the classic sense. But, how can we find anything out when we STOP at answers that don't make sense considering the long history humanity has with this plant. We need to know what's really going on.
Fr. I'm dying over here with heart burn already lost 80 pounds
@@arrowbynum4784 this is why I promote people to grow their own. I remember in NYC, the dealers used to use roach spray on ghe reggie to kick it up a notch. THEN, there was "gettin wet" where they would dip marijuana in formaldehyde. You would know it was dipped because it was still wet and very brown.
Then, you have folks claiming the quality of the marijuana ("dispensary lab quality") they're getting but they can't tell us the strain, which dispensary, the grower, or when they picked it up. These are things we should know. That way we can get to the bottom of it.
But the doctors arenxt even asking important questions. They got their little pieces of paper hung up on the wall, stacked with a pile of arroagance, as if they know everything. They have half the story which is anecdotal, at best. Last time I checked, we needed double blind studies to prove anything. As they did in the past and continue to do today, they're literally just making up shit with nothing to back it up but their pieces of paper hanging on the wall.
F that. The BS they lied about yestersay with no evidence and no studies is being debunked today with evidence and studies. They said marijuana is dangerous for pregnant women. That shit was deuinked before they came up with fhe lie (re: Melanie Dreher). They claimed marijuana hurts the developing brain in children. That was debunked recently.
My favorite lie is the Tulane/Heath study that "proved" marijuana killed brain cells. Not only was the study debunked 3 years later after peer reviews realized the researchers sufficated rhesus monkeys with marijuana smoke. DEA ran with that. That was the last ttkme the govt approved funds for a marijuana study, something they could use to lie to the people. B.b,bbut waait.. there's more.. marijuana has been proven to aid in NEUROGENESIS.. huh!?.. yeah, marijuana helps develop brain cells, not destroy them.
So if they think someone as educated and experienced in marijuana, doctor arrogance, government lies will accept, it's just fhe marijuana... I aint even gotta say no more. They gotta come better than that.
2000 years ago, cannabis was relatively low in THC, so it's an apples and oranges comparison.
@@Magnulus76 MISGUIDED. Keep in mind, regardless of a plant's individual THC content over the years, hash existed centuries ago as well. High potency THC products have also been with us for a very long time. We were always making concentrates and tinctures.
Next time you regurgitate that BS excuse, TELL THE WHOLE STORY and not just the part that makes you think you won the argument
@@anthonytaurus but back then not many, if any at all, people weren't blazing it up like how people do it now. the amount of usage from person to person is definitely higher than someone one or two centuries ago. a light user now could be seen as a moderate or even heavy user back then, regardless of how potent the THC content was.
Extremely helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for your feedback 🙏🏼
Hot showers help with all forms of nausea and most GI problems. Hot baths work too
My phase one was completely rejecting food. Like to the point where I would force myself to eat but I would start throwing up before I got the food in my mouth. But the retching, oh God we thought I tore my esophagus for a second there it's horribly painful
Went to the ER twice in one week. Severe nausea and I couldn't eat or drink anything threw up for two days straight. The ER doctor pointed me to this. I'm sure this is it. It's been progressive and getting worse. Been a long term daily smoker for years and years. 2 years ago I started with infrequent nausea and then frequent and then sometimes with vomiting. All along with stomach issues. I had every test for liver and pancreas issues, they even put a camera into my stomach. They found no reason for this. I haven't smoked for almost 2 weeks and I am so much less nauseous in the AM and my stomach is starting to feel better. Sux I can't have THC anymore but that week long nausea was no joke and I never want to experience that again. The anti nausea medicine doesn't even work for CHS.
I agree, I was in the hospital twice this week for the same thing. It’s even hard to sleep because you’re in so much pain.
@All about us I didn't get to the severe stomach pain stage yet. I had pain and discomfort but not the horrible pain I see some people talking about. Did you stop smoking?
It is awful. Usually need several ER visits for IVs because NOTHING stays down!
Good luck getting a diagnosis of this if you live in the UK though.. Everyone I've seen. over 20 years have been clueless..
I honestly don’t know if a chronic smoker and have episodes but I’ve been diagnosed with gastritis, peptic ulcers, and gerd
Sorry to hear. Smoking independently can be associated with gastritis, Gerd.
Okay you had me at presenting early morning symptoms, and Hot showers:
I’ve been sick for a week: every morning. I get in the shower and run out ALL the hot water. I’ve taken 25 showers since last Thursday.
I don’t drink alcohol because it never agreed with me. Looks like I’m going have to stop it all.
This is a wake up call for me to start taking better care of my body
Wish you well. Take care
Besides limiting usage, do you think there’s a strain that’s better? I know many of the marijuana options nowadays are very high TH levels which I wonder if that has to do with it. Would making sure it’s pesticide free help? Is indica or sativa best?
From a medical perspective cessation is definitive treatment for CHS. Symptom relief can be obtained with some other Rx covered in the video.
The process of quitting is so hard it makes me suicidal, It’s so hard
Please speak to a doctor to help with cessation.
@@PsychiatrySimplified I am currently feeling better !!! Finally 3 days off Mj and finally able to eat , I am so thankful to god !!
@@DM-mp5gh that’s good to know. Wish you well 👍🏼
I was diagnosed with chs. The ER kept telling me I'd have to quit smoking for months before I saw improvement. Then I met another patient who had it and she said its caused by DAILY chronic smoking so just stop smoking daily and the symptoms stop. I did bathe frequently but not while sick because I didnt want to throw up in the tub. So instead I wore sweaters and blankets and it was 110 outside. I am also diabetic so THIS condition caused me to be Hospitalized in the ICU TWICE because the constant vomiting caused my glucose to skyrocket and I went into DKA twice. I just got out of the hospital a few days ago. They did a gastric emptying test to rule out diabetic gastroperesis.
Thank you for sharing your story. I just had my 3rd ER visit and stopped smoking completely cause I can’t bear the pain anymore. I’m curious, has not smoking daily helped you? I would love to smoke again but definitely after a long break.
@@rlam9734 Dont start again. Trust me, you will regret it. I have several episodes and many trips to the hospital and between the episodes, i would always relapse since i thought i was better. Smaller amount, cbd, delta-8, pure flower, ive tried many things to keep weed in my life but no matter how small, the symptoms would always come back. It would even take year or two between episodes which gave me a false sense of security from chs. But if you have chs and when your body has had enough, it will always come back.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. this is helpful for others to know.
@@rlam9734 I Stopping smoking a few weeks ago and it's helped me and the vomiting has stopped a LOT however I still vomit sometimes before bed, but now I'm not feeling nauseous as bad after a meal and I can keep my food down much better! You NEED to stop smoking so much (maybe just on the weekends) or quit cold turkey! I was misusing the weed and smoking too often and smoking everyday (mostly due to being on unemployment and working from home and being home too much and having access to weed at home) You really need to cut way back with smoking or like I said just quit cold turkey (but that can be hard for some people) but it's not worth dealing with those symptoms
@@LeadMe2TheBliss I smokes weed daily for about 3 years only 2 joints at night , but from past weeks I feel nauseated after having a meal, and in the morning, but from 5 days I didn't touch the weed ,morning nausea gone but still threwing up after having a meal, is it chs or other gastro issues. I m worried
Im going throught chs now and trust me ,it sucks !!!
Hope you feel better.
Thank you ❤
Me too. 30 days now 🤢
@@gloriasmom2045day 49 for me.
@@adelie127 were you still suffering at day 49?
I’ve been smoking for 5 years and after eating I smoke a joint, I vomit after smoking. Just joints not pipes, who knows my past weed might have been laced, I get my weed from the store now. Who knows just be careful where you get your weed from
I wonder if a faster metabolism decreases the amount of time one experiences CHS
Hello doctor great video. I was diagnosed with CHS it’s a terrible syndrome. Ive stopped cannabis for around 3 1/2 weeks don’t plan to use ever again. I had a question tho. I don’t get vomiting episodes anymore. But I feel that body has a dysregulation in temperature. Throughout the day I get hot flashes or feel hot/ cold. Could this be my hypothalamus trying to recover? Is there anything I can do to speed up recovery? I still crave hot showers and heat in general. I thought it would take 2 weeks but for some reason I’m still battling the symptoms of it.
It’s difficult to say but it may be the body and brain readjusting. However if there are any distressing symptoms it’s best to seek medical input. Wish you well
In my case, it went away one random day after a good training session with high cardio and a hot shower idk if it was the cause or not
But training and running especially most definitely helps, i still feel light waves of it but only when im smoking, and best is to quit it all for good
i remember when i had this in 2018. didn’t really believe it but i did lol. now i’m back smoking more than ever
With the current smoking you are not experiencing it anymore? Have you changed the content? Curious?
@@PsychiatrySimplified No I haven’t experienced anything since then. I used to smoke weed out of bongs but now I mainly dab wax (around the same if not more)
are you SURE you had CHS though? If so, how long did you quit for?? I'm trying to take a year break from weed at the least to make sure I clean my system out really good. If I ever decide to smoke again after that it would be very sparingly!
I was diagnosed with CHS in 2011, after being hospitalized several times. The vomiting was so bad I ruptured my throat and had air bubbles in my neck. The doctors never seen anything like it. They were even taking pictures and bringing in med students to look at my neck too. After going to
The hospital 6 or 7 times in a year, finally one young doctor who looks like he just graduated asked me about weed and diagnosed me with CHS.
That sounds terrible. Glad it was picked up. Thanks for sharing.
Wow i had the exact same thing back in 2010. That was my first time with chs and yeah i had air bubbles in my neck and in my face. Felt like there was rice crispy squares underneath my skin. It was tough but my stupid ass self wouldnt accept that it was weed and kept going. I am finally trying to be completely weed free as ive learned that only thing that will keep chs from coming back is quitting all together.
@@briankim6148 Yup rice crispies my face was fat, they had me stay in the hospital for a week. I quit smoking weed afterwards and switched to drinking. That was a bad idea, my body hates alcohol too. I started vaping\smoking weed again during the pandemic 2020 and I got sick again. I guess we’re doomed to live a sober life and get high off oxygen.
My story is so similar! Multiple doctors could not figure it out and I went in yesterday and young female doctor asked tight away "question: do you smoke weed often". And I have never felt so understood.
@@teflon914 I think it was the CHS that was rejecting the alcohol from your body. Sadly, alcohol can trigger your CHS from what I have gathered. Or were you drinking too much and misusing the alcohol?
Now I know why I can't smoke that stuff. It makes me puke. Haven't touched it in over 35 years. I'm really not missing it.
Only thing is... I was not a chronic user when I was young and went years without it and still happened to me.
This may sound strange, but I think it's worth talking about. Does anyone else feel like they could ball their eyes out crying but you're not able to? I've been watching movies throughout this experience, during the sad parts of the movies like the death of a beloved character, I would usually get a little teary-eyed and sniffle a bit, but there's nothing, I almost want to cry to let it out, but I can't. This is an under-researched syndrome, we're all patient zero to an extent, so I think anything we can share with each other could be beneficial. The anxiety has been the worst part for me, I haven't felt like myself since it started. I made an appointment with a psychiatrist and it's not too far out so that's some light at the end of the tunnel.
Good Luck Guys!
Wish you well
I haven't had those emotional feelings, it's just been a nightmare and a lot of vomiting and feeling VERY nauseous every time I eat even a small meal it's awful for someone like me who loves to eat. I've lost a significant amount of weight, I'm staying sober for a very long time and if I do ever smoke again it will be very, very lightly! Aiming to stay sober from weed for 6 months to a year at the very least...
I can relate to this. Them out of no where I'll wake up in the morning after puking/tossing turning all night and cry my ass off for a good 30 mins then back to feeling that weird numb feeling this syndrome has crazy affects on your brain/body not worth smoking that's for sure.
Im a heavy smokers...i cannot smoke unless i have water to drink..it makes meat so dehydrated
So glad I have seen this I have been suffering with this for the last 2 years up and down to the hospital and doctors 2 endoscopy total of 23 biopsies had a colonoscopy still no closer to finding out what it is. It would always start the same feel sick like really sick vomiting everything up with in seconds carnt keep anything down sweat pumping out of me freezing cold and carnt move hope stopping weed will help this nit come back
Thanks for sharing. Hope things get better
Day 5 no za ( chronicle chief carts and bud for about 1.5 years ) first days were really bad I think I had early stage of CHS but I recognized it early on and stopped entirely the first couple days were so bad. Like a pain I would never wish on anyone. slowly im getting better and my symptoms are starting to get better but still in the mornings I get sick before I take medicine for the nausea which helps me lots.
Sounds like cold turkey i used to get that in my teens when i was a chronic weed smoker, It went away when i smoked again, I felt like a sick person, Sober now for 25 yrs 🙏🙋🏾♂️
Does CHS include bowel movement and Un normal stool as a symptom? Having the same issues but I'm also having bad stool and bowel movements diarrhea, constipation. Pain is usually relieved with a bowel movement or vomiting. I can't smoke during the pain but when the pain goes away and turns into discomfort the weed does relax my intestines it feels like. Worse pains of my life starting at 3am lasting till 6am and through out the day. Morning hours are gut wrenching
Yes it does cause bowel movement issues as well.
I had it and stopped smoking. Now i am wondering it happens because of THC? Because my doc told me about CBD about my anxiety problems and wondering CBD has the same effects as THC? Many thanks for your candid help and all the best from barcelona!
@user-hk7hu5vd3l but experts say that cbd and every other cannabinoid has the effect once you had CHS.
I do not wish this syndrome on anyone! Had it three times and it only gets worse each time.
I had it 10 times..i died 10 times,thats how it felt
I had this last month. Im currently trying to quit now
Good luck!