Omg this video just saved my life, I've been suffering for the past year with all these symptoms, and the Drs from where I am aren't very familiar with CHS so I've literally been at the brink of suicide on how bad the symptoms are, this is me literally down to everything she said. Now I know and thank God. This is one of the most debilitating illnesses ever, it's pure hell. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I’ve been experiencing chs every Morning recently but still get cravings throughout the day is it bad to get one puff compared to back then puffin every hour
CHS is no joke. I started smoking weed with 16 every day, I am 31 now. When I was 17 I had the first episode of CHS. It started with one week of extreme stomach pain and not beeing able to drink or eat. Only hot showers helped, so I was sitting in the shower for hours every day, even in hospital, as they weren't able to find the problem and couldn't do something for me, except giving opiods as painkillers, which only helped for a few hours until the pain came back. At that point I didn't consider the weed smoking as the problem. Usually it helped me with "normal" stomach pain from eating to much and such things, and the doctors had no idea that CHS even existed back then. But things got worse from year to year as I continued smoking weed. The episodes of CHS got longer and longer and appeared more often. From only 1 week in a year at the beginning, when I was 17, up to 2 weeks this year (age 31). This year I had to go the hospital 3 times already and they finally diagnosed me with CHS. Now I almost stopped smoking weed for about 2 month already and I hope I don't have an episode of CHS again in the future. But it's really hard for me to stay clean, as I loved smoking weed and all my friends still smoke. Over all the years I smoked weed and suffered from CHS I noticed some things which could have something to do with it: 1. Out of all people I know I always had the dryest mouth, throat and lips after consuming weed. 2. I have always been the first one falling asleep from the weed we smoked, while others are able to stay awake, even though they smoked the same amount. 3. The episodes of CHS mostly appeared in or after weeks of very high dosages of thc (over 1gram of weed up to 3 grams of strong strains per day). 4. Most of the time my body showed warning signs before the episodes started: getting dizzy while smoking weed and acid reflux before and after smoking weed. My advice if you suffer from a strong episode of CHS pain: 1. Hot showers/ hot water will help, but only as long as you stay in it. As soon as you go out the shower the pain and nausea comes back. Watch out not burn yourself with the hot water, as hotter water helps more, but you sometimes can't feel the pain of burnings anymore, because the stomach pain from chs is so strong. Try capsaicin cream in addition or instead of hot water, as it helps for a longer period of time and you can't burn yourself with it. 2. If you aren't able to drink for more than 24 to 36 hours, go to an hospital or at least an doctor that can give you intravenous infusion as soon as possible! Your body needs water. I once refused to go for more than 48 hours until my parents forced me, which was good, as the doctors diagnosed me with kidney failure from not drinking for over 48 hours😓 3. Tell the doctors the truth about your cannabis consume (even if you are scared to let them know because of the cannabis laws in your country or your parents etc.) and let them know it could be CHS you are suffering from. many doctors still don't know CHS exists! 4. Stop smoking weed completely or at least stop smoking it more than one or two days in a month, and don't smoke too much. I can tell you, from my own experience, it will most likely come back, if you smoke too much.
I believe my partner has CHS. She's been having episodes of extreme vomiting for nearly 3 years. She's hasn't been open to discussing her cannabis use with her doctors, as she's afraid of being treated like a drug addict in the hospital. Typically after she's gone through an episode she's open to discussing CHS with me as a potential cause, but after some time of abstinence, she relapses. She's at the hospital now. This is her second episode this month, and 5th this May. I really don't know how to help her.
@@SuperJeremy1982 First of all your emotional support is very important. The pain from CHS can be very strong, and being alone or only with strangers at the hospital with this pain at least for me is very depressing, which makes it even more worse. So visit her as often as possible, hold her hand or something like this, if she is in strong pain. This always helped me a lot. Second: convince her to tell the doctors about it: Yes, some of them may not be very sympathetic and understanding, but at least they can give you the right medication, as common painkillers for stomach pain usually won't work. It's "just" cannabis, nothing uncommon, doctors have to deal with it everyday . Where I a from, it's illegal to own cannabis, but I still told the doctors. You just have to. Usually benzodiazipin or opioids are the onlything to quickly relieve the pain. In addition she needs infusion to stay hydrated. Try to buy capsaicin ointment, put it very thin on the stomach, and maybe shoulders and back, but not too much, as it burns and feels very hot, like chili. As soon as she can she has to start drinking small amounts of water again, sip by sip, and wait for the reaction. If this works for at least 24 hours start the same with soup, maybe without anything in it at first and then with some vegetables inside. Try to avoid food with much fat, much sugar or acids. After another 24 hours without vomiting try some food like mashed potatoes and other soft boiled dishes. Continue that and slowly work your way up back to your common dishes. All in all try to eat healthy food in general, fast food, sugar, acid and fat is bad for people with a sensitive stomach. If she feels better again, she needs to stop consuming cannabis, thats the only way to stop CHS. It's hard, but she has to. You can consume after a while, but only one day a month or something like that. Last time I suffered from CHS, I only smoked for one week after beeing clean for a month and immediately ended up in the hospital. It's really not worth it. Again, she probably needs emotional support to stop smoking. If all of this doesn't help, she may have another disease and should be checked again by the doctors. I hope everything is understandable, as I am from germany and english is only my second language. I wish both of you the best, try your best to convince her and follow the rules I mentioned, and I am sure she will be fine in a few days.
I abstained for a seven month and fourteen month period. The doctor do-littles still tried to claim that my, by then, very severe episodes were caused by cannabis use in a previous YEAR! If you’re born into some populations they will never help you, no matter how many hoops you jump through.
Bad thing about medical/recreational marijuana.. how long have you had cvs.. mine started as a young child.. many years undiagnosed.. then got diagnosed with CVS at 12.. I’m 39 now and marijuana does help my nausea!! Just “helps” tho.. when I say helps I mean when it wears off I’m back just as sick.. hate y’all have to go threw them saying it’s the weed.. to even get help for CVS at the Mayo Clinic you can’t have any thc in your system.. they won’t even see you for CVS if you do! It’s crazy..
“I abstained for a seven month” Do you realize that THC is fat-soluble and can be stored in fat tissue and eventually be slowly released into your body system even if you’re completely abstaining?
I had chs, and I did not know I had it. I smoked weed for 30 years every 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 too 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 continued 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. My symptoms were stomach cramps, stomach pain, vomiting from time to time, gastro problems. hypnic jerks when i was trying to sleep,. I also had tinnitus in the ears. once I did fall to sleep, then I woke up with tremors. Other symptom such as Muscle spasms. Muscle stiffness. Muscle pain. Muscle twitching, 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. Also 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 tried 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. It's not that I wanted to stop smoking. I was forced to because I could not breathe when smoking my throat would close up. From that day, I stopped 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 that 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 still have tremors. Also the umbness down the outside of my right leg And tips of my toes are still numb, 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, sometimes 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 can not 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 every day 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.
The debate will probably always be up in the air. I started smoking at 20 for maybe 6 months then went through very stressful times and had my first episode. I had stopped smoking for a month to see if that was the issue. And since then I’ve continued with regular use of marijuana. CVS is a monster and we need all the help we can get
20?! When was your first episode.. most cases that are severe start when we are very young.. stress along can cause nausea.. CVS is really started in the brain.. do you have a GI dr?
I smoked for a couple years in highschool, then took a break for about 4 years, then started smoking again, within 6 months of smoking again I got CHS symptoms but didn’t get a diagnosis until a couple months later. So glad I know it’s the cause but I’m salty I can’t smoke anymore 😢
This is the best synopsis I have seen. Wonderfully useful information w/o the bias some include about marijuana while honestly discussing CHA. As a father of a long time suffer of migraines OB/GYN migraines and now CFS CVS I thank you for including a list of some of the drugs that you have found to be helpful because many of the anti nausea drugs like Compazine and to a lesser extent can cause heart problems
Phenergan (antiemetic) helped me. There’s SL pills that dissolve under your tongue. They are good. The IV is better but you have to know what you’re doing or you could miss the vein and inject the drug into surrounding tissues, and if that happens, people have lost limbs. It makes one sleepy. Good shit .
Umm Cannabis is a better med then any of that crap and doesn't have long list of side effects like almost every med nowadays, oh but big pharma doesn't get rich I forgot..
@@BigC61503qCannabis and CBD is ONLY thing that's ever helped my Migraines. All those meds you mentioned have side affects and Cannabis doesn't and doesn't bother heart or blood pressure. Don't believe all the lies.
I have had cvs for over 30 years anyone need help i can help with meds or all the stuff I been threw. I’m a open book! CVS sucks!! Wish one day day for a cure but I doubt it..
I’m really interested as I have been suffering for the past 10 years. Now it’s just getting ridiculous. When I’m stressed, don’t sleep right, eat the wrong type of food, get invited to an event, booking holidays I start vomiting and can’t stop. It’s so depressing and sometimes i worry what if I’m dying.
I'm a Grower and been smoking for.30 years. I have these symptoms and pretty sure that this is what I have. My question is can this be caused by the pesticide applications being used on the medical genetics coming out to the medical market?
@MazzyBrooks I live in Florida, not a recreational state, only Medical grade canabis is legal. Indoor Medical grade or let's say any indoor grown canabis is sprayed with chemicals / pesticides to prevent mold and insects.
Omg ive been going through tis with an auto immune diaease and marrage sepperation, this immobilises me sometimes several random times a day, usually brought on by stress bad diet with ibs so i gues ulcerative whateva as my doctor was investigating, now been dumped by all my doctors and after 6 visits to emergency with severe adema, they told me not to bother coming in again that the reason is lack of medical intervention, so what kind of doctor specialises in this stuff?, as of right now i am forced cold turkey off my anxiety meds because the gov says its bad to have with my pain meds, ive allready been through suicide from dv now the anxiety and depreasion of being very alone is pushin me hard just to end it all, seriously, what dont doctors know this stuff?, all my opiates and all have been taken, my quality of life is homeless. I seriously cant finnd a doctor willing to take this pain and anxiety seriously.
Have any researchers explored the use of cadmium that is reportedly used in the cannabis industry with possible toxicity associated as a source of cannabis induced emesis?
The chemicals in commercially grown weed are one theory for the cause for CHS. But no, I don't think they've really done any in-depth studies to find out.
I started smoking cigarettes and weed when I was young, somewhered around 14 I was smoking weed daily. I quite when I was 19-20, got back into it recently and I have been waking up sweating cold, nauseous, dizzy and an urge to smoke weed because I think it'll make me feel better then once I smoke a bong I throw up for about 10 minutes every morning and if I don't smoke a bong I will not feel any better, but even smoking this doesn't make me feel great this has been going on for almost a month, I have never had these side effects this often until I got back to daily smoking
@@JakeYancey-k9c I quit smoking weed and everything went away in 2 weeks it was horrible but Ive been smoking weed again for 2 months now but I feel fine, I'll up date you if I get sick like before if you'd like.
10 years I’d been seeing specialists. Countless MRIs, EKGs,X-rays, scopes. Emergency room rarely helped since they don’t dispense pain meds to something they can’t diagnose. I thought I’d have to get lucky and meet a competent Dr. like House M.D. Made me suicidal and question our medical system. A doctor’s student mentioned CHS the other day…so I’m stopping smoking, and I’ll see.
I have had cvs since i was 6 and i started smoking weed from 14 so what she says in that part is inaccurate but i rate that she’s spreading awareness ❤️
Trust me it may help at times but there will be a time that you would have to jump right back in every 5 minutes. Cuz it stops working and u wont have any other option but to go to the ER. Typing this while on my hospital bed!
I'm sorry but as a 43 yr old white male and military vet who first used Cannabis at age 13 and who's used it most my life especially after my spinal cord injury in '00 I call total horseshit on "CHS" I've learned alot over the years with Cannabis and once I got old enough to use it as medication and not smoke to just get high like every 20 yr old I began to educate myself on all the great benefits and healing properties of the plant. I wish people realized and talked more about the fact that they are buying dirty legal Cannabis from dispensaries everywhere and being fooled buy fake inflated THC % to help sell a branda products and ALOT of the labs testing products are being paid off to lie, and dispensaries themselves are doing it as well folks. I've worked in the industry for decades now, rhe first few in the black or grey market and then finally legally yrs ago Best advice is grow your own so know exactly what's going into your body. This entire CHS thing is simply another way BIG PHARMA makes $$ of you all and it's deplorable imo. Notice know mention of the actual "cure?" Because its a fake made up thing to scare people. Not saying some aren't possibly getting sick from bad products however and even allergies/allergic reaction from what they ingested however. So many variables.
This is just false and you're spreading misinformation. CHS is absolutely a very real condition, just got to r/CHSinfo and read post after post about it. For people with CHS, abstaining definitely reduces symptoms. Complete abstinence is the only way to stop CHS once it sets in. It only affects a small portion of heavy users, but it's absolutely real. If you actually listened to the presentation, you'd know that continuous cannabis use is thought to dysregulate the endocannabinoid system's anti vomiting neural pathways. The treatment for CHS is to just stop smoking weed. What $$$ is big pharma making by telling people to stop smoking weed when they do too much? It's not like big pharma is making anti CHS medicine now are they? Get your head out of your ass, maybe take a t break, you'll think clearer.
I do agree that it probably has something to do with the garbage that cannabis companies are putting in their pot, but CHS is definitely not horseshit.
I had chs and I did not know I had it. I was smoking weed for 30 years. 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 stomach pains and stomach cramps and I vomited and didn't understand why, so I continued to smoke. 3 months before this happened. I split from my wife and children, so I was already in a bad state of depression, not sleeping, and not eating too 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. But I continue to smoke. 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 jokes when trying to sleep. Tinnitus in the ears. Body shaking once I did fall to sleep when 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 and nausea.Waking up with numbness in my arms and hands. Muscle spasms in my throat 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, causing my throat to close, and i could not breathe when I lie down. All this time, i was going to the doctor's and getting nothing back from the doctors. But muscle relaxant tablets which I could not take. And sent me for every check-up you could imagine and found nothing. They did find I had developed a hiatus hernia,. I was told by the dr to sleep sitting up due to the muscle spasms in my throat when I try to lie down to sleep. So I had to sleep sitting up. Has 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 done 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 when I was able to lie down without my throat going into spasms 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. Through this whole period, 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'm 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. 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 🙏
CHS has been around long before legalization became a thing! It is becoming more prévalant lately so believe you are onto something about the supposed medical marinuana from dispensaires. They are over fertilizing to make a profit and god knows what else!
I have found CHS has damaged my vagus nerve. This is some information I found on the internet about the vagus nerve. A damaged vagus nerve can cause a range of symptoms because the nerve affects many areas of the body: Digestive issues: Acid reflux, bloating, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or feeling full after eating little Voice changes: Hoarseness, wheezing, or loss of voice Heart and blood pressure changes: Changes in heart rate or blood pressure, or low blood pressure Swallowing and gag reflex: Difficulty swallowing or loss of gag reflex Dizziness and fainting: Dizziness or fainting damage to the vagus nerve can affect sleep patterns: Low vagal tone Low vagal tone can lead to sleep disturbances, fatigue, and other physiological symptoms of depression. Vagus nerve stimulation Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) can be an effective treatment for insomnia. VNS can help maintain a balance in the autonomic nervous system, which is important for sleep and wakefulness. However, VNS can also cause sleep-disordered breathing and worsen sleep apnea. Icing the vagus nerve Icing the vagus nerve can help with sleep, and is generally safe. However, you should be careful not to get frostbite, so you can cover the ice pack with a cloth and only leave it on for up to 20 minutes. Mood changes: Depression, anxiety, or chronic mood issues damage to the vagus nerve can affect the bowels: Gastroparesis When the vagus nerve is damaged, food may not move from the stomach to the intestines. This can be caused by diabetes, viral infections, abdominal surgery, or scleroderma. Poor digestion When the vagus nerve isn't working properly, the stomach may not produce enough acid to digest food. This can lead to bloating, cramping, diarrhea, constipation, or gastro-esophageal reflux. Digestive conditions Poor vagal nerve function can be linked to digestive conditions such as: Heartburn, acid reflux, or GERD IBS, including chronic constipation and diarrhea Inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth) damage to the vagus nerve can cause unexplained weight loss. There are several ways to strengthen or stimulate the vagus nerve, including: Breathing Deep, slow, diaphragmatic breathing can activate the vagus nerve. You can try belly breathing, where your stomach expands as you inhale. Cold therapy Applying cold compresses to your face or neck, or taking a cold shower, can stimulate the vagus nerve. Massage Massaging the back of your ears and the front side of your ear can stimulate the vagus nerve. You can also try carotid sinus massage, which involves lightly massaging the carotid artery in your neck. Exercise Endurance activities like jogging, cycling, and swimming can stimulate the vagus nerve. Diet Eating a whole-foods diet, and taking probiotics or omega-3 fatty acids, can support the vagus nerve. Meditation Meditation can improve vagal tone. You can try apps like Calm App, Insight Timer, or Heartmath. Singing and humming Singing and humming can increase vagal tone. Positive social connections Spending time with people who make you laugh and smile can have a positive benefit on vagal tone. ther symptoms: Unexplained weight loss, brain zaps, or impending doom
Omg this video just saved my life, I've been suffering for the past year with all these symptoms, and the Drs from where I am aren't very familiar with CHS so I've literally been at the brink of suicide on how bad the symptoms are, this is me literally down to everything she said. Now I know and thank God. This is one of the most debilitating illnesses ever, it's pure hell. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I.have CHS... have you experienced joint pain? Almost debilitating pain
I’ve been experiencing chs every
Morning recently but still get cravings throughout the day is it bad to get one puff compared to back then puffin every hour
CHS is no joke.
I started smoking weed with 16 every day, I am 31 now.
When I was 17 I had the first episode of CHS. It started with one week of extreme stomach pain and not beeing able to drink or eat. Only hot showers helped, so I was sitting in the shower for hours every day, even in hospital, as they weren't able to find the problem and couldn't do something for me, except giving opiods as painkillers, which only helped for a few hours until the pain came back.
At that point I didn't consider the weed smoking as the problem. Usually it helped me with "normal" stomach pain from eating to much and such things, and the doctors had no idea that CHS even existed back then.
But things got worse from year to year as I continued smoking weed.
The episodes of CHS got longer and longer and appeared more often. From only 1 week in a year at the beginning, when I was 17, up to 2 weeks this year (age 31). This year I had to go the hospital 3 times already and they finally diagnosed me with CHS.
Now I almost stopped smoking weed for about 2 month already and I hope I don't have an episode of CHS again in the future. But it's really hard for me to stay clean, as I loved smoking weed and all my friends still smoke.
Over all the years I smoked weed and suffered from CHS I noticed some things which could have something to do with it:
1. Out of all people I know I always had the dryest mouth, throat and lips after consuming weed.
2. I have always been the first one falling asleep from the weed we smoked, while others are able to stay awake, even though they smoked the same amount.
3. The episodes of CHS mostly appeared in or after weeks of very high dosages of thc (over 1gram of weed up to 3 grams of strong strains per day).
4. Most of the time my body showed warning signs before the episodes started: getting dizzy while smoking weed and acid reflux before and after smoking weed.
My advice if you suffer from a strong episode of CHS pain:
1. Hot showers/ hot water will help, but only as long as you stay in it. As soon as you go out the shower the pain and nausea comes back. Watch out not burn yourself with the hot water, as hotter water helps more, but you sometimes can't feel the pain of burnings anymore, because the stomach pain from chs is so strong.
Try capsaicin cream in addition or instead of hot water, as it helps for a longer period of time and you can't burn yourself with it.
2. If you aren't able to drink for more than 24 to 36 hours, go to an hospital or at least an doctor that can give you intravenous infusion as soon as possible! Your body needs water. I once refused to go for more than 48 hours until my parents forced me, which was good, as the doctors diagnosed me with kidney failure from not drinking for over 48 hours😓
3. Tell the doctors the truth about your cannabis consume (even if you are scared to let them know because of the cannabis laws in your country or your parents etc.) and let them know it could be CHS you are suffering from. many doctors still don't know CHS exists!
4. Stop smoking weed completely or at least stop smoking it more than one or two days in a month, and don't smoke too much. I can tell you, from my own experience, it will most likely come back, if you smoke too much.
I believe my partner has CHS. She's been having episodes of extreme vomiting for nearly 3 years. She's hasn't been open to discussing her cannabis use with her doctors, as she's afraid of being treated like a drug addict in the hospital. Typically after she's gone through an episode she's open to discussing CHS with me as a potential cause, but after some time of abstinence, she relapses.
She's at the hospital now. This is her second episode this month, and 5th this May. I really don't know how to help her.
@@SuperJeremy1982 First of all your emotional support is very important.
The pain from CHS can be very strong, and being alone or only with strangers at the hospital with this pain at least for me is very depressing, which makes it even more worse. So visit her as often as possible, hold her hand or something like this, if she is in strong pain. This always helped me a lot.
Second: convince her to tell the doctors about it: Yes, some of them may not be very sympathetic and understanding, but at least they can give you the right medication, as common painkillers for stomach pain usually won't work. It's "just" cannabis, nothing uncommon, doctors have to deal with it everyday . Where I a from, it's illegal to own cannabis, but I still told the doctors. You just have to.
Usually benzodiazipin or opioids are the onlything to quickly relieve the pain.
In addition she needs infusion to stay hydrated.
Try to buy capsaicin ointment, put it very thin on the stomach, and maybe shoulders and back, but not too much, as it burns and feels very hot, like chili.
As soon as she can she has to start drinking small amounts of water again, sip by sip, and wait for the reaction. If this works for at least 24 hours start the same with soup, maybe without anything in it at first and then with some vegetables inside. Try to avoid food with much fat, much sugar or acids. After another 24 hours without vomiting try some food like mashed potatoes and other soft boiled dishes. Continue that and slowly work your way up back to your common dishes. All in all try to eat healthy food in general, fast food, sugar, acid and fat is bad for people with a sensitive stomach.
If she feels better again, she needs to stop consuming cannabis, thats the only way to stop CHS. It's hard, but she has to. You can consume after a while, but only one day a month or something like that. Last time I suffered from CHS, I only smoked for one week after beeing clean for a month and immediately ended up in the hospital. It's really not worth it.
Again, she probably needs emotional support to stop smoking.
If all of this doesn't help, she may have another disease and should be checked again by the doctors.
I hope everything is understandable, as I am from germany and english is only my second language.
I wish both of you the best, try your best to convince her and follow the rules I mentioned, and I am sure she will be fine in a few days.
I abstained for a seven month and fourteen month period. The doctor do-littles still tried to claim that my, by then, very severe episodes were caused by cannabis use in a previous YEAR! If you’re born into some populations they will never help you, no matter how many hoops you jump through.
Bad thing about medical/recreational marijuana.. how long have you had cvs.. mine started as a young child.. many years undiagnosed.. then got diagnosed with CVS at 12.. I’m 39 now and marijuana does help my nausea!! Just “helps” tho.. when I say helps I mean when it wears off I’m back just as sick.. hate y’all have to go threw them saying it’s the weed.. to even get help for CVS at the Mayo Clinic you can’t have any thc in your system.. they won’t even see you for CVS if you do! It’s crazy..
Hang in there 😢
Perhaps you really do not want to hear what the doctors are telling you?
“I abstained for a seven month” Do you realize that THC is fat-soluble and can be stored in fat tissue and eventually be slowly released into your body system even if you’re completely abstaining?
@@mechadoggy CHS is caused by heavy amounts of THC... your logic isnt tracking
I love these UCLA Health GI lectures -- thank you for these great lectures ! I listen to some of them repeatedly!
I had chs, and I did not know I had it. I smoked weed for 30 years every 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 too 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 continued 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. My symptoms were stomach cramps, stomach pain, vomiting from time to time, gastro problems. hypnic jerks when i was trying to sleep,. I also had tinnitus in the ears. once I did fall to sleep, then I woke up with tremors. Other symptom such as Muscle spasms. Muscle stiffness. Muscle pain. Muscle twitching, 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. Also 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 tried 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. It's not that I wanted to stop smoking. I was forced to because I could not breathe when smoking my throat would close up. From that day, I stopped 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 that 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 still have tremors. Also the umbness down the outside of my right leg And tips of my toes are still numb, 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, sometimes 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 can not 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 every day 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.
The debate will probably always be up in the air. I started smoking at 20 for maybe 6 months then went through very stressful times and had my first episode. I had stopped smoking for a month to see if that was the issue. And since then I’ve continued with regular use of marijuana. CVS is a monster and we need all the help we can get
Did symptoms return?
I'm so confused
ALL total BULLSHIT
20?! When was your first episode.. most cases that are severe start when we are very young.. stress along can cause nausea.. CVS is really started in the brain.. do you have a GI dr?
I smoked for a couple years in highschool, then took a break for about 4 years, then started smoking again, within 6 months of smoking again I got CHS symptoms but didn’t get a diagnosis until a couple months later. So glad I know it’s the cause but I’m salty I can’t smoke anymore 😢
You're not alone. I hope you're doing well, my CHS symptoms have stopped. It has only been two weeks, and the withdrawal symptoms are murder.
some withdrawal symptoms after long term cannabis use are identical to CHS, would you still consider it CHS at that point?
This is the best synopsis I have seen. Wonderfully useful information w/o the bias some include about marijuana while honestly discussing CHA. As a father of a long time suffer of migraines OB/GYN migraines and now CFS CVS I thank you for including a list of some of the drugs that you have found to be helpful because many of the anti nausea drugs like Compazine and to a lesser extent can cause heart problems
Sorry but voice editor made mistakes…Only acronyms I meant to use was CVS and CHS
Phenergan (antiemetic) helped me. There’s SL pills that dissolve under your tongue. They are good. The IV is better but you have to know what you’re doing or you could miss the vein and inject the drug into surrounding tissues, and if that happens, people have lost limbs. It makes one sleepy. Good shit .
@@andoriannationalist3738 any word on Zofran ? I got prescribed it but never works
Umm Cannabis is a better med then any of that crap and doesn't have long list of side effects like almost every med nowadays, oh but big pharma doesn't get rich I forgot..
@@BigC61503qCannabis and CBD is ONLY thing that's ever helped my Migraines. All those meds you mentioned have side affects and Cannabis doesn't and doesn't bother heart or blood pressure. Don't believe all the lies.
Please suggest a doctor in India who has experience treating cyclic vomiting syndrome patient
I have had cvs for over 30 years anyone need help i can help with meds or all the stuff I been threw. I’m a open book! CVS sucks!! Wish one day day for a cure but I doubt it..
I'm interested in learning more about it and how to deal with the episodes
I’m really interested as I have been suffering for the past 10 years. Now it’s just getting ridiculous. When I’m stressed, don’t sleep right, eat the wrong type of food, get invited to an event, booking holidays I start vomiting and can’t stop. It’s so depressing and sometimes i worry what if I’m dying.
The information about chs is incomplete.......
I'm a Grower and been smoking for.30 years. I have these symptoms and pretty sure that this is what I have. My question is can this be caused by the pesticide applications being used on the medical genetics coming out to the medical market?
What do you mean by the pesticides in the medical?
@MazzyBrooks I live in Florida, not a recreational state, only Medical grade canabis is legal. Indoor Medical grade or let's say any indoor grown canabis is sprayed with chemicals / pesticides to prevent mold and insects.
Nobody knows for sure. But that's one theory. And it does make sense.
I wonder how this criteria actually help make the diagnosis
Has anyone developed joint pain from prolong CHS???
Yes joint and muscle pain can be a symtom of CHS. There is a forum on reddit with people who have had CHS.
Imagine you go to the doctor in pain, and they suggest replacing Marijuana with OXYS???? yikes
Omg ive been going through tis with an auto immune diaease and marrage sepperation, this immobilises me sometimes several random times a day, usually brought on by stress bad diet with ibs so i gues ulcerative whateva as my doctor was investigating, now been dumped by all my doctors and after 6 visits to emergency with severe adema, they told me not to bother coming in again that the reason is lack of medical intervention, so what kind of doctor specialises in this stuff?, as of right now i am forced cold turkey off my anxiety meds because the gov says its bad to have with my pain meds, ive allready been through suicide from dv now the anxiety and depreasion of being very alone is pushin me hard just to end it all, seriously, what dont doctors know this stuff?, all my opiates and all have been taken, my quality of life is homeless. I seriously cant finnd a doctor willing to take this pain and anxiety seriously.
Have any researchers explored the use of cadmium that is reportedly used in the cannabis industry with possible toxicity associated as a source of cannabis induced emesis?
The chemicals in commercially grown weed are one theory for the cause for CHS. But no, I don't think they've really done any in-depth studies to find out.
Motion sickness ?????????
Be Link to CHS?????
I started smoking cigarettes and weed when I was young, somewhered around 14 I was smoking weed daily. I quite when I was 19-20, got back into it recently and I have been waking up sweating cold, nauseous, dizzy and an urge to smoke weed because I think it'll make me feel better then once I smoke a bong I throw up for about 10 minutes every morning and if I don't smoke a bong I will not feel any better, but even smoking this doesn't make me feel great this has been going on for almost a month, I have never had these side effects this often until I got back to daily smoking
Need updates please 🙏. I have the same issue 3 days ago I stopped smoking after a hospital visit for the same symptoms
@@JakeYancey-k9c I quit smoking weed and everything went away in 2 weeks it was horrible but Ive been smoking weed again for 2 months now but I feel fine, I'll up date you if I get sick like before if you'd like.
10 years I’d been seeing specialists. Countless MRIs, EKGs,X-rays, scopes. Emergency room rarely helped since they don’t dispense pain meds to something they can’t diagnose. I thought I’d have to get lucky and meet a competent Dr. like House M.D. Made me suicidal and question our medical system. A doctor’s student mentioned CHS the other day…so I’m stopping smoking, and I’ll see.
I have had cvs since i was 6 and i started smoking weed from 14 so what she says in that part is inaccurate but i rate that she’s spreading awareness ❤️
2:08 waht a strong human
Goldner Trace
Can she speak any faster?
I like it, to each their own…
Probably had a limited window.
My chs went away. Hot showers took the pain away
Trust me it may help at times but there will be a time that you would have to jump right back in every 5 minutes. Cuz it stops working and u wont have any other option but to go to the ER. Typing this while on my hospital bed!
I throw up a lot haha so I feel this
I'm sorry but as a 43 yr old white male and military vet who first used Cannabis at age 13 and who's used it most my life especially after my spinal cord injury in '00 I call total horseshit on "CHS" I've learned alot over the years with Cannabis and once I got old enough to use it as medication and not smoke to just get high like every 20 yr old I began to educate myself on all the great benefits and healing properties of the plant. I wish people realized and talked more about the fact that they are buying dirty legal Cannabis from dispensaries everywhere and being fooled buy fake inflated THC % to help sell a branda products and ALOT of the labs testing products are being paid off to lie, and dispensaries themselves are doing it as well folks. I've worked in the industry for decades now, rhe first few in the black or grey market and then finally legally yrs ago Best advice is grow your own so know exactly what's going into your body. This entire CHS thing is simply another way BIG PHARMA makes $$ of you all and it's deplorable imo. Notice know mention of the actual "cure?" Because its a fake made up thing to scare people. Not saying some aren't possibly getting sick from bad products however and even allergies/allergic reaction from what they ingested however. So many variables.
Bullshit for you maybe but CHS with organic weed grown in papas backyard is a real thing.
This is just false and you're spreading misinformation. CHS is absolutely a very real condition, just got to r/CHSinfo and read post after post about it. For people with CHS, abstaining definitely reduces symptoms. Complete abstinence is the only way to stop CHS once it sets in.
It only affects a small portion of heavy users, but it's absolutely real. If you actually listened to the presentation, you'd know that continuous cannabis use is thought to dysregulate the endocannabinoid system's anti vomiting neural pathways. The treatment for CHS is to just stop smoking weed. What $$$ is big pharma making by telling people to stop smoking weed when they do too much? It's not like big pharma is making anti CHS medicine now are they? Get your head out of your ass, maybe take a t break, you'll think clearer.
I do agree that it probably has something to do with the garbage that cannabis companies are putting in their pot, but CHS is definitely not horseshit.
I had chs and I did not know I had it. I was smoking weed for 30 years. 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 stomach pains and stomach cramps and I vomited and didn't understand why, so I continued to smoke. 3 months before this happened. I split from my wife and children, so I was already in a bad state of depression, not sleeping, and not eating too 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. But I continue to smoke. 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 jokes when trying to sleep. Tinnitus in the ears. Body shaking once I did fall to sleep when 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 and nausea.Waking up with numbness in my arms and hands. Muscle spasms in my throat 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, causing my throat to close, and i could not breathe when I lie down. All this time, i was going to the doctor's and getting nothing back from the doctors. But muscle relaxant tablets which I could not take. And sent me for every check-up you could imagine and found nothing. They did find I had developed a hiatus hernia,. I was told by the dr to sleep sitting up due to the muscle spasms in my throat when I try to lie down to sleep. So I had to sleep sitting up. Has 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 done 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 when I was able to lie down without my throat going into spasms 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. Through this whole period, 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'm 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. 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 🙏
CHS has been around long before legalization became a thing! It is becoming more prévalant lately so believe you are onto something about the supposed medical marinuana from dispensaires. They are over fertilizing to make a profit and god knows what else!
I have found CHS has damaged my vagus nerve. This is some information I found on the internet about the vagus nerve. A damaged vagus nerve can cause a range of symptoms because the nerve affects many areas of the body:
Digestive issues: Acid reflux, bloating, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or feeling full after eating little
Voice changes: Hoarseness, wheezing, or loss of voice
Heart and blood pressure changes: Changes in heart rate or blood pressure, or low blood pressure
Swallowing and gag reflex: Difficulty swallowing or loss of gag reflex
Dizziness and fainting: Dizziness or fainting
damage to the vagus nerve can affect sleep patterns:
Low vagal tone
Low vagal tone can lead to sleep disturbances, fatigue, and other physiological symptoms of depression.
Vagus nerve stimulation
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) can be an effective treatment for insomnia. VNS can help maintain a balance in the autonomic nervous system, which is important for sleep and wakefulness. However, VNS can also cause sleep-disordered breathing and worsen sleep apnea.
Icing the vagus nerve
Icing the vagus nerve can help with sleep, and is generally safe. However, you should be careful not to get frostbite, so you can cover the ice pack with a cloth and only leave it on for up to 20 minutes.
Mood changes: Depression, anxiety, or chronic mood issues
damage to the vagus nerve can affect the bowels:
Gastroparesis
When the vagus nerve is damaged, food may not move from the stomach to the intestines. This can be caused by diabetes, viral infections, abdominal surgery, or scleroderma.
Poor digestion
When the vagus nerve isn't working properly, the stomach may not produce enough acid to digest food. This can lead to bloating, cramping, diarrhea, constipation, or gastro-esophageal reflux.
Digestive conditions
Poor vagal nerve function can be linked to digestive conditions such as:
Heartburn, acid reflux, or GERD
IBS, including chronic constipation and diarrhea
Inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis
SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth)
damage to the vagus nerve can cause unexplained weight loss.
There are several ways to strengthen or stimulate the vagus nerve, including:
Breathing
Deep, slow, diaphragmatic breathing can activate the vagus nerve. You can try belly breathing, where your stomach expands as you inhale.
Cold therapy
Applying cold compresses to your face or neck, or taking a cold shower, can stimulate the vagus nerve.
Massage
Massaging the back of your ears and the front side of your ear can stimulate the vagus nerve. You can also try carotid sinus massage, which involves lightly massaging the carotid artery in your neck.
Exercise
Endurance activities like jogging, cycling, and swimming can stimulate the vagus nerve.
Diet
Eating a whole-foods diet, and taking probiotics or omega-3 fatty acids, can support the vagus nerve.
Meditation
Meditation can improve vagal tone. You can try apps like Calm App, Insight Timer, or Heartmath.
Singing and humming
Singing and humming can increase vagal tone.
Positive social connections
Spending time with people who make you laugh and smile can have a positive benefit on vagal tone.
ther symptoms: Unexplained weight loss, brain zaps, or impending doom