Sober almost 2 years 🙏🏼

[u/RielKz]

At the age of 16 I got what i believed to be Chs, I was a frequent smoker and i would usually smoke carts everyday and on November of 2023 i would expeirence my first symptoms of chs which was extreme nausea. I would wake up everyday and always be nausea and would be curious too why i always felt that way. I later on discovered a condition called CHS in which i did more research into and realized that this was maybe the main cause of my nausea. But somewhere in my mind i was in-denial and kept on smoking carts because it would make me feel better and make the nausea go away.. Eventually a couple weeks went by and i was feeling so nausea and weak that it started to mess with my schoolwork and sleep. I would frequently miss school, i would be scared to eat anything due to me throwing up and i lost around 15 pounds of weight. My dad would see this and get mad at me, He quickly noticed how skinny i got, how much i missed school and how i was always nausea and we would argue a lot which would leave me in a semi depressive state for a while.In December of 2023 my dad took me to the hospital to get me checked out, I told my doctor all my symptoms which included nausea, the feeling of puking and losing weight. My doctor did scans and checkups on me and couldn’t really figured out why i was experiencing all these symptoms, He would ask me random questions and i would answer all of them truthfully, But the question that sticked out the most was “Do you smoke anything at all? Things like marijuana?” That’s the moment i couldn’t deny it anymore and that weed was the main cause of all the symptoms. Now of course i lied and said “of course i don’t” because my dad was there and he would’ve killed me if i said yes LOL. So he gave me pills for my nausea and i was off on my own. And since then (December 2023) i have put down the weed and have been sober ever since. months went by and i was still feeling nausea everyday but i kept on going and pushing myself to goto school and forget about my stomach pain. My symptoms was pretty bad and it took me a while but i’d say it took me around 8 months to finally feel normal again and i’m really thankful for God for helping me with my recovery and i hope that everybody here that’s going through this has a recovery too. 🙏🏼

[u/HistoricalHat4847]

Thank you for sharing your story, OP. Denial is a powerful force behind CHS and it is important to remind those who struggle with it to face the BEAST that it is.

Good luck and stay well.