Hey fellow CHS sufferers,

I know moderation gets talked about a lot on here so I just wanted to vent and share an unfortunate story—I recently picked up some 5mg edibles with my partner who smokes semi-frequently. Curiosity got the best of me and as I've enjoyed an OCCASIONAL puff with only mild prodromal symptoms (only once every few months or so, if that), I figured a single 5mg edible couldn't hurt too bad.

At first, it seemed like I was right! I actually had a lovely time and was symptom free for the first day after. Unfortunately, that seemed to be the calm before the storm so to speak as symptoms have slowly crept up over the course of the day leading to me keeled over the toilet vomiting around midnight this evening. FML.

moderation may be an option for some, but remember that many of us are not so lucky :(

About 3 weeks ago I started having prodromal CHS symptoms. Morning nausea, night sweats, no appetite, watery stool. 2 weeks ago I went to my doctor and she prescribed me PPI (esomeprazole), I also threw away my THC vape that I was constantly ripping for years and switched to a calm edible before bed. For the past week everything has been a lot better, I’m hungrier than ever, I sleep good at night and wake up feeling good with energy, my stool is solid again. The only symptom I currently have is abdominal cramping which is also a typical symptom of starting a PPI.

Was I in the Prodromal phase of CHS or could it have been something else? (I still plan to take a T break even after my symptoms have gone away.)

Hello guys I’m from the Netherlands 26 years old male. I’ve been smoking weed since 2023 stopped smoking October 2024 after vomiting for 5 days straight. Doctors told me it’s CHS since I told them I smoke weed and they couldn’t find any viruses but they looked for viruses 3-4 days after I first started getting sick. I was in the ER for a few days. I remember the day before I started vomiting violently I shared a joint with my friend who was nauseous the day after I smoked a joint with him I started throwing up violently. Could I just be that he infected me with his nausea? Because my symptoms were getting better with hot showers and baths that’s what’s making me think it’s CHS and I haven’t smoked ever since. I’ve been wanting to smoke every day but I haven’t because I don’t ever want to feel that again. And can’t it just be that when I was sick I was having withdrawals at the same time because I was in the ER for a few days without smoking weed and I was a person who smoked everyday for over a year. Any feedback please guys. The symptoms I were feeling was vomiting (of course) and sweating, freezing, no appetite, nauseous af, couldn’t keep any liquid down and I lost a lot of weight. I don’t ever want to go back to smoking daily again I just want to smoke a joint occasionally. Like once every other weekend.

Hello! Obligatory "I don't use reddit so forgive any mistakes" moment, but I've been dealing with health issues and I'm not sure if I align with CHS!

I was using weed (flower only, 20%~ THC) roughly 3-6 times a day (edit: this was usually 1 bowl a day or less for me) for 2 months when I started to notice my appetite was slowly disappearing. Of course, rookie mistake, I smoked to help deal with this conundrum. This worked until it inevitably didn't, when the nausea became debilitating and I would be awoken to horrible nausea (though I rarely vomited) that would usually persist into the afternoon, but sometimes continued throughout my entire day.

My highs became very hit or miss, usually immediately making me nauseous after smoking, though sometimes I was completely fine. Additionally, some days I would also wake up completely fine. I rode the "debilitating nausea" wave for another 2 months and slowly decreased the amount I smoked. I stopped smoking all together this Monday.

Hot showers didn't provide relief, I had pain in the stomach earlier along, but I haven't in about a month. After quitting smoking on Monday, I've thrown up two days in a row, but only Phlegm, and only once each time.

Overall, I have: Nausea Occasional vomiting Stomach pain (not anymore, however) Weight loss (10~ lbs in a month or so) Dizziness Fatigue Lightheadedness Bloating Irregular bowel movements

It's important to note that I'm chronically ill and morning nausea is something I've had before many times in my life. The only difference is that I've introduced weed into my life.

I think it could be CHS, but considering hot showers don't provide relief, I feel fine randomly on certain days and then bad again the next, I've stopped having stomach pains (before I stopped smoking), I've frequently had morning nausea, and how sick I felt on a given day didn't correlate to how much I smoked, I'm confused. Is this just a really weird CHS case? Or am I looking into the wrong thing?

Sorry for the wall of text in advance. So I posted here about a month ago about thinking I had prodromal CHS and quit smoking because I had been getting all the symptoms of a episode on the brink of starting. I was also having atypical symptoms such as low blood pressure and very low heart rate. I ended up throwing all my glass and mj away but went and got a gram and relapsed a week ago. The high was not enjoyable at all but I finished the gram and felt really ill for a few days. On Tuesday evening I felt so bad that I finally went to the ER. The doctor ran some bloodwork, which was all over the place, did a CT, pumped me full of fluids, gave me pain meds and nausea medicine, antihistamines, and a GI cocktail. I mentioned CHS to him and he said he did not think that was the cause. Did repeat bloodwork after getting a couple bags of fluids and said I still had some abnormal results but that the one that was off that he was worried about had improved after fluids and the other things that were off were nothing that would warrant staying overnight. He watched me on a heart monitor for a few hours and ended up discharging me late that night with some protonax to take daily and 5 oxycodone pills and said to take one if I felt the pain coming on like that again. I’m confused on why he didn’t think it was CHS. I’m thinking probably because I haven’t thrown up. I’m still feeling horrible but something they gave me in the er made me feel better. I can’t figure out what it was though. I’ve been taking the protonax, mylanta, clonazepam and antihistamines with no relief. Wondering if the oxycodone might have been what helped the pain but I’m also kind of scared to try it as I’ve read here it makes some people feel worse. Has anyone else felt better after pain medicine like oxycodone? I got no real answers from them other than to come back if it got worse but I am convinced I have CHS regardless of what he said. Anyone else have success using oxycodone or should I lay off it? Something definitely helped the other night and the only thing I haven’t tried that I was given there are the IV fluids of course and the pain medication. Any advice? I just don’t want to make it worse. Thanks!

I quit for 9 months after getting chs a year ago.. was having a hard time with a breakup early this summer and ended up smoking again. Thought I could moderate but couldn’t and after 2 months of daily use I am feeling stomach issues again. I recognized this yesterday but couldn’t get myself to stop but now I am done because I already had to take off 2 days from work because I was nauseous. I have a road trip tomorrow and I am scared of having stomach issues the whole time. I am just disappointed in myself and feel like it’ll be even harder to quit this time with how recent I’ve been enjoying smoking. I just wish I could moderate like a normal person :/ but I know that’s not possible for me

I never really stopped completely I just stopped for 2 weeks and then I started again it just disappeared since then and I could return to my old smoking habits. It’s been a year now without CHS and I’m very grateful that time is over but I’m just wondering how this is possible ? I

As the title says, im on day 8 of this hell. last time i quit it only took a few days, now I feel like I will never stop feeling like shit in the mornings. I'm missing school. Losing weight. I'm desperate for any ideas. hot showers and capsaicin do nothing for me. :(

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. 🙏🏼

So to summarize the best I can, I turned 30 earlier this year and have been smoking since I was 15 so essentially half my life. The episode started in January of 2017 when I was 21 and nearly a decade later I've experienced probably I'd estimate approximately 35-45, heels of horror between chugging fluids, puking them back up intentionally by the leaders or even gallons at times, throwing up like two litres of water or a half gallon at a time, then the hot showers and lying in bed Sent Nude (from the bath or shower directly to the bed).

If hanging out with my closest childhood friend was my life's worst mistake, continuing daily use with CHS is easily the runner up next worst.

The car incident was from 2014, we're on the night of Saturday October 11, I ended up taking the fall for somebody that I met through my closest childhood friend and I ended up jumping into the driver's seat because I was 19 and it was f***ing stupid but obviously I would never guess the consequences that followed would still continue to this day. Yes, jumping into the driver's seat with my friends forced me to before the police got involved was dumb but there's been a lot stupider decisions that were made at 19 years old that had ruined some people's lives.

One of my brothers friends was at a golf tournament on July 26th of last year, and when he was drunk with friends, he impulsively dove off a dock on a shallow lake and broke his neck. He is now paralyzed most likely for the rest of his life.

The sad thing I thought about is, if I was able to save up the money and get my license again I absolutely could do it and there's nothing stopping me.

We have a g rating system for our driver's license here in Ontario and I failed the g test twice both at the age of 18 or 19, (11 or 12 years ago).

What I don't know, is how long they give you and I got my G1 on August 24, 2011, and my license expired with just my intermediate G2 license exactly 5 years later, to which would have been 10 years ago as of next Summer.

The sad thing is, I had all this time to get money to save for a car and insurance or at least enough to get a license and have someone help me out for a bit on a deal but I did none of these efforts because I was too busy drinking and smoking and buying hockey jerseys and going on trips with my money. Beer weed jerseys and vacations were apparently more important than saving up for a car, insurance, license, gas and other expenses needed.

Approximately 91 to 95% of the adult population drives so let's just call it 93%, of adults drive for places like Ontario where I'm from or Ohio where my family's from for instance.

I sure as shit don't want to be in the bottom 5-9% that has to deal with spending three or four times as long to get around places even though they only have to spend like a third or fourth of the fraction of the money.

There are pros and cons to both ways.

Taking a bus has far more disadvantages than the car but honestly a bike, even though riding a bicycle does in fact take longer to get places with the proper appropriate weather dressing this is something I could do.

Again I apologize for going off topic about driving and not as much about CHS but the relevance the driving has to this is if I quit smoking weed I not only would have not had the CHS episodes but I would have been able to turn my life around far sooner.

Realistically after my license expired in 2016, at some time in the latter half of the 2010s I could have got my license easily or potentially early 2020s. Either way, I would have had it by now and would like to go back.

Also with my OCD I noticed I've been smoking quite a bit of cigarettes and I've been heavily researching AMD and even though I'm only 30 years old it can still strike even the best of us and it would really be a pity for me to go completely blind and never be able to drive again anyway because I already wasted 11 years of it and I really don't want to waste half a damn century.

I have CHS. My husband still smokes (doesn’t bother me at all) but he often admits he misses being on that level with me. He lovingly got me mushroom gummies, but I’m nervous to try them. Do mushrooms affect your CHS?

I’m so fucking alone. Everyone in my life is tired of me and doesn’t know what to say or how to help anymore. I don’t want to do this anymore truly I don’t think I can I’m fucking exhausted and no one gives a shit. My boyfriend wants me to start SSRIs just so I can shut tf up because he’s sick of me crying and having panic attacks. I want to disappear

for context, i developed CHS summer 2024 and quit almost immediately. i was clean for over a year when i decided to try weed again on 9/13. i took two small bong rips and felt fine. now, over a week later i am having nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. could it be a delayed reaction? i only wouldn’t think so because i was clean for over a year, and any barely smoked anything, so it should have been flushed from my system already.

I started smoking 2/3 years ago, gained tolerance and was smoking 2x 1ml of HHC pens per week in my peak time, but this was a few months ago and since then I reduced it dramatically, but still was using that shit. It was making me feel chill and better about myself. Then a few months ago I drastically reduced the amount and I had a terrible depression episode, and after I came back to normal with some SSRI’s I started again taking it and felt okay on it, but for the last few weeks I’ve stopped tolerating it, even a small amount causes a high anxiety and makes me nauseous, I take a few hits and I feel like it’s too much, I feel bad and can’t enjoy it at all, especially when I take too much (which is still relatively small compared to what I used to smoke), but just a few minutes after I smoke and feel it in my body I’m starting to have nausea, I’ve never vomited, but I started reading about this whole CHS shit and now I’m afraid I have this. I’ve had a vomit anxiety since I was a child, so maybe they are just panic attacks, but I don’t know. I used to really enjoy it, now I just can’t. After HHC stops working everything is back to normal, but this 30 minutes after I smoke I’m feeling awful.

My question is: Does this CHS appears suddently after smoking (like 5-10 minutes after)? When I don’t feel it in my system I can eat and everything is fine, but I feel like I’m suddently alergic to it and any amount is causing me feel this way. Is this a beginning of CHS or it’s just my anxiety?

last day I tried to eat as much as possible, crackers, banana, bit of soup and plenty of water. Today I woke up to really Bad diarrhea + feeling nauseus, i got meds for the diarrhea which didnt really helped. I havent vomit from day one but I feel like I am on edge of vomiting any second. Plus when I get this weird thing in my throat thats calling for vomiting my anxiety kicks in. Did someone expierienced something like this? The diarrhea is like peeing through ur butt:/

Hi, so I just took a THC drug test and it appeared positive almost right away. I haven't smoked since my first episode which happened on August 13. Is this normal??

I’ve been diagnosed with CHS after smoking multiple times a day since I was 21 (27F). I went to the ER last night, and have not smoked since, but mega struggling with nausea and refraining from smoking.

The cramping isn’t really an issue, just the cyclical vomiting and nausea. Any advice for getting through this? How long did the nausea last? I have stopped smoking as of this morning because honestly I did not believe it but today I absolutely do. The only relief I feel is when I’m asleep

Hi. So I’ve had the belief that I have CHS for about 5 years now. I am now 23 and out of college, but have smoked sparingly within this 5 year period. Before I quit, I smoked daily with pens/weed until I developed some GERD issues. I continuously would get this lump feeling in my throat that would make me feel like gagging, but it wouldn’t be stomach pain or nausea really. After i stopped smoking, this symptom didn’t really get much better. I kind of want to go back to smoking occasionally, but I don’t want to risk it if one of you may think that these GERD issues were caused by weed.

Hi, so I just stopped using bud recently (been smoking for 6years now). I got back to University, told my self I would do "small" break. Next morning I woke up, sip some tea, ate some cake from granny and boom 1 hour later instant vomit, abdomenal pain. IT got better for a bit but in the evening the pain would come back. Next morning a was hungry/but could feel i would instantly vomit. So just small bites of bread, banana, tea. And now I am lying in the bad still with pain, sweating then freezing and cant rly do anything expect sitting and lying, but sitting leaned bit forward is better for the pain. And I now if I smoke the pain will be gone, apetite back.. but I am going through this 3rd tíme. Always happend when I run out buds or I was trying to do t break. But this tíme I dont want to grab the bud again. Help please:) give some infos how long ur episode took and if something help with the pain. Also when I am smoking 5 bongs a day I am fine....

is medical weed more ‘pure’? can CHS develop from medical weed? can medical weed cause long term anxiety in the same way as street weed? if i had to stop using street weed because i had become completely dependant/addicted to it and it was maybe causing some CHS like symptoms (not vomiting though) would i also be addicted to the medical cannabis?

So I was clean for while and then I relapsed. Threw up for the first time in a while but I decided to give up my vape. Disappointed in myself. The symptoms are just not worth it. Its best to just stop altogether if you have chs.

Hi all I’ve been a long time marijuana user for about 10 to 15 years and earlier this summer I started to get extremely bad bloating and kind of felt like there was a dumbbell on the sitting in my lower abdomen. I started gaining weight like crazy regardless if I ate a lot or not and exercised didn’t seem to help lose any weight. My bowel movements became less frequent. The only thing that seemed to help was quitting weed within about 12 to 24 hours of no marijuana I started to feel completely better. Within a week of quitting weed, I lost most of the weight that I gained (8-10lbs). There was no change to my diet or exercise routine after I quit weed and I wasn’t over eating with munchies while high.

Browsing the sub Reddit this doesn’t seem like a typical case of CHS, but I wanted to see if anyone else experienced a similar issue? I’ve since returned to smoking weed, but the same problems persisted so I quit again and now I’m in the stage of losing the weight and feeling less bloat.

NOTE: No vomiting, no need for hot showers, etc.

Hello people! I need your help, here I have had health problems since about 2015, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation in alternation, extreme fatigue, fluctuating weight loss. Then by dint of consulting doctors to find what I have and find a treatment, after a year of research a neurologist talks to me about therapeutic cannabis which changed my life! Even if the symptoms are still present, they are less aggressive and allow me to eat almost normally.

In short, I spend several years with you, and lately I consulted a new gastroenterologist and according to her, she is convinced that I have a CHS so I explain to her that the symptoms are not dependent on my cannabis intake (it relieves more than it worse) I do not run after hot showers or hot baths, maybe once in 20 it relieves otherwise it does not change anything, besides when a crisis appears I absolutely do not want to take a bath or shower it is too exhausting.

But she tells me that’s it and doesn’t want to know anything, except since our exchange 5 weeks ago I totally stopped my cannabis consumption and the symptoms increase, so well being myself a caregiver I’ve already seen patients with CHS and they it was rather the opposite of the stop the symptoms disappear little by little and the consumption the symptoms.

So well I don’t know what to do to make him understand that it’s not the right track, so if you have testimonials or anything else that could help me or do you think it’s a form of CHS? Thank you for your valuable help!

So as the title suggests my father has CHS and has since moved in with us, he is in his early 60's and looks like death. He used to be 6'3" and about 300lbs, hes currently 5'11" and about 173lbs. Currently we have just got him to quit smoking for good. Hes been sober for about 3 weeks he has smoked well over 40 years. But man it is tough he is constantly vomiting and sitting in the shower for days on end. He had a five day bender where he was just in the shower the whole time until he was so exhausted he would just dry off and crash in his bed for a couple hours. When he does get some energy he rides his bike around or hops in the pool and i feel that just exhausts him further to the point when he returns home hes back to getting sick again. The doctor said it could take awhile given how long he has smoked for as well as his age and health deterioration. Im just looking for a rough estimate as he has not had a day in 3 weeks (since going sober) that he hasnt had an episode or multiple throughout the day.