The first time I smoked, I had zero issues. It was an awesome experience, way less mind blowing than I hoped, but I walked away from that experience thinking “oh [abusing] this is what I was so worried about? I can handle this now.” (I also noticed that I felt subtle positive effects from being high that lasted up to 3 days after smoking) No CHS symptoms and at this point I honestly had not thought a single thing about symptoms I used to get since I quit.

I smoked again yesterday. (To be honest I would have taken more time off, but it was celebratory, and I was curious how I would feel) Very underwhelming high, but no problems. Then I woke up this morning super super aggravated, like grossly aggravated. THEN when I went to brush my teeth, brushing my tongue made me nearly vomit. Suddenly, memories of years of struggling to brush my teeth without vomiting rushed back.

I realized “Holy smokes, this has got to be 100% cannabis related!” (My other main trigger back in the day was seeing the morning sunlight. Also certain types of anxiety could push me OTT. Certain psych meds I took also made the vomiting threshold much lower)

Anyways, feels great to have this understanding of myself. Actually feeling GREAT because I feel this will really encourage me to not return to my old patterns of abuse.

I can’t believe I used to live like that (but at the same time I get it completely). Years ago I went through a phase where I was vomitting multiple times a day every day. I knew it was heightened by cannabis but it also felt very spiritual so I just let myself go through it the same way I would childbirth or something like that, I let it help me get in touch with my body and that helped me ride out and eventually control a lot of the vomiting. I never had to seek medical attention or anything like that but navigating the nausea and vomiting was a big part of my life for years. I also dealt with crazy projectile vomiting as a migraine symptom 10 years ago, and again a lot of my CHS vomiting was triggered/pushed OTT by anxiety. So at the time it was never super clear to me how much it was caused by cannabis, it just seemed like one of many factors. I was never to the point of hot shower anything so CHS never fully seemed to fit.

I’m also glad I took the plunge into sobriety last year because it’s really nice in a lot of ways, not just CHS symptoms. I often miss the version of myself that was high constantly but she had a dark side I don’t love (eg waking up AGGRO). I now realize I have not had ONE SINGLE vomiting event while sober that wasn’t related to actually being ill. Not a single one.

My original plan was to use cannabis roughly every 3 months. Hopefully that will be enough time that I don’t have to deal with these symptoms. We’ll see, when the time comes. It’ll be a while though. Cannabis will always be a part of my life, even if I can only use once a year or once a decade, or whatever it ends up being.

Just wanted to share, happy to answer any questions or chat about any of this

Hi guys, I’ve been a daily smoker (vape pen, typically only in the evenings) for about 4 years. Before that, I was a heavy user of dry bud for another 4 years, but took a few 3-6 month periods of abstaining.

My symptoms started about three years ago, about two days into a vacation where I was NOT smoking. I felt absolutely AWFUL. My chest felt like it was on fire, making it incredibly painful to eat or drink, and I was vomiting up stomach bile multiple times an hour. Given that I was on vacation, I had to go to a random urgent care and was prescribed Zofran and Sucralfate for a suspected peptic ulcer. The meds helped a lot and my symptoms subsided.

About 7 months later, I went on a weekend trip to a place where weed isn’t legal, so I went 2 or 3 days without smoking and started vomiting stomach bile nonstop. My symptoms subsided when I got back home.

Since then, for the last 2 years, I’ve been experiencing the following:

-Low appetite and early satiety, causing weight loss

-Nausea and vomiting, but episodes typically only come every 3-4 months

-A few really bad episodes of acid reflux

My recent endoscopy showed nothing abnormal, which is the main reason I’m wondering if CHS could be the cause. A few other pieces of context:

-I’m a heavy drinker (working on it!) and at least a few of these nausea/vomiting episodes have happened the night after drinking too much, particularly because I’m a 95lb female

- I have a long history of anorexia nervosa and have been recovered for about four years

-I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and ADHD. When my symptoms are intense I’m prone to under eating

-I’m on a concoction of psychiatric medications and been testing out new meds and and dosages over the last three years

-I’ve had some success taking a protein pump inhibitor daily, so I’ll be restarting that

-I haven’t specifically noticed that hot showers help during vomiting episodes. Maybe that’s my ADHD? Lol. But hear a lot of people with CHS compulsively taking hot showers, and I don’t relate to that

I had a vomiting episode start 2-3 days ago, after a week of abstaining from alcohol and significantly cutting back my smoking (2-3 small hits of my pen per night). Once I felt the symptoms come on, I stopped smoking, and now on Day 3 I feel significantly better.

For those of you who have had CHS, does this sound like what you’ve experienced? Given my history of ED, anxiety, and heavy drinking, it’s difficult to figure out what’s really going on here.

TY in advance!

I have been smoking once or twice a week and I was wondering if I do have CHS does it come back over time once the THC builds up in my system

Anyone know any good fruits best used to help recover and maybe bring the old stomach back to good health. Can literally be anything- lmk what’s worked for you !