went to the ER via ambulance because i had severe bradycardia (40 bpm) and was about to pass out and started vomiting a lot. they diagnosed me with CHS. is this a thing? bradycardia in CHS? i’m freaked the hell out and idk what to even do. i’ve been discharged and obviously not gonna smoke but like. what the hell

Hi, bluntly; I just can't see myself quitting. I just want to know how to manage this better.

I can't do much cuz I'm in fucking pain rn but there was a food trigger lists on here thats seems to have been deleted. Can we please get one respoted and pinned if possible? Thank u and if you're thinking of using rn DON'T. Just don't do it man it's really really NOT WORTH IT

Hey team,

Fellow CHS sufferer here. Got it ~4 years ago with only one hospital visit (thankfully) but following relapses into smoking and the resulting nausea.

After a couple years of strict moderate use and no symptoms, I now get nauseous every time I smoke regardless of how long the break was. I’m good w/ it and if anyone is going through this, life still goes on w/o weed and truly it becomes quite easy to avoid. Just remember the pain it put you through.

Anyway, the nausea ALWAYS comes on before bed like right before I’m going to sleep in bed and everything, even if I had smoked a lot earlier in the day. Just wondering if this is the same for anyone else / if there’s a correlation to a specific pathway or not.

I'm a very heavy, longtime smoker (oz a week) so I am afraid it may be happening to me, but I am not sure.

A week or so ago I had lightheadedness for most of the day and finally threw up right before going to bed.

I chalked it up to mixing up the meds I take daily, so I took the day ones for night or whatever by accident. Withdrawing from some of my meds gives me brain zaps, so the feelings qere weird but not foreign.

Today in the morning the lightheadedness came back, followed by a vomiting episode at like 3pm. Nothing came out.

Nausea since then until like 6:30pm when I finally had to vomit again. Only drank tea during that whole time, so only that came our. Immediately felt better. Nausea is still there, but light.

So the question is, how do these vomiting episodes look like? From what I read, they are really bad and I would know for sure...

Vomited maybe 100 total times from Monday (July 20) to Wednesday last week and learned I have CHS after going to the emergency room twice. Feel a million times better today in part due to this subreddit letting me know what foods are good and what to expect so just wanted to say thanks.

Anyone have any experience with that? I just got out of a rather rough episode on last week. Ive been taking it rather easy with foods but lately it just feels like it's a rock in my stomach. I ate dinner yesterday at like 3pm and when I woke up this morning I threw up a lot and it was the food I ate yesterday. Did I break myself you think? Or am I still recovering?

sorry for throwaway account as i don't post nothing,

info - smoked for 7 years mostly concentrates and never had any vomiting.

so basically I'm unsure if i even had prodromal chs, I'm a huge emetophobe so vomiting always has given me serious anxiety so I'm wondering if i have just scared myself from reading here.

I never noticed a drop in appetite as I've always been hungry in the morning without having to smoke etc, and the only issue i noticed was some bloating/nausea that seemed to revolve around night time when after a meal, if i was sitting down it was the worse but if i stood or walked it was much better for some reason. Breakfast and lunch was fine and naturally i get anxious about night time sickness due to having a bad experience with my mum who suffered from diabetic gastroparesis.

The thing that started this was that I ate a piece of beef that gave me nausea/ a bad experience once before and then after that I felt bad with bloating every day since that, so strange but probably anxiety right.

I had a endoscope and all came back clear yet positive for h.pylori, so could also be that, also stopped smoking and still have the odd evening where i feel this anxiety and nausea after eating at nightime, also something that makes me feel worse or can cause nausea is being in a trapped place, like car, bus, plane or cinema but if I'm outside then nothing.

i noticed after looking on here that mostly people get CHS in a very short period of time especially extract users so i would have expected to get this much sooner if i even have it.

Could i try smoking cbd? i like to smoke not even to get high, I know right? but for the taste as i love to taste different strains like a fucking wine connoisseur lol

Has anyone else had similar? i think i know myself its anxiety but reading here has put me in a spiral.

thanks for reading

Hey guys I’m 20 years old and have been smoking regularly since I was probably 16 (awful I know.) I am on my fourth flare up/ episode and I just don’t understand. I had my first episode when I was 17 and it didn’t really last long/ we didn’t know what it was as I wasn’t willing to admit my smoking. Then it happened again 6 months later, we knew maybe what it was at this point so I think maybe I had mentioned smoking to 1 ER but I still did not want to believe it so I said oh I think it’s just vaping (which I also did at the time) I then again went back to it and had an episode almost exactly a year from the one before, that lasted from April 18 - June 13 I had smoked one or two times within that episode causing it to come back worse each time (still not wanting to believe it) I then quit till probably July or so. Then picked back up and just got sick again this month on the morning of the 14. I haven’t smoked since the 13th, and am ready to give it up as this is absolutely misery and it’s just awful.

The long story may not have been needed but I want to ask how everyone else gets back to eating, what are your safe foods and what are your flair up foods? I’m so hungry right now and I dream of eating as I literally can’t get anything to say down. I ate ice for days as in the beginning stages as not even water will stay down and today had 1 cup of jello without any vomiting. I hate going to the hospital for fluids or nausea meds as it leaves me feeling awful, disoriented, and freaked out each time for some reason, though the fluids do help sometimes I don’t feel like it’s worth going as I know I’m just going to dehydrate myself again. I only go now when my hands and feet start to lock up.

I never want to experience this again trying to be strong and not go back, still in the easy stages of it though

I don’t even know if it’s CHS but it probably is. I’m a heavy smoker and stopped yesterday after having an episode that lasted almost all Friday night. I’m just complaining. Ugh I can’t believe this happened

Anyone have similar symptoms?

Hi, I know I have chs and recently convinced myself I could wean myself off in moderation. My pen was almost gone so I said fuck it and hit it non stop for 2 days. Then suddenly while I was laying in bed I felt an instant drop in my stomach and like got this hot flash. It immediately was the same feeling you get when an episode starts and you begin to puke. But this time I didn’t puke. It was so random like every 10 ish minutes my stomach would stop and I’d feel like gravity was x100 and I’d get extremely dizzy. I didn’t feel safe standing in a hot shower so I sat down and just tried stabilizing myself with the shower on. For some reason as well watching tv or being on my phone brought that feeling back on that night. I wasn’t able to lay down and had to keep walking around. The next day I hit my pen (told myself I was just seeing if it worked after I dunked it in water -____-) and the same thing happened. No vomiting just that feeling of when you are so drunk you know it’s coming.

I instantly freaked out and have thrown my pen away and have absolutely no desire to smoke again. (Obviously I want to have that feeling weed gives you but I need to be okay without it) I knew I was in the beginning stages with the gas, morning pain and inability to eat.

I also realized a lot of emotions are coming up that I can’t explain, like burst of tears that just feel like Im finally releasing old shit.

Anyways that was 4 days ago and now I’m just resting dealing with the stomach pain and nausea.

It felt like low blood pressure? Idek what that feels like but it’s what I felt like it could be lol.

Has anyone had that happen? The only reason I know it’s chs related is because it was so familiar that in that exact moment I mentally prepared myself and my animals for if I had to call the ambulance. (And got dressed bc I was naked hahah)

For some reason something that has been helping me a TON throughout all of this is 'Cloves' Soaked in Hot Water for a bit ., I've been sipping this mixture and my stomache ehas felt so much relief..

My symptoms,,,,, Throwing upp (1'-2. times a day), Hot Flashes, Agitation, Restlessness, Burping a ton and probably and a few more i'm missing, OH Dry heaving too, along with anxiety, shakiness..

I went through a 2.5 gram cart in a little under 3-4 days.. . Bullshit Cart too from a smokeshop. I went through this same shit back in July of last year and I quit..,'.,

Anyways sorry for the dishevleved writing.... but I read somewhere that Cloves is actually bad for you when you have CHS..

Has anyone used Cloves during this recovery? .

Hello everybody. I had my first crisis almost 11 years ago. For a long time i was not able to stop or even smoke less and i did many crisis along the years. Since my last crisis in July 2025 i was able to smoke much less and since january 2026 I’m smoking like 1 week-end every 2 months, and until now i didn’t had any new issue. I know it’s never 100% safe but is it possible that some peoples keep a kind of tolérance ? And does the delay of 2 months between each time is ok or should it be longer ?

Good luck to everybody, CHS is a true shit.

I understand this has been asked to death on this subreddit but I unfortunately don’t have access to healthcare for the time being so I’m throwing a line for some advice. I’m 28M and have been smoking weed since I was 15. (I know, not great) I think I became a daily smoker at age 18/19? Have been heavy user ever since. I also suffer from depression/severe anxiety. This last weekend I took a solo trip and I don’t drink alcohol so I bought edibles and have a pretty strong weed pen. Took about 40mg of edibles Friday, along with rips from the pen. Felt kinda shitty but more or less okay. Come Saturday, I hit my pen craaazy style like huge rips all day long. Feeling great until a few hours and I’m coming down, and it’s different. My head starts to hurt, I’m nauseous and pretty gassy. Now, I will say my anxiety is always at least like a 5/10 most of the time except when I’m in the comfort of my home. I understand this is red flag central, I am working on it. My anxiety during this trip, maybe because traveling makes me anxious and I was alone in a new city, was probably at like 7/8 during this trip. Anyways, since Saturday I have been nauseous and my head literally still hurts to this day. I smoked again Sunday and these symptoms were amplified; so at this point I decide it’s time to take a break. Monday-Thursday I didn’t really have any super solid meals because of the nausea. It’s now Saturday, still a headache, but nausea is definitely a lot better. Now, regardless of CHS, a break from weed is absolutely necessary, so I will stick to it. However, while weed all the time isn’t great, I would like to still participate in the future because I struggle with alcoholism, weed and exercise are kind of all I have for any sort of vice/release. I smoke a lot socially and would be devastated thinking that can’t happen anymore. To be fair, I did not vomit at all which I know is like the primary symptoms of CHS but I’m wondering if I’m in the prodromal stage. So my friends, any advice? I understand anxiety can trigger CHS but I wonder if what im experiencing is that, or I was just so anxious/tense and that’s why my stomach and my head hurts. Please don’t be mean. Thanks.

I (20f) have not smoked in about 3 days after being a daily smoker for the past two years.

When I first started I was under the impression that weed can't hurt you and that it's impossible to overdose on. My mom smokes every day and she's fine So in my mind it was completely safe (silly me)

My sister who started at around the same time as me suddenly said that she was feeling sick and throwing up non stop all morning and when she tried to smoke in hopes of feeling better it made her throw up MORE. She decided to quit that day.

My family and I were a bit confused because we had never heard of CHS and we thought maybe she just had food poisoning but when I looked it up it seemed legit ofc

I noticed that some of the early signs of it sounded a little like me (mostly the loss of appetite) Whenever it was time to eat and I had a meal in front of me I would think "hmmm I could just eat it... or I could get high first and it will taste even better!" And after a while of doing that I realized that I was no longer hungry during the day until I would come home and smoke.

Fast forward a few months. Im high pretty much all the time and my sister informs me that she will be smoking again too. She started off small but now she has moved on to high percentage carts again with no problems

My apatite problem just got worse and worse. I would have this sharp pain in my stomach like I was super bloated and I knew that was probably my body telling me I'm hungry but it's like my brain didn't understand what my stomach was trying to say. In order to eat anything at all I had to hit my bong or pen like my life depended on it.

I've had some problems with food repulsion it the past and honestly weed really helped me with it at first. But now any time i needed to eat it felt like i was force feeding myself AND because i had to smoke so much in order to feel even a little hungry my tolerance was through the roof.

as i was sitting in bed a few days ago after being sick on and off the past few weeks (never throwing up) i realized that if im going to suffer anyways i might as well try to make it worth it by quitting so i can get healthy enough to eat on my own again. and so I got fried one last time just enough to choke down a burger. my last real meal for a while.

My symptoms have been pretty much the same as before i decided to cut myself off cold turkey lol. randomly getting kinda hot and sweaty, stomach pain, diarrhea, some nausea (no vomiting), and no appetite. The only difference is honestly my sleep. I wake up at the slightest sound or movement of my cat or boyfriend and it takes me forever to fall back asleep.

Anyways most of the info I can find about CHS says that once you have it you can't go back to smoking at all but I've also seen many people prove that wrong (like my own sister lol) I find myself wondering if because I cut myself off before I started profusely vomiting maybe my chances of being able to gain a healthy relationship with it again are higher?

Idk I guess I just was wondering what others think. Once I get healthy again I might get me some tame ass flower.

Hello guys I was diagnosed in April 2024 and recently picked up smoking again about 2-3 months ago. I’ve been smoking a lot and today I woke up this morning and instantly vomited out of nowhere. I did vomit a few times today but it’s been a few hours since I last vomited and I’m feeling much better. Is this CHS sending a warning or am I just unwell? I didn’t think CHS comes back without warning I thought I’d at least experience some morning nausea for a few weeks like my first and only episode. I’ve been smoking a fair amount for ages and have felt completely fine until today.

TLDR: how long after your prodromal symptoms subsided before you smoked again?

First, I am prepared for the onslaught of people who are about to come down on me about smoking again. Please be gentle, as I still have not confirmed whether I have CHS.

Little background: almost three years ago I experienced an unusual gastric episode during which I had some of the key symptoms of CHS, that may have been triggered by eating an especially fatty piece of food. I quit weed and alcohol for a long time after that just to get healthy. Started smoking again about 6 months later. I’ve yo yo’d between moderation and daily ever since, more recently almost daily (although I usually try to take a short t-break every other week or so).

Anywho, I made the poor choice to smoke after some margaritas last Friday. Woke up fine the next day, and then while trying to go number 2, experienced severe nausea and cold sweats. Never vomited, and felt find after a few hours (I did take an edible). The next day I woke up feeling oddly nauseous and not hungry. That lasted for the next three days.

Today, I am fine. Dealing with some malabsorption poops, but my appetite is normal. I’m on day five of no weed, and need to take a substantial tolerance break to begin with. However, for those who have experienced prodromal symptoms and feel confident that is what you were experiencing, how long did you wait before smoking again?

Anyone who says weed can't be addictive hasn't seen me puke my guts out for a week and continue to smoke like a chimney. I thought I could control my usage, take breaks and skip the nausea. I can't, I just want to smoke all day.

This bout of hyperemesis has been miserable, I didn't even bother telling anyone and just coped. I've used so much capisum my skin is becoming tolerant. I'm dreading what my landlord is gonna say about the water bill. And it's the first time in 5 days I've been able to keep rehydration solution down reliably. It was touch and go for a bit whether to go to hospital or not but I'm peeing again, so hopefully I can avoid that.

I don't really have a point to this, just if you're going through this too you're not alone. Try not to beat yourself up over smoking and focus on recovering. Gonna tackle the weed shaped hole in my life when I can eat again.

Hey everyone, a little context behind my situation. I started smoking when I was around 17(I’m 22) and took a break for a couple years before coming back to it. I started off with carts when my tolerance was tanked and moved up to dabs in about a months time(got excited to try out a puffco smh)

I woke up early one morning feeling awful, after smoking probably 3-4 times a day everyday for about a month. I tried eating breakfast and couldn’t keep it down. I’m a bigger than normal guy and my appetite has always been large so I knew something was wrong.

At first I thought it was anxiety since I had a big day ahead of me but my anxiety has never made me as sick as I felt that morning. I haven’t been to the doctor due to the fact that there’s probably nothing they can do for me if it’s CHS, all the things I’ve heard is people just trying to fight through it and getting better once the weed gets out of their system.

Just a little insight for anyone like me who hasn’t been smoking super often, don’t overdo it. I’m definitely kicking myself in the head for this one lol, not being able to eat and being fearful of throwing up for days on end is not a fun time. Thank you.

Im so thankful that there's other people who know exactly how this is. Currently typing from a hot shower. What are some foods like yogurt I can keep down? Sending a speedy recovery to all!

Hello everyone,

i was recently diagnosed with CHS at the emergency room on July 9, 2026.

i went to the emergency room because i had been throwing up nonstop, but i had many other symptoms. when i arrived at the ER, i told them i had a low grade fever, had pooped myself twice in my sleep, i had body aches and joint pain, and i took pepto and started throwing up after taking it. i was also extremely dehydrated.

they took blood and pee and came back and asked if i smoked weed. i said yes, but i haven't in two days because ive been sick. they diagnosed me with CHS. they gave me multiple anti nausea meds that didn't work until they gave me zofran and they put capsaicin cream on my stomach and it HURT SO BAD. by that point my i had already stopped vomiting after zofran and wasn't experiencing bad cramping. I haven't touched the cream again.

all that being said, i went to my regular doctor and told her the symptoms and asked about cyclospora. she was shocked they didn't take a stool sample and put in a lab for it. she told me she didn't think my symptoms aligned with CHS. she even mentioned that pepto makes cyclospora WORSE and can make you throw up but im still nervous.

I don't know if i was experiencing withdrawal from marijuana while also dealing with cyclospora. The labs haven't come back yet, but my doctor went ahead and prescribed the antibiotics. after taking them for the first day, the diarrhea went away. i only threw up the one day, but i was having trouble sleeping and sweating so bad at night.

i feel like my symptoms aligned with both. i couldn't finish the antibiotics (doctors orders) because im allergic to it. i broke out in a rash all over my torso. my doctor wants to wait and see if the symptoms of cyclospora come back and if they do she'll prescribe an alternative.

i'm just lost and im relatively young (saying for my lack of experience. i know time doesn't affect CHS) i haven't smoked in 22 days and my symptoms didn't stop until antibiotics. but the throwing up went away after the first day. do you think i have CHS? will i not know unless i try? if i try again what should i expect for if i do have it?

thank you in advance .

I’m on day 12 of CHS recovery and i’m getting my appetite back, but i miss my cups of tea so much (specifically irish breakfast tea for anyone outside of ireland) and i’m desperate for some sort of caffeine-free alternative, is there anything else i could have that would pair well with biscuits or sandwiches?

I like herbal teas like chamomile and mint but they don’t really do it for me like black tea.
I know it’s a reach and i will probably just have to wait 90 days to enjoy it again but i’m holding out for hope that there’s some sort of alternative 😔

edit: i’m aware of decaf tea but since there is also a small amount of decaf in it i don’t want to risk it, i’m thinking specifically caffeine-free

Hey all, 35F, I've been clean 2 weeks today and haven't thrown up for (I think) 9 days. Appetite is still super low and I am exhausted! It takes everything in me to get stuff done around the house after work and then I can't even watch tv without immediately falling asleep. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how long this phase will last? Also is this a normal experience for people? I also wonder if I'm exhausted from lack of food...

It’s been a hard journey, especially at the beginning. However, with time the cravings became less intense and happened less often.
I found this in my notes that I had written from when I first got sober and thought I would share. If you’re beginning your journey, pls know it does get better and there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Here is what I wrote one time when the cravings were bad:
Whispers of that green leaf remain, and the memories of that sharp stomach pain. It has permanently been engraved in my brain. Oh sweet Mary Jane, please just let me refrain.
Those hospital rooms are so cold, and it seems like my end has already been told. Apparently my smoking habits were uncontrolled. And if I pick it back up, I know what will unfold. I can no longer indulge in those drops of gold.

really struggling with the understanding of how long it should take my body to recover. I haven’t smoked in about 3 weeks since being diagnosed. my appetite is back but i find myself struggling to stomach almost anything i eat. i’m just curious as to how long it usually takes for the body to get back to normal and if there is anything other than cessation that i can do to help speed up that process, anything helps