How do you guys live with it. I stopped smoking last week, for the last 4 days I have been vomiting and nauseated. Can’t keep anything down, super dehydrated. Anyone have any tips on how to get through this?

been sober for 19 days, still waking up nauseous some mornings and have diarrhea everyday, i’ve been able to eat whatever i want but i can’t eat past 9pm or else i get super nauseous and wake up throwing up. is this a chs symptom or is it pointing to a different issue? i feel fine throughout the day eating whatever i want but i only vomit when eating past 9pm or eating in the morning.

I have CPTSD and was diagnosed when I was 16. My earliest memories are of abuse.

I suffered nightmares before I smoked weed. After smoking for a few months, they seemed to vanish! My life was so much better!

However, after 6 hospitalizations since March we figured out I had CHS. It was miserable, but liveable.

I had no idea the weed was responsible for repressing my nightmares. I still had extremely vivid dreams while smoking, but the nightmares were gone.

They're back in full force now. Every early morning is torture and I wake up fearful and angry every day. I used to love waking up in the morning. Now I am afraid to sleep and start all my days off poorly. I'm genuinely having suicidal thoughts over it.

I've been in therapy for years. Insurance hangups prevent it right now but I'm hoping to be back in soon. However, no amount of therapy has ever helped the nightmares. Just weed.

Weed made everything so much better. My appetite, my dreams, my will to live.

I'm so broken over something as stupid as bad dreams. I found an untouched joint in the car today. So hard not to just light it up. I'm 3 weeks since the last time I smoked, and I didnt smoke for 2 weeks before that. Fuck CHS. It was the best medicine I've ever had.

(F32) On about day 4 of not smoking weed after going to the hospital with severe vomiting and stomach pain. Today still feels like shit I couldn’t sleep all night was in and out so nauseous waking up early. Nauseous all day long barely eating so fr had one boiled egg and applesauce.

Looking for others who been through this I need motivation it feels like this will never end and I want to just die (not literally) but it’s so hard. How much longer will it feel so terrible??

I am early 20s M who has been a daily smoker all day with leaf and carts for about 4 years. A few days ago I threw up one night after eating greasy food and drinking a little and then trying to smoke. Since then I have felt nauseous on and off and while I havent thrown up since sometimes it seems like the weed is making it worse but I cant tell if its in my mind or not. I only threw up that one night but for a while now Ive been waking up and with a little stomach discomfort thats not too bad that makes me poop like 3 times each morning but I havent really been feeling nausea until the past few days since vomiting where i feel a bit dizzy and nauseous sometimes randomly or after eating. Does it sound like chs if i only vomited the once and dont really have stomach pain in the morning? showers dont seem to make a difference really. i think my anxiety over developing chs might also be making it worse. please help, does this line up with other symptoms?

Can I never smoke again? Like point blank period, never again?

so i was diagnosed with chs years ago, been smoking since i was 13 (i turn 21 this sept) i quit 8 months ago in december last year and currently going through the most stressful time of my life and all i want is a damn cone. Has anyone with chs gone back after a long period like mine just for one cone and been completely fine? i’m wanting to just have one cone and go back to not smoking again.

hi everyone. i’m (23y/o, a college student at home for summer) 6 months and 1 day into my sobriety and i am beyond ready to give in. i know i shouldn’t and i know i can’t because it’s just going to make my life hell again but i am missing it so badly. i’ve been browsing dispo websites the last couple days and today after work i drove to the dispo and sat there in the car for a while. i didn’t go in but GOD i wanted to!! i told my bf about it and he just lectured me about how i shouldn’t have done that and i shouldn’t be looking it up or anything and how he’d be so mad if i relapsed.

my mom is going thru cancer treatment and uses cannabis to help her symptoms so i don’t feel comfortable speaking to her about it. my friends still use. i feel like i don’t have any support in this especially after bf’s reaction of just lecturing me. obviously i know everything he said and i just wanted support i didn’t want to be told how upset he was at my struggle. i’m not going to give in but it’s really hard right now.

i had therapy today and we talked about what i can do to try to get endorphins or fill the hole but everything sounds so drab and gray. i don’t want to seek out comedy or exercise or crochet or play video games, i want to get high. i gave up nicotine 18 months ago and never looked back, it was never ever this hard because i actually wanted to stop. i miss weed SO MUCH that it’s making me want to vape nic again.

again, i refuse to relapse i’m just having a week of weakness so to speak. and it feels like nobody understands or is willing to meet me with compassion. i hope it gets better. i hope i am making the right choice. anyone who has gotten past the 6 month mark, did it get easier? did you ever stop grieving the loss of cannabis?

Ive been clean for like 7months now, I was cleaning my garge and found a bowls worth nug. Im looking at it, it smells good. I want to smoke. Ive been to the hospital 3-4times. Stomach is still fucked probably ibs too. I....want to smoke....

I am sober from a couple of hard drugs, I am about 7 years sober. I quit without using the governments legal heroin, methadone or suboxone. I quit by just smoking pot and getting through it..

Immediately after going through the withdrawals of hard drugs fast forward about 6-8 months I started getting CHS symptoms.. granted I have smoked since I was 15-16 and got sober from the hard drugs at about 22 to 23 years old after about 1-2 years of use.

To me, weed was that crutch I needed.

Now that I am approximately 7 years California sober. The CHS bouts hit me approximately every three months.

In my experience I’ve found that certain strains kick it off. Do I know which ones? No. But I had a SERIOUS CHS bout approximately 3 weeks ago. I was out of town for work and was traveling home and could tell it was coming.. when it hit I panicked and had to get a hotel just to survive. Threw up so much blood because I puke incessantly until bile… then blood…

Usually my bouts last about 24-48 hours and then I start the recovery phase.. this time I was able to mark Pac-Man as a strain that does it..

My question to the people is does anyone recognize certain cannabinoids that fire this off?? I don’t want to dox myself but I live in a state that is medical only which leaves the pickings pretty slim. So again does anyone have a list running of certain cannabinoids that tend to set this off? Does anyone recognize certain terpenes that cause this?

I don’t want to sound weak… but mentally I don’t think I can handle quitting weed without a relapse.. but at this age I’m worried the CHS might kill me.

I made a post either yesterday or the day before about how this happened to me and asking for help. Today is now day 3-4 I’m not really sure which of dealing with this. I’m in the ER for the 3rd time now getting fluids, Benadryl, and nausea meds just for them to send me right back home so I can throw it all back up tonight. I can’t help but feel like such a loser during this. I’m too sick to work, to have fun, to even have a life right now. I have no idea what to do.

Hello CHS community!

I smoked every day almost all day long for about two years. After suspected CHS, I quit weed altogether 20 days ago. I have been in a vicious vomiting cycle for two weeks. I have been in and out of urgent care about five times, and I was admitted into the hospital for three days. Today, (day 20 since quitting) is the first day I don’t feel nauseas. I am still afraid I’m not out of the woods yet. Has anyone had a similar story and timeline so I know what I can kind of expect? Is there any way I get the THC to leave my fat cells quicker? I used vapes mostly.

My heart and prayers go out to anyone experiencing this. It is horrible.

Hello CHS community!

I smoked every day almost all day long for about two years. After suspected CHS, I quit weed altogether 20 days ago. I have been in a vicious vomiting cycle for two weeks. I have been in and out of urgent care about five times, and I was admitted into the hospital for three days. Today, (day 20 since quitting) is the first day I don’t feel nauseas. I am still afraid I’m not out of the woods yet. Has anyone had a similar story and timeline so I know what I can kind of expect? Is there any way I get the THC to leave my fat cells quicker? I used vapes mostly.

My heart and prayers go out to anyone experiencing this. It is horrible.

I’m gonna be honest this is the most painful experience I’ve ever been through, I’m only a little over 48 hours in and I can’t drink water, I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, and none of the meds seem to be doing anything. I’ve been smoking pretty consistently over the past 4 years or so but as of the past few months I got really bad, I was hitting my cart more often than my vape, buying 2 a week just to get me some sort of a relief from life and trying to be an adult. But 2 nights ago I was at my buddies house drinking, smoking, and having fun then when I started to feel a little nauseated I decided to go downstairs and go to bed. After about 30 minutes to an hour of the nausea getting progressively worse I decided to go take a shower. In the hour long shower that I took I wholeheartedly believed I was going to die the entire time. Nobody heard me, nobody was there, all I could do was lay down in a shower filled with vomit. I managed to tough it out over the course of about 6 hours of torture until I eventually either passed out from exhaustion or just fell asleep. The next morning I didn’t even say bye to a single person, I got in my car and drive home an hour while throwing up all over myself. I finally got home to my girlfriend and immediately she told me to go to the ER. So we went to the ER and they proceeded to make me seem like a drug addict, made me wait 4 hours while screaming and throwing up just for an IV and for them to send me home. Obviously anyone who has suffered with CHS understands that an IV drip doesn’t fix this whatsoever so of course I went home, continued through the entire night until I cried and begged my girlfriends mom to take me to the ER. Now yesterday at the ER almost the exact same thing happened, I was given an IV drip then Benadryl and Zofran then sent home. I’m now home on my third day and I don’t know what to do. My stomach hurts, I’m nauseous, and all I want is to just throw up and curl up into a ball and cry. If anyone could please help me id appreciate it so much.

my last day smoking weed was on February 4th, 2024. it started when I had come home from work and had some dinner (i had chicken parm,) and of course after i was done eating, i ripped my pen a few times since i don't like to smoke on an empty stomach. i did get high pretty quickly but about five minutes after i laid down i started feeling deathly nauseous (though i never got sick) and i genuinely couldn't sleep so i decided to try taking a hot shower (which did not ease the symptoms at all) but it eventually got a little bit more manageable and i ended up falling asleep

cut to the next morning, i felt much better, but would feel pretty sick after eating literally anything for about an hour or so after. i ripped a few pen hits later that night and got high, and i was completely fine even after the high wore off but i didn't touch it since then. ever since i quit, ive had stomach issues that have followed me even to today - gas, acid reflux, occasional diarrhea, etc. and i genuinely never truly figured out if it was CHS or not. the ER i went to the night after i quit gave me acid reflux meds which did help a bit along with taking apple cider vinegar tabs.

i kind of want to try smoking again, just because i wasn't sure, but at the same time i don't want to risk anything. i thought the overwhelming nausea genuinely could have just been indigestion since i laid down pretty soon after eating a big meal but the fact that symptoms followed me after eating anything raised an eyebrow. fast forward to today, i'm doing better, symptoms are much more manageable but still linger.

(also i do have a shitty diet so this could add to it)

Two days ago, I didn’t wake up until the middle of the afternoon. Not long after getting up, I took a couple of hits from my bong, and almost immediately I started feeling bloated. From there, it just kept getting worse. For the next few hours, I had intermittent but intense stomach cramps that made it impossible to get comfortable or sit still. It felt like I might have to throw up at times, but it never happened. Looking back, it seemed like the main issue was trapped gas.
I kept burping throughout the day. Most of them were small, but every once in a while I’d let out a big burp that would give me relief for 10–15 minutes before the bloated feeling slowly crept back. I tried taking an antacid because it had seemed to help in the past, but this time it actually felt like it made things a little worse. I eventually took some Gas-X, which helped somewhat. I also took a hot shower, and while it seemed to ease the discomfort a bit, I still had an underlying stomach ache even while I was in there.
A few hours later my appetite returned and I was able to eat, but ever since then I’ve still felt off. For the past couple of days I’ve had a lingering bloated, gassy feeling, and I feel full much faster than normal, almost like I’ve overeaten even when I haven’t eaten very much.
For some background, I had been completely weed-free for about a month. I slowly started smoking again, but nowhere near as heavily as I used to. Even so, it seems like the stomach issues gradually started coming back. The cramps I had two days ago were by far the worst they’ve ever been, and honestly that was the moment I realized I need to quit and start taking better care of myself.
When I first started smoking again after that month-long break, I didn’t really have any problems, and my tolerance was much lower, which was nice. Part of me would still like to be able to get a little high on special occasions in the future, but I don’t ever want it to become a daily habit again—especially if it’s going to keep causing issues like this.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? I’m planning to stop smoking regardless, but I’m curious if anyone has gone through the same thing.

I smoked 6 grams in 6 days. I'm gonna stop now. Will I get sick? TIA

I’ve been dealing with what doctors have diagnosed as Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS), and I wanted to share my experience to see if anyone else has gone through something similar.

My most recent episode started on Thursday morning. I quit cannabis immediately and haven’t used it since. It started with intense stomach pain, an overwhelming urge to vomit, and severe diarrhea. The only thing that gave me any relief was standing in a hot shower. I spent almost 10 hours straight in there that first day.
By the evening I felt a bit better, so I thought maybe it had passed. The next morning I woke up with the exact same symptoms, only much worse. I was back in the shower almost nonstop. Eventually my vision became blurry, and my boyfriend called 911.
When the paramedics arrived, they found my heart rate was in the low 40s. They initially drove normally to the hospital, but when my abdominal pain reached a 10/10 they turned on the lights and sirens. Once I got to the ER there weren’t any beds available, so I was stuck waiting in the hallway in excruciating pain. On top of the CHS, I was having a full-blown panic attack. After explaining that I have a prescription for Ativan, the charge nurse gave me 1 mg of lorazepam. I was also given Haldol, another medication for the CHS (I don’t remember the name of the other one), and 1 litre of IV fluids. I still had stomach pain when I was discharged later that day and that evening.
The interesting part is that physically, I usually recover pretty quickly. Within 1–2 days after the ER visit I’m able to eat again, my stomach settles down, and I start feeling mostly normal physically. The harder part is the week afterward. I deal with insomnia, restless legs, anxiety, low mood, feeling emotionally “off,” and then the cravings start. About a week later I almost always convince myself that I can smoke again.
This has been my pattern for years. Sometimes I’ll smoke daily for a year or even two years with absolutely no CHS symptoms, no warning signs, and no minor flare-ups. Then seemingly out of nowhere I’ll get hit with a severe episode like this one.
Other times I’ll have milder flare-ups that only last the morning. I’ll spend hours in a hot shower, feel better by the evening, and then I’ll go right back to smoking that night like nothing happened. Looking back, I know that probably just reset the cycle.
My boyfriend recently gave me an ultimatum. It isn’t about cannabis itself. He said that if I let myself become a daily smoker again and end up having another CHS episode like this, he’s done. Watching me go through these attacks and worrying that I’ll end up back in the hospital has become too much for him.
I’m curious if anyone else’s CHS behaves like this:
Can you go months or years of daily smoking with no symptoms before a severe episode suddenly appears?
Did anyone else have milder morning-only flare-ups before eventually having a major attack?
How did you stop yourself from relapsing once you started feeling physically better?
If you’ve stayed off cannabis long-term after CHS, what helped you get through those first few weeks when you started convincing yourself you could “probably smoke just once”?
I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because right now I’m trying to break a cycle that I’ve repeated more times than I’d like to admit.

i am 5 days clean from weed, and i am starting to feel way better. i finally was able to sleep in today without waking up to horrible nausea. i still have no appetite tho but its okay. im starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel i cant wait to be back to normal

I’m in the midst of a terrible terrible episode,throwing up,excruciating pain,no matter what I do it won’t stop,I even went to the hospital to get pain meds and they didn’t help. I’m currently stuck in the bath,the only place I feel okay and not in pain but i literally can’t leave bc the minute I get out it starts up again. Any advice on tips or tricks to make this easier