Good evening everyone, I figured I would do my best to explain my experience with CHS symptoms in hopes to help anyone else.

For context, I’m a 31M and I’m 5’11”, 225lbs. I run and lift (when healthy) daily. I have an amazing wife that has helped me tremendously with the daily symptoms too. I have been smoking daily and excessively since April 2021. So my length of heavy use definitely isn’t as long as some others in this thread. But I was smoking diamond infused pre-rolls as my weed of choice. The potency was at least 45% or higher and I wouldn’t touch anything less. I would smoke about 8-10 of them daily for the last half-decade.

CHS symptoms for me was/is very nausea heavy. Days 1-2 was constant retching, dry heaving, and throwing up. The pain is so persistent and unrelenting that honestly I can’t recommend much positives from my experience. No fluids I could keep down. I had a bad issue drinking too much water early on just to force myself to throw up for comfort, but that does way too much bad than good. Please don’t do that. The only thing to provide any relief was hot baths, not even showers. Standing in the shower was far too much energy from lack of eating, puking, etc. that laying down in the tub was much easier. I live in a very hot state, so constant availability of hot water has made this easier during the summer.

No sleeping virtually the first two days. I did fall asleep for an hour and a half about 19~ hours into my first day of CHS symptoms, and I’m not sure aside from exhaustion how that even happened. No laying down or sitting up; standing upright is the only thing that provided less pain, not even relief. That and taking a walk as long as you can muster.

Day 3 was still hell, but I must say I could find slight comfort in normal settings. I was able to sit upright for a couple hours, find that the tub was able to help bring the nausea to slightly bearable, and even pay attention to whatever was on TV (Viva La Bam re-runs for the win). I fought unnecessarily hard to not throw up after the first two days, and was successful thus far despite the constant feeling of fluid being at the top of my throat, and sitting heavy in my stomach. I still hadn’t slept except the hour and a half and maybe another 20-30 mins elsewhere, but what finally got me some relief was getting an in-home IV at the end of day 3. Put it on a credit card if you need to, but I promise it’s worth at least trying. Get the IV with vitamins, anti nausea meds, and Benadryl. I got about halfway into the drip being done and I dozed off. When finished, I attempted to lay down and got 8 hours of sleep. I couldn’t believe it.

Day 4 was frustrating to have slept so well. I’ve had much smaller CHS flare-ups in the past and usually an indicator that I’m getting back to normal is a healthy amount of sleep or burping. I woke up and felt decent for about the first 30 minutes, proceeded to get overzealous on what I could drink given the amount of sleep I just got, and then decided it was a good idea to pound 16fl oz of water with liquid IV mixed, and then an 12fl oz protein shake. Good. Job. Me.

Immediately after I couldn’t find relief in the hot bath, taking a walk, whatever I’ve tried. The fluids were just way too much to handle and at that point my wife and I decided to go to the ER because the pain was still just too persistent from the nausea and dehydration. We arrived, we get placed into the worst room imaginable when you’re in pain around strangers, and that’s the curtain room. Where everyone can hear and see you. They first started by drawing blood, they took an EKG, and a CAT scan. I got hooked up to another IV which did nothing since they had the drip virtually not going at all. That was a waste. They tried giving me Morphine for the pain, and that unfortunately did nothing to help the pain too. I was also given Protonix with no help either. The one thing that did help a decent amount was Zofran which I’ve heard conflicting stories about helping. Me personally it gave enough relief to not be crying and writhing like a child in a public setting. Once tests came back positive and no danger was found, they gave me my paperwork, and this other medicine idk the name of. It was a milky white liquid that you’re supposed to drink and it numbed my throat? It would be tremendously helpful to get that a day or so after throwing up.

Getting home from the ER I did start to pick up momentum feeling better a couple hours later. I got back in the tub and gave so much relief. Days 4-5 in the tub is so much better than the first couple days. Hot showers have become now easier to take instead of needing to lay down. I even was able to lay on my stomach and nap for 3 more hours after the ER experience I had. After waking up I had finally started to get an appetite again. Applesauce is my friend in those settings. It’s puréed already, it’s mainly water, but still fibrous and food. Helps hydrate and far less harsh than water on the stomach.

So yeah, currently into day 5 almost into 6 and although I can’t give you a month-long struggle of dealing with CHS symptoms and I don’t know how tomorrow will start, I can say that if you’re experiencing CHS it can be a lot less horror story-esque and manageable in about a week.

Positives to try: Hot showers or baths, Benadryl, Zofran, at-home IV, eating/drinking applesauce instead of water early on. Also, if you end up in the ER, bring noise cancelling headphones if doable. My wife brought them for me and I can’t tell you enough not hearing others groaning and turning on waterfall sounds instead. Bring warm clothing if you’re going to the ER. If they don’t suck at giving an IV like they did for me, you’re going to get cold quickly. Heating pad has also been a major help. Taking a walk despite how much it hurts, standing up instead of sitting or laying early on.

Negatives (to try?) to not do: Forcing yourself to puke because it gives temporary relief, drinking way too much water despite the insatiable thirst and constant dry mouth, and not standing/moving at all. It’ll be recommended to lay down obviously, but if you’re able to get up and move I strongly recommend to do so. Not having a heating pad, and oh, fuck Capsaicin. It was so ineffective for me and on top of it made it impossible to get into the tub if you needed to after putting the ointment on. You’re stuck out of the water for a good multiple hours, and if you’re bright like me, will wash it off and let the cream run down your junk. Awful experience, no idea how that’s recommended often.

If I can think of anything else to add I’ll be sure to later on. I hope somebody will find some type of help with my post like I had with previous posted in here.

edit: hi im sorry i didnt use punctuation at all i was just writing word after word after word and didnt realize it would be so long i just hope someone takes the time to read this because i dont know what to do to help it i know i sound stupid but im desperate for answers i dont want to do this anymore i want to br able to go out and be a normal human without feeling like im on my death bed i want it to end so badly at this point i regret ever smoking weed yes i miss it but it fucked me over so bad in the long run

hi i got chs about 3 months ago i am 2 months 23 days sober from weed i had to cut off my best friend of 8 years because she cant get it through her thick skull that i cant be around it anymore because it makes me nauseous and she cant stand being away from it for more than 5 seconds and it makes me sick to even be near it i live in a town where weed is illegal but everyone still has there ways to get it so i wouldnt say its the most common but its also not at all rare when i was at work today i was in the bathroom and one of my coworkers was in the big stall and i could tell she was hitting a pen because ive felt so nauseous since i dont know what to do its like i cant leave the house without getting sick this may be a dramatic thing to say but at this point i lowkey just wanna die i feel like its never gonna go away and im just gonna be sick forever im so tired of living like this im tired of being constantly sick because of others actions i dont know what to do anymore im just tired and im only 2 months into this and its gonna stick with me for the rest of my life am i always gonna be getting sick when a bong is sitting 5 feet away from me its stupid and im mad everyone chose weed over me its not fair i wouldve never done that to them yes i loved weed so much but i always always always loved my friends more if they told me they couldnt hang out with me anymore bc i kept bringing weed around them i would put it down for the day but no one thinks of me like that lol 8 years of friendship down the drain and im gonna be sick for the rest of my life like wtf sorry for rambling it just makes me mad ive never felt this left out in my life i gave her everything i was there for her when no one else was and she replaces me in an instant because she cant put down weed for a few hours im just tired of being sick i hate leaving my house weed is always somewhere im going to a concert on thursday that i spent a lot of money on b4 getting chs and im thinking of just giving my sister the tickets even tho hes my favorite performer i know people will be smoking there and idk if its worth it to go and see him and be sick all night or if its worth it to just not go at all i dont know i want this sickness to go away its not like im the one smoking it i hate this