u/PleasantSalad7390

Hi, i have suffered fron CHS for about 3 years now. I got diagnosed on behalf that I smoked approx. 1 joint a day to sleep. Further tests and whatsoever were never made because og stigmatisation involving cannabis in my country. I used to be sick every month for about 7-9 days and was frequently emitted to the ER because of dehydration. For 3 years I was sick every month- now I have moved to another appartment and even though I haven’t changed my smoking pattern or any other things concerning my health, I haven’t been sick with CHS (or symptoms) since moving which was about 4 months ago now. I felt like an episode coming on right before moving but the symptoms disappeared as soon as I moved. The apartment i lived in before was a minor health hazard due to possible Black mold and penetrating damp** **in the Walls. I also had a problem with my landlord who frequently came by unannounced, texted and called at any hours of the day and honestly gave me a lot of stress and made me paranoid of being watched. Now that I have been without an episode for so long and that pattern of monthly sickness is more and more far away I sit and feel that I might have been misdiagnosed and that the problem wasn’t the cannabis but other factors in my life. Has anybody heard of something similar or out of the blue been cured for CHS without making a difference in your smoking habits.

Prequel:
I’ve been smoking everyday for about 5 years now, started when I was 18 and noticed it helped me sleep at night which I’ve had problems with since I was a child. I smoked 3-4 joints a day with 0,3 grams of hash in each. Got my first chs attack when I was 20 so 2 years into smoking. It started with a terrible stomach pain that got me admitted via ambulance to the ER only to let me go after about 2 hours of obsevation and no concerning test results on bloodwork and so on. Got admitted again only two days later cause I couldn’t stop throwing up and eat or drink anything. The doctors couldn’t help me at all and I had to ride the sickness out which took about 5 days. Fast forward 3 months and I moved back home to my parents due to apartment complications for at short time. I stopped smoking completely but got sick again after a night out drinking. I was sick for about 7 days and got admitted to the ER again where some doctor suspected it was CHS due to my earlier smoking patterns. I didn’t get sick for another 6 months. When I moved back out from my parents I got sick almost instantly. I smoked a bit at home at night sometimes when I couldn’t sleep but never during the day or more than maybe 0,1-0,2 grams of hash. I started getting sick almost every other month with episodes that lasted for 5-9 days. It was hell and as an already small girl took a toll on my health and eating habits. (Sidebar- almost every CHS attack I had came a day after drinking alcohol)
Now to my question;
I’ve relocated to a place where it isn’t so safe to smoke at day without neighbours and others intervening or calling police so I’ve gone down to only smoke at night, I share a joint with my bf which contains about 0,3 g of hash so on average I smoke 0,15 daily now. I haven’t had any episodes for a couple of months now but fear the next one (and fear I may psych myself into it) I’ve tried several t breaks which only last about a week before I start again. I don’t need to be high or anything during the day but I can’t let go of my nightly spliff, it’s a part of my rutine by now and helps me so much with anxiety and racing thoughts during the night. Does anybody have experience with CHS that smoking less and taking more t breaks actually does free you from the CHS attacks or is the only cure to stop completely and never touch it again, not even just a little puff every 6 months? Weed doesn’t control me and I don’t need it to function during the day, but I still hope that I don’t have to completely give up smoking as I see the benefits quite clearly on my everyday-health.