I almost lost my life
I'm writing this for people to know that this can end up killing you. I'm 24 years old , I've had bad epilepsy since I was 13 and started smoking heavily when I was 15 , I ended up developing CHS when I was 17 and diagnosed when I was 18 but refused to stop. Constant episodes through the years that just got worse and worse. These episodes were so violent it would trigger my seizures and I was constantly being hospitalized yet I still wouldn't stop smoking and the episodes continuously got more violent and lasted weeks at a time. When I turned 21 , I started buying high potency cannabis from the dispensary for a few months and ended up going into an episode so bad I constantly had my fingers in my throat , chugging down water and sticking my fingers back in my throat to have something to throw up over and over. on the 2nd week I had 6 grand mal seizures in a row from all the stress on my body and dehydration. I was hospitalized and didn't know I had tore my esophagus from shoving my fingers in my throat for hours on a daily basis :/ my 3rd day in the hospital I went into septic shock and was immediately rushed to the ICU. My organs started to fail and I was in the ICU for a month. Mind you I was still going through the pain of CHS and now sepsis. The pain was so severe I was being administered fentanyl and the doctors were trying their hardest to support my failing organs. I was released a month later and I think about this very often since it has happened especially when I see anything related to cannabis because my chance of dying at that moment in my life outweighed my chance of survival. I look back at a picture of myself in the ICU every time I even get a thought about smoking again.To any of you who made it to the end of this , especially those struggling to stay sober. Please quit now and try your hardest to appreciate life while sober because getting high isn't worth risking your life.