r/CHSinfo

i was diagnosed last year. i struggled, but i quit and swore i’d never smoke again because of how truly horrific it was. i recently got my hands on half an oz and dogged the whole shit in under two weeks.

chs came back to fuck me in the ass.

i knew it’d happen but i didn’t care in the moment(s). im so sick and disappointed in myself that i just want to be taken out back and have my shit blown smoove off.

i’d love it if anyone shared what helps them stay sober.

He y’all - I’m day 2 into an episode. I’m only really nauseous and vomiting at night so I don’t feel like I’m dehydrated or need to go to the ER.

But man, the nausea is hell, the anxiety is making things worse, and I really just want to feel better.

I take zofran, eat ginger, drink lemon water, hot showers, heating bad, etc…. Everything you’ve seen people suggest, I have tried.

Really just looking for some positive words and someone willing to chat. Talking with someone usually helps me.

I genuinely think that they need to do another study on chs because with the growth of pens and people smoking 90% thc pens daily, chs is absolutely rising. It was rare because everyone was smoking at most 50% and only plant. I have developed chs just from smoking pens since December. I am so fucking lucky I caught it early but I still ended up in the er 3 times since December because of it. Please please please do not use pens daily. You WILL develop chs eventually if you don't stop. With weed becoming legal, chs will become extremely common especially with literal teenage kids trying to hide the fact they smoke by using pens. Smoking pens will make you develop chs in months while plant users often take years for it to develop. I HATE PENS

i feel very stupid for even asking lol so please be nice, but ive googled and googled and still can't tell and i need to know how to proceed. figured id at least try here. i do NOT use reddit, so if smth is formatted wrong etc. i apologize

i take gummies, have been since i was probably 19/20 (i'm 24, 25 in nov) and over the last couple of years i've started doing it almost nightly to help sleep + anxiety

i ran out the other day and couldn't get the ones i usually do bc they were out, and the ones i got instead are a much lower dose. i used them night before last and was fine yesterday, but when i woke up this morning after taking one last night i was nauseous and threw up/dry heaved for a good while, and even after i stopped i was low-level nauseous until i took a zofran to go to work. the zofran is still in my system, so i really don't know if im still nauseous or not, i'll have to wait and see for that. i can't figure out if ive finally bitten off too much and got chs or if its just normal withdrawals from lowering my dosage so much at once. i'm more than willing to quit if it's chs, but i do it for fun and if i dont HAVE to i'd like not to. i do plan on cutting down to only a few nights a week even it its not chs

like i said, i feel silly for asking bc its probably an obvious answer to people in here, but please be nice lol. if i need to answer any questions ill try to between rushes at work. TIA❤️

i’m not even sure if this is the right place to put this, but i recently had my first CHS attack (?). i’m relatively young, and only been smoking for about 2 years now, but they did imaging and that’s what they put together. now im forced into sobriety and it’s terrible. i feel like i have too much energy. if im not doing something i feel like im so bored i cant even take it. what do i do? what are your tips for getting thru this?

IVE been smoking on and off for about 4 years with this year being my longest binge with smoking everyday and pretty much every couple hours to stay high.(a year or more striaght.) anyways my first symptoms started Friday with severe morning nausea where I threw up 8-10 times in like 10-15 mins and felt instant relief after. 2 days later I wake up fine no nausea, I go to a hot pot, and the day after the hot pot i again woke up nasueas and threw up 4-6 times. The day after I woke up again woth morning nausea wirhout throwing up and it didn’t really subside much, until later in the day. Today it has gotten very slightly better IVE taken so many medications and they have helped only slightly. I haven’t smoked in 2 days as I don’t want to extend to the hypermesis stage if I am in the prodromal stage. If anyone can help id appreciate it thank u ( i js wanna smoke again)

I used carts heavily every day for around 3 months and my tolerance got really high to the point where I barely got high anymore. I stopped completely for about a month, then when I came back and smoked again I got really nauseous and threw up.

The next day I smoked again and was fine, but after that it became inconsistent. Now it feels like there’s around a 75% chance I’ll get nauseous and throw up (i feel like i only throw up whenever i inhale a lot or take too many puffs) whenever I use THC. Edibles can cause it too.

The weird part is I ONLY feel sick while I’m high. Once I throw up, I feel completely normal again. No abdominal pain, no lingering nausea, no next-day symptoms, no stomach issues while sober at all. I don’t get severe pain when throwing up either.

Does this sound like early CHS/Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, or more like greening out / developing a THC sensitivity after chronic cart use?

It gets me mad and sad. I always think to myself, why me? Why do I have to go thru this? CHS is so damn rare and I had to get it? I understand everything happens for a reason, but the only thing that somewhat helped me in many ways just got taken away from me like nothing. It gets me mad/sad because a lot of my mutuals and some family smoke weed and they are fine, that’s when I start thinking and just start questioning. It sucks because sometimes I would smoke weed to relieve stress and anxiety. (Yes I know there’s other ways to relieve that) but weed somewhat helped me. And then I got chs for the first time back in 2020. I’ve been in denial ever since. I would always try to make an excuse because I did not want to accept the fact that I had to quit smoking. Till this day I somewhat struggle. I’ve posted on this subreddit many times talking abt quitting and stuff but I always managed to smoke again and fuck myself up due to the consequences I know im gonna get from smoking weed. It really does suck. I started smoking weed at a very young age. I won’t lie I got addicted to it. I think I got addicted because when I first started, I was going thru shit and I was very vulnerable. I was sober but I started again around october/November of 2025 and as of right now im starting to get symptoms of CHS. I know in order for this shit to go away completely I know I gotta stop smoking. It sucks. I’ve been sober before so I know I can do it again but I just wanted to share this.

Hey all. I'm a wicked overweight person going through CHS. I've intermittent fasted before and when I'm not feeling well, can easily skip food. I make sure to take plenty of electrolytes.

For CHS specifically, does anyone know if forcing myself to eat will help me get through it quicker, or is the fasting okay since I really needed to lose weight anyway?

I read about the THC in the fat cells, but there's no way I can eat anywhere near what I was eating before right now, so I figure I may as well ride this no appetite train as long as I can to get closer to a healthy weight.

Disclaimer: The only path to the recovery phase is full cessation. Everything below is about managing an attack, not curing CHS.

Had an attack, got it under control in 2 days, and still played a multi-day mini golf tournament with my dad. Ask me anything.

For backstory, I have made 2 post aswell, I can't remember them completely, but please challenge any of my talking points.

Post about my personal experience from another attack

Why recovery can take a long time

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Edit: getting kinda late here. I need some sleep so I can poop tomorrow. I answered one, kinda, to show I'm serious. But remember not a doctor, just a stupid guy that will die on a hill of, it is possible to manage CHS while smoking and it's kinda insane to try and I wouldn't recommend it, so i hope you get something very good or important out of it. Peace out, for now. ✌️

Edit: back again, keep asking. I will be here the whole week.

24 female. i’ve been smoking for about the last 3 years. at first it was only before bed and then it turned into like an all day stoned every day type of ordeal. I hit thc-a pens that are legal in texas. from morning til night.

my last hit of weed was about 27 hours ago.

symptoms as of 2 days ago:
• vomiting twice
• constant general nausea
• waves of intense nausea that pair with a hot flash
• burping like crazy
• burping up food that i ate over 8 hours ago.
• indigestion
• pooping mucus only.
• feel the need to go but nothing happens.
• gas pains
• hot bath and shower helps only for a little bit though
• can’t fucking sleep

i took two benedryl last night and i was still waking up every 30 minutes genuinely.

i’ve been dealing w these symptoms on and off for at least a year. i thought it was acid reflux, or gerd, or ibs, or idfk.

i’m miserable.

Day 12 of this today been absolutely clean of any thc
been eating very lightly (bananas, toast or avacado with crackers) My question would be did anybody’s stomach issues worsen at times ? I had general stomach pain all thru this but specifically last night and today it felt pretty crazy. would it be because i’m not eating too much? or maybe dehydrated? I do work a labor job and specifically today sweated a lot and worked my body the most since this started. thanks guys

After 3 weeks of suspected CHS I payed for a private ultrasound which has revealed 2 cyst/tumors (unknown abscesses) one in my liver one in my gol bladder, will post photos of them later but am in shock currently after being messed around so much by doctors,
What next steps should I take.
Could both be affecting me?
Could the vomiting episode have caused this?

It’s been about 11 days since my episode started. I was vomiting a lot during this but I haven’t in a few days. I’ve been able to eat more; congee( rice porridge) cooked in broth, watermelon, turkey sandwiches, salmon nigiri, pasta in broth. Still drinking lots of apple juice and Gatorade here and there. But everytime I eat I instantly have to go to the bathroom. Always runny/loose yellow stool. I’ve gone so much it genuinely hurts and feels raw from all the wiping. How long will this last for 😭😭😭I’m supposed to go back to work tomorrow but now I’m worried I’ll just constantly be in the bathroom

i already have relapsed. after an episode that took me out the first 10 days of january, i started smoking again towards the middle/end of march despite previously swearing it off after an episode that nearly cost me everything (my job, my relationship, etc).

i’ve been “moderating” with 2-6 hits of a cart pen every day more often that not. ik that’s not “moderation” by a long shot but i used to smoke ≈ 40 times a day, going through 1.2 carts or so a week or 5 in a month. i’d smoke as soon as i woke up and then every 20-30 minutes after that to maintain my high throughout the day.

now i keep it to the evenings and only a few hits but i know it’s not safe. i know it’s only a matter of time and i’ve been lucky so far but that’s all it is, luck. this sucks so much, i loved having a 0 calorie coping mechanism. but nothing in my life can handle the destabilization of another episode. there’s no warning, there’s no way of knowing which hit will trigger an episode or not. i don’t want to risk it as much as i want to relapse.

Hello loves!!

I had my gallbladder out around this time last year. Maybe a month after that, I had what I was told when I went to the ER was CHS. Of course, I was a cocky shit and said “nah not possible! Not me!”

A year later and here I am, typing this from my mother’s bathtub. I got sent home early from work Friday, and I’ve thrown up 6 times since then, only bile.

Today I went to the IV bar in the town over and got some fluids and zofran, and I’m able to keep Gatorade down while in the bath. I’m basically just hanging out in here until it all subsides.

I’m so angry and frustrated with myself. All this could have been avoided if I’d just swallowed my pride and admitted that I wasn’t able to continue using. But no, no my body had to put the hard stop to it.

In a way I feel like the universe is looking out for me. I’m out of weed, and I just used my points at the dispo and emptied my account last time. I have no good excuse not to quit.

I’m done. This is ridiculous. But what a hard fucking lesson to learn, my guys.

Hi yall, I was diagnosed with CHS back in January. I was in denial, and continued smoking daily and wouldn’t you know it, it came back 6 days ago. Before January I was pounding edibles close to 100 mg per day and smoking once or twice a day for about 3-4 months leading up to that. Before those 3-4 months I maybe smoked once or twice a week and wasn’t dependent on weed at all. Once daily use happened I became dependent on it, especially to eat. After January, I just smoked, 10+ bowls a day when not working. I have been 6 days clean since my last episode, longest break from weed in over a year and first break from daily use. I am wondering if it is normal to have an absolutely horrible appetite while recovering. I mean in the past week, I’ve only been eating applesauce, maybe 10 crackers a day, I’ve had bowls of chicken noodle soup the past two days. I feel like I’ve definitely lost weight bc I’ve prolly only had 2000 cals in the past week. Can thc permanently damage appetite? And is this normal with CHS, I just want to make sure I’m not the only one who feels party anorexic from this syndrome.

It’s been a little over 65 days since I last smoked. I was a heavy cart/dispo user for 6 years. I have had 3 CHS episodes, two where I had to go to the ER. The first two episodes were triggered when I stopped smoking, but I returned back and symptoms went away. Those episodes lasted 2-3 days. This past time was the worst back in March and that’s when the doctor told me it could be CHS, which is why I quit and then felt better finally after like 3 weeks. It was the sickest I’ve ever been and I won’t ever risk it again if you guys say so, however my doctor did tell me to try again to see if I got sick from it to confirm diagnosis. I never want to be a daily user again and was curious if I could smoke a joint or a small bowl once a month or even once every two months, without triggering an episode. Am curious to hear about others experiences so please let me know what you think. I was also curious if just flower would be better since I only used carts and thought maybe that was the main thing that caused the CHS. Please share your story or opinions, thank you!

I’m definitely done smoking, happily even, because the pain and vomiting is so intense for me. I lost 20+ pounds in two weeks this time and I’m done. I’ve suffered through CHS 3 times and I’m embarrassed but proud of my growth.

One thing that has helped me stop vomiting every time was arguing with my mom. I wish I was joking.

Every time after I’ve gotten sick she victim blames me and I’m old enough to know not to feed into it but usually I’m so sick and exhausted we scream at each other like a novela and every time it stops the vomiting. I’m guessing it’s a shock to my nervous system because most of my therapy sessions have revolved around these types of arguments but I figured I’d share since I get so desperate to try anything. I would get the urge to scream at the top of my lungs in the shower but I figured it was the anxiety and my blood pressure being so high from the hot water but maybe it genuinely is a way to stop the cycle.

Another thing I want to mention is the fact that Promethazine/Phenergan irritates the hell out of my stomach, suppositories or ointment forms are MUCH BETTER! if you are able to try them instead I highly recommend them, after the CHS worked its course the second time I spiraled into cyclical vomiting because of the irritation in my stomach; this episode lasted 3 months. My last episode has only been 2 weeks because of this. Please see a gastroenterologist if you’re able to after the vomiting stops- she saved my life by prescribing me Omeprazole and ointment Phenergan. Also get your colonoscopies and heal your gut biome, this is so extremely important.

Another huge tip: WAIT 45 MINUTES-1 HOUR or even 2 HOURS in severe cases after throwing up before trying to drink again; your stomach HAS TO settle before you try introducing even water back. If your mouth is dry only swish water in your mouth then spit it out- do not swallow before your timer is done. And make sure your sips of water are very very spaced out. I would watch survivalist videos and anytime they finished their shelter, caught a fish, made a meal (different milestones that are far apart) I would take a sip. It also helped seeing someone else starve lol.

I don’t want to speak on the fact I’m choosing to quit smoking but if anyone has experienced something similar I’m… interested? Thanks and good luck to anyone struggling right now. Your body is much stronger than you think and you deserve the peace you’ll get one day. This isn’t forever and you’re doing amazing by waking up regardless, a huge part of CHS is the panic and fear- just remember it’s one of the symptoms and you are so much more than this. ✌🏽🫶🏽

Just got out the ER,
Doctors wouldn’t see me as wasn’t vomiting yet but can feel an attack coming, was sent to mental health team instead.

I’m starting to feel like this will never end, found out my cousin who has been diagnosed only smoked 1-2 times before her symptoms started as well as this it can take 90 days and potentially if “accidentally exposed” can take longer.

How will I ever know what’s going on?
I don’t want to be put on any hard core treatment as i hope it is CHS but am really concerned I’m not going to be able to get through this past 90 days if more attacks come,

Is there any other way to find out if it’s CHS or CVS
If I take a urine test and no THC is present is it CVS?