r/CHSinfo

Anyone know any good fruits best used to help recover and maybe bring the old stomach back to good health. Can literally be anything- lmk what’s worked for you !

I have been smoking once or twice a week and I was wondering if I do have CHS does it come back over time once the THC builds up in my system

Hi guys, I’ve been a daily smoker (vape pen, typically only in the evenings) for about 4 years. Before that, I was a heavy user of dry bud for another 4 years, but took a few 3-6 month periods of abstaining.

My symptoms started about three years ago, about two days into a vacation where I was NOT smoking. I felt absolutely AWFUL. My chest felt like it was on fire, making it incredibly painful to eat or drink, and I was vomiting up stomach bile multiple times an hour. Given that I was on vacation, I had to go to a random urgent care and was prescribed Zofran and Sucralfate for a suspected peptic ulcer. The meds helped a lot and my symptoms subsided.

About 7 months later, I went on a weekend trip to a place where weed isn’t legal, so I went 2 or 3 days without smoking and started vomiting stomach bile nonstop. My symptoms subsided when I got back home.

Since then, for the last 2 years, I’ve been experiencing the following:

-Low appetite and early satiety, causing weight loss

-Nausea and vomiting, but episodes typically only come every 3-4 months

-A few really bad episodes of acid reflux

My recent endoscopy showed nothing abnormal, which is the main reason I’m wondering if CHS could be the cause. A few other pieces of context:

-I’m a heavy drinker (working on it!) and at least a few of these nausea/vomiting episodes have happened the night after drinking too much, particularly because I’m a 95lb female

- I have a long history of anorexia nervosa and have been recovered for about four years

-I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and ADHD. When my symptoms are intense I’m prone to under eating

-I’m on a concoction of psychiatric medications and been testing out new meds and and dosages over the last three years

-I’ve had some success taking a protein pump inhibitor daily, so I’ll be restarting that

-I haven’t specifically noticed that hot showers help during vomiting episodes. Maybe that’s my ADHD? Lol. But hear a lot of people with CHS compulsively taking hot showers, and I don’t relate to that

I had a vomiting episode start 2-3 days ago, after a week of abstaining from alcohol and significantly cutting back my smoking (2-3 small hits of my pen per night). Once I felt the symptoms come on, I stopped smoking, and now on Day 3 I feel significantly better.

For those of you who have had CHS, does this sound like what you’ve experienced? Given my history of ED, anxiety, and heavy drinking, it’s difficult to figure out what’s really going on here.

TY in advance!

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.

im genuinely so miserable it feels like this will never end just constant nausea and vomitting for almost a week. i have the worst food aversion can only keep water down sometimes and diluted gatorade. tried broth and it makes me gag. genuinely when will this end? i dont see a way through and i’m losing my mind. Can someone pls tell me how long their nausea lasted