what to do please help

So I quit weed about 6 weeks ago because an ER doctor suggested CHS after I ended up in The ER with cyclical vomiting.

My primary care dosent think I have CHS. I haven’t had abdominal pain just some vomiting in the morning when I stand up, usually it happened 30 min or so after waking up, it’s never woken me up. And it’s never been daily puking.

So 6 weeks in here is how it’s going. Week one after quitting my appetite completely vanished. I felt sick constantly dizzy all the time and just couldn’t get food down. I switched to a liquid diet and started eating small portions more frequently and I have been able to build up some kind of appetite but not enough to meet my calorie needs. Still on liquids in the AM.

My vomiting was on a 3 week cycle that linked up with my period. I had 1 cycle about 2 weeks after quitting where I got migraines and massive nausea that I used Zofran to help control.

My symptoms started around February where I also noticed a neck kink so after quitting when everything got worse I got a physio. And now 2 weeks into that I feel fantastic. Still dizzy but I don’t have any nausea or vomiting this time around.

Nothing leads me to believe this was CHS. Zofran worked, hot showers worsened my symptoms, I didn’t have stomach pains and I didn’t have any improvement in symptoms until week 5 after seeing a physio.

I come from a family of weed smokers so beyond getting high this is a bonding thing with my family and I have FOMO. But the information is so confusing and one place it’s 4 weeks is a meaningful trial while the other is 3 months is the only way to know to even if you suspect CHS you should never smoke again. I don’t know what to do at this point because maybe im just in denial about it being CHS or maybe it was really something in my neck causing migraines. And the lack of research in CHS makes it really hard to get a straight forward answer.

Are there any otc pain meds that work for that burning in your stomach sensation? I’m in the recovery phase and Tylenol doesn’t work for me. Just wondering what works best.

I've been smoking rosin/resin carts for last 10 months straight everyday starting at only night and turning into more frequent daytime use but never in the morning. Over the last 5 months I've started to develop early stages of CHS. Mainly had difficulty eating sober which turned into morning nausea and stomach discomfort and pooping alot in the morning which I counteracted by attempting to smoke in the morning which has helped for the last few months but for the last few weeks its started to get worse. I've recently been getting really bad anxiety for no reason that I normally wouldnt, mainly thinking about the fact I wake up and feel awful every morning and just feeling trapped in general. Yesterday was my first day in a while where I tried to not smoke until 9pm, I actually didn't feel bad at all which was surprising and I did the same thing again today. I've also cut my intake in half going from about 10 hits to 5 hits per day. I can't really tell if its working yet but I did feel worse today and had decent trouble eating.
My question is does anyone know if reducing my intake reduction and not smoking till night will help with my symptoms and make them slowly get better? I want to slowly reduce my tolerance before I go could turkey and I was wondering if this will work?
Thanks!

Disclaimer: I am no doctor, just someone who has a really low pain tolerance detoxing from thc again (with more success this time).

For more context, I’m currently on day 4 and have started introducing solid food back into my diet again, and haven’t thrown up once this time around. This isn’t medical advice, but these are the things that have worked for me that are at least worth looking into:

• Specifically waiting to detox until my period ends (B1 is something your body needs for your period and helps with stomach cramping. CHS tends to leave your body lacking of B1 and B6 - sometimes B12)
• Using Claritin and Pepcid (these occupy h1 and h2 receptors and can reduce stomach acidity and nausea)
• Using Emergen-C as a multivitamin daily and for electrolytes in the morning (I also had B1 and B6 supplements but didn’t end up using them in addition to this)
• Magnesium lotion and socks before bed for the insomnia (Magnesium is more absorbable through the skin than it is orally and socks help it absorb faster)
• Weaning off instead of cold turkey (this is the only time I haven’t gone cold turkey)

If you have any other tips or tricks, I’d love to hear them.

Hi all, sharing my story here for some advice/insight as doctors are not really giving me any answers. The past 2 weeks I have been waking up with awful nausea, anxiety, and stomach cramps like I need to have a bm.
I have always been an anxious person. When I was younger I had issues with morning nausea due to anxiety and when I got to college I started an ssri which really helped that morning sickness. I also have always had issues going to the bathroom whether it be that I’m constipated or having explosive diarrhea TMI 😂
Today was the first day I haven’t thrown up in the morning but I definitely felt like I was going to, I have been throwing up acid/ bile every single morning for the past 2 weeks. Went to the ER for dehydration last weekend and they said that I could potentially have CHS. Then when I went to my pcp on Monday she said that I most likely do not have chs, but I should refrain from all cannabis just in case. So I have been for the past 5 days I think? And my symptoms seem to be getting a little bit better but I can’t tell if I’m actually improving or just getting used to it. In the beginning, I would vomit all morning to the point where I’m so exhausted and then I would just go to sleep for a few hours and wake up fine and smoke again. Never once did smoking make me feel worse, in fact it was helping me gain an appetite after the vomiting episodes. But after realizing it could be a problem I decided to stop just in case because I never want to feel like this again. I know I am probably in denial, but I would just really love for it not to be chs as I have been using weed to cope with my adhd/ ed for a couple years now. Any tips on how to improve gut motility after experiencing something like this? I just feel so backed up and exhausted because I’m unable to eat real meals. My doctor prescribed 40mg omeprazole (half in the am half pm) and I’m not sure if that’s really helping or not. I’m just so tired of waking up feeling shitty, I know it’s a long road to recovery but when will it end😭😭

So about last week monday the 15th or whatever I started a doxycycline antibiotic cycle. It ended on the 22nd. That’s just a little info incase, I’ve been smoking heavy for about 2-3 solid years a lot a lot of carts and dabs. Throughout the past year or 2 I’ve noticed I had stomach nausea in the morning thatd go away if I hit the cart, this pain didn’t happen everyday it was on an off for the last year or so it was never bad enough to raise any serious concerns and when it did I had the flu. But ever since ending that round of medication my stomach hasn’t had a peaceful moment especially in the morning, I only feel fine when I hit the cart a little. For the last 2 days I’ve only been smoking in the night (maybe 2-4 hits of my cart only) and the morning nausea is still persistent can anyone help me out and say for sure if this is CHS???? Also I feel hot showers don’t help that much as I tried last night and it didn’t relieve me much at all. I’m going to the dr today soon but idk what they’re gonna say probably what they do everytime “just a stomach bug/virus” I had Zofran left over from my round of meds and I took one both yesterday morning and then this morning, no help at all. What’s happening?!? It also feels like my stomach is pulsating with a heartbeat can someone anyone please help me or even tell me some medicine for the nausea it’s so bad. Thank you all!

idk really know how it could’ve happened in the very short span of me smoking i smoked everyday consistently for around 2-3 months i had some T breaks in between and for a week straight i was throwing up and i couldn’t even keep water down i was told at a normal er that i might have appendicitis and my appendix was enlarged by .5 which after that i was transferred to a children’s hospital where they told me that they don’t think it’s my appendix and i was there for a few days where i told my dr that i had been smoking for abt 2-3 months and that the symptoms only started abt a week ago i was convinced that it was caffeine withdrawal because i was drinking many energy drinks a day over a week and not really eating since my symptoms matched caffeine withdrawal and they also matched chs so they concluded that i have chs and i haven’t smoked for a month but i js smoked for the first time last night and my anxiety was really high and i felt like i was gonna throw up but i didn’t think that chs would be triggered so quickly my heart was racing but i eventually called down and fell asleep i haven’t thrown up i still have an appetite i js wanna start smoking again because of how stressed ive been and i js want to calm down but yet when i do my anxiety js gets worse. does anyone have some tips i could use to keep smoking yet not trigger my chs thank you i would really appreciate that.

So over 2 years ago I got diagnosed with chs after the worst 2 weeks I’ve ever gone through. I was vomiting all day whenever I tried to eat anything, I was in and out of the er, I was shivering all the time and needed to stay in a hot bath just stop the shivering. After I ran some tests in 2 hospitals they both said it was definitely CHS. The thing is I went back to smoking weed again like a year after that and I’ve been on and non of my symptoms ever returned except some appetite loss here and there.

So I have been a near daily smoker for the past seven and a half years, and am concerned that I may be developing CHS in the Prodromal stage. I noticed a change a little over a month ago with my digestion/bowel habits, which started with loose runny stool and a feeling like I was very full after eating anything. I also have felt the need to go to the bathroom after eating, but oftentimes have been unable to. It started to feel like food was taking a long time to move through my body, sometimes days. I would smoke more to try and give myself an appetite, and to soothe my upset stomach.
Then I started waking up early, which never happens for me. Basically the whole time I’ve been a smoker It was common for me to stay up way past midnight until 3 or 4. Now that’s when I wake up though, and usually waves of nausea follow with an intense feeling of needing to go to the bathroom, though I might not be able to go for hours until it finally comes out as diarrhea.
I’ve felt so drained and sleepy by the end of each day, maybe because I haven’t been able to eat much, and am down 20 pounds from where I was a couple months ago. I’ve been averaging about one meal a day for a while now, and have been getting gross acid reflux burps and stomach cramps throughout the day.
I am worried that I’ve been falling into the trap of smoking more to try and ease my stomach problems, and actually making things worse/causing CHS. I saw a gastroenterologist who said it could be weed related after I brought up CHS but wouldn’t diagnose it because I hadn’t vomited, they took stool and blood samples to test.
I haven’t seen much discussion on CHS starting out with diarrhea/constipation though which was the main thing I didn’t suspect it at first, so I am asking other people with experience for their input/advice, because I would really like to avoid the nonstop vomiting. And if anyone here has quit during the Prodromal phase, what helped you the most?