Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS) caused me to quit smoking weed over half a year ago. For the last 10 years I was almost always stoned, smoked often around 3g per day. Almost exclusively bong. From morning to evening. Financially, I was naturally still slowed down every now and then for a few days, sometimes even for a week.
In the first years these breaks were not such a problem Eventually these breaks resulted in suppressed appetite. Later it was like this, that the first 24h without consumption had no effects. From the second day I felt a bit queasy and from day 3, I could almost set my watch by it, then the vomiting started and that lasted for a few days. This process became a regularity at some point and mostly also the reason why I still got something to smoke despite the will to pause for a few weeks. Just because I couldn't stand this nausea.
But there were also always phases where it went well. If I only smoked for a few days and then paused for a few days, it didn't come to the vomiting anymore. I kept that up for a long time but again and again weeks crept in, where I exaggerated it again and the result was always the same
I replaced bong with joints and that also went well for a while. I tended to consume less and the nausea in the breaks rarely caught up with me. But gradually my consumption increased here too, and gradually it ended more and more often in vomiting. 2 years ago I discovered HHC. I bought a large amount of distillate and that so incredibly cheap that I could smoke continuously. As much as I wanted, all day long. Financially, that was no longer a burden for me at that price. Initially still with scale, later then with increasing tolerance, I could smoke endlessly. On some days over 5g pure distillate. If you convert that to flowers, that corresponds to over 20g. Daily. There were no breaks, even in between when I was waiting for the bus, I pulled unnoticed on my vape. Gradually the nausea became part of my everyday life again. Consuming helped directly but I had to shorten the intervals more and more. Not like before, where the nausea haunted me after 2 or 3 days break .. No
I'll shorten it here: In the end it was definitely like this, that I had to smoke something again at the latest 3 hours (!) after the last consumption. Without exception. If I didn't, I had to vomit uncontrollably. Sometimes 20 times in an hour! Nothing stayed in, even a small sip of water came out immediately afterwards. My nights then logically became very short. My alarm clock rang at 05 o'clock but my stomach woke me up at the latest at 02 o'clock. So the first hours of the days consisted of smoking myself "healthy" for hours. That also became more and more extreme. So extreme that in the end even after 2h of continuous topping up I still felt no relief. So I decided to stop consuming completely almost 7 months ago and there I expected first with the worst 2 weeks in my life in which I lost almost 10kg. I couldn't eat anything for 8 days, nothing to drink - so always tried to drink more than could come out. Still of course completely dehydrated and weakened. 100 times vomited a day is no exaggeration here. With an empty stomach that's no fun. Hot showers, hot water bottles on my stomach ... All this subsided after a little more than a week piece by piece and then followed another short week where it gradually got better and I could eat more and more. Another 2 weeks until I felt halfway normal again.
This ordeal definitely cured my addiction to cannabis. So in the end I'm almost glad about this experience! I haven't even been close to consuming since then. Sure, there were bored weekends where the thought popped into my head every now and then, but not so that I really seriously felt the urge to do it. I even had dreams now and then, in which I smoked something and then got scared that this ordeal could suddenly start again.
The consensus with cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is that you can never smoke weed again. You would get it again and again I don't believe that from my own experience, regular breaks kept me from it for a while. But you developed this syndrome because you are addicted, because you have lost control over your consumption .. Whoever manages to moderate themselves and eliminate the regularity from the equation, can probably be spared. But whoever has lost control over it several times, will do it again with extremely high probability. Maybe it will go well for a long time, but when the time comes .. then CHS will hit you again, and even harder than before. The risk is simply not worth it to me.
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I found a picture online which describes this syndrom really good:

Edited by ShroomKayak (01/27/24 03:57 PM)
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