Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome

That's no longer...

I have CHS.

I haven't slept.

It's still bad.

No 6-7 joke.

But, like, 3 a.m. to 10 a.m., I'm, like, sleeping, like, 10-minute intervals.

You don't have CHS.

A lot of people say I don't have CHS.

coincidentally, after this, I'm telling a story time.

I think I have CHS and I can't get high anymore.

oh no wait what does that mean

like um i was i went to the hospital like last morning uh because like i could not sleep for like two days because my stomach was just in like breathing pain

You know, I'm 24 years old.

I've never had this problem before.

I'm thinking I have CHS as like a premodal or like the premodal phase of CHS.

Because if you don't know how that works.

And then we'll get into what the fuck we're doing today.

I might have CHS.

I might have the weed disease, and I might not be able to get high ever again.

I slept one hour last night.

All right.

Yo, chat, diagnose me.

What do you think I have? What's CHS? It's called, like, cannabinoid hyper something syndrome.

Cannabinoid hypermesis syndrome.

But behind the scenes, things were kind of falling apart.

I developed a condition called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.

And I had stage one of CHS.

So I was experiencing weight loss, widespread body pain, kind of really bad emotional dysregulation.

And I just looked sickly.

A lot of them would just brush off cannabis, especially this is going back, you know, 10 years ago, like, oh, that's probably not it.

That's not that big of a deal.

But it turns out like cannabis was quite literally like killing me at that point from CHS.

They said something about the telltale symptom, hot showers and hot baths.

When doctors and nurses hear this, that's when they think that it's CHS.

CHS is the abbreviation for cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.

Here is Dr. Andrew Meltzer, a professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and an expert in CHS

research.

So cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS, is basically this paradoxical reaction to people who consume a lot of cannabis over many months or years and get a reaction similar to what we call cyclic vomiting syndrome where essentially they get these horrible bouts of abdominal pain nausea vomiting and they come into the emergency department because there's really nowhere else to go when you're in that extreme discomfort often writhing of pain you can often hear them way down the hallway in the emergency department initially we didn't really know what was going on with these patients as you know cannabis is like an anti-emetic for most people they Give it to cancer patients, sometimes they smoke a joint and they feel a little more hungry or college kids get the munchies and people want to eat more.

So you know there's GI effects of cannabis and there's cannabinoid receptors throughout your body, not just in your brain, but also in your GI tract.

Initially, it sort of pumps the brakes on nausea and it increases your desire to eat.

You don't want to do it anymore, but somehow you keep doing it, and you're stuck in this vicious cycle.

And if it's hurting you right now for any reason, if you're having any of those CHS symptoms that I talk about, if it's ruining your relationships or if it's making you more volatile of a person, more numbed out emotionally, or if you don't have it, you become more agitated and you don't handle things the way you necessarily want to, it's a good time to reassess your relationship with weed.

And it doesn't mean that you might still have those hiccups when you've been sober for a long time, but it means they happen a lot less frequently.

And there's something to be said about trusting yourself again, about trusting your decisions, about being able to exercise your free will and your Your, your, your strength as a person and your decision-making and making a decision that you're proud of, rather than being stuck in that same loop of doing something that you wish you could take back, or tomorrow I'll start not smoking.

You know, it's, it's tough when I post some of these videos and people say, you know, "This guy's fat.

Maybe he should stop eating or eat better or go to the gym more and he'd feel better." I know I can't be angry at those people because maybe they just don't know what I went through.

Maybe they don't know that I suffered every night when I would smoke too much and that I had these CHS symptoms.

Maybe they just don't have the knowledge or the-- It's hard to form the compassion if you haven't gone through something like that yourself.