CVS (Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome) vs. CHS (Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome) HOW TO RULE CANNABIS OUT
CVS (Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome) vs. CHS (Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome) HOW TO RULE CANNABIS OUT
For too long, patients with Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome have been repeatedly treated like criminals in emergency rooms. Without doing the necessary research on the individual, doctors are REFUSING treatment on those of us who use cannabis medicinally or recreationally.
HOW TO RULE CANNABIS OUT:
-patient was a child (and thus not using cannabis) when symptoms first appeared
-patient had not used cannabis recently (3 months or more) when symptoms first appeared
-in cannabis users, the patient can provide documentation of abstinence from cannabis use for 3 or more months while CVS symptoms continued
For those of you who use cannabis, you would need to abstain and possibly prove that you have done so with negative drug screens. Most PCP’s are able to conduct urine screens.
WE CAN’T RELY ON THE DOCTORS TO FIGHT FOR US….WE HAVE TO DO THE HEAVY LIFTING!
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Meat with tons of weed caused this for me but I probably smoke like 50 buckets a day
Most people do not look at the fact that over smoking chlorophyll can cause lung injury and lead to the vomiting symptoms. In any instance of smoking flower your body has to deal with the smoked chlorophyll and then also utilizes the resin to try to heal itself. It is just best not to smoke chlorophyll at all. Vaping clean wax like CBD crystalline is vastly superior!
Cannabis gave me back my quality of life. Doctors can be so cruel 🙁
SUPER IMPORTANT. I Visited the hospital with a 17yo friend who suffered from CHS… She almost died until we found some. research that changed everything. She was non stop throwing up for 9 days, extreme stomach pain. with lots of stomach acid, couldn’t hold down water… she Lost 20 pounds and was down to 80 lbs and we couldn’t figure out a way to stop it she was literally wasting away. The Dr told us that a girl went to hospice a few weeks earlier for the same thing and another had a drain inserted for acid removal. Everything was going really really bad UNTIL we convinced them to give her this stuff called HALDOL AKA HALPERIDOL. Sweet baby Jesus within hours things changed no more throwing up and she could keep down food. We thought we were going to lose her and like a literal miracle it all changed. I wanted to share this because nobody not even the doctors knew what to do. Remember, there is a reason why they call it "Practicing Medicine".
I’ve been suffering with the same problem. I went to hospital because I was having an vomiting episode and my potassium was so low I was having cardiac. Issues. Long story short they drug tested me and called children services because I was positive. When child services came they couldn’t believe why they were actually called. I was very embarrassed and now I have a fear of going to emergency room because of my experience. I didn’t have anything in my system other then cannabis.
If someone has CVS can they smoke weed?
Also just because someone has “CHS”(it is not a real condition to me) doesn’t mean they have to quit cannabis, it just means that they have to quit SMOKING cannabis flower. Smoking cannabis is a damaging consumption method and yet everyone considers smoking it normal. Eating flower is not a waste, eating it is the best consumption method and yet almost no one eats it. Society is fucked up!
Thank you. Truly insightful. I also think people confuse chs for cvs a lot
Thank you. We are facing this very same thing. My daughter has suffered from cvs since she was 7 or 8 and it just gets worse. Drs will not help her if she uses cannabis but it is often her only option. We are trying you magic potion. 🤞
what the ACTUAL fuck. thank you so much, man. you just earned a sub.
Burping over and over again seems to relieve pressure in my gut. I don’t vomit regularly but I get morning nausea and pain sometimes.
I have cvs
It’s not normal weed it the big growers sprayyin the weed
Zofran = Oneansetron I’m dealing with a CVS flare right now. Clonidine helps me sleep to get over it.
Chs isnt real, its the pesticides.
Fuck thank you you blowed my mind that I’m not alone in this shit. I’ve been dilling with it for 13 years now. when I was 13 they had me on 20 pills a day half of them antidepressants. 2 years ago I stopped all pills and just smoke pot now and i very rarely have an episode only when the weather gets really bad. But even then I can usually control it by smoking pot
I am developing a medication called New Vizion because of what I face with CVS
Migraines since 12yrs old they stopped on my 30thbday in 2011…then the vomiting took over. Standing 64 122pnds ER said food poisoning for 36days vomiting my first episode. Did all my own research.ive almost mastered this. Every day is a titerope in the morning. Last March the ER weighed me in at 49kg..I took everything for CVS amiltripline (amiltripline WILL unfortunately give you a heart attack eventually VERY dangerous) I know victims it put me into cardiac arrest..it worked great the 1st 2 days…then the dark clouds came back an almost blew out my heart valves. Unfortunately amitriptyline works great for some but is very very dangerous having almost killed me having anxiety induced CVS. I’m finally over 130pnds. I take 2 medication’s…I stop the vomiting INSTANTLY with my meds. I take DIATAMACIOUS EARTH to naturally turn the battery acid into warm iced tea if I do have a episode. Even if u drink a teaspoon of water and sweat then vomit like I do mix the DIATAMACIOUS EARTH drink 4 oz of water with a 1/4teaspoon force it down the acid is naturally nutralized. The acid medications cause dimentia and plenty more. Every CVS specialist said I have "the most severe and complex" case. If anyone has this and smokes weed.. make sure it’s not CHS…if it is just CHS quit for a few months than take 1monster hit. don’t be a idiot quit for a few months unless u like to suffer. I can only eat pork eggs veggies and fruits… anything else vomit for 24hrs and lose 7-15pnds… unfortunately I don’t control the weather but extreme heat or cold a passing storm front high or low pressure triggers episodes. If Doc’s don’t believe you eat some Chinese food or half a bag of Doritos extreme the MSG should trigger an attack within 5-20min then wash it down with coke classic. When in the ER the IV can over saturate ur stomach and kill you.
Never give up… keep Christ on ur side he will help if you let him. God bless the parents that must witness their infants stricken with CVS..God bless you all stay strong
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/135/4/e1060
Interesting paper about a 13 year old girl with CVS who tested false positive for cannabinol because of a proton pump inhibitor.
Thank you for posting this. Watching YouTube videos about CVS is one of my triggers, unfortunately. Be well.
Totally agree! I was treated so badly because of my cannabis use.
I was kicked out of the hospital where I live because the nurse thought I was a user…. Feb 17 2019…
I have had CVS since a child, and fortunately the dr’s have now seen THC stop my attacks. CBD will stop an attack. If you are smoking weed all day and go to sleep and wake up in the am sober and throwing up it can’t be the weed! When i dont smoke/ consume MMJ i get sick as a dog.
I’m 15 years old and I have CVS and IV been smoking weed for a year now to help calm everything I can’t even make it to school because of the pain and vomiting I don’t know what to do because it happens no matter what.
I tried cannabis early in my diagnosis and it triggered a CVS episode.
If I have contact with smoke, I will surely have a CVS episode within the next 48 hours.
I am intolerant to narcotics, opioids and I can only tolerate pediatric doses of most medications. All of us are different. I think it’s logical for a doctor to ask and want someone to try something. They are just trying to help.
i feel like i have chs but i have not vomited once. i might be in the early stages but if anyone has any MAJOR specifics for chs and how you know for sure if i have it or not then let me know please.
I started having CVS over the summer and cannabis was my only relief from it really, I had gone to the doctors multiple times without help and finally once it started interrupting work and school I had to go to the doctors again to try something. They determined I had CVS and put me on amitriptyline and it’s worked great but sadly I always have bad reactions between cannabis and my meds now, wondering if anyone here or even the poster of this vid knows why that could be the case, when I smoke and am on meds I have a racing HR and it’s a terrible experience. 🙁
This has become an on-going issue for me that I directly correlated to cannabis consumption (small doses.) I’ve noticed when I have my biggest bouts of stress, symptoms come on slowly in the form of morning sickness which eventually becomes full blown vomiting in the coming days that will last approximately 24 hours with abdominal pain lasting several days. I can go months without an episode (without forgoing ingestion of cannabis) and all of sudden, it comes out of nowhere. I had a pretty bad episode last year around this exact time, and just went through a bout only a couple days ago. I am now on the research train before even attempting to see an MD. I also suffered bouts twice in December and once around the end of January. I live on the eastern time-zone so perhaps the change of temperature might have something to do with it, putting added stresses on the body to cause CVS symptoms. I’ve looked at the possibility of helicobacter pylori bacteria possibly being a culprit or even pesticides used on the cannabis that I’ve been ingesting. It would be a extremely sad to find out everyone that is dealing with what MDs are calling, "Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome" and it actually just Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. Your advice has provided me with some ease of mind, which I thank you. Not entirely sure where to go from here on preventing another episode though.
Okay I need help I don’t know if I have chs or cvs I smoke a lot but idk if I meet the standards I’ve smoked for a little over a year and I smoke weed and concentrates heavily throughout the day back in January I started getting sick and at first I thought I had food poising this is so terrible I’m on my fourth day no smoking and I am dying I have lost 30 pounds in 6 months 🙁
Thank you for sharing this. It is beyond criminal… I have been labeled an opiate addict and its bullcrap…. I use thc also from time to time to help with stress, calming down, and gain appetite…. ER DOCTORS SUCK… I think I have a good Dr now
For some of you who do not want to quit cannabis entirely for life because of CHS, I have found that after an initial period of totally quitting I could do it again, but only if I use a fraction of what I did before. I can maintain my health at one hit of flower a day. Because I was clean that one hit is plenty enough to satisfy me. I tried 3 hits a day and it was too much and the CHS symptoms started to come back after a few months. Now I’m doing great on no more than one hit a day. Sometimes I skip a day, all the better. So far so good.
i got it after 22 years of smoking every day , stopped 3 years then tried to smoke and the problem came right back again 🙁 seems like the body has become allergic to smoking weed and are rejecting it : (
Sadly in Australian hospitals we do not have advocates. There is ONE small company that performs this task, but you have to give them 48 hours advance warning that you are going into hospital- this doesn’t work for emergency admissions, obviously, only planned procedures.
It could be both CVS and chs tho for some..
I’m going to the er tomr just for some type of relief. I’m in need for it. An iv anything honestly. Just not weed lol. Day 4 off weed.
Well put!!!
I have CVS and I’m so sorry anyone has to deal with this condition. I was labeled a drug seeker . Because when this started happening to me I found that cannabis relieved my symptoms. So I started after my first 13 day stay at the hospital.. there is a major difference in cvs and chs . I have to manage my episodes at home. It is very hard. I have two children and it is so hard being a momma with cvs. Before I stopped going to ER I had been admitted to hospital over 20 times. They would let me suffer for days .. so I found that I could do this on my own. Even the doctors seeing my whole family at the hospital why would they think that my whole family would be supporting me if they thought I was in the hospital “seeking drugs” it’s crazy. I even tried going to different hospitals to try to get them to help me they looked at that as hospital jumping. And when you and vomiting over and over it’s very hard to hear them calling you a drug seeker..
My favorite Dr always tells me to think like a Dr…especially when talking to them…. it has helped me advocate for myself and others
i used to have episodes every morning in high school when I was a huge stoner. I got a union job so I had to quit smoking. for a year I had no episodes. I quit my union job and started smoking again. my episodes have come back worse than ever
Fuck the ERs, fuck paramedics. I have CVS and ruled cannabis out. They’re insisting that my once a month episodes that are triggered by my menstrual cycle are caused by my cannabis use.
No one listens when you’re trying to tell them through retching that you’ve been like this before you ever touched a joint or bong. My HG riddled pregnancy triggered my CVS to come back full force. Cannabis the only thing that helps when I get an attack and I’m being told it’s what’s causing my sickness. Hot showers don’t help me, stopping the weed doesn’t help. I tell them this and they roll their eyes. One paramedic told my boyfriend that if we didn’t spend our money on cannabis, then maybe we could afford a taxi to the hospital…What taxi driver wants someone nearly pissing themselves from vomiting in their car?!
This condition does exist, I believe that, but this blanket diagnosing people with CHS when they have an actual medical condition is wrong and VERY dangerous. I never want to go to another ER or call 911 ever again…I’d rather die than be treated like this again…